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We are starting an art competition on Bebo for all you sexy Steel Panther fans!
All you have to do is draw your favourite member of Steel Panther or the whole band or a CD cover or whatever just as long as its related to the band!

Then upload it to this site and attach it to a comment on this page!!

The work of EVERYONE WHO ENTERS will be uploaded onto this page and a poll will be made for the 5 finalists so people can vote for your piece! So if you make it to the final 5 make sure to get all your friends to vote for your piece!

If you win your piece will be the display picture for this page!! You will also receive luv from the band everyday for a week so you'd be a fucking idiot to not enter!
2nd and 3rd place will also get some hot sexy Steel Panther luv for a week SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!???

The closing date hasn't been decided yet (depending on the amount of entries we get - which we hope is a lot!) But keep watching the blog for Steel Panther updates!!

ENTER NOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S IF YOUR PROFILE IS ON PRIVATE PLEASE ADD ONE OF THE MODS OR ELSE YOUR BITCHIN' PIECE WONT BE CONSIDERED IN THE COMP!!!

P.P.S We're also accepting signs from people so you'll be in the Steel Panther Sexy Hall of Fame Album So get making us some sexy signs but nothing that would get you kicked off Bebo And we'll probably have competitions for best sign with more free luv and the chance to be on the display pic in the near future depending on the support we get so make sure you tell your friends!!



SO PLEASE START SENDING US YOUR ART, SIGNS AND GET YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN TO VOTE FOR YOUR STUFF!!

Steel Panther's bitchin' interview on MSN video!
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Panthers are territorial animals, fiercely patrolling their stalking lands. The Sunset Strip, circa 1988, was ruled by one: a legendary band called Steel Panther. The Strip was the plangent heart of the nascent heavy metal scene, one that would soon conquer the music world, and rockers came from as far as New Jersey and the San Fernando Valley to see this band with a killer sound and habits to match.

Now, these once and future kings of heavy metal have emerged out of the mists of history and a cloud of hairspray to reclaim their rightful throne. Look out, because Steel Panther is again marking its territory.

Steel Panther’s fabled live shows were like a GED class from the school of rock. And other bands took note: Their raucous stage shows, outrageous style, seismic guitar riffs, catchy melodies, catchier afflictions and indiscriminate taste in trollops and intoxicants – what frontman Michael Starr, lead guitarist Satchel, bassist Lexxi Foxxx, and drummer Stix Zadinia laid down would all be copied, as sure as if the original had been left at a Kinko’s where so many apprentice rockers dream of quitting their day jobs.

“Most of the other bands were very jealous about all the chicks we were nailing,” says frontman Michael Starr, “and they were wondering how we were getting these great gigs. The bottom line is: We’re pioneers in what we’re doing. Poison totally ripped me off: I was the first guy to come out with blonde hair and tight pants and the bandannas and they got Vince Neil popping out with the bandannas – you know who we’re talking about.”

But before we get caught up in the heady excitement of those times, let’s look to when rock’s glory was yet to be fully reclaimed from the New Wave British bands sporting synthesizers, asymmetrical haircuts, sweaters and worse. It was in the thick of that noxious early–‘80s atmosphere that Steel Panther defiantly came to be.

They were high school pals, hanging out and getting high to stick it to the man. When in the course of being rebellious young men, Satchel, Michael Starr and Stix discovered Lexxi’s penchant for wearing his mother’s make up. To shock him out of his nascent transvestitism, the three school chum decided to burst out of his closet in full make up, a graphic depiction of the error of his ways. Then in a twist of fate, Michael Starr caught sight of the foursome in the mirror, recognizing at once that this look belonged on stage. A quick trip to the guitar store later, the band that would become Steel Panther was born.

But the band needed a name.

“I was with this chick watching Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” Michael Starr says, “and I saw this show on black panthers, and I thought wouldn’t that be a cool name for a band, so I went over to Satchel, and I said, ‘Satchel, how about we name our band Black Panther?’”

“And I said, how about Steel Black Panther,” Satchel replies, “only we take out the ‘Black.’”

Small early gigs led to big ones. Big chicks led to hotter ones. And before long the gigs got bigger and the chicks even hotter. Entire communities of hot chicks moved to LA. Steel Panther shows were like their Mecca. It was in this era, in which the dream that led to the 1959 invention of spandex was finally realized, that many of the band’s once and future classic songs developed, like the mission statement “Eye of a Panther” and the burning “Asian Hooker.”

By 1987, not even the record business’ most revered tastemakers could ignore the band that put the “strip” in Sunset Strip, and a fierce bidding was about to erupt. Every major label was involved. Competition to get into their big showcase gig so intense that entire A&R staffs were left in tatters; many label reps were reduced to returning to their college studies in hopes of eventually taking teaching positions in their hometowns.

But this is where the mystery of Steel Panther becomes mysterious: The b