| June 14, 2009 |
| Well, even though they've been warned for months and months, the FCC still received 300,000 calls from people confused about the switch from analog to digital TV. I'm guessing that at least 152,000 of those calls came from Henry:  Henry doesn't understand about the TVs and the robots and such. He would also like you to stay out of his corn patch. |
| June 11, 2009 |
| Sorry, kids. I'll post a proper update soon. There has been so much going on (can you say "extensive plastic surgery"???)! In the meantime, here's the brand new video for Chickenfoot's "Oh Yeah"! |
| June 5, 2009 |
The Foot Falls Today! Did you buy the new Chickenfoot album? No? Really? With mayonaisse? Interesting. Anyway, here's a review from LiveDaily.com By Jon Zahlaway / LiveDaily Senior Writer We're all in agreement that the comparison is inevitable, yes? Former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony alongside an established guitar god and a bona-fide powerhouse drummer? Seriously, what did you think it was going to remind everyone of? And, yeah, sure, it sounds good on paper: Van Halen's ex-singer and ex-bassist alongside six-string wizard Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. But let's face it: these types of things usually sound good in theory, but don't quite gel when it comes time to put up or shut up. Which makes it all the more surprising that the result here is a fairly stellar rock album by an exceptionally cohesive and surprisingly relevant band. Of the 11 tracks on "Chickenfoot," 10 are credited to the writing duo of Hagar and Satriani, and there apparently is something to be said for pairing Hagar with a songwriting guitar virtuoso, because these songs, and Hagar's vocals on them, are easily the best work he's done since splitting with the Van Halen brothers. (The 11th cut? "Down the Drain," a filthy-good blues-rock number that's credited to all four band members, who played it precisely one time while warming up in the studio; the tape just happened to be rolling.) And then there's Satriani. Everyone knows he can work a guitar like nobody's business, but soloing your way though instrumentals is a very different thing than co-writing and performing an album's worth of music meant to be sung over. Turns out he's great at that, too. In fact, he sounds more than comfortable hanging back and pumping out hook-laden rhythm riffs that keep the songs chugging along. An added bonus? When the time comes for him to take a guitar solo, he does so with a combination of skill, flair and tone not heard on a band-oriented rock album in years. Also key to the success of this studio experiment is producer Andy Johns (Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones), with whom Hagar and Anthony first worked on Van Halen's 1991 set, "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge." As he did on that album, Johns has created with "Chickenfoot" a positively huge-sounding arena-rock monster, complete with a fat low end that places Anthony and Smith as far out in front as Hagar and Satriani. The icing on all of this, of course, is hearing a batch of new music that features Anthony's signature background harmonies, a key part of what made Van Halen sound like Van Halen. His and Hagar's voices always sounded incredible together, and the passage of time has done nothing to diminish that. (Memo to Eddie and Al: What the hell were you thinking?) Look, either you liked Van Halen with Sammy Hagar, or you didn't. (And, please, let's not argue about it; over the past 20-plus years, none of you have convinced the other side to change their mind, so let's just give it a rest already, shall we?). If you are a fan of the so-called "Van Hagar" era, then listen up: run--don't walk--to wherever it is you get your music from and grab copy of "Chickenfoot." Key tracks: "Get It Up," "Turnin' Left," "Soap on a Roap," "Down the Drain" and "Future In the Past." (Yes, there really are that many key tracks on this album. Seriously.) |
| May 11, 2009 |
Today, as I was driving home, I saw this sticker on the back of a man's Ford F150: Pretty classy. My guess is that he had his article rejected for the Harvard Law Review while Obama was the editor. I most certainly do not begrudge his anger! Everyone knows that Obama took a prestigious journal of legal scholarship and reduced it to a laughing stock. I'd sooner cite legal precedence from an article in Cat Fancy! |
| April 25, 2009 |
| This next story just makes me sick. Hey liberal news media - stop telling me that it's "ok" for a dog to co-exist with an elephant! It's an abomination! This is an insult to the sanctity of animal marriage. It's "Babar and Celeste"  Not "Babar and Fido"!!! |
| April 16, 2009 |
| Children of The Foot! Here's the first official single from Chickenfoot: "Oh Yeah" |
| April 3, 2009 |
| Bat Fight! |
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