Steel Panther’s brand of rock n’ roll which pays homage to the rock greats of the 80’s
has rubbed some people the wrong way, resulting in words being exchanged between the band and their
detractors. Today, let’s take a look at which people and groups have called out Steel Panther.
Nikki Sixx has had his fair share of feuds over the years,
but perhaps my favourite was the one with Steel Panther. The feud started when
Steel panther were doing an interview with little punk people on their youtube channel
and were asked which favourite rockstar of theirs they’d bring back from the dead as
they stated here. I would bring back Vince Neil. he's not dead. I'd bring back the Vince Neil from
back in the day because the guys dead. You didn't bring back John Bonham dude. Oh my God!
You know what I'd be too intimidated and you know he was probably exaggerating a bit.
It was following the interview that music sites picked up on the comments
and Nikki Sixx responded on Twitter saying “The singer in steal panther,
with steal spelled s t e a l [sic] can go f himself… wanna be band putting down
@thevinceneil?” he would also add that the band were backstabbers.
Steel panther had toured with motley crue a few years earlier as Satchel telling Meltdown There
are bands that hate our guts,”“We did a tour a few years ago with Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe […] And
Mötley Crüe – they hated us. They wanted to kill us. Every night they wanted to kill us.”
The feud only got more heated when Steel Panther tweeted hey siri what’s backstabbing and posted
an old interview with Sixx from the mid 90’s after Vince Neil left the band temporarily
and the bassist made some disparaging remarks as he said here.
Ok, but do they care when their former bandmate sustained several broken ribs
and sustained internal injuries while jet skiing a few weeks ago.
My heart goes out to him. Whatever happened to the coral reef.
Oh man. When 300 pounds of blubber land on a coral reef you know there was some dust
flying around. I'm invited but I weight a ton. Ok here we go now you know that's going to be run.
Then as recently as this year Monarch Films which has done a number of documentaries on
rock bands strangely enough used a photo of Steel Panther for their documentary of Motley Crue.
Steel Panther frontman Michael Starr would make note of the mistake on his instagram page
Radio host Eddie “I know everybody and hung out with them’ trunk has long expressed his distaste
for the band Steel Panther. It was during his radio show he was asked to name one band
he never thought would make it and he singled out steel panther saying
“It amazes me – the amount of shows and attention… They’ve gotten huge in England, but in America,
they’re still basically a House of Blues-level band, but it always amazed me how popular Steel
Panther got from what they started out as, which was a band called Metal School.
“They’re still a parody, a spoof, on ’80s rock. I think there’s a segment of their fanbase that
isn’t even in on the joke, that is younger. It was a year earlier he was a little more
critical saying “I have nothing personal against anybody in the band. They are good people, they
are good players and all that. But it’s a spoof. It’s an act. It’s mocking 80’s hard rock….“My
time and energy are going to be invested into the bands from that era, that are still trying
to make new, credible, real music. … The bass player [Lexxi Foxx] literally
applies makeup while the show is happening. His hands aren’t even on the bass. Cause I
guess they are running a track or something. Satchel would respond to Trunk's comments as
he said in this interview. People that look at the cover of the book and go
I am going to hate that book I'm not gonna read it like you Eddie Trunk Eddie Trunk
hates us. He doesn't hate butter and he doesn't even know what we sound like. Somebody once asked
him a question one time they went oh you know they've got this song like
you know blah blah blah and he went oh yeah I know well this song's probably about this and awe went
have you listened to it and he went no but I'm sure it's probably like he hadn't even listened
to the song he was critiquing by us and I thought if that doesn't take your credibility away as a
reviewer, then I don't know what will. You can't you can't bag on a band without listening to it.
Music Critics and PC Culture- A few years ago Steel Panther guitarist Satchel would
team up with TC Electronics to release a guitar pedal called the Expletive Melter.
The online backlash which probably accounted for a a few hundred people called the band
sexist and mysogistic it was enough to get the company to pull the release and issue an apology
so Steel Panther would end up releasing the pedal themselves. It was in 2019 the band would release
their latest record in 2019 titled heavy metal rules and Some rock critics published scathing
reviews of the album including New musical express writing that the album has and I quote has “dumb
guitar riffs”. You then had publications like Vice writing articles about what they described
as and i quote ‘the sad cult of Steel Panther’ Drummer Stix Zadinia would publish a tweet
addressing the hate writing o all the haters and critics who ripped on us (or ANY band ever):
I DARE you to write a song. I dare you to put it out to the world. I dare you
to try and follow your dreams. I dare you to have real balls.
So let’s hear it, since you know what’s good. Let us hear YOUR band.
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