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Joe Satriani says that he has stopped pushing for
CHICKENFOOT to reunite for more live shows and possible new music.
The supergroup, which features the legendary guitarist alongside former
VAN HALEN singer
Sammy Hagar, ex-
VAN HALEN bassist
Michael Anthony and
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS drummer
Chad Smith, has been largely inactive since 2012 when it toured with
Kenny Aronoff on drums due to
Smith's busy schedule with his main band.
In 2018,
CHICKENFOOT reunited at the Fillmore in San Francisco during the fifth annual
"Acoustic-4-A-Cure" benefit concert. The even marked the band's first performance together in just over two years.
Asked in a new interview with
SiriusXM's
"Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk" if he believes
CHICKENFOOT still has some "unfinished business" to take care of,
Satriani told host
Eddie Trunk (as transcribed by
BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I think so… I believe the last time that I was in the worst mood about
CHICKENFOOT, I was at your studio and you were surprised, I think, when I had said that I'd be into working with other people 'cause I had kind of thrown my hands up in the air with those guys. After that, I kind of backed off bugging, because I thought I just don't wanna be that guy. That's the guy that's always saying, 'C'mon, guys. Let's get the group back together.'
"I still think that it has to happen from the other side there, because they're
so busy. Like,
Chad right now is about to launch a worldwide tour with the
CHILI PEPPERS and a new album," he continued. "So the reality is that he won't really have time for quite a while. It's not my place anymore to be the guy bugging him about it. But
Sammy and I talk every week, and it's all cool. Everyone's on good terms. It's just a question of how do we fit it in to this crazy world we live in."
Last March,
Anthony told the Morristown, New Jersey radio station
105.5 WDHA that
CHICKENFOOT will reunite for more live shows and possible new music. "I think there'll definitely be some kind of
CHICKENFOOT [activity] in the future," he said. "
Sammy and I, we talk about it all the time, and I text with
Joe and
Chad all the time, if we're not speaking. And I know
Joe really wants to do it."
Michael, who has spent most of the last few years playing with
Sammy in
THE CIRCLE, continued: "It's kind of funny, 'cause we start doing
THE CIRCLE thing, and
Sammy gets all enamored with
THE CIRCLE. He's all, 'Oh, yeah. It's
THE CIRCLE this and that.' But you never know. He might wake up tomorrow and go, 'Oh my God.
CHICKENFOOT — let's do a
CHICKENFOOT gig.'
"I definitely think that
CHICKENFOOT will do something else,"
Anthony reiterated. "Whether we'll record another album, which would be great — I'd love to do that. But I'd love to just together and even just do some shows — do a bunch of shows with those guys. 'Cause that's actually some of the best times I've ever had on the road. Believe me — touring with
Chad Smith is like touring with no other… Even hanging out with
Chad since he's been sober, he's still crazier than some of the most crazy people I know.
"But we definitely have a great time. And I definitely feel that we'll [get together], if not to record some new stuff, hopefully in the near future to at least get together and play some shows together."
Three years ago,
Joe told
Meltdown of Detroit's
WRIF radio station that "the door is always open" for
CHICKENFOOT to play again, "because there's a true connection between the four of us, and we'd all do it in a second."
In March 2017,
CHICKENFOOT released
"Divine Termination", its first new tune in five years, on
"Best + Live", the band's first-ever best-of collection.
CHICKENFOOT's most recent album of all-new material was
"Chickenfoot III", the band's second LP, issued in 2011.