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Postby Deb » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:12 pm

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T-Bone wrote:I've been listening to this for 3 weeks now... Fan-Friggin-Tastic release to say the least. I always hear something new with each spin. Yes... Sammy is 62 and still sounds great.


Really, wow! He's older than Perry? Dont know why, but I just assumed he was in his early/mid 50s. :shock: Off to watch my sig......


That sig vid is great Deb!!!!! I can't believe you passed on that show. :evil: :wink:


:lol: I know?! Image Wasn't actually *that* show, that one's from the Fillmore in SF (love the groove on that song), this is the one I passed on, Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iDo_HPxXIw My little brother caught a couple songs on vid for his sis and brought me back a keychain. :lol: Yep, he's a pretty cool little bro! :D Hope they come back to Western Canada later in the tour.

He said the guys were having a blast up there, only the 2nd show in, and Chad was in fine comedic form. He said, Chad could smell pot and started wafting his arms towards his face saying......ahhhh, there's that BC bud. :lol:
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Postby Saint John » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:32 pm

Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.
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Postby Don » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:34 pm

Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


How was the DragonFly?
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Postby Deb » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:37 pm

Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


:lol: Go figure. Don't think there is one thing we agree on musically......oh wait, there's TMG. :wink: :lol:
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Postby Saint John » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:40 pm

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Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


How was the DragonFly?


Great venue for music, but the place is a shithole. And $6 a beer is bullshit. I think I had 14-16 so I wa out about $100. :evil: But you know what...the cover was only $5 and I saw 4 killer bands. It evened out. I had a great time.
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Postby Don » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:42 pm

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Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


How was the DragonFly?


Great venue for music, but the place is a shithole. And $6 a beer is bullshit. I think I had 14-16 so I wa out about $100. :evil: But you know what...the cover was only $5 and I saw 4 killer bands. It evened out. I had a great time.


So nothing has changed. :lol: But they do get decent bands.
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Postby Saint John » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:48 pm

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Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


How was the DragonFly?


Great venue for music, but the place is a shithole. And $6 a beer is bullshit. I think I had 14-16 so I wa out about $100. :evil: But you know what...the cover was only $5 and I saw 4 killer bands. It evened out. I had a great time.


So nothing has changed. :lol: But they do get decent bands.


Place had awesome sound and the soundman was really good. Any sound issues were resolved by each band's second or third song. And you weren't lying about the neighborhood. Complete freakshow/war zone at night. Thought I was in Fallujah.
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Postby JrnySuxBalls » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:05 pm

Chickenfoot just cracked the US Top 10...number 6
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Postby Don » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:13 pm

49k sold the first week. That had to be totally unexpected.
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Postby verslibre » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:16 pm

JrnySuxBalls wrote:Chickenfoot just cracked the US Top 10...number 6

Gunbot wrote:49k sold the first week. That had to be totally unexpected.


Cool!!!


Chickenfoot's entire Roxy show is on Youtube. I haven't bought the CD yet, but I will.
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Postby livin2do » Thu Jun 11, 2009 11:55 pm

I've been listening to the Chickenfoot CD all week. Amazon.com had an early release download for $3.99, so I figured, how can I pass that up? Well, as expected, I'm glad I didn't pass it up. Satriani really lights it up on guitar, and I was pleasantly impressed with Chad Smith's work too. The Sammy/Mike combo works as always, but I have to say that the lyrics could've been better. Hagar has always been one to write songs about sex and partying, but he has done far better on those types of songs in the past.

It is great to hear a band that has a guitar player featured again. They are few and far-between these days, so I will take what I can get when I can get it.
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Postby NealIsGod » Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:29 am

Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


Considering you have Britney on your iPod, I'm not surprised.

Here's an article in USAToday about the Foot.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news ... titialskip
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Postby Saint John » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:14 am

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Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


Considering you have Britney on your iPod, I'm not surprised.

Here's an article in USAToday about the Foot.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news ... titialskip


I don't own an ipod and I don't really give a fuck about reviews other than my own. I haven't bought a CD since TBF. Good article though.
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Postby verslibre » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:22 am

Saint John wrote:I haven't bought a CD since TBF.


Seriously?! :shock:
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Postby Saint John » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:34 am

verslibre wrote:
Saint John wrote:I haven't bought a CD since TBF.


Seriously?! :shock:


Oops...I bought Revelation. lol...Do I stand corrected if I corrected myself?
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Postby portland » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:38 am

Deb wrote:
T-Bone wrote:I've been listening to this for 3 weeks now... Fan-Friggin-Tastic release to say the least. I always hear something new with each spin. Yes... Sammy is 62 and still sounds great.


Really, wow! He's older than Perry? Dont know why, but I just assumed he was in his early/mid 50s. :shock: Off to watch my sig......






This is where the hope lies.....if Sammy can than _____ can....you fill in the blank :) :wink:
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Postby verslibre » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:44 am

Saint John wrote:
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Saint John wrote:I haven't bought a CD since TBF.


Seriously?! :shock:


Oops...I bought Revelation. lol...Do I stand corrected if I corrected myself?


I repeat: Seriously?! :shock:
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Postby verslibre » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:46 am

Deb wrote:
T-Bone wrote:I've been listening to this for 3 weeks now... Fan-Friggin-Tastic release to say the least. I always hear something new with each spin. Yes... Sammy is 62 and still sounds great.


Really, wow! He's older than Perry? Dont know why, but I just assumed he was in his early/mid 50s. :shock:



When Sammy was 42, he looked 24!
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Postby MCC620 » Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:58 am

two tickets for the beacon theater on 8/17 in hand....thank you cyndy for the club 1013 heads up!!!!!!!! 8)
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Postby G.I.Jim » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:31 am

I bought the download version from Amazon today, and I have to say that so far I'm a little disappointed. I'm sure some of these songs will grow on me after a few listens (I haven't even listened to the whole thing yet), but to me it sounds more like a jam session than a full-fledged album. Seriously...some of the lyrics sound like Sammy just improvised whole songs and made up the lyrics as he went along. I don't get that! Where are the chorus hooks?

Maybe I'm just too old-school or something here, but these songs I've heard so far don't have a memorable chorus line at all. Those that do catch my attention a little, don't even have the name of the song in the chorus! Not that the songs names HAVE to be included in the hook of the chorus, but it makes more sense to name a song after the memorable hook of the lyrics...just saying!

To be fair, I really enjoy the musicianship on most of what I've heard so far. I'll give this thing a few spins over the weekend, and I'm sure I'll get into it more. :wink:
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Postby Don » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:31 am

Chickenfoot debuts at number four on Billboard.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/c ... lboard+200


Dave Matthews Band at #1?
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Postby Blueskies » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:17 am

G.I.Jim wrote:I bought the download version from Amazon today, and I have to say that so far I'm a little disappointed. I'm sure some of these songs will grow on me after a few listens (I haven't even listened to the whole thing yet), but to me it sounds more like a jam session than a full-fledged album. Seriously...some of the lyrics sound like Sammy just improvised whole songs and made up the lyrics as he went along. I don't get that! Where are the chorus hooks?

Maybe I'm just too old-school or something here, but these songs I've heard so far don't have a memorable chorus line at all. Those that do catch my attention a little, don't even have the name of the song in the chorus! Not that the songs names HAVE to be included in the hook of the chorus, but it makes more sense to name a song after the memorable hook of the lyrics...just saying!

To be fair, I really enjoy the musicianship on most of what I've heard so far. I'll give this thing a few spins over the weekend, and I'm sure I'll get into it more. :wink:

I agree.....a jam session is exactly how I hear it too.....pretty much throw away lyrics but the musicianship is great and Sammy is still in fine form vocally. Nothing serious, just a fun debut...4 guys having fun playing music. :wink:
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Postby jrnyman28 » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:19 am

Saint John wrote:Completely unimpressed with Chickenfoot so far.


No surprise there...
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Postby Saint John » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:29 am

Gunbot wrote:Chickenfoot debuts at number four on Billboard.


51,000 in sales, which isn't even half of what Journey did. Weeks 2 and 3 will be interesting to see.
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Postby Saint John » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:43 am

They were #5 according to Hits Daily Double, but were only a few hundred behind #4 so the totals may not have been completely official. Anyway, here's the breakdown:

LW TW artist / album label power index % change
1 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND RCA/RMG 424,027 --
BIG WHISKEY & THE GROOGRUX KING

2 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 141,608 -32%
RELAPSE

3 311 VOLCANO/JLG 60,708 --
UPLIFTER

4 GREEN DAY REPRISE 52,162 -27%
21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN

5 CHICKENFOOT REDLINE 51,519 --
CHICKENFOOT
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Postby Don » Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:43 am

I didn't expect it to sell more than 10k. I thought this was just some fun project they were doing together.
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Postby KenTheDude » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:34 am

I got my Chickenfoot Fan Club T-shirt in the mail today. It's red, has the square peace symbol/foot logo on it and says "Chickenhead" under the logo. On one of the sleeves it's says "Fan Club". Cool shirt.
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Postby Saint John » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:40 am

KenTheDude wrote:I got my Chickenfoot Fan Club T-shirt in the mail today. It's red, has the square peace symbol/foot logo on it and says "Chickenhead" under the logo. On one of the sleeves it's says "Fan Club". Cool shirt.


They should have somehow incorporated "Tastes Like Chicken" on the shirt.
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Postby Rip Rokken » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:50 am

Just got my copy last night, for free on top of that since it was on sale for $9.99 and I had a $10 Reward Zone coupon. :) They should team up with these guys for a tour -- that would be enough chicken to last all year.

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Postby verslibre » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:55 am

Rip Rokken wrote:Just got my copy last night, for free on top of that since it was on sale for $9.99 and I had a $10 Reward Zone coupon. :) They should team up with these guys for a tour -- that would be enough chicken to last all year.


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