Drummer Chad Smith - "CHICKENFOOT Is My Mistress"
August 10, 2009, 15 years ago
John Sinkevics of The Grand Rapids Press recently interviewed RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS and CHICKENFOOT drummer Chad Smith. An excerpt follows:
Chickenfoot “is a fun project, and that’s the best reason to play music,” Smith said of the unusual collaboration between himself, singer Sammy Hagar, bassist Michael Anthony and guitarist Joe Satriani.
“It’s like dating a new girlfriend. There’s the wife I’ve been married to and then Chickenfoot is my mistress.”“We all have this love for early ’70s hard blues-rock music that mostly came out of England: CREAM, HUMBLE PIE, DEEP PURPLE and LED ZEPPELIN,” said Smith, 47. “That’s kind of the jumping-off point. We just kind of wrote music that everyone could be themselves on and do their own thing on.”
“I was pleasantly surprised at how it sounded like a band and not just these four individuals with everybody trying to do their own thing,” he said. “It’s all very unselfish.”
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A photo gallery of Chickenfoot's performance in Toronto, ON at The Sound Academy on August 5th can be seen by clicking here.
