Guitar legend Joe Satriani (CHICKENFOOT) is featured in a new interview with TNT Magazine. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Where did the band name Chickenfoot come from?

Satriani: "Back when Sammy (Hagar) was a teenager about to take the stage with a thrown-together band, he came up with the name and said it to the announcer. It has become a private joke he’s kept using any time he had a project he didn’t think was serious. By the time I joined Chickenfoot, they - bandmates Sammy and Mark Anthony (ex-VAN HALEN); Chad Smith (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS) - were laughing about how they would never let that name stick. If you try too hard to think about a band name you always get it wrong, and when a rock band tries to be clever everything goes wrong. I thought it’s so wrong it’s perfect: not a combination of names or styles of our other bands, it’s not topical or dated. If we had called the band The Chickenfoot Explosion we might have sounded like all those early 2000s bands. But for nine months, everyone thought we would change it."

Q: When did you know you wanted to play guitar?

Satriani: "From early in my life. I was an aspiring drummer at the age of nine and got in to guitar players through my older siblings who would listen to all these records from the Sixties and Seventies. I was too young to be part of it, but I had a curious fascination with all these records back when rock was counter-culture. I gravitated to JIMI HENDRIX, who was the most fascinating artist I’d ever seen. The day he died was the day it crystalised in my mind and, from then on, I focused entirely on playing electric guitar."

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As previously reported, Cinemusica, Fogo and D&E; Entertainment will present an exclusive pre-screening of Satchurated, featuring Satriani in a 3D concert film by Grammy winners Pierre and Francois Lamoureux, taking place at the Ultraluxe Theatre Anaheim - 321 West Katella Avenue - on Saturday January 21st, at 6:30 PM (PST), featuring the first-ever theatrical 3D/7.1 Dolby Surround concert film to be released.

Loudguitars.com is sponsoring this very exclusive event, conveniently located across the street from the NAMM show at the Anaheim Convention Centre, and showing at the close of Saturday’s show.

Seating is limited to 300 lucky guests (laminate required for entry, first come first served). Passes are available at the NAMM show in the Ibanez booth, Daddario's booth, Paiste’s booth and Loudguitars.com. Loudguitars.com staffers will be cruising the show floor with some passes.

Check out a film preview below: