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Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
From Sebastians Twitter
THIS is an update I wish I never had to write.
I am on the lookout for band members in the GUITAR & BASS positions in my band .
I HATE CHANGING BAND MEMBERS. If it was up to me , I would never change band members. It takes a long time to develop chemistry between band members & I have never taken that simple fact lightly. The reason 'Angel Down' came out so good is that we captured a band that had been playing together live on the road for a couple of years at least, even being on tour mere days before we started recording that album. Same goes for 'Skid Row' & 'Slave To The Grind' .... those albums came out great because we were together all the time , playing, rehearsing, writing, all the time , every day.. not because we wanted to. Because we needed to. Not because we were getting paid, because we weren't. We played music for one simple reason: Playing music was (& is) our life.
Ask any musician, & they'll tell ya: one of the hardest thing about this 'business' is finding the 'right' band members. I can remember being in 'Velvet Revolver' for about 15 minutes or so (about 3 weeks
actually) & the thing I loved about that experience (working with Duff McKagan especially) is that those guys had at least 30-40 songs on the demo cd Duff gave me, & all of us had one goal in mind:
creating some great music. Thats it. We rehearsed at Mates for 5 hours at a time. Noone asked "How much am i getting paid to rehearse"? "Who's paying my gas money to write this song"? etc. The
subject of money never came up. We rehearsed, wrote songs & hung out together because we loved playing more than anything else, & are happier playing music than doing anything else.
Since then, the guys I have had in my band have seemed to have gone on their own separate ways. I was forced to turn down 5 shows this summer: Gods Of Metal , Sweden Rock, MetalWay in Spain, & 2 shows in Quebec Canada with my heroes KISS. The unbeleivable reason I had to turn down these killer shows was simple: I could not get ahold of all my band members, or I could not afford financially to pay my band to rehearse & do the shows. This situation can never happen again. I love the band on 'Angel Down', but now that album is 3 years old. Despite my repeated emails, phone calls etc...we have not come up with a single new song in 3 years now. This situation can not go on.
I am looking for musicians who love to play & create new music . Who need to play music. Who live to play music. I cannot make a good album when I have to pay all the band members to rehearse. I simply cannot
afford to pay a musician to sit down & write a song with me. I myself have never once been paid to rehearse, or write a song. I do it because I love it. I do not understand the mentality of some of the
musicians I have worked with, who demand payment to rehearse, to get better, to sharpen their craft in order to destroy the whole world on big stages & in the studio. In my mind, a good musician , a
true musician, LOVES to rehearse, plays all the time, because they want to get better. Not individually. As a BAND.
I am not saying I dont want to ever play with the 'Angel Down' guys again. On the contrary, they all know I would love to get crackin' on some new sounds with them right now. But they are all busy, or
worse, I can't get ahold of them. The official word from the guitar & bass player in my current band, through management, is "call us when there's some gigs". What they don't get is, my heart is not just
into playing the old music right now, my heart is always in creating new music, & putting out another CD. Then there will be tons of gigs.
So specificailly, what I am looking for is:
- Guitar &/or Bass Player in the New York City / New Jersey Area. Backround Vocals are a plus. We rehearse in New Jersey, so the closer the better. This doesn't rule you out if you are from somewhere
else, but with the amount of jamming I like to do, relocation may be neccessary.
- Someone who doesn't need to get paid money to rehearse, write songs, appear in videos, or do promotion. Basically the way it works is , if I get $ , you get $. Sound fair ?
- Valid passport is required
- No criminal record
- No drunks, heavy chain smokers, or druggies need apply. All band members must be completely sober at all gigs & rehearsals.
- Should have at least some 'road experience' . Again, this doesn't rule you out if you are Dimebag Darrell or Randy Rhoads at the age of 17 (or any age for that matter), or the unknown 'Adam Lambert' of Lead Guitar. But honestly the chances of me taking someone around the world for the first time are extremely slim. I had one band member that smoked cigarretes so much that he threatened passengers in an airport in Germany because he couldn't "go have a smoke". Goodbye!
- Drummers Need Not Apply. I am very fortunate to have the best drummer in rock, Bobby Jarzombek, here in this band to stay. When we were offered the 5 shows this summer, Bobby replied with an
enthusiastic 'Yes, let's rock', within minutes. That's what I'm talkin' about! There are also 2 drummers locally that we can rock with. If every band member was as pro as Bobby, it would be the
best band ever. He is the standard, as anyone who jams with him knows.
- Internet tryouts are preferred. If you have a myspace page with songs, pix , videos etc, that is perfect . Email links to 'Bach Band' at: sebastianbachangeldown@yahoo.com . Or you can mail a promo package with CD & or DVD to:
Bach Band
PO Box 215
Lincroft NJ
07738 USA
Packages will not be returned.
-Don't try to impress me with playing old Skid Row songs. That is the easy part. It just ain't about 'what happened in 1991' anymore. My intention is always to create new music that is better than anything I have ever put out. That will take every ounce of time, passion, commitment, heart, balls , & fury we got. If you think you can write a better song than '18 & life', 'I Remember You', 'Youth Gone Wild', 'American Metalhead', 'Monkey Business' , or 'Stuck Inside', I wanna meet you. I'm sure the writers of all of those songs can write even better songs than those. But, they do not ever show any new music to me, or write any new music with me. Truth is , I am bored as f**k right now. Does anyone want to rock?
Bring it.
Sebastian Bach
Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
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Someone who doesn't need to get paid money to rehearse, write songs, appear in videos, or do promotion. Basically the way it works is , if I get $ , you get $. Sound fair ?
It's funny how he doesn't seem to realize that not everybody has money form things they did years ago coming in.
He wants people who can drop what they're doing at any time to play with him, but not to pay them except for the gig.
What do they do with the things that were giving them money until that point?
That's fine if you're playing bars on the weekend, but realistically doesn't work for what he wants to do.
Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
I remember watching SuperGroup, and Baz is incredibly self-absorbed, and immature.
Bottom line, not all musicians have residuals to live off of from a once VERY successful band (Skid Row).
Some guys PLAY or they don't eat.
See Baz never had to deal with that. Because his daddy was an artist, and Baz never knew a life that wasn't funded, and didn't have money. He never had to be hungry.
Probably a reason his music sucks so goddamn bad.
- monkeychow
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Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
I love Baz's music.
I agree not everyone has Skid Row pay checks to help out between events....but even so.....there must be a balance. Maybe they can't donate 27-7 of their time to Baz - but you think they'd be willing to give a reasonable amount of time in order to develop new material to create the next record.
If anything the situation would encourage me to keep active with Baz and release new material. Especially given Angel down was received pretty well mongst the fan base. It may not have sold tons, but baz has a following. If they made more good music and kept putting on killer shows their own celebraty would increase and they'd be seeing some regualr pay checks from the enterprise.
Maybe they can't do it 24/7 due to needing money - but no one has a riff they wanna share with him at all? He says they're not even answering his messages, and lack of communication in a band is just unacceptable to me anyway.
It's a shame this line up has disolved. Jhonny Chromatic is killer on guitar and the guitar parts live were very faithful to the original skid row recordings and also of course angel down.
I wish baz had worked out with VR. He'd give them that harder edge they need. But given that's not to be, especially now he's renewed his friendship with Axl. I hope he finds some killer players locally and writes this music that's in his heart to do. Angel down was a strong album. the guy has some talent left to give us.
Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
Angel Down got the attention it got SOLELY because Axl Rose sang on three tracks, and Baz knew it. That's why EVERY interview he did, he made a point to remind everyone that Axl was on three tracks.
Axl's yesterday's news too, but in comparison to Baz... Axl is Bono.
Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
Exactly. And if anyone of those guys were to have gone elsewhere for work, he would've been a little bitch about it, and talked about how they were stalling his plans, no different than Axl.
At least Axl puts them under contract, and does pay them.
I already had issues with Baz and his behavior, but he just sunk low in my book. A big loss for points. He wants to sit around and do nothing, and keep his players from working so he can do Gone fucking Cuntry, THEN when they go looking for work, he replaces them.
He's donkey shit.
- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
Where does it say he wants them to sit around and do nothing? He wants them to return his calls, and show some interest in working on new material.
It's been three years without new material despite his efforts to get in contact. I think he just wants bandmates who will be equal with him and share the risk in being in a band - (the risk being the album may do well or poor - that time spent writing may result in be good or bad songs) rather than him having to pay people to write with him - hang out with him etc.
Axl is constantly bashed for not running GNR enough like a tradtional band and working with what are often seen as contract players by fans. Now baz calls for a traditional band where it isn't solely up to him to run everything and you're insulting him.
Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
He's the anti-Axl. Axl will pay you to do nothing, Baz will only pay you if you do enough for him to get paid.
They could make a really great movie based on these future Baz band try outs and gigs. Oh, it would be great. This could even be reality show gold.
- NY Giants82
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Re: Sebastian Bach looking for new band
I just wanna say I loved "Angel Down", even the songs Axl wasnt on.
