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Comedic hair metal band brings their filthy fun to the Cla-Zel
Steel Panther is the great phoenix to rise from the ashes of the L.A. Sunset Strip music scene of the 1980s. Back then, Spandex clad mutants wearing makeup and sky high Aqua Netted hair ruled the airwaves of America’s rock ‘n’ roll scene, and band names like Poison, Ratt, Motley Crue, and Guns ‘N Roses graced the pages of music pin-magazines of yester-decade like Circus, Hit Parader, and Rip. But nothing good ever lasts forever, and the L.A. bands crash landed right into the Great Seattle Grunge Explosion of the early 1990s, which suddenly made the tarted up bands culturally obsolete…