Guitar legend JOE SATRIANI (CHICKENFOOT) is featured in The Tone King video interview discussing his Marshall signature series amp head. It was conducted this weekend at NAMM 2012 in Anaheim, CA at the Anaheim Convention Center:

As previously reported, Satriani 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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