SEBASTIAN BACH On SLASH And Touring With GUNS N' ROSES

April 15, 2008

Marc Weisblott of Eye Weekly recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On once throwing interviewer George Stroumboulopoulos out of his Broadway dressing room when Bach was starring in "Jekyll & Hyde" for bringing up POISON the band Bach's now opening for:

"When you're doing a show on Broadway there are so many interviews. I was doing at least 10 of them every day, people telling me how proud they were of me for pulling it off, the first guy to ever go from heavy metal to Broadway not a touring production or dinner theatre, but actual Broadway.

"And I hear MuchMusic were coming to interview me the same station where I once walked in to tell them I was joining a band called MADAM X from Detroit, and they reported it that same day with a picture of me on the screen. So, this was an exciting reunion I was looking forward to.

"But then this guy George walks in, and he's got the biggest black cloud over his fucking head. The first thing he asks me is how I feel about my old band playing with POISON? If this guy was going to come all the way there to be such a cock to me I had every right to kick him out of my room.

"I see he's still putting on that attitude on his show ['The Hour'] it makes me want to crawl through the television and punch him in the face."

On when several original members of GUNS N' ROSES called him in to audition for what became VELVET REVOLVER. The match didn't work, leading Slash to lament the acrimony, even though they've patched things up since.

"He wrote something like, 'Too bad Sebastian doesn't like me anymore,' It's like, 'Dude, when I try out for your band and you don't pick me it's not like I'm going to call you to hang out.' After that, I was kinda ready to move on."

On touring Canada in fall 2006 with GUNS N' ROSES:

"Then I see a review in the Toronto Sun that makes it sound like I'm the worst thing to ever happen in the history of music. Meanwhile, the only reason Axl is even on the road is because he's watching me on a monitor backstage every night giving him motivation to do it, too."

Read the entire interview at Eye Weekly.

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