Chickenfoot-Live from Cabo Wabo tonight

[Ehwmatt]

Chickenfoot is NOT a classic band. It is made up of classic artists. You can't even compare itt.

You're right. Given the caliber of the talent, they were held to an even higher impossible standard - especially when terms like "supergroup" and comparisons to Zep are getting thrown around. I'm glad you enjoy the cd.

lol, in all fairness, didn't the Zep comparison come from Sammy or Satch?

[The_Noble_Cause]

lol, in all fairness, didn't the Zep comparison come from Sammy or Satch?

Think it was Sammy. I never seriously held them to that yardstick. I just wanted an album with strong songs. One of the best imo, "My Kinda Girl", barely made the album cuz Satch ruled that it was too radio friendly. So the band is still struggling to strike a balance between the commercial and tequila swiging, garage band jamming.

[Melissa]

But imho, we need to stop expecting guys in the AARP age range to write great rock songs on a regular basis, cause it ain't happening. Enjoy them while they're still there and stop being so damned critical.

Expecting more than 1-2 good songs per album is not being too critical. Age doesn't even factor into the equation. Plenty of veteran rock acts (TOTO, Loverboy, Foreigner, Journey) have stepped it up and delivered.

Chickenfoot is NOT a classic band. It is made up of classic artists. You can't even compare it. And your opinion is that there are only 1 or 2 good songs. My opinion is that there are more. It's a matter of opinion, not fact, so maybe your expectations are just different.

Only song I care for on that album is, The Future is the Past....

Great song, one of my favs on there too, like Learning To Fall also. I recorded both and one other at the show she and I saw, I should dig those up, lol.

I'm pretty sure this band was meant to be a side project for all 4 of them , and one they could have fun with, and that they have. And I for one, hope they do more in the future. They're awesome live.

[The_Noble_Cause]

And I for one, hope they do more in the future. They're awesome live.

They had said they were kicking around ideas for another album. Maybe it will be done in time to compete with a new DLR/Van Halen album.

[Melissa]

And I for one, hope they do more in the future. They're awesome live.

They had said they were kicking around ideas for another album. Maybe it will be done in time to compete with a new DLR/Van Halen album.

[X factor]

But imho, we need to stop expecting guys in the AARP age range to write great rock songs on a regular basis, cause it ain't happening. Enjoy them while they're still there and stop being so damned critical.

Expecting more than 1-2 good songs per album is not being too critical. Age doesn't even factor into the equation. Plenty of veteran rock acts (TOTO, Loverboy, Foreigner, Journey) have stepped it up and delivered.

Well, again...you say potato...
Personally I don't think ANY of those acts have done anything worth a damn since the mid 80s!

[X factor]

But imho, we need to stop expecting guys in the AARP age range to write great rock songs on a regular basis, cause it ain't happening. Enjoy them while they're still there and stop being so damned critical.

Expecting more than 1-2 good songs per album is not being too critical. Age doesn't even factor into the equation. Plenty of veteran rock acts (TOTO, Loverboy, Foreigner, Journey) have stepped it up and delivered.

Chickenfoot is NOT a classic band. It is made up of classic artists. You can't even compare it. And your opinion is that there are only 1 or 2 good songs. My opinion is that there are more. It's a matter of opinion, not fact, so maybe your expectations are just different.

It is a matter of opinion until some of the people above try and tell us that we're not entitled to expect a consistently strong album just because they are older. That's a copout. You're not doin that here, but X factor and RocknRoll are.

Nope- no copout here. I LIKE the album. But to think that these guys can still do it as effectively as they did in their prime? I think that's foolish. For instance, I LOVE Springsteen (to Deano levels in fact!) and as much as I've enjoyed the fact that he's put out so much product in the last ten years, NONE of it comes close to what he did in his prime. Onstage? They sound fantastic. But it's my assertation that most artists only have so much great material in them, and most of that usually gets blown out in the first twen years. See BOSTON as the prime example...anything they've done beyond THIRD STAGE is unlistenable. (and quite frankly NOTHING ever came close to their debut.)
Shit,I'm rambling...I respect your opinion, but what I was saying wasn't an attempt to give the artsit an easy out for putting out lesser music-I just think , to parphrase a great Jeff Beck tune "It gets em all in the end!"

[Jana]

But imho, we need to stop expecting guys in the AARP age range to write great rock songs on a regular basis, cause it ain't happening. Enjoy them while they're still there and stop being so damned critical.

Expecting more than 1-2 good songs per album is not being too critical. Age doesn't even factor into the equation. Plenty of veteran rock acts (TOTO, Loverboy, Foreigner, Journey) have stepped it up and delivered.

Chickenfoot is NOT a classic band. It is made up of classic artists. You can't even compare it. And your opinion is that there are only 1 or 2 good songs. My opinion is that there are more. It's a matter of opinion, not fact, so maybe your expectations are just different.

It is a matter of opinion until some of the people above try and tell us that we're not entitled to expect a consistently strong album just because they are older. That's a copout. You're not doin that here, but X factor and RocknRoll are.

Nope- no copout here. I LIKE the album. But to think that these guys can still do it as effectively as they did in their prime? I think that's foolish. For instance, I LOVE Springsteen (to Deano levels in fact!) and as much as I've enjoyed the fact that he's put out so much product in the last ten years, NONE of it comes close to what he did in his prime. Onstage? They sound fantastic. But it's my assertation that most artists only have so much great material in them, and most of that usually gets blown out in the first twen years. See BOSTON as the prime example...anything they've done beyond THIRD STAGE is unlistenable. (and quite frankly NOTHING ever came close to their debut.)
Shit,I'm rambling...I respect your opinion, but what I was saying wasn't an attempt to give the artsit an easy out for putting out lesser music-I just think , to parphrase a great Jeff Beck tune "It gets em all in the end!"

I agree with you for the most part. There's only a small percentage that come out with a great album much later on. They're now older and rich. They've lost that hunger and drive they had in the beginning years and there is really only so much originally that you come up with without repeating yourself. Not that older bands or singers don't come up with great songs later on, but a great album, I don't see many.