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\"\"<\/a>“If everybody didn\u2019t like \u2018Kicking & Screaming\u2019 I would still love it, I mean I honestly love the record and if I put my name on something that\u2019s because I believe in it 100% and I totally believe in every song on this record.\u00a0 From the production and the sound and the performances, everything about it I absolutely love 100%”<\/p>\n

This man needs no introduction but you’ll get one anyway, Sebastian Bach who is of course best known as the voice for Skid Row back in the day has done probably a lot more than you would ever think.\u00a0 Broadway shows, TV shows, so many music reality shows that you’d need more hands to count them on as well as of course his main love, his solo material, the man has been a savage animal throughout it all.<\/p>\n

He is one of the most passionate rockers we’ve spoken to, Sebastian just loves what he does and that’s evident on his killer new album Kicking & Screaming which is out at the end of September.\u00a0 We got the opportunity to talk to Sebastian about the record that he is so excited to share with everyone as well as his adoration for Australia, what he thinks of the new breed of bands out there and his ‘love’ of playing club shows… We give you the now avid reader of maytherockbewithyou.com,\u00a0 Sebastian Bach…<\/p>\n

Hi Sebastian, this is Troy from May the Rock be with You<\/strong>
\nOK man, right on, oh I love your site, thank you for that great review, that was fuckin\u2019 amazing.\u00a0 Thank you very much.
\nThank you for checking it out!<\/strong>
\nYeah I loved it, I love it ha ha ha<\/p>\n

Firstly, congratulations on Kicking & Screaming, we reviewed the album and loved it, thanks for posting our review up by the way, now besides our glowing review, what has the general reaction been to the album so far?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m happy to say that so far this is the best reviewed record I\u2019ve ever had in my career and I can say that without exaggeration, everybody loves the album so far and I got great reviews on \u2018Angel Down\u2019 but a lot of the reviews are saying that they like this record better than that record so I\u2019m very happy and as long as people like the record I\u2019m very very happy with that.<\/p>\n

Do you get nervous around album release time?<\/strong>
\nYes I do, of course you do.\u00a0 You always want to top what you\u2019ve done before and make everyone happy and but the thing is that if you make yourself happy and you\u2019re happy with what you\u2019ve made deep down in your own heart that that really is the ultimate accomplishment. If everybody didn\u2019t like \u2018Kicking & Screaming\u2019 I would still love it, I mean I honestly love the record and if I put my name on something that\u2019s because I believe in it 100% and I totally believe in every song on this record.\u00a0 From the production and the sound and the performances, everything about it I absolutely love 100%<\/p>\n

This is your first with new label Frontiers Records, how did this marriage come about?<\/strong>
\nWell I have a big time Rock and Roll manager named Rick Sales, he manages Slayer and Bullet For My Valentine and if you\u2019ve noticed that I\u2019ve been more in the forefront in the industry in the last couple of years, a lot of it has to do with Rick, my manager, he\u2019s a great manager, he got me the record deal with Frontiers, and Frontiers have pulled out all the stops to give me a great shot at getting to my fans.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not only doing a CD, we\u2019re doing a DVD in a deluxe version that is an incredible DVD that has an hour long movie called \u2018As Long As I Got The Music\u2019 with like at least an hours worth of live concert footage from around the world from Santiago Chile, San Sebastian Spain, Bogota Columbia and Halifax Nova Scotia and London England at the O2 Arena, it\u2019s got amazing footage on the Guns N\u2019 Roses tour.\u00a0 It\u2019s all pro shot, pro tools on the board and five camera angles from Axl\u2019s camera crew and it came out amazing, it\u2019s also got the three brand new videos on it and an Easter Egg which is the \u2018Battle With The Bottle\u2019 video from Gone Country which is, I don\u2019t know how to access it but it\u2019s on there somewhere ha ha.\u00a0 The DVD is almost as exciting as the CD, if you like \u2018Oh Say Can You Scream\u2019 and \u2018Road Kill\u2019 and the home movies that we made, you\u2019re gonna really like this DVD and it\u2019s not only the DVD but we\u2019re also doing a record, a vinyl album with a gatefold sleeve which is really cool, I think it\u2019s the first vinyl record I\u2019ve designed since 1990 or something like that ha ha, so yeah, Frontiers is really pulling out all the stops and I could not be happier with them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 4 years since Angel Down, in terms of preparation for this new album, how did it come together over this period of time?<\/strong>
\nWell I look at records, really the way I look at them is like an essay I\u2019m writing in school or something and I know I\u2019m done when I have 13 songs that I want everybody to hear, like if I wanna run up to you and grab you by the shirt collar and say \u201cListen to my CD\u201d like if I have that feeling then that way I know I\u2019m done, and I definitely love these 13 songs, so that\u2019s the way I approach things.\u00a0 So that\u2019s pretty much the way I look at it.<\/p>\n

Were the songs ones you\u2019d had kicking around or was it all new material written specifically for this?<\/strong>
\nWell the very first song we got going was \u2018Tunnel Vision\u2019 with John 5 who is a really big fan and he came in with that music and I wrote all the words and the melodies to and then Nick Sterling\u00a0 joined the band when he was 19 and he had a tonne of music, you know they say you have your whole life to write your first album well Nick came at me with like 30 songs or 25 songs or something and I liked a lot of them, well most of them, so he brought in a tonne of material.\u00a0 Then I sat down with Nick and wrote two songs at my house, \u2018One Good Reason\u2019 and \u2018Lost In The Light\u2019 and then we went out to LA and we wrote two songs with Bob Marlette the producer \u2018Dirty Power\u2019 and the title track \u2018Kicking & Screaming\u2019 and Bob helped us refine a lot of the other songs so that\u2019s basically how it came to be.\u00a0 If I hear music that I can emotionally relate to then that\u2019s what I want to sing to and I totally feel all this music in my heart, so I don\u2019t really care who likes what as long as the end result is this CD, you know I\u2019m not one of these guys who wants to get paid all the money so I have to write all the songs, I just want to make a great CD.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care who writes it, if the next door neighbour comes in with a good song I\u2019ll sing it.\u00a0 Good songs are rare, good songs are special and precious so me as the vocalist I\u2019m always looking for some sort of music that I can emotionally relate\u00a0 to so I can put my emotion into the vocal.<\/p>\n

You mentioned that you worked with Bob Marlette on this record, why was he the right choice for this record?<\/strong>
\nBasically because he was available right when we wanted to work, and he\u2019s a great producer and he was right ready to go in February when we were ready, and he has had a lot of success with Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes and Shinedown and Black Sabbath, the reason I really liked working with him, number 1, he\u2019s a great songwriter, we sat down and wrote some great stuff together but he also has a great bottom end to all his productions and when I\u2019m singing\u00a0 really high, I have a high singing voice a lot of the time, so when I was singing the high screams and stuff, it\u2019s good on the production side to have a big bottom end to even everything out with my high vocals and Bob\u2019s bottom end is just monstrous, it\u2019s really big and powerful and would love to work with him again, definitely.\u00a0 Great, great producer.<\/p>\n

You talk about being able to sing high but I must say, you still have a killer set of pipes where many others are clones of their former selves, what\u2019s your secret?<\/strong>
\nWell my secret is definitely these Italian opera scales called Bel Canto which is a style of singing that originates back in the 1600\u2019s in Italy and these scales that everybody from Tony Bennett to Lady GaGa use and Jon Bon Jovi sent me to this vocal instructor in Manhattan back in 1987 and this guy taught me how to warm up my voice and I do these scales all the time and before I sing every time and they really make my voice very strong.\u00a0 I also sing along to like Journey and Judas Priest and songs like that, so yeah, it\u2019s a style of singing that\u2019s been around for 100\u2019s of years and it really works ha ha ha<\/p>\n

What are your touring plans for this album and when can we expect you back in Australia?<\/strong>
\nWell we played Australia like three times in the last five years and Australia has always been one of my biggest markets as far as tonnes of rock fans going back to the very first Skid Row tour in 1990 in Australia, we\u2019ve always had a great big fan base in Australia and Australia loved Angel Down and we had a great headline tour and then we opened up for Guns N Roses and I love Australia ha ha ha what more can I say. We\u2019re playing in a America before December, before Christmas and then we\u2019re supposed to headline Europe in January and February and then I would assume that we\u2019d be going to Australia.
\nWell I\u2019ve been to all your tours here, so that will be great and one not to miss.<\/strong>
\nThat\u2019s awesome.\u00a0 I saw a YouTube clip of The Enmore Theatre just a couple of years ago and we opened up with \u2018Back In The Saddle\u2019 and it was one of the heaviest video clips I\u2019ve ever seen ha ha ha it was like on fire, it was really really good, so I can\u2019t wait to get back there to Australia, definitely.<\/p>\n

I was also at the show where you walked off stage when someone threw something at you, and all respect to you for walking off after the warnings you gave the guy\u2026<\/strong>
\nWell yeah that was a little club show and if you see me playing a club, like I\u2019m certainly not going to get physically injured so I can play in front of a couple of hundred people, when I can play the Sydney Entertainment Centre in front of 15,000 you know a couple of months later.\u00a0 I\u2019m not here to get physically injured you know, that\u2019s not part of the deal with me ha ha ha.\u00a0 Yeah I read some stuff on line that people were mad at me for that and I\u2019m like, I\u2019m here to sing music, I\u2019m not here for you to throw shit at me or whatever, I\u2019ll just leave you know?\u00a0 Especially at a club, like I don\u2019t play clubs too much anymore, that\u2019s like a rare thing, I\u2019m usually in an Arena, so if I\u2019m going to be playing to a couple of hundred people in a club I\u2019m not going to get injured to do it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even want to play clubs, I wanna play the fuckin\u2019 Burswood Dome in Perth, I want to play the Sydney Entertainment Centre, I don\u2019t want to play clubs, so it doesn\u2019t take much to get me off the stage ha ha ha ha ha ha.\u00a0 You know it\u2019s like if you got me at a club, be nice to me because I really don\u2019t want to play the fuckin\u2019 club ha ha ha.<\/p>\n

Now, we spoke to Stix from Steel Panther a couple of months back and he named you as one of the best singers they\u2019ve ever had get up with them and they had a ball, then I miss you by 2 weeks when you got up again recently, how much fun did you have with those guys?<\/strong>
\nI have fun with them, when they first came out I thought they were making fun of Metal and I didn\u2019t really like that but then I went and seen them and hung out with them and they were very funny, they\u2019re extremely hilarious, it\u2019s just all about fun and having a good time and they put on a great show, you know Ralph and all those Steel Panther guys they\u2019re good guys, they\u2019re very funny and they do what they do very well so I have a good time with them.\u00a0 Yeah I do.<\/p>\n

Obviously you still enjoy singing all the old songs, but if you could do without singing one song ever again what would it be?<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t wanna say that Sir, because when I like a band and I\u2019m reading an interview and they put themselves down in any way, I don\u2019t like that, like I don\u2019t like when Paul Stanley does interviews telling everybody how KISS meets The Phantom sucked because that was one of the greatest memories of my childhood was KISS meets The Phantom ha ha ha I feel like guilty liking it so I like alllllll the songs I do ha ha ha .\u00a0 Well I mean I have a brand new record out \u2018Kicking & Screaming\u2019 that I love, so when I go on tour and I can play brand new songs with the old songs then that makes it very interesting to me. \u00a0You know what I mean?\u00a0 So that\u2019s one of my inspirations to keep on putting out new music because that keeps me very interested.<\/p>\n

With Broadway, acting, too many TV shows to count and of course singing on your resume, what\u2019s next for Mr Bach?<\/strong>
\nWell next I\u2019ve got to find myself a really nice house to replace the one that got washed away in the hurricane. But I would really like to establish myself all over the world as just a solo artist in the touring aspect, because a lot of these promoters are so into the nostalgia, the reunion tours that they can\u2019t fathom that I could be good without Skid Row.\u00a0 Skid Row ended in \u201996 so it\u2019s like that\u2019s a long time ago so I think I\u2019d just like to prove myself like Ozzy Osbourne or Robert Plant or Neil Young or guys that just go on tour.\u00a0 You know what you\u2019re going to get with me, that\u2019s why the name on the band is Sebastian Bach and you know what I\u2019m going to do, it\u2019s going to be high energy, kick ass Rock & Roll and that\u2019s all I want to do.\u00a0 I\u2019m a simple dude, that\u2019s good enough for me.
\nSorry about the house too by the way\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah\u2026 yeah\u2026<\/p>\n

What about a book?<\/strong>
\nYeah that\u2019s coming definitely some time down the way, but Rock & Roll has definitely taken over now.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on the style of music \/ performance \/ image of the younger generation of bands coming through like Black Veil Brides and Asking Alexandria that you\u2019ve been publicly associating yourself with?<\/strong>
\nWell I love those two bands, those guys are real rock stars and all those guys in those two bands are really carrying the torch from old Skid Row and Guns N\u2019 Roses and stuff like that.\u00a0 Black Veil Brides is visually reminiscent of early Motley Crue\u00a0 without Vince Neil, it\u2019s all black hair ha ha but their album is incredible, I love their record.\u00a0 Asking Alexandria does two Skid Row songs on their EP and what better compliment could you ever receive from a younger band than have them cover your music?\u00a0 So that\u2019s great, you know, I\u2019m a rock fan so I don\u2019t just like old bands or new bands or this band or that band, anything I like that catches my ear is what I\u2019m going to listen to.\u00a0 Black Veil Brides, I listen to that album all the time, it\u2019s the best record out there next to \u2018Kicking & Screaming\u2019 ha ha ha<\/p>\n

Sebastian, thank you for being a part of my growing up and I can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next<\/strong>…
\nThank you dude, I appreciate it.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> USA<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> www.sebastianbach.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> Kicking & Screaming (released 27 September 2011 – Frontiers Records \/ Riot! Entertainment)<\/p>\n

Read our review of Kicking & Screaming here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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