STEEL PANTHER’s MICHAEL STARR: We Never Intended To Become ‘A Band That Makes Fun Of The Bands We Love’ [Video]

In a recent interview with Celebrity Jobber Podcast With Jeff Zito, vocalist Michael Starr of California glam metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER was asked when he and his bandmates came up with the idea of a fun, satirical rock group. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “That’s a great question, man. And I can answer it in a short version or a long version. And I’m gonna do the medium version because it’s important to start from the beginning. So when we first started out, grunge had just taken over heavy metal. And if you were in a heavy metal band, people started making fun of you — kind of like if you were in NICKELBACK. And it was that thing going on. But we were, like, ‘You know what? We like NICKELBACK‘ or we were, like, ‘We love heavy metal.’ We didn’t cut our hair. We kept playing, and we kept playing heavy metal and people made fun of …