CHICKENFOOT To Begin Recording At End Of Month

January 24, 2011

The Pulse Of Radio reports that CHICKENFOOT is scheduled to begin recording its second album on January 29, according to bassist Michael Anthony. Anthony told Rich's Music Exchange that the band will "hopefully" tour later this year, saying, "If people want to hear it, we're out there to play it." Anthony added that CHICKENFOOT was still fun for him, saying, "At this point in my life and career, I won't do it unless it's fun. One of the great things . . . is that I can do what I love to do. The other guys in CHICKENFOOT feel the same way."

Drummer Chad Smith told The Pulse Of Radio that playing with Anthony, singer Sammy Hagar and guitarist Joe Satriani just for fun was how CHICKENFOOT started out. "I mean, it's funny 'cause this thing started as just like me and Sam down in Mexico, and I'd always see him and we'd jam and it was always fun, and then it just turned into this, 'Oh, now it's like a band,' you know, where it was just gonna be this thing to do while I had time down from the PEPPERS," he said. "They're all like, 'Oh yeah, you're in another band.' I'm like, 'Yeah!'"

Smith is recording right now with his main band, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, and although he has said in interviews that he has set time aside to work on the second CHICKENFOOT album, it's not clear if that is still the case.

In the Music Exchange interview, Anthony did not address whether Smith would play on the album or tour with CHICKENFOOT. The latter is even less likely since the CHILI PEPPERS will hit the road later this year once their new album is out.

Both Smith and Hagar have acknowledged in interviews that CHICKENFOOT is likely to secure another drummer for any upcoming tours.

The first CHICKENFOOT album was released in 2009 and sold more than 500,000 copies.

CHICKENFOOT recently uploaded a live version of its cover of THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE classic "Foxy Lady", recorded on April 24, 2010 at the 20th-anniversary celebration of Sammy's Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Check out the clip below.

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