Interviewing Steel Panther is always interesting and fun. You can literally talk about anything with them and the response is always cool.
Our good dudes at Ultimate Guitar had a chat with Steel Panther’s axeman Satchel and talked about an infamous moment when they called Zakk Wylde a p*ssy.
Here’s what Satchel said:
“That was an awesome story because Zakk was so f*cking hammered at that show. And I saw him in the audience and I said, ‘Zakk f*ckin’ Wylde, you better get on this f*cking stage right f*cking now or you’re a f*cking p*ssy!’ Right, I called him out.
“And he looked at me, and he was so drunk, and he just walked right up on the stage, and – first of all, Zakk is a huge dude; and he had f*ckin’ boots on, he was 6’10” [around 2.1m] – at least it felt that way – and he looked at me.
“I took my guitar off, which was a $100 BC Rich, handed him the guitar and he goes like, ‘I’m not f*ckin’ playin’ the guitar! I’m singin’!’ And I go, ‘OK, what do you want to sing?’ And he goes, ‘Play some Marshall Tucker band!’
“And I was like, ‘Zakk, I have zebra spandex on right now. What makes you think I know any Marshall Tucker songs? I don’t know any Marshall Tucker! I’m in a f*ckin’ heavy metal band!’
“And he looked me, and he was so drunk, and he goes, ‘Alright, play ‘War Pigs’ by Black Sabbath or I’m gonna beat your a*s!’ And I didn’t know what to do, it was pretty scary! [Laughs]
“He was very drunk and I didn’t have any doubts that he would’ve beaten our a*s if we didn’t play ‘War Pigs.’ So I looked at our drummer and I was like, ‘Holy sh*t!’ Now this is before we were Steel Panther, and it was when [current Korn drummer] Ray Luzier was playing drums, I think.
“I said, ‘Ray! F*ckin’ play ‘War Pigs’ right now!’ And me and Ray went into ‘War Pigs’ – and of course, Lexxi Foxx was on bass, and he didn’t know f*ckin’ ‘War Pigs’ at all. And I looked at him and said, ‘Dude, you better follow my f*cking fingers right now or we’re all gonna be dead!’
“So, we made it through all of ‘War Pigs’ and Zakk didn’t kill us, so I guess we did a good enough job. But it was scary.
“And it was funny because I talked to Zakk later about that, and I was like, ‘Dude, you were at our show, do you remember that? You almost killed us! You told us to play ‘War Pigs’ and said you’d beat our a*ses if we didn’t do it!’
“And he was like, ‘Yeah… I don’t really remember that. I was f*ckin’ drunk at the time.’ It was pretty cool, and he was totally cool about it. He didn’t remember it, but it was awesome. But he’s like that, I love that guy.”