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Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
metallex78 wrote:And Baz sounds stupid dissing Youth Gone Wild too, considering he still plays that song live these days.
The guy is ridiculous. Last time I saw him, a few years ago, he played a very Slave and SR1 heavy set. I mean 90 percent of the songs was from that era. And he's talking about not living in th past... the guy was fuckin' pointing to the words Youth Gone Wild, tattooed to his arm, during that song.
The show was good though, I really enjoyed the time travel.
Yeah, I have no problem with him playing any of the Skid Row material at all, as it's always performed well. It's just when he makes stupid comments like that, it makes him look like a fool.
Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
metallex78 wrote:And Baz sounds stupid dissing Youth Gone Wild too, considering he still plays that song live these days.
The guy is ridiculous. Last time I saw him, a few years ago, he played a very Slave and SR1 heavy set. I mean 90 percent of the songs was from that era. And he's talking about not living in th past... the guy was fuckin' pointing to the words Youth Gone Wild, tattooed to his arm, during that song.
The show was good though, I really enjoyed the time travel.
Or that Axl isn't living in the past... yet his sets are dominated by AFD - still.
Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
James Lofton wrote:The Skid Row name has been devoid of all meaning since 1992 when they released B Side Ourselves.
That EP did not kill their momentum. Their momentum, regardless of Slave To The Grind, suffered from their image as a glam band. Skid never got that universal praise that was heaped on Metallica, and I truely believe their momentum was lost, because they dropped Slave just before grunge killed their band, and tons of others from that era.
While grunge was killing off Britny Fox, Bulletboys, Warrant,etc., Skid Row was on a headlining tour with Soundgarden and Pantera as their openers. Instead of riding that wave, they took their eyes off the ball(Slave, tour). Throwing that bullshit EP in stores was a colossal mistake. It was a quick reminder to Joe Public that there were more interesting things going on than walking into a record store to buy a 5 song cover EP for 15 bucks.
The label didn't even bother to support it either. It was a lost cause. The band's demise is traced back to that EP, not grunge. Obviously Skid Row was not gonna have the longevity of a band like the Stones grunge or no grunge, but they were still on the map in summer/fall 92 and the release of that EP hastened the downfall.
Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
Maybe. I think they were dead as hell regardless. I think Slave just happened to be released at just the right time. Poison was also a more successful glam band than your average glam band #8,013,618 in LA, yet they were also finished by 1991/92, even after a successful output in Flesh + Blood only in 1990.
I remember that performance of Unskinny Bop at the 1991 VMA's being absolutely cringe-worthy. Even Arsenio half-assed introduced them and made fun of them, like "fuck off". The audience reacted the same way, and it was obvious the tide had turned on those types of bands in the rock scene. It was over.
I always felt Skid got wrapped into that same category. Had Slave been dropped in 1992... it would've been virtually DOA, and not #1.
Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
I think they were dead as hell regardless.
So do I.
I'm not trying to defend hair metal against the grunge juggernaut. Just making the point that the EP was a 'game changer' in their career. A smarter move would have been to milk a couple more singles out of Slave(Psycho Love, Quicksand Jesus) while wrapping up that tour.
Slave allowed them to separate from the pack. Even speed metal fans were listening to the record when two years earlier they were a cookie cutter hair metal band with 14 year old girls putting pics of Baz on their bedroom walls. A year later they release the EP and it just muddied the waters even more.
At that point in the music scene there was no time to dick around. A cultural shift was occurring, and in the case of Skid Row, their own fan base was evolving. When Pantera fans are moshing to Slave to the Grind, don't hit them over the head with that EP.
Skid Row gave their own fans the incentive to stop caring, which is exactly what they did. By the time 95 rolled around and they released Subhuman Race, the world laughed.
It's unfortunate that a proper followup to Slave never happened.
I remember that performance of Unskinny Bop at the 1991 VMA's being absolutely cringe-worthy. Even Arsenio half-assed introduced them and made fun of them, like "fuck off". The audience reacted the same way, and it was obvious the tide had turned on those types of bands in the rock scene. It was over.
Yeah it was definitely over for the genre at the time. No one was interested. There were just a few bands able to delay the inevitable for a brief moment. I was shocked in 94 when Poison had that one hit. Total anomaly.
Nirvana gets too much credit. The scene was already changing before Nevermind hit. It was just the final nail in the coffin.
Love the Jani Lane story where he said as he was walking into his label's building they were removing the Warrant shit from the walls and replacing it with Alice in Chains. He knew it was over.
Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
Yeah, no shit. Poison's Body Talk being a Top-20 hit, not on rock radio, but all radio was like the WTF moment of that year.
Not only was it a shitty song, but there were better songs even on Native Tongue. Stand was a far better song, and a ballad, and didn't see the same success.
All I can guess was the planets aligned and all the Poison fans woke up from their three year hangover and called in to request the song non-stop, because the damn thing blew.
And as for Jani Lane, all of those guys from that era have a story like that. It was Bret Michaels who nailed it years ago, and still holds true today. It's not so much that grunge was a better form of music than hair metal or more artful... grunge didn't kill hair, grunge "marketing" killed hair. The feel good, indulgent-fun Reagan 80's were dead, audiences were identifying with a moodier music, and record exec's fearing profits margins slipping launched a massive marketing push to promote grunge. It worked, for a few years.
The irony is, in 2010, those hair bands are far more beloved today and doing far better in terms of revisionism than the grunge bands. Other than the "big four", most of the grunge bands are long gone, while bands like Faster Pussycat and White Lion do rock festivals across the world with Whitesnake or Poison headlining. Ultimately they did survive the on slaught. It just took 20 years.
Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
http://louciferspeaks.com/2010/11/08/in … -sterling/
Interview with Nick Sterling
Posted on November 8, 2010 by Loucifer
Nick Sterling is the extremely talented guitarist who recently joined Sebastian Bach’s band. He has just completed a tour with Sebastian Bach (supporting Guns N’ Roses) and is now in the process of promoting his own album and writing/recording the new Sebastian Bach album. This guy is unbelievably busy… and yet, he still made time to answer my questions. To put it bluntly – Nick Sterling is awesome.
Lou: Hi Nick, thanks for agreeing to answer my questions – I understand that you’re really busy at the moment! Anyway, how’s it going today?
Nick: It is going swell. It’s been nice to be home after this last tour in Europe with Baz.
Lou: How was the tour with Sebastian Bach and Guns N’ Roses? I saw you in London on the 13th October – it was a great show!
Nick: I thought the tour went great; we definately had a lot of great shows, the crowds we’re wonderful. We played like 7 shows in 7 nights and we’re really a band that gets better the more we play.
Lou: What was the highlight from that tour?
Nick: Playing the O2 arena in London was really cool; the second night that we played there was better though, that show was awesome! The crowd was really into it and Baz was really singing great so we came off stage feeling really good.
Lou: Slightly bizarre question, but I really liked the hat you wore on this tour (I have a small hat obsession!) – where can I buy one of those bad boys from?
Nick: Yeah, I really like hats a lot too and when we’re out traveling I’ll go a few days without showering so hats help that too. That hat has gotten pretty funky over the past year. I’ve taken it to Europe, Canada, South America, Jersey, haha. I don’t know where you’d find one, mine’s actually from the theater department from a school near by.
Lou: I’m sure you’ve been asked this a thousand times before, but how did you end up becoming the guitarist for Sebastian Bach?
Nick: We’ll he was looking for a guitarist and he initially saw me in an advertisement for Eminence speakers in Guitar Player magazine. After that he checked out some of the stuff that I had online and we started talking by phone. Sebastian was just so stoked about making some new music and he really likes my style of writing so everything has just kinda fell into place. I wouldn’t want to be involved if he was just into doing the whole nostalgia rock thing, that’s not what he’s about, he wants to keep making records until he’s much much older and that’s cool.
Lou: I understand that you’re working on the new Sebastian Bach album at the moment, are you able to tell us anything about it? Does it have a title yet?
Nick: We will be starting the preproduction for the new record soon. Most of the songs on there are ideas that I have had written in the past, a lot of the tunes that work great for sebastian to sing happen to be tunes that just didn’t fit with the songs on my last solo record. It will be more of a Rock record, lots of melody but while still keeping Sebastian’s signature high level of energy.
Lou: Will it carry on from where “Angel Down” left off?
Nick: I think it will be a very different style of album than Angel Down but still compatible with Sebastian’s fan base. I’m really excited to start working on it.
Lou: Will you be hitting the road again with Sebastian Bach once the album has been released? (Hint: come back to the UK!)
Nick: I hope so, I would definitely assume so! Sebastian and his management team are really wanting to give it 100% so I’m sure that a huge tour supporting the album will happen sometime in the future
Lou: You’ve only recently turned 20 years old and you’ve already accomplished so much… to say I’m jealous is an understatement! Haha! What or who was it that initially made you want to become a musician?
Nick: Well, playing the guitar always just kinda came naturally to me but my dad always played a little bit in bands growing up. He taught me some of the first things I ever learned and has supported me ever since then; my whole family has.
Lou: What was the first album you ever bought?
Nick: I’m really not sure. I wouldn’t remember that far back in detail, a lot of the things that I first started listening to were in the cd case in my parents closet.
Lou: I’ve read that, as well as being a superb guitarist and singer/songwriter, you’ve also had a go at producing. Will you be producing the new Sebastian Bach record? Have you produced any albums for any other artists / bands?
Nick: I hope to have some involvement on Baz’s next record in the studio. I’m pretty sure that it will just end up being a group effort; we’re not sure who will be producing it yet. I’ve done a little bit of production for other bands locally here in Arizona but mostly my experience is with recording my own stuff. Recording is definately one of my favorite things.
Lou: Do you have any tips for any aspiring musicians / songwriters / producers?
Nick: Don’t get to caught up in being so technical, let the music be music.
Lou: What equipment do you use?
Nick: I use a lot of different guitars and amps. With Baz it’s usually just rented backline gear. I’ve been taking my 73 Les Paul Custom and a really cool RS guitarworks telecaster on the road with him.
Lou: My research tells me that you got your first guitar when you were 7 years old (please correct me if I’m wrong!). Do you still have that guitar?
Nick: My first guitar was a Fender Duo-Sonic, I’m pretty sure it’s still somewhere at my parents house! I don’t play it much anymore; it’s a short scale string length.
Lou: I’ve been listening to your solo album, “Invisible”, quite a bit recently and it’s ridiculously good (my current favourite track is “Wasted Identity”… or “Awake”… or “Was It You” …or “Something to Believe”). What inspires you to write your lyrics?
Nick: I really don’t know, I really write a lot in spurts. When it isn’t happening it isn’t happening. I try to write things out for the most part pretty simply, I like lyrics that read more like as if they were spoken, i try not to get to artsy with alliteration or other technical writing and stuff like that, I like to keep it pretty simple.
Lou: Unfortunately I haven’t listened to your “Life Goes On” album yet. How would you say “Invisible” compares to that album?
Nick: Invisible is much different than Life goes on. That record was released when I was 15 and I was really into Rush and Boston and big huge vocal harmonies and stuff like that. My writing definately sounds a lot younger on that record also. It kinda just marks a place in time for me.
Lou: Will you be doing a solo tour to promote your new album “Invisible”?
Nick: Possibly, I’m already on to making some new music; it’s really what I’m wanting to work hard on and play live at this point. Soon enough I will be playing solo shows of my own again, I’ll know when I’m ready, when I’m confident in the music I’m putting out there and have a group together.
Lou: You’ve written a vast selection of good songs so far, which one stands out the most for you? Which song are you most proud of (from any album)?
Nick: I really don’t have a favorite. I think that having a favorite song would be kinda silly. Usually I’m most proud of the one’s that I’m writing at the time. It’s just really exciting when you’re working on something brand new; once it’s completed it’s just getting more familiar. I still can love a song that I’ve gotten familiar with but it’s just not the same as the excitement of the creative process.
Lou: Which bands are you listening to at the moment? Are there any albums that you’d recommend we buy?
Nick: I’ve been listening to a lot of early Smashing Pumpkins lately, pretty much all Gish and Siamese Dream.
Lou: The final words are yours: Do you have any messages that you would like to say to your fans and the readers?
Nick: I’m so excited for the recording of Sebastian’s next record, I’m really happy with the songs and they will be a blast to play live! Looking forward to it!
Lou: Thanks again, Nick! You’re awesome!
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Re: SEBASTIAN BACH: The Name SKID ROW 'Is Now Devoid Of All Meaning In Eve
I keep hearing all this stuff that Baz's drummer is like the best drummer in metal or something like that, but I don't think he's that great. He's decent, but I'd hardly rank him as metal's best drummer...
