Gibson.com recently conducted an interview with STEEL PANTHER guitarist Satchel. In the interview Satchel talks about the new album, the early days, and spouts a slew of expletives the entire way. Excerpts from the interview are below:

Gibson.com: When will your new album be out?

Satchel: “Well, we were hoping to get it out by summer but we really never take a break from touring. We’re always on the road, we’re always doing gigs. And it takes a little bit longer for us, because our singer, he’s no spring chicken. He’s been singing for longer than most people live. Most people die at this point. But he sings all week long, and he’s got the strongest voice of anybody I know. He can sing all week long, [unsuitable for publication] and he still gets up the next morning and sings. But we do Vegas on the weekend, Hollywood on Monday nights, and then we go into the studio and record on the days in between. It’s not easy to sing in the studio because you have to get the right take. You have to sing for three hours on one song. On a lot of these songs, if I write a song, he’s gotta sing it the way I’m hearing it, and boy is that a pain in the ass. Oh my god. It’s like teaching a monkey how to type. It’s terrible. But then he gets it and it’s awesome.”

Gibson.com: Your unaccompanied solo moment on stage is always a highlight of your gigs. The unaccompanied solo is really a lost art. What’s the secret?

Satchel: “Many, many times, while I’m doing it, I’m thinking 'I’m not doing this right.' There’s really no right or wrong way to do a solo, and trust me, I’ve seen C.C. Deville do a 25-minute solo before, and then you realize, 'Okay, anybody can do this.' I remember seeing POISON in 1988 or ’89 or something, and C.C. took a 30-minute solo, and I thought, 'They’re doing this on purpose. They’re trying to get people to go buy t-shirts right now.' If you’re going to do a solo, there are a few guidelines. It should never be too long, like C.C. Deville. So stay off the blow before you do it. It should definitely have melody, because a lot of rock guitar players tend to go for super-fast licks, because it’s more impressive sounding, especially if you’re by yourself. It should have that element but you’re carrying everything by yourself, so you have to have some melody in there. The vast majority of your audience don’t give a [expletive] how fast you can play, they just want to be entertained. I used to fly above the audience on a harness, and that’s always fun. Sometimes the harness gets caught in my guitar strap and I can’t play at all, but most people don’t care. Most guitar players are too worried about if they’re playing good, but after my worst solos I’ll have more compliments backstage than ever. They don’t care about your technique. They care about melody and they want to see something cool, so I get behind the drums and I play drums and guitar at the same time. People are always very impressed by that, and that will usually get you laid after the show, which is awesome. And, of course, you want to have some flash, too. I throw in ‘Flight Of The Bumblebee’, and I’m not the first ’80s guitar player to play that, but it’s something that everybody knows, and it must be hard to play because it’s fast, right? So everybody goes, 'Oh wow, he’s talented!' And then I end up having sex with their girlfriends. Awesome.”

Read the entire interview here.

As previously reported, The “Lost” and never-before-seen video of Steel Panther performing JOURNEY's 'Don't Stop Believing' at Wembley Arena (2010) has been recovered:

Steel Panther's complete schedule of upcoming live shows can be viewed at this location.