British guitarist analyses Steel Panther's Satchel, this is not a joke! 

_Satchel is a virtuoso guitarist who is pretending to be a musical satirist, who is pretending to be a guitar virtuoso._ 🎸💥

The only reason Steel Panther works so well is because these guys are TRUE musicians ....real players.

Satchel and Steel Panther are a gift to humanity

Satchel wrote God Of The Sun for Paul Gilbert's Racer X. He's an amazing guitarist who has a wicked sense of humour and takes nothing seriously. Steel Panther are a national treasure.

Satchel is a massive talent. Very underrated. Great tone also

Dude is a badass. Period. Saw them live and they ain't no joke! They can all play.

Yeah when you listen to Steel Panther, you can say what you want about their music, but have no doubts, these guys are top level musicians! I like how you said that if you sent them back to the 80's, they'd clean house. So true! And great to mention Winger. Those guys were top level musicians of the time. It's a shame they didn't go farther.

What’s great about 80’s Metal is it was fun. Bands like Motley Crue, Dokken, Poison, Van Halen, etc etc we’re there to entertain the masses. There was no deep seeded political or social message. It was about banging your head, playing excessively loud music with raunchy lyrics, and making your parents worry about the friends you were hanging out with. It was before the internet so there was still a level of mystique associated with being a rock star. And everyone played their own instruments and wrote their own songs (what a novel idea)! Glam metal is fun. Thank goodness for Steel Panther who some how are completely serious about the technique and craft involved with playing this type of music, while at the same time having a laugh about the audacity of the whole hair metal scene.

Satchel is amazing. He can play like a demon and do it spot on and still do his lazy dazy funny act along with it for his character. He is doing 3 - 4 things at once.

Steel Panther is fucking awesome. Incredible energy from the crowd at their show. Absolutely on fire. DEATH TO ALL BUT METAL

Satchel and Steel Panther are such a breath of fresh air with today's social climate. Their fun energy is totally infectious and they are truly masters of their craft! Thanks for the video!

They would have been huge in the 80’s. They’re still a great talent in the eyes of some of us. I love the energy of the band.

Basically Satch is a virtuoso, but enjoys taking the piss out of it.

Excellent musicianship coupled with tongue in cheek stage presence pays homage to the 80's. Im 50 now and my drumming was influenced by all genre's and living through the 80's, the music was serious business but the stage presence was all show. I have total respect for Steel panther. If you were wondering if we used hairspray and teased our hair in high school..... Yes we most certainly did. Lots of crazy stories.

Steel panther is like a guilty pleasure of mine. Their songs are ridiculous and vulgar but they are all so good at what they do it’s hard not to love them

I see parallels with steel panther and tenacious D in many ways. Satire and hilarious content delivered with high level musical abilities. Producing incredible music and not taking themselves seriously. Bringing fun back to metal/rock.

Steel Panther is the most serious unserious band i know. Love these guys .

Satchel and SP allow me to slip back into the 80’s whenever I want

Everybody underestimates satchel until they see him play he's amazing

Satchel(Russ) was the guitarist for Atomic Punks(Van Halen Tribute band) and also Rob Halford's Fight

I was born in 62 and this isn't what we called glam rock, glam was Bowie, T Rex etc, we called this music back in the 80s hair metal

Russ Parrish (Satchel) is no joke as a guitarist. I have a good friend that went to GIT at the same time him and Paul Gilbert went there. He ran sound for them when they played in a band called The Electric Fence. A little side band they did while attending GIT. Sure wish I could have been there during that time. There is a video of Russ practicing scales and shapes on RU-vid during the time he was at GIT.

I always say that if Steel Panther wanted to be a serious band, they 100% could be... But I'm so happy they stick with satirical comedy and now I've seen them live, it's no secret that they really are some of the most talented musicians out there!

Never heard of this guy, not into glam or hair metal, or shredding, but oh my Lord! He is a Savage player, his expression, melody and composition is just out standing. I'd much prefer to listen to Satchel than Eddie Van Halen or other shredders. His playing is musical, something than most social media shredders seem to miss these days. He takes you on a journey, you can feel his energy!

you can hear eddies licks in satchels riff, its really cool to be able to absolutely recognize the different influence , awesome riff , second satchel video ive seen this week , thanks man !!

I didn't even know about Steel Panthers until you introduce me to them months ago....great band!! Thanks Fil!..✌️❤️🤘

Satchel is a tremendous guitar player!! One of the legit best ever, and doing it as a satirical band only makes it that much better. Steele Panther really nails the 80s sound.

Your videos consistently are so spot on in the review, and you've helped give me a whole other appreciation for performances and music in new ways. You've also inspired me to pick the guitar up again. Thanks for making so many great vids!

In the 80's most rockers seemed to think that if a guitarist didn't shred, then they sucked. I tried to tell them that players like Gilmour and Page were still awesome. Then in the 90's most rockers thought that if they even played a guitar solo it sucked. I tried to tell them that shred was still a viable tool. Things are better today, but you still have people who don't get it. It's all just tools we use to emote. The best players never even think about such things, they just play what they feel and what they like.

I live in States. Grew up on cheeky comedy. Nothing else to say. Love this video. Cheers

Great, I expected a miniature Stonehenge to descend on stage at any point!

You are so right!!🎸.....Love to hear Satchel play✨Enjoyed your input!

My youngest son introduced his genteel mom to Steel Panthers videos a few years ago. I was aghast, amazed, shocked, and entertained! Their talent is off the charts! The lyrics to their songs are...a bit risque? And some are down right dirty! In a lewd, comedic way.😲😁🤣

Very Excellent Analyses Fil! You really broke this down well. I can't think of anything else to say. Great freaking job! Greg

Brilliant Fil! I’ve seen Steel Panther on 3 occasions and they are sensational! And truly Satchel is the icing on the cake! Blessed with amazing technical ability his fretboard skills are incredible! Seeing Satchel live really showed just how much of a great guitarist he totally is!! Cheers Mario! 😎🤘👌

Fil, you are, by far, the best on RU-vid. I also love that you enjoy the music and the musicians. I find new musicians all the time because I’ve recently become all but confined to a chair, so youtube is a blessing for me, but when I see someone I like I come to your channel and see what you think of them also, like Trucks as well as some of my old favorites like Glen Campbell and Jerry Reed. Thanks for this.

Wow I've been following you for a couple of years and I still get amazed about how much knowledge you have about the music world

Sach vs Eddie ,, now that would have been a pay per view right there.

Awesome description Sir! You captured Steel Panther perfectly.🤟🔥🎸 Satchel is a master..

Love the new opening!! Fantastic job of giving these guys due respect ✊✌️

Am I wrong for liking before I even watched it? 🤘🤘🤘

Another great analysis Fil. First you introduced me to Lonnie Mack and now make me appreciate Steel Panther... Keep it up

Fil, great analysis of the era. Satchel is a compendium of styles, for sure, and quite the shredder, too.

Your review was spot on. True professional musicians.

FIL!! I always learn something great Insight thankyou yer boi in Springfield Illinois

That was super cool! 🎸🔥 Thanks, Fil 🖤🤘🏽

Fantastic analysis!! Yeah there's no question, these guys are some serious musicians!

This guys humour is equally as good as his playing, all the guys in Panther are incredible at what they do.

I am a new subscriber. Your content is terrific. I'm 55 and you provide so much info that takes me back to the good old days. I'm having a mid life crisis and this has me wanting to dig out the Gibson GS I have packed away somewhere...

Russ Parrish is a very very talented guitarist. He played for Rob Halford that pretty much sums it up

Love the new intro, love Steel Panther! Glad to see someone take a look at them for their true talent. Some folks can't see past the comedy.

Dudes a hell of a player...always plays clean and precise

My smile is bigger than yours!! Awesome analysis in my top 10 of your videos! Nice one 😎✌️🤘

Doing laundry, drinking coffee and watching Fil at 6am. Enjoyed. Have a great day!

Very well explained and analyzed, Fil. One can tell the work it must have taken to get so good at a genre he loves so much.

I love when people snub him online... I play guitar and sing in a Pirate spoof band in Destin, FL. Same idea; granted I’m not worthy of any compare except that other musicians think it’s all gimmick. It’s more work than when I played seriously (haha) in the 80’s, and thought we worked hard. Nothing but respect for this man. He writes originals on the regular and has more talent than half the globe. Genius and my favorite guitarist hands down Proof’s in the chops while he’s also acting. Like Fil said, “try it” lol. Bless all yas and rock on Mates! Cheers Satch!

Would love to see a guitar duel between Satchel and Nigel Tufnel!

I loved what he did with "Fight" in the early 90's, too.

Thx Fil. Not something I would have ever been exposed to, had you not analyzed it. Not my genre of music nor theme, but I do appreciate great talent and hard work. Enjoyed listening to what you sampled from this, and I always respect your opinion.

Saw this band so many times in Vegas that it's a blur, Satchel had the best "O" face, guy is a mix of comedian and guitarist and it's pretty glorious to witness their shows.

Outstanding analysis, I really think you nailed this one. 🤘😛🤘

He’s so 80’s ..... I love it!!!!!

During the first part, I can hear what sounds like a classical guitar exercise melding into a VH influenced lead. A small bit of blues on the opening licks too.

When speaking of his past bands, you didn't mention my favorite. Fight, was a Rob Halford fronted band that Russ played in for a short time. I saw them live in 1994. Into the pit is one of the best hard rock/ metal songs I know of. There's a vid here on YT from MTV unplugged that's killer. Rob was in his glory then. That whole album/CD was awesome. From here to Eternity was a ballad that has one of my all time favorite guitar solos in it. I think the album was called War of words or maybe just self titled "Fight" . ( I can't remember but definitely look into it. Great music) I think Russ only played on that 1 album then left the band. Edit "For all Eternity" not from here to Eternity. The MTV Unplugged vid is still up here. "It's Alright" was done acoustically but " Into the Pit was full electric and what a performance it was. Rob Halford was on fire as was Russ/Satchel and the whole band. Great energy and the sound was very good.

SP may be a parody band, but the skill is top tier...no joke. All due respect to the rest of the band, each amazing in their own right, Satchel will go down as the genius court jester of rock guitar.

Yeah!!! 🔥🎸 steel panther/ satchel ! 🔥🎸 thanks Fil! They are so good! What a heck of a show they put on! 🔥🎸

You nailed it. Some people can't appreciate anything. For instance, I would never intentionally listen to country. But, I totally appreciate a lot of those guys. Some country guitarists are absolute monsters!. Even the older guys. Roy clark, Les Paul (obviously) and the master, who doesn't get enough recognition, Chet Atkins. Holy shit those guys could tear apart a fretboard.

Love your channel

Your musical journey for us leads us to many places and I have learned to appreciate people's techniques. But like any great captain of a ship, you have to touch down in your home port every once in a while. And like a good tour guide, you showed us your knowledge of this genre. Some of us are made for traveling, LOL. But of course this was appreciated for your analyses of technical abilities.

Steel Panther is awesome to see and everyone of them is a tribute to greatness.

Nice job! their fun to see and great to listen too

Again, you have gone to the core of one of my eclectic tastes. I've always liked a bit of parody if it's relevant, and Steel Panther are the present day masters. As you say, these guys can't do what they do without supreme talent, as well as knowing what, and how far to send something up. I saw Flo and Eddy (ex Turtles, ex Mothers) do it in a couple of shows in Australia in 1971/'72. Mixing their own work, incorporating mimicry, satire and current affairs into thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining concerts. As for Satchel's , and the others that you mentioned, delay trickery, the first person I saw do that was Jimmy Page, at Zeppelin's Sydney concert, in 1972. The song was Dazed and Confused. There was way more naivety back then about production and gear, and whilst I had heard it on the record, Page's sorcery with the violin bow, delay, and showmanship looked like he was summoning notes from thin air. Peerless! Of course, I am familiar with whole Steel Panther concept, and though he's just a characterisation, a rumour that yourself and Satchel could be related, wouldn't be that hard to swallow. (Just kiddin".......)

If you break down what Satchel is actually doing here, he's actually created an Eruption counterpart for about the first minute to two minutes of the solo... The notes are different, but the stylistic composition is nearly spot on... long held note to start, into quick run, add bends (in a similar fashion to EVH in Eruption) into finger tap with bend at the end and so on. it's literally following those same cues at the same timings as Eruption, just as I stated before, with different notes being played...

Satchel aka Russ Parish was the guitarist for Rov Halford's FIGHT. they also played in Vegas as a live karaoke band called Metal Shop every Monday night. I was on stage with them and sang Balls to the Wall from Accept at the Imperial. He's been a monster player for decades.

Great job as usual, Fil. Your analyses are always interesting, educational and entertaining. A suggestion I have is to provide an analysis of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love." I hope you can work it in. Keep up the good work!

I'm 60 years old , I own two guitars , my bought NEW 83 Ibanez Roadstar 2, and Slick SL54T, both guitars have only 1 Humbucker, that's MY sound , along with my new VOX Brian May amPlug, which is Incredible!

Agree. All jokes about the Band itself, he and his mates are very talented and experienced with their instruments! I’ve seen his RU-vid guitar instructions and is a very different person which highlights his showmanship on stage. Excellent stuff! Thx

I saw Atomic Punks at House of Blues at L.A. I still have pictures that Ralph took from stage with our camera and gave it back. I have close up picture of Ralph when he comes to ask can he borrow the camera and took pictures of audiece from stage. It was great gig. 😅😎🤘

His technique and feel are off the charts. Showman n vocals

I played in a JP trib at the same time he was in the punks. We played together a few times. The JP band I was in covered fight songs. We wouldn’t get the first couple chords into nailed to the gun or into the pit and he’d be front and center rocking hard. As you know he was one of the guitarists in fight with Halford. Satchel is super chill and he is really funny.

Fun guy to watch and listen too! Good analyses Fil!

Fil . I love your hair . So love it !!!! God , you are totally my type . Your locks rock .♡♡♡♡♡♡ I am glad that you exist . Live . ♡♡♡

Great analysis of Satchel Fil, and a whole lot more. I did hear tons of Eddie Van Halen in there and others. I loved it, it's 80:s, glam, hair band, great old school stuff. Rock! ✌😃

I didn’t know Satchel was my favorite guitarist until I saw him perform this solo.

Wow, just found this. I shot this video of Satchel at Wembley. Great night of entertainment

Wow!!!! This pure Talent 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👏👏👏👏👏🖒🖒🖒🖒 congratulations for thid analisys and video👌👌

I was a teen in the 80s and enjoyed metal and other genres, but especially metal. I got turned onto SP six or seven years ago and I got it. I was immediately hooked, and thought 'My God, he has all the riffs and runs, tone etc'. In my opinion he is a virtuoso. Like you pointed out, ability to play on this level with absolute precision such as he does will not happen in a few years. I saw SP about five years ago; their musicianship is phenomenal..these guys aren't messing around and I can guarantee you that if you happen to catch them live that his playing is so spot on and flawless that you will not believe your eyes nor ears!!

Satchel is incredible! He has worked with many artists such as Steve Vai, and others.

I love Steel Panther. I plan to see them live this Friday in Atlanta. I’ll be rocking and laughing my ass off. Especially when Satchel smells his shocker hand. 😂😂😂

Spot on analysis. The Steel Panther is a great band, first and foremost. Each member is a great musician. Combined, they light the stage on-fire, are the ultimate anti-PC band, and hark back to the great days of classic rock and roll.

Every time I hear the name Steel Panther I can’t help but think “Spinal Tap”. Satchel gets the satirical nature of Steel Panther and he embraces it with enthusiasm. He has also nailed some of EVH’s best licks. Heard some Vai in there as well.

Thank you Fil , I love Steel Panther, I saw them in Paris in July Bataclan (I'm French like you know now 😄) Satchel did the same solo again with the drums, watching him play hum😍in my opinion he's the best guitarist (and you) . I listening to def lepp, Kiss fan of Paul Stanley for many years , I don't think he does the same .

Steel Panther brought me here. The host's respect kept me here.

Steel Panther rocks!!! I like their funny perspectives and how they incorporate it into music that is not bound by industry/radio norms.

For some reason, this video just showed up in my feed. Its great to see someone recognize the talent of Satch. As someone who lived through the eighties as a guitar player I see his level of playing is as good as any of his contemporaries. Not only is his guitar playing superb, he is also a fantastic entertainer and is very funny.

Guitarists like this must tap into some force in the cosmos that the rest of us don't know about! Amazing 👍

Wow! This guy is great...thanks!

Cool video !!!!! Never heard of him but he is amazing! Rock!

Totally agree with everything you said. Excellent analysis! 🖖 &🤘 Max Power

Hehe, I was about to call you out for not mentioning Nuno Bettencourt in your list of influences, and then you say his name. Satchel is basically the combination of all my favorite 80's guitarists. He's really good.