• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

STEEL PANTHER's MICHAEL STARR: 'If You're Gonna Do A VAN HALEN Reunion, You Can't Have Your Son Playing Bass'

February 19, 2015

Nev Pearce of Australia's "Rabid Noise" podcast recently conducted an interview with singer Michael Starr (real name Ralph Saenz; ex-L.A. GUNS) of Los Angeles glam-metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER. You can now listen to the chat using the Spreaker widget below.

Asked if he has ever had a chance to bump into any of his personal heroes along the way, Starr said: "I had dinner with David Lee Roth at the Rainbow [in Hollywood] in, I think it was, '90. I sat down with him… You know, for me, VAN HALEN back between '78 and about '84 or '85, that was my main influence, and David Lee Roth, to me, was one of the best performers and singers out there at that time. I don't think anybody compares to what he was back then now, or will, so to sit down with him and talk to him and get to pick his brain about VAN HALEN, that was amazing."

He continued: "The funny thing about David Lee Roth is, when I sat down with him and I had that dinner with him, that guy is the same dude on stage when he's off stage. He never changes. That guy didn't stop talking for two hours. It was killer."

Starr added: "The other one, for me, is STEEL PANTHER, back in the day, we jammed with Michael Anthony, like, three or four times, the bass player from VAN HALEN. And I got to know him really well, and his daughter, and he is the most down-to-earth, normal dude — just a great guy. And not only that; he's probably one of the most underrated bass players ever."

Starr went on to say that it "would be really cool" if Anthony could rejoin VAN HALEN. He explained: "If you're gonna do a VAN HALEN reunion, you can't have your son playing bass [referring to Wolfgang Van Halen, son of VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen]; you've gotta have Michael Anthony in there."

STEEL PANTHER in December released its first-ever original Christmas track, "The Stocking Song". Featuring STEEL PANTHER's signature hooks and naughty take on the holiday season, it is available for purchase on iTunes and on Amazon.

STEEL PANTHER's third album, "All You Can Eat", sold around 13,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 24 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on April 1, 2014 via Open E/KLS.

Find more on Steel panther
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).