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An otherwise approved Steel Panther party was marred by too much talk and yesteryear’s jokes

STEEL PANTHER, Amager Bio, 14 februar

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Even the best of jokes don’t get better being retold unless there’s at least som variation to the theme.

With that in mind one aesthete in the audience was bang on the money when after the sold-out Steel Panther show in Copenhagen opined:

“Yeah, it was okay. But only okay mind you.”

Exactly.

Being that the four playful advocates of happy days (daze?) and life in the dubious end of Hollywood during the eighties in Steel Panther on this evening spent way too much time talking and telling jokes – many of which they also dealt at us the last time they were here.

Any male pub regular will tell you that there are endless variations on the theme “pussy” (and football) but Steel Panther are really not that good at variations on said theme.

Well, screw it (so to speak). With titles in the (sex)manual like “The Burden Of Being Wonderful”, “Asian Hooker”, “Glory Hole” and “It Won’t Suck Itself” (surely the title of the century!) Steel Panther are obviously not bestowed upon us because they hope for scientific analysis of what they do. They’re here for one thing and one thing alone. In their own words:

“Party Like Tomorrow Is The End Of The World!”

Lose the breaks
So let’s forget about the ageing jokes. ‘Cause Steel Panther surely understand how to party.

Actually to these ears the funniest thing about the quartet is that they’re a way better band than many of the 80’s icons they send up so lovingly – Poison, Pretty Boy Floyd et al.

Steel Panther are simply great players and even if their songs have all the depth of a pygmy goat’s condom (to speak Panther language here) almost all of those songs are party anthems of a caliber that would’ve landed them straight on the stadium circuit back in the aforementioned 1980’s.

Hardly though with lyrics like “sucky, sucky, sucky, fucky – smells like sushi” (”Asian Hooker”), but that’s another and academic discussion and we don’t want none of that here.Anyway and to cut it short: Steel Panther are actually a great band, their songs are mostly great too and the titles of said songs are really so funny that there’s no reason for then band to install long breaks for joketelling in between said songs.

Because of those breaks Steel Panther lose momentum on a party, that could’ve been great rather than “just” good.

Not that star photographer Johnson and yours truly ever thought of it when we happily yelled along with ”Death To All But Metal” – ageing 80’s idiots that we are.

Yeah, all in all a pretty good Panther party.  But I would like them to tighten up till next time where I expect a gigantic party. Pretty please with massage oil on top!?

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