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Re: Sebastian Bach - I am Skid Row
SEBASTIAN BACH: 'I Am SKID ROW' - Feb. 24, 2008
In a recent interview with "The Classic Metal Show", ex-SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach addressed claims by his former bandmates that he had very little songwriting input during his time with the group. An excerpt from the chat follows:
The Classic Metal Show: With "Angel Down" [Sebastian's new solo album], you put down a whole lot of rumors that were out there. I don't want to say they were started by your past band, because I don't know where I heard them from, to be honest. I just remember reading that you couldn't write songs, that you couldn't sing anymore. You've clearly put all of that stuff to bed.
Sebastian Bach: "Yeah, well, those guys are liars, for one thing. To say that I don't write songs is such a hilarious thing to say. All you've got to do is look at the back of the records to see who wrote the songs. It's like'¦ I don't know what to say. When I walk around the house in 1991 with a dictaphone, a little tape deck, and I'm humming the riff to 'Slave To The Grind', going 'Here's a cool riff.' And then I go into the rehearsal room and I go, 'Hey, play this. Here's a drum beat (makes drum beat). Here's a fuckin' melody (sings the melody).' How the fuck is that not writing a song? I wrote 'Wasted Time', every single word of the song. It's just weird that they would say that, because they know that it's not true. Here's the deal. Those guys in that band, all they ever say is how much they hate me and they hate the old band and we never got along. There's a real brilliant marketing strategy. Let's be SKID ROW and tell everybody how much we hate SKID ROW. There's a great idea. What the fuck?! I LOVE SKID ROW. I AM SKID ROW! I can guarantee you out of all five guys in that band, the original band, I'm the only one walking down the street that people pull their car over and go, 'Hey, SKID ROW, motherfucker! Yeah! Alright! Yeah! Dude! SKID ROW!' I can guarantee you that none of them get that, ever! And I get it everywhere I go [and I will] until the day I die. People hanging out of their windows screaming 'SKID ROW,' walking through the mall going, 'Hey, fuckin' SKID ROW, dude.' I can guarantee you that none of those other guys get that, 100%. And I can't leave the house without that happening at least a couple of times a day. I can't even go in my driveway without people screaming that shit. 'SKID ROW, dude! Yeah!' You can call it what you want, but all I've gotta say is when you listen to 'Angel Down', and then you listen to the stuff they put out without me, you can hear who the rock 'n' roll fan is. You know, I'm not going to release a country single anytime soon. I'm not going to release a punk rock version of '18 And Life' any-fuckin'-time ever soon. You know, that's not me, dude. I think it sounds good the way it is. I guess I'm real hard to work with or something. [Laughs]"
To download the interview as an MP3 audio file, click here (22 MB).
Interview: http://www.theclassicmetalshow.com/inte … 022308.mp3
- Communist China
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Re: Sebastian Bach - I am Skid Row
Well I think Snake is more important to the music than C-Baz but I also don't think he gets nearly enough credit for his input there. Skid Row disses him all the time. But whatever, neither are relevant today.
- Gunslinger
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Re: Sebastian Bach - I am Skid Row
Both sides are being assholes, of course he contributed and of course they contributed and in the end it took the whole package to make Skid Row kick ass...end of story.
- Mikkamakka
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Baz is Skid Row? 
This guy has become a joke, he didn't even write the lyrics and melodies, just some of them. I still think he's an amazing singer and frontman but without the others he'd have been Poison Part II, with no music and shitty lyrics. Snake and Rachel Bolan wrote 90% of the songs, Baz was important and irreplacable, but Skid Row wasn't only him. Five guys made the band, and even Scotti and Rob Affuso were really important since they were the best musicians in the band. Five gyuys made the band, not the singer. I'm sick of these singers who act like music wouldn't matter. 
Re: Sebastian Bach - I am Skid Row
In his defence, I can't really name another Skid Row member.
Re: Sebastian Bach - I am Skid Row
Baz is Skid Row?
He did write lyrics and melodies. He wrote all the lyrics to the songs
Wasted Time & Fire Sign,he wrote the B verse to In a Darken room
He wrote almost all of the song Slave to the grind & even added melody
& lyrichs he was not credited for on the first record.;)
Of course it took all 5 to make the CDs but every time you saw a pic
of the band in a magazine back in the day there where 3 or 4 more of just
Bach & by 91 most on the interviews where done by him.
Scotti & Rob where very important epecialy since Scotti play's the majority
of the Lead Guitar even though Snake was credited most of the time for it.
Rob is probably the most level headed He & Baz have done several shows together since the demise of Skid Row.
