5 Songs Chickenfoot Should Play in Concert

Satriani typically sticks to instrumental songs on his highly successful solo albums, but for a half-dozen or so tracks on the follow-up to his 1987 breakthrough 'Surfing With the Alien,' he took his turn at the microphone as well. Satch does pretty well, but maybe we let Sammy take over instead, just so he can feel useful, whaddya say?

Yes, it's one of the Red Rocker's most enduring and crowd-pleasing anthems, but the main reason we'd want Chickenfoot to play this song is so that we can watch Hagar gamely duel with Satriani like he used to do with Eddie Van Halen, or if you wanna go way back and change songs, with Gary Pihl. (PS - yes, we know Chickenfoot did 'Bad Motor Scooter' on tour, it was awesome!)

OK, granted, this would be really different, particularly with Sammy singing instead of Anthony Kiedis on half-rapping on vocals. But are you gonna tell us you're not curious to see Michael Anthony take on Flea's elastic basslines while Satriani does his best chicken-scratching all over this song? Of course, this really only makes sense with Chad Smith rejoins the band on his breaks from the Chili Peppers tour.

Why a David Lee Roth-era Van Halen song? For two reasons: to honor Michael Anthony's time with that legendary lineup of the band, and to give our favorite whiskey and hot-sauce loving bassist a chance to take over on vocals, like he did on his last tour with VH.

So we've covered everyone's previous careers pretty well, with one notable exception: there's nothing yet from the four multi-platinum records Hagar and Anthony recorded together during Sammy's decade-plus reign as Van Halen's lead singer. Let's fix that with a rocker Satriani and Smith (or Aronoff) can really sink their teeth into.