just turned 53 and still rocking out...have a studio that occupies most of my hacienda and grew up listening to sammy sing with montrose, solo, van halen and now chickenfoot...what a group of guys !! i am not up to joe satriani's level of playing guitar but i'm still working on it...surfing to prof satchafunkilus all coupled with the driving bottom end of michael anthony and the pounding of the skins by chad smith...the cd blew me away... they got there own unique sound from the bottom up....yeah, a few friends said oh that's just van halen, to which i told them to give the cd another listen and then come back and discuss it with me... joe's playing fits the band perfectly and sammy and michael harmonize together almost effortless...sure they played and sang together before during the van halen days, but it sounds pretty great and natural to me...the rhythm section with chad smith driving the group is incredible to watch as mr smith never misses a lick...michael is locked in on the bass and i can't wait to hear the next set of songs coming out of this group...my only complaint is i haven't heard any chickenfoot on my sirius/xm satellite radio...it might be there and i haven't heard it yet, but as of yet, i haven't heard it to lock it in to favorites so it will tell me when one of the songs come up...i would've thought i'd have heard it on the boneyard or octane at least...at any rate, i'm glad the guys are doing well in the "record industry" and can't wait for the next cd to come out...!! i'll be ordering the dvd version as soon as possible..!!