For people who say Michael Anthony cant play...

[jdwilliams]

Watch this video...

Shows how well he can groove and do more than what he did in Van Halen.

 

[Smooth_bass88]

Yeah, totally rocking. An added bonus: Kenny Aronoff on drums!!

 

[Spectrum]

Sounds great.

 

[OldDirtyBassist]

Did they spend time writing that or just grunt out all those clichés till it was long enough for a single?

 

[Gluvhand]

Sammy can't help being cliched and cheesy. It's what he is.

 

[Haji]

Kenny Aronoff and Joe Satriani...man, those guys would be fun to play with! I love the sound of Sammy's voice but his lyrics have never been Neil Peartian.

 

[A.K.]

With Chickenfoot, Sammy has reached hitherto unexplored levels of laziness as a lyricist. Then again, he's 67 now. I can cut him some slack. Plus, it's nice that Mike has an outlet for his playing and backup singing. But Chickenfoot just fundamentally doesn't work for me.

 

[A.K.]

I should note that Sammy can write really good lyrics when he's at his best--see "Mine All Mine" from "OU812," for example. Just outstanding lyrics. But when he's bad, he's real bad.

That said, DLR wrote some extremely poopy lyrics, too ("Jump," anyone?), but he gets a pass because he's DLR.

 

[Jimi G]

Yep, Mike can play. edweird kept him buried in the mix, so it's really hard to hear what he's doing on the VH albums.

 

[Stick_Player]

Geeze! They sound like a mediocre bar-band. And, they dress like one, too.

 

[hsech]

Who's Michael Anthony?

 

[bassbully]

So wait a thread to praise Michaels bass skills but then talking down the singing and lyrics? You know allot of great rock songs are about " cheesy " lyrics . It's part of rock magic to a degree. At least they tried.

Kid rock has a hit with lyrics a that sound like a 10 yr old wrote. No only that he uses a famous songs music and adds the horrible lyrics over it. That sports fans is lazy.

But I will take Chicenfoot over allot of the crap out there today. I'm so sick of hearing auto enhanced singers or some guy spitting non sense and so called lyrics into a mic with a recorded backbeat.

 

[Spectrum]

Who's Michael Anthony?

What is google?

 

[hsech]

What is google?

Don't take it serious. It's filed under "who cares".

 

[OldDirtyBassist]

"A coo-coo-cookie." /DLR

 

[dreads311]

Sammy aside, I always thought Michael was great. I just think the VH brothers kept him on a very short leash.

 

[Root 5]

Sammy aside, I always thought Michael was great. I just think the VH brothers kept him on a very short leash.

DLR was guilty here, too. No one was 'bass friendly' in VH.