CD name is a all Chad Smith thing: Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats: Meet The Meatbats scheduled on sale from 15 sept. Is the first solo album by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot drummer

‘My influences, through my brother, were so many of the groups that came out of England in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, Ginger Baker from Cream, Deep Purple with Ian Paice…those groups were the ones that I really loved’