It was to be a long outing, covering around fourteen months, and the guys were a little uncertain when I told them who I wanted to take out as our support act: ‘Are you sure about this, Rob?’ But I was. I’d followed the career of Steel Panther since they started out on the Sunset Strip fifteen years earlier. They were essentially a spoof of hair metal acts like Mötley Crüe and Poison, and it worked like a dream because they had fantastic tunes and they absolutely rocked. As I’ve always said, Judas Priest take our music seriously but not ourselves, and I howled at Steel Panther and their songs
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