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\n<\/a>\u201cI just want to tour the venues, bigger venues that are dangled in front of me like a carrot, like \u201cIf you get back with the old band you can play here\u201d I know someday it\u2019s just a matter of time before it\u2019s \u201cOK, just fuckin\u2019 play here\u201d *laughs* so that\u2019s what I would like to accomplish\u2026 I would like to be able to tour the venues that are propositioned to me with my old band\u2026 I would like to play those venues with my solo band.\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

From release: Known as the Original Voice of\u00a0SKID ROW, SEBASTIAN BACH\u00a0is one of the finest front men to come out of the late 80\u2019s \/ early 90\u2019s with one hell of a voice; he is considered musical royalty and a personification of pure rock and roll at its finest! Not being one to do anything by half,\u00a0Bach\u00a0devotes 110% to give his all resulting in one hell of a show. Whether you\u2019re a fan from the\u00a0SKID ROW\u00a0days or his solo material nowadays,\u00a0Bach\u00a0is ready to Give \u2018Em Hell and leave you Kicking And Screaming for more!<\/p>\n

At home in California and broadcasting me live us Periscope, we chatted once again to Sebastian Bach, this time about his upcoming Australian tour, new music, his upcoming book, and the past and current state of music\u2026<\/p>\n

I have to start by mentioning that when we spoke about four years ago you called the site May the Bach be with You, just wanted to say it’s still pretty much my favourite thing ever *laughs*<\/strong>
\nWell yeah, I kind of *laughs* I\u2019ve used a lot of puns in my day\u2026 *laughs*<\/p>\n

Now of course we’re here because you’re headed back to Australia! As your catalogue grows, what can we expect set wise at these upcoming shows?<\/strong>
\nWell you know there\u2019s four or five tunes that I pretty much have to do every night, I think you know those ones, you\u2019ll get the ones that you want to hear for sure, then other than that we kind of switch it up, there\u2019s a lot of great songs to choose from now, I\u2019ve put out a bunch of records *laughs* so there\u2019s a lot of songs. I arrange it, I\u2019ll go into sound check and I\u2019ll look at the room, to be honest with you some songs sound better and lend themselves to a bigger room an some songs lend themselves to a smaller venue, and the example I can think of is the song \u2018American Metalhead\u2019 off of Angel Down has all these huge big screams in it and it sounds insane in a gigantic room, whereas as a song like \u2018TunnelVision\u2019 which is more of a compressed kind of tight riff song with harmonies and stuff, not so many screams, that sounds better in smaller rooms. So how I choose the songs has to do with what kind of venue it is, is it an outside show, is it an inside show, like obviously a ballad like \u2018In A Darkened Room\u2019 works\u00a0 better in a darkened room *laughs* imagine that, \u2018In A Darkened Room\u2019 in a darkened room but doesn\u2019t feel so good in the middle of the afternoon at 4pm *laughs* it\u2019s called \u2018In A Darkened Room\u2019 *laughs* you know what I\u2019m saying?! I usually do \u2018In A Darkened Room\u2019 when we\u2019re playing in a darkened room *laughs*<\/p>\n

You’ve been here many a time, do you have a favourite memory of a past tour here?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, yeah, yeah\u2026 my favourite memory of touring Australia is not exactly on stage, my favourite memory was being invited on Motley Crue\u2019s boat in the middle of Sydney harbour, with Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki and Mick and all their family and friends, they rented out this boat with Motley Crue and Skid Row and we took a tour that day and Vince also, I went on another day with him in Australia just me and him and some people that I barely remember because we were pretty fucked up *laughs*but what I do remember is me and Vince were drinking, big surprise, and suddenly I found myself swimming in the Australian waters in Sydney harbour, I had cut myself on the propeller on the back of the boat and I was swimming in Sydney arbour in a pool of blood *laughs* and Vince is like \u201cGet the fuck out of the water, you\u2019re gonna be shark bait!\u201d I was actually swimming in shark infested waters in a pool of blood, are we having fun yet?! *laughs*<\/p>\n

\u2018Give ‘Em Hell<\/a>\u2019 has been out now for just over a year, how has the last year been for you since its release?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been great, \u2018Give \u2018Em Hell\u2019 is my top charting Billboard record, records are something that once I put them out I hate literally zero control over what happens to the records, the only control I have over the records is making it, writing it, singing it, designing the album cover, just all that *laughs* but the day it comes out, it\u2019s in the hands of the record company, I don\u2019t have any control over what happens. After I give my approval and turn it in, I put a stamp on it and I put it in the mail and it\u2019s gone, it has a life of its own. The songs live are incredible, \u2018Temptation\u2019, \u2018All My Friends Are Dead\u2019, it\u2019s hard to put a song next to \u2018Youth Gone Wild\u2019 in the set and believe it or not, I\u2019ve accomplished the impossible *laughs*, but all I can do is make the best record that I can, and the fact that it\u2019s my top charting Billboard solo record is encouraging for the next record, it\u2019s just going to be a long time before I feel up to making another record.<\/p>\n

Although you did work with Bob Marlette again, has he helped to light a fire under you or do you try and spread records out?<\/strong>
\nNo, I don\u2019t know how to answer this, all I can say is that my records come from my heart and I\u2019ve done \u2018Bring \u2018Em Bach Alive\u2019, \u2018Forever Wild DVD\u2019, \u2018Angel Down\u2019, \u2018Kicking and Screaming\u2019, \u2018ABachalypse Now\u2019, \u2018Give \u2018Em Hell\u2019 and I\u2019m saying that\u2019s a lot of music that I\u2019ve done and made just solo, not even counting Skid Row and I need some time before I put out another record. I just need some time to recharge, most of the music industry now is really about the live show way more than putting out a new record, that\u2019s another thing that\u2019s out of my control, I\u2019m always on the road, I just did seven weeks in America and Canada, I\u2019m coming to Australia and I can\u2019t make a record while I\u2019m doing a seven week tour, it doesn\u2019t work like that *laughs* so it\u2019s gonna take some time. I also have to turn in my book which I\u2019m working really hard on and that\u2019s the next big project for me, so put \u2018Give \u2018Em Hell\u2019 on in your car and turn it up, next thing coming from me is my book and that\u2019s a real big project.<\/p>\n

Is that going to have a really cool pun name with Bach in it as well?!<\/strong>
\nOh the name of the book is \u201918 and Life on Skid Row\u2019, what do you get when you\u2019re 18 and it\u2019s life on Skid Row\u2026 *laughs* the title has to do with the fact that you can kick the man out of the band but you can\u2019t kick the band out of the man and everywhere I go that\u2019s what people know me as, like in public when I\u2019m walking down the street and all over the world, so it\u2019s like a label that\u2019s put on me and it\u2019s very ironic that I\u2019m not even in the band, and it\u2019ll always be like that, so that\u2019s the title. *laughs*<\/p>\n

The statement being thrown around too much at the moment is that Rock is dead, and while some are capitalizing on the resurgence, what do you see happening with rock in the next ten to twenty years?<\/strong>
\nWell my first answer to you, what do I see happening in the next ten or twenty years, the obvious fact that everybody realises is that all our favourite bands and heroes are in their sixties and seventies now, I mean all of them\u2026 Rush is announcing their very last tour, that\u2019s really sad, I mean when Rush is hanging it up that\u2019s a bad sign for rock *laughs*, so gosh, I would say there was a quote that says \u201cSebastian Bach – Rock and Roll needs me\u201d and of course that looks ridiculous when I say that, what I mean by that is I\u2019m in my forties, I\u2019m not in my sixties, do the math, who you gonna go fuckin\u2019 see in ten years? Who? I don\u2019t think Ozzy and Tony Iommi will be touring in ten years, hopefully they will be, I don\u2019t think these bands that we love are going to be able to tour in their eighties *laughs*. So when I said rock and roll needs me I just mean that I\u2019m younger than most rocker *laughs* it\u2019s all I mean by that.<\/p>\n

You’ve been more active than most across a broad spectrum of disciplines, namely music, movies, TV and theatre, so what music\/theatre or art really has your interest right now, and why?<\/strong>
\nWell that\u2019s a good question\u2026 I\u2019d have to say Marvel movies, like Ant-Man, I just saw Ant-Man, Fantastic Four is coming out in a couple of weeks, those movies blow my mind because I collected the comics when I was a kid, I own pretty much all of those comics, I bought them for a quarter when they came out when I was a kid. So when you\u2019re a kid and you\u2019re reading these stories about The Hulk or Spider-Man and all you\u2019ve got is the comic book and your imagination and you really believe in that shit, then when you\u2019re almost fifty and you go see a movie in 3D Imax of what you imagined, like three or four decades ago, that\u2019s very overwhelming to me, when it\u2019s done right it is incredible. So I love those movies. Books, I\u2019m trying not to read other people\u2019s books because I\u2019m writing my own, I don\u2019t want to be influenced but there\u2019s a lot of great books, that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing, I\u2019m doing a book so it better be good.<\/p>\n

So is there anything that you really want to do that you haven\u2019t yet had a chance to accomplish?<\/strong>
\nI just want to tour the venues, bigger venues that are dangled in front of me like a carrot, like \u201cIf you get back with the old band you can play here\u201d I know someday it\u2019s just a matter of time before it\u2019s \u201cOK, just fuckin\u2019 play here\u201d *laughs* so that\u2019s what I would like to accomplish\u2026 I would like to be able to tour the venues that are propositioned to me with my old band\u2026 I would like to play those venues with my solo band. I\u2019ve done them a lot, the last Guns N\u2019 Roses tour we did in Australia we played every arena there was in the country and it was very good, but that\u2019s what I would say to you, when I play I club in America it\u2019s over sold, it\u2019s almost dangerous, there\u2019s so many people, they\u2019re going fuckin\u2019 insane and there\u2019s no need for that. So that\u2019s what I would say to you, that would be my goal.<\/p>\n

Now of course I don’t want to ask you about specifically about Skid Row but I do have to mention that the so criminally underrated album ‘Subhuman Race’ was released 20 years ago this year, what do you think was wrong with the world then as that album should’ve been massive…<\/strong>
\nWell I have a platinum record for Subhuman Race from Japan, the album sold over two million worldwide which is not a failure in any means but it\u2019s not as much as the two albums before it so it\u2019s considered that. Again, you don\u2019t have any control over how many millions of people buy your record *laughs* it\u2019s beyond anyone\u2019s control, I can\u2019t answer it, all I do is make albums for me and if I\u2019m proud of it I put them out and I love \u2018Subhuman Race\u2019 and \u2018Give \u2018Em Hell\u2019, \u2018Kicking and Screaming\u2019 and \u2018Angel Down\u2019 and \u2018Slave To The Grind\u2019 I love all of these records. I\u2019m the guy that\u2019s in the studio screaming my fuckin nuts off, that\u2019s all I can do *laughs* lucky I can still do it, so it\u2019s fun to do.<\/p>\n

Lastly, let’s look ahead, so finish this sentence for me, by the end of 2015, Sebastian Bach will…<\/strong>
\nBe married\u2026 *laughs*<\/p>\n

Congratulations!<\/strong>
\nThank you, buddy, yes I\u2019m getting married\u2026<\/p>\n

Well good luck and we look forward to the tour and I\u2019ll see you in Sydney\u2026<\/strong>
\nThanks, buddy, it\u2019s gonna be rockin\u2019<\/p>\n

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Catch Sebastian Bach on tour in Australia at the following dates:<\/strong>
\nSaturday 19th September GOLD COAST Coolangatta Hotel
\nTuesday 22nd September BRISBANE Eatons Hill
\nWednesday 23rd September SYDNEY Metro Theatre
\nFriday 25th September MELBOURNE Forum Theatre
\nSaturday 26th September ADELAIDE The Gov
\nSunday 27th September PERTH Astor Theatre<\/p>\n

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

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Touring Band Members:<\/strong> Sebastian Bach \u2013 Vocals, \u00a0Bobby Jarzombek – \u00a0Drums, Brent Woods \u2013 Guitar, Rob DeLuca – Bass<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong>\u00a0www.sebastianbach.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong>\u00a0Give \u2018Em Hell (out now \u2013 Frontiers Records) – Get it HERE<\/a><\/p>\n