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So last night, as I’m rockin’ out with Marques and Plourde, they mention some new supergroup. Now I don’t generally pay any atention to so-called “Supergroups”. “Why?” you ask? Let me just remind you of the VH1 debacle that left us with Damnocracy? Just because you have a bunch of very talented musicians playing together doesn’t mean the sum is greater than the parts. In the case of Damnocracy, it was something opposite of that, wherein each of them exponentially magnified the suck in the others. They have yet to put out an album, which is something we can all be grateful for.

Which leads me to the gentlemen pictured above. From left to right, Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani (my hero), and Chad Smith. Pretty much everyone knows Sammy Hagar (as well as his pipes. He’s on vocals. Michael Anthony played bass for Van Halen (he’s actually one of their founding members) until Eddie kicked him out so his nozzle/crotch fruit ‘Wolfie’ could join the band. Joe Satriani (the-greatest-guitar-player-in-the-whole-wide-world) is quite simply, the greatest guitar player in the whole wide world. Chad Smith has been on drums for the Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1989, and has played with a shit-ton of other artists as well, including Johnny Cash adn the Dixie Chicks.

They sound spectatcular. I mean, it’s REAL music (rock n’ roll, no less!) and not the sterilized and over-processed stuff we’re inundated with in todays music scene. It has an understandably ‘Van Halen’ soound and feel, but it’s old-school Van Halen sound, not the new shit. You should check some of it out over at their website. The album drops on June 9th, and I’m eagerly awaiting it!

So what did this group of world-class bad-asses decide to call this epic group? Here’s the part where I’m just left specchless.

Chickenfoot.

yeah, like the thing what holds a chicken up, it’s foot.

Chicken.

Foot.

I don’t get it.

The truth is, they could call themselves “Steaming Pile of Yak Turd” and they’d still be full of all kinds of WIN. Their logo is, predictably, a ‘chickenfoot’, which is kinds retarded and kinda cool all at the same time.