Chad\'s involved with Chickenfoot, an all-star group featuring guitarist Joe Satriani, and former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar (vocals) and Michael Anthony (bass).

The drummer has also founded Chad\'s Bombastic Meat Bats, an instrumental group described as \"a funk, jazz odyssey thing\".

Chad is also working with a children\'s music project called Rhythm Train with the music director at his son\'s school.

Plus the drummer recently met with veteran actor Dick Van Dyke about recording a rap for a future recording.

Meat Bats will be playing some April dates in Japan. And May will see the release of \'First Underground Nuclear Kitchen\', a new album on which Chad worked together with former Deep Purple and Trapeze bassist and short-lived Black Sabbath singer Glenn Hughes.