CHICKENFOOT SONG FOR AMERICA'S UNEMPLOYED A MUST LISTEN FOR BARACK OBAMA AND MITT ROMNEY

Yes Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney for that matter, should listen to this song carefully, and read the lyrics until they know them off by heart, like one commenter suggested the president of the United States should do.

CHICKENFOOT, the moderately popular retro-hard rock supergroup made up of guitarist JOE SATRIANI, singer SAMMY HAGAR, bass guitarist MICHAEL ANTHONY and drummer CHAD SMITH have recorded two albums of innovative Led Zeppelin like hard rock and heavy rock guitar, but the ripsnorting THREE AND A HALF LETTERS (I NEED A JOB) off their second album CHICKENFOOT 3 really stands out from the rest because of its politically charged theme.

No mention of hot women or baby in this ode to america's unemployed who want a job but cant get one. CHICKENFOOT had gone down the political path before with the opening song AVENIDA REVOLUCION off the debut album, a biting obversation of the drug war in Mexico and the indiscriminate killing and torture of mexicans caught trying to escape over the border into the United States.

Four years after CHICKENFOOT recorded that song the real life sitaution in Mexico remains the same - the country in most areas remains under the fascist control of drug lords and an ever increaingly corrupt police force.

THREE AND A HALF LETTERS (I NEED A JOB) hits a diffrent political target, one which targets the WHITE HOUSE much more directly, and puts both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on the spot and highlights the dilemma facing millions of average americans who want to work, who can work, but cant work because there are not enough jobs to go around.

No other song recorded after the 2008 global financial crisis sums up better the predicament facing unemployed people in every capitalist democracy, including australians like me.

From a musical perspective, THREE AND A HALF LETTERS (I NEED A JOB) incorporates some talking passages, just like AVENIDA REVOLUCION, with Hagar effortlessly switching from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE mode to CHICKENFOOT mode, with Satriani providing one of his most intense riffs in the repeated chorus. Red Hot Chilli Pepper Smith has never pounded the drums as hard in CHICKENFOOT like he did on this song.