STEEL PANTHER Guitarist Satchel - "We've Built Our Entire Show On Winning People Over"
September 19, 2014, 9 years ago
Steel Panther guitarist Satchel sat down with The Music Zoo to talk about everything from touring with Judas Priest to the band's new album, All You Can Eat. An excerpt is available below:
Q: Now that you’re going to be doing these arena tours everyday I’m curious if you like the arena tours better than the smaller, intimate ones.
Satchel: "Everybody’s going to say that playing arenas are better, and It’s fun to play for a lot of people. But I like being Steel Panther. We’ve played festivals for 100,000 people and we’ve done many, many shows for just a few hundred. And honestly they’re all fun. When you’re playing music that you love for people who love your music it doesn’t matter how many people there are. I think doing these Priest shows, it’ll definitely be more of a…we’ll be winning the crowds over because there are many people that don’t know about us. There’ll be people who hate us and people that we win over too. You know, we’ve been doing that ever since we started. Before we even had records out we’ve been doing shows for like a dozen people, like at the (L.A. Club) The Viper Room, and we had to win those people over too. And I think we’ve built our entire show on that, on just doing great rock shows. These days people get all their records for free so it really comes down to doing a great live show."
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Judas Priest has hand-selected Steel Panther as the opening act for their Redeemer Of Souls Tour, confirmed dates are as listed.
October
3 - Hammond, IN - The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
4 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life Fest at Champions
9 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays
10 - Atlantic City, NJ - Harrah's
11 - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand
14 - Lowell, MA - Tsongas Center at UMass
15 - Allentown, PA - PPL Center
17 - East Rutherford, NJ - Izod Center
19 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre
24 - Baltimore, MD - Pier Six Pavilion
28 - Duluth, GA - The Arena at Gwinnett Center
30 - Hollywood, FL - Hard Rock Live Arena
November
7 - Austin, TX - FunFunFun Fest
10 - Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia
12 - Phoenix, AZ - Jobing Arena
13 - Highland, CA - San Manuel Casino
14 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl
16 - San Jose, CA - City National Civic
18 - Salt Lake City, UT - Maverik Center
Steel Panther's video for their song "Glory Hole" can be seen below, but according to the band, "You better watch it now, before it gets banned forever!"
"Glory Hole" appears on Steel Panther's new album, All You Can Eat, which was released April 1st.
