Big Foot

Chickenfoot is a supergroup made up of Sammy Hagar on vocals, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers on drums, guitarist Joe Satriani and bassist Michael Anthony, formerly Hagar's bandmate in Van Halen. This is the first single from their second album Chickenfoot III.

During an interview with SoundSpike, Hagar explained this was not a unanimous pick to be lead single. He said: "Why we picked that single, it wasn't my first choice. I thought it was too typical of what people would expect from Chickenfoot, and it is. It's kind of like an extension of the first record, and our personalities - fun, fun fun. The rest of the album is much more musical. It's not like heavy, 'Woo, we have to listen to this.' We got down. It's really good. It's not to be messed with. This being the most typical song, the record company and some of the people said, 'Let's make that the first single.' I said, 'I don't care, every song on the album's great. You can throw a dart.' When they kept saying to me, 'What song do you want?' I 'm going, "'I don't care, every song's great.' It's the first time I could ever say that on a record. Usually, you have two or three songs that you know are your best songs. This time I don't know what the best song is. I have very high hopes for that CD."

You may be wondering why the band decided to title their second album Chickenfoot III. Here's Hagar's explanation in the same SoundSpike interview: "We took a long time before we could get back together because of everyone's schedules. When we started working on it, we jokingly called it 'Chickenfoot IV' - as a joke. But then when the album was done, we said, 'This is not a joke.' We went, "If we say 'Chickenfoot IV,' it's going to put a little bit of a joke twist on it." But it was way, way too advanced to be 'Chickenfoot II.' The only song that kind of bridges the gap is the one you're hearing, 'Big Foot.' The rest of the stuff is way in the distance, man. We took a giant step forward and it's more like a third or fourth CD. We're not joking when we call it 'Chickenfoot III' because we skipped over the dreaded second record."