SEBASTIAN BACH Talks About Touring With GUNS N' ROSES

SunJournal.com recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

SunJournal.com: Can you let people know, what is the show going to be like? It's a killer bill with you and GUNS N' ROSES.

Bach: Well, I'm playing with GUNS N' ROSES, Axl Rose's new band, which is incredible. I've been on the road with him since May, in Europe. It's a great show. We've sold out Madison Square Garden in New York City, which is just clearly incredible for me as a solo artist.

I never got to play there in my old band and I always wanted to. For me to be playing new places that I didn't play in my 20-year career, that's always great. That's fun for an old guy like me.

SunJournal.com: Do you remember when you first met Axl, how far back that would have been?

Bach: You wouldn't forget that day, would ya?

SunJournal.com: What were the circumstances?

Bach: The very first day I ever met him was when my old band, SKID ROW, was opening for AEROSMITH at the Los Angeles Forum. We did four nights. It was 1990. There was a knock at the door and it was David Lee Roth. I was like, "Oh my god." He came in there, then a couple of minutes later there was a knock on the door and it's Axl Rose. And I'm like, "Oh wow." And he comes on in and he sits down and we just talk about singing. Me and him went to watch AEROSMITH together on the side of the stage. Then Axl went up and sang. It was a great night. We just became friends after that.

SunJournal.com: I've been struck at the shows I've gone to recently, the whole holding your cell phone up and snapping pictures, holding them up during ballads for light. I'm curious, as an artist, what your thoughts are on that.

Bach: It's a different world, what can I say. As far as a fan goes, it's a good thing for a fan. Sometimes, you know, like Axl likes to have these late-night parties, and one night we were in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and he's dancing and stuff and I see someone that was invited to this party surreptitiously filming Axl dancing, with his cell phone. I had a couple of glasses of wine in me, I go, "Why don't you stop that dude?" Like, "Why don't you just be cool?" It was like an invasion of privacy, which it can be.
SunJournal.com: I read on your (Web) site that you'd filmed a couple episodes of "Trailer Park Boys". It was cool that you're supposed to be in Bangor, Maine, while you're doing that.

Bach: Oh, that's right! Well, there's something that I'm doing as a model train enthusiast in between the borders of America and Canada, and Bangor, Maine, has something to do with where we're at in relation to the border. I can't really — I signed a paper where I can't give away too much of the plot.

SunJournal.com: What was filming that like?

Bach: Filming that was a lot of fun. You know, I've been on this show, the "Gilmore Girls", for four seasons now, and theater, I've done four Broadway shows. The thing about the "Trailer Park Boys" is that it's a lot of improv and I'm not used to that as an actor. Especially on Broadway, you very rarely improvise anything without getting written up. I improvise sometimes on the "Gilmore Girls", but every time I improvise it's in the rehearsals and then they have to clear it. But this was like, "OK, we're going to shoot this and this and here's what we're doing, go!" (Laughs)

Read the entire interview at www.sunjournal.com.