Sebastian Bach Denies He Was “Hard to Work With” in Skid Row
Sebastian Bach, the notoriously hard to work with former Skid Row frontman, has denied he is hard to work with.
Bach, who is about to wrap up a mammoth U.S. tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of Slave to the Grind, spoke to Arizona’s 98KUPD radio station to promote his show in Tempe later the same day. Addressing criticisms that his former bandmates have leveled at him about their past working relationship, he said, “They would say to me, if I didn’t like one of their songs, they’d say, ‘You’re hard to work with.’” When the hosts pressed him further, he responded:
“You wanna go listen to the records without me, and then listen to the records with me. Why don’t you, the consumer, go and put the headphones on… Are you hard to work with? Do you like ’18 And Life’. ‘I love it. Next song.’ Not every song is that. That’s all I’m saying.
“I can sing something if I love it. If I don’t love it, it’s hard. I can’t do it. When I first joined the band, I would try to sing everything that they wrote. And I’d be in rehearsal. I remember one time [we were working on a song] and I go to the mic and I’m, like, [makes singing sound and quickly fades it out]. My mouth just shut. And everybody’s looking at me going, ‘What are you doing?’ And I go, ‘I can’t do it.’ And they go, ‘Oh, you’re hard to work with.’ I go, ‘Not on that other song, I’m not.’”
Skid Row guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo said in 2019 of elementary reunion talks the band had been having with Bach, “It was already a miserable experience and we didn’t even get on the phone.” Bassist Rachel Bolan was ever so slightly more measured about it, saying, “We quickly learned after a few text conversations why we fired him in the first place.”
Former Skid Row manager Doc McGhee recently recounted an argument with Bach over publishing in which Bach, while failing to understand the very basics of publishing, blamed the manager for withholding publishing money he thought he was owed.
Despite his prickliness, Bach has been on the right side of a number of social and political issues lately, standing up for gun control reform, abruptly ending an interview following a homophobic comment directed at Rob Halford, telling Staind’s conservative shitstain Aaron Lewis to fuck off and changing a homophobic slur in a Skid Row song when he sings it live.
[via Blabbermouth]
