During an interview with Little Punk People, Steel Panther singer Michael Starr and drummer Stix Zadinia were asked to single out the musicians they would bring back from the dead if they could.
Stix replied (transcribed by Ultimate Guitars):
“Okay, I’m gonna pick a singer, but it’s not to replace you [Michael]. You know who I’d bring back from the dead? Ray Gillen. You didn’t expect that? He was the singer for Badlands [died in 1993 at age 34].
Michael: “I’d bring back Vince Neil.”
Stix: “He’s not dead.”
Michael: “I’d bring back the Vince Neil from back in the day because that guy is dead.”
Stix: “You didn’t bring back John Bonham, dude.”
Michael: “You know what? It would be too intimidating to sing along with him. Like, John Bonham, he is the best musical heavy-metal drummer of all time – there’s nobody better than him, no drummer even comes close to this guy.”
If you had a million dollars to throw the best party ever, what would it be like?
Michael: “I’d take, like, a thousand bucks, bring all my friends to a strip club and give the rest of the money to my mom and sick people.”
What kind of world do you think you’d like to go to after you die?
Michael: “I would like to go to a world where everything is a coastline, so it’s kind of like Manhattan, and then I would have one trail that I could go down and it would change, you know, the women would be different and every, like, maybe 2,000 miles and towards the bottom of the world it would all get different and it would be, like, hundreds of different, like, unicorn women, unisex men.
“It would just be like one big fuck festival, like, a party, right, and there’d be boats everywhere and then Stix would be there and there would be drums, and we would, like, jam and write tunes and cocaine would be free and there would be no taxes and no laws, everyone would just be cool because they know everything’s free, so they don’t have to fight over anything.”
Stix: “How do I top that? I’m already in his world playing drums near the boats, so that’s where I’m at.”
Watch the full interview below
