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

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.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net