SEBASTIAN BACH: 'If I'm Hard To Get Along With, It's Usually Because I Think Something Sucks'

August 5, 2015

In a brand new interview with Australia's The Rockpit, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach was asked why he has only been performing a couple of songs from his 2011 album, "Kicking & Screaming", during his recent live shows in the U.S. He responded: "That album is really old to me and some of the lyrics on there don't reflect how my life is now. There are also feelings and memories of that record attached to the guitar player, Nick [Sterling], and I get sad sometimes when I think about that relationship, because it was amazing playing with that little guy."

He continued: "A lot of the fans always request the SKID ROW song 'Wasted Time' — pretty much everywhere I go, people say, 'Dude, you've gotta do that live' — and I try to explain to them that I wrote that [song] about heroin, and this was in the early '90s when there was 'heroin chic' when all these models were trying to look gaunt. My sister was a model and she got caught up in this when all these models were trying to look like heroin addicts and it was all cool, and I just thought it all sucked, and so I wrote a song about it. So I try to explain that these days I don't think about heroin — not in 2015. It's not something I want to step up to the mic and put my heart into, because I'm not thinking about that these days. Right now family is first to me. I have to admit that to you."

Bach added: "All my records are extremely personal, to the point where the record company begged me to put the lyrics on the last record and I didn't want them to, because they were too fucking heavy. [Laughs] If they're that heavy, you don't want anyone to read them!

"I just have to be able to believe in what I'm singing, and if I feel it, that's when you guys feel it."

Sebastian also talked about the fact that he hasn't spoken to SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan since he exited the band in 1996 — despite the fact that the singer has repeatedly made it clear that he would be willing to reunite with his former bandmates for a new studio album and tour.

"I think in between [my departure from] SKID ROW and now, I've done four Broadway shows with a cast and crew of maybe 75, 80 people, and I keep getting hired for them, so it's impossible that I'm such a complete dick that I can't get along with 80 people. So if they can get along with me… If I'm hard to get along with, it's usually because I think something sucks. [Laughs] And I'm not trying to be mean… I just know how good 'Monkey Business' is and '18 And Life' — and that doesn't suck at all; that's just incredible music."

He added: "People get their feelings hurt in rock and roll all the time. Big, tough guys with tattoos get their feelings hurt. [Laughs] Every bad boy has a soft side."

Read the entire interview at The Rockpit.

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