Get It Up: Chickenfoot to Issue Greatest Hits Collection

February 10, 2017 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Fans of the rock supergroup Chickenfoot are in for a treat with the forthcoming release of a double-disc collection that includes their greatest hits and live cuts, plus a few unreleased surprises.

Chickenfoot featured four of the best hard rock musicians anyone could expect to find in one band: from Van Halen, vocalist Sammy Hagar and founding bassist Michael Anthony; guitarist Joe Satriani and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. (Hagar, Anthony and Satriani had previously worked together in the short-lived supergroup Planet Us in the early 2000s, alongside Neal Schon and Seen Castronovo of Journey.) The group’s two hard-hitting albums, released in 2009 and 2011, were both successful, reaching the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 (their self-titled debut also went gold for 500,000 copies sold). And the quartet were an in-demand live act, mixing their own originals with a handful of classic covers along the way.

While things have been quiet on the Chickenfoot front (mostly owing to Smith’s ongoing commitments with the Chili Peppers, which led to Kenny Aronoff drumming in his stead on the group’s last full tour), the new BEST+LIVE set is a fine love letter to fans in the meantime. It includes 10 tracks from the group’s two studio albums; the newly-recorded “Divine Termination” (praised by Satriani as “bone crunching, hell raising rock, dripping with attitude and vibe” in the official press release); live covers of Deep Purple (“Highway Star”), The Who (“My Generation”) and Hagar’s former band Montrose (“Bad Motor Scooter”); and more than a dozen live tracks from a 2009 gig in Phoenix (first released on the DVD Get Your Buzz On LIVE and making their CD debuts here).

Best+LIVE is available March 10 and can be pre-ordered below!

Chickenfoot, BEST+LIVE (eOne (U.S.)/EarMusic (EU), 2017)

Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Disc 1: Best

Divine Termination
Soap on a Rope
Sexy Little Thing
Oh Yeah
Get It Up
Future in the Past
Big Foot
Different Devil
Lighten Up
Dubai Blues
Something Going Wrong
Highway Star (Live)
Bad Motor Scooter (Live)
My Generation (Live)

Disc 2: Live

Avenida Revolution
Sexy Little Thing
Soap on a Rope
My Kinda Girl
Down the Drain
Bitten by the Wolf
Oh Yeah
Learning to Fall
Get It Up
Turning Left
Future in the Past

Disc 1, Track 1 previously unreleased new track
Disc 1, Tracks 2-6 from Chickenfoot (Redline Entertainment 20091, 2009)
Disc 1, Tracks 7-11 from Chickenfoot III (eOne 2377, 2011)
Disc 1, Tracks 13-14 and Disc 2 recorded live at the Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, AZ – 9/23/2009. Previously released on Get Your Buzz On LIVE DVD (Eagle Vision EREDV-797, 2009). Disc 2, Tracks 4-5, 7-8 and 10 also released on LV (Ear Music LP 0208437ERE (EU), 2012)

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.