NIKKI SIXX STEEL PANTHER Is A Joke I AM Not A Fan
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx says that he doesn’t care for STEEL PANTHER, the American glam rockers from Los Angeles, California, mostly known for their profane and humorous lyrics, as well as their exaggerated onstage personas that parody the stereotypical 1980s “glam metal” lifestyle.
Despite the fact that STEEL PANTHER‘s look has been described as “the bastard offspring from an unholy union of POISON and MÖTLEY CRÜE circa 1989″ and that they write “over-the-top hair-metal songs ripe with melody, muscle and machismo, fearlessly creating an amalgam of that maligned era’s sound and embracing all its excesses and debauchery” (Isthmus), Sixx tells Australia’s Music Feeds that he just can’t get into STEEL PANTHER‘s music. “You know, it’s not my thing,” he says. “That’s just me personally. I don’t know. It doesn’t feel… I guess a lot of people think it’s funny and they’re kind of a joke band and that’s cool. But that’s not my cup of tea. I kind of take my music a little more seriously.”
Back in June 2015, STEEL PANTHER singer Michael Starr revealed in an interview that MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee “was pretty upset over the fact we poked fun at [MÖTLEY CRÜE singer] Vince Neil. He didn’t like it. He just thinks we’re just a joke, like a stupid joke band that shouldn’t be playing with them. But all their fans like us.”
Starr added that members of MÖTLEY CRÜE simply “take themselves a little too serious,” except for Vince Neil, who “totally loves it.”
“You know, he told me, ‘Hey, Michael, when we retire, you can have all our fans,'” Starr said.
Before MÖTLEY CRÜE toured with POISON in 2011, Sixx famously said that his band would never hit the road with other groups from the “hair metal” era because he didn’t want to be “attached to that kind of fake bullshit.” He later explained his position by saying that MÖTLEY CRÜE “wanted to… separate from [bands like POISON]. And we had never planned on touring with any of the bands from that era. There was no animosity — it was just that we put a very clear line.”
Los Angeles glam-metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER announced their partnership with VRLIVE, a virtual reality broadcast network, to offer fans a 360-degree virtual reality live stream of their concert from The Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 22. The stream will be available on SteelPantherRocks.com and for mobile, fans can access the stream on the STEEL PANTHER YouTube channel, in the YouTube mobile app.
STEEL PANTHER‘s new album, “Lower The Bar”, will go on sale February 24, 2017. For the fans that can’t hold back their PANTHER urges, pre-orders are now available at the band’s web site, iTunes, and Amazon with deluxe bundle packages now exclusively available at SteelPantherRocks.com.
“Lower The Bar” is STEEL PANTHER‘s fourth studio album and is the follow-up to their 2014 chart-topper “All You Can Eat”, which debuted at #1 on Billboard‘s Top Current Comedy chart and #24 on their Top 200 Album chart.
To celebrate this historic moment in rock n’ roll history and as a thank you their “fanthers,” the band has released “She’s Tight”, the music video for the new album’s first single. “She’s Tight” is STEEL PANTHER‘s “sexified” version of the CHEAP TRICK song and promises the skin that was left out of the 1982 hit. Cameos in the video include CHEAP TRICK‘s Robin Zander, Bobbie Brown, Paris Michael Jackson (the late singer’s daughter) and Tony Palermo (PAPA ROACH).
“CHEAP TRICK was one of my favorite bands when I was younger. I’m so proud to have recorded this track for our new album and also to have Robin Zander himself sing with me on the song. It’s like a dream come true,” said Starr.
For the uninitiated, STEEL PANTHER was formed in 2000 and is Michael Starr (lead singer), Satchel (guitarist), Lexxi Foxx (bass) and Stix Zadinia (drums). Hailing from Los Angeles, the epicenter for rock n’ roll in all its debauchery and glamour, STEEL PANTHER has established themselves as the world’s premier party band, melding hard rock virtuosity with parody and criminally good looks. STEEL PANTHER have three full-length albums, toured across the world, enjoy platinum-level YouTube status and have, to their name, high-profile television appearances such as “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, “Larry King Now” and “FOX NFL Sunday”.
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