Former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach's new autobiography, 18 And Life On Skid Row, was released on December 6th through Harper Collins. Rolling Stone has published a couple excerpts from the book, available below:

We decided to go hang out with our good buddy Lars Ulrich ... We started our day going down to the CN Tower and getting drunk. Lars was in tourist mode that day, and being European, probably felt the Canadian vibe. Up to the top restaurant we went, to the bar of course, for brunch. Drink a bunch of booze, and then decided to leave. The restaurant was the "spinning" kind, revolving 360 views around the city of Toronto. I don't know we realized it was motorized. Any room would have been spinning in the state we were achieving.

We made it down to the bottom of the CN Tower and drunkenly bought trinkets at the gift shop. Into the cab, up Yonge Street, to the Gasworks. My old haunt. It felt great to strut in there with the drummer of Metallica on a hot summer day. We proceeded in the Canadian national pastime: Sit on the patio and drink beers.

This day was similarly debauched. Rolling onto the Gasworks patio, I had somehow let my friends know we were going to be there. Rick and my buddies from Peterborough showed up. We all started drinking. Lars, at about three in the afternoon, whips out a bag of cocaine. Dumped it down right on the table, while businessmen and families were walking past. We started snorting lines in the middle of the beautiful sunny day, on a quaint, Canadian terrace, breathing the fresh, crisp air through the pure cocaine we shoved up our faces.

The owner of the establishment came out and said, "Sebastian!" He looked horrified. "I can't let you just do that right here in the middle of the table!" Lars and all of us, fueled by booze, just turned and looked at him and laughed. Like this guy was going to throw out me and Lars Ulrich? Out of his rock and roll bar? In 1990? Of course he wasn't. So, we kept inhalin', like Van Halen.

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To coincide with the release of 18 And Life On Skid Row, Harper Collins Publishers have announced a string of "author events" in the US. Dates are available below, go to this location for additional information. Watch for updates on this page.

Upcoming Sebastian Bach Author Events:

Wednesday, December 7th
6:00 PM
Bookends - 211 E Ridgewood Ave Ridgewood, NJ 07450

Thursday, December 8th
7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble, Monmouth Mall - 180 NJ-35 Eatontown, NJ 07724

Friday, December 9th
7:00 PM
Anderson's Bookshop - 26 South La Grange Road La Grange, IL 60525

Saturday, December 10th
7:00 PM
Schuler's Books & Music - Eastwood Towne Center 2820 Towne Centre Blvd Lansing, MI 48912

Sunday, December 11th
6:30 PM
Left Back Books - 399 N Euclid Ave St. Louis, MO 63108

Monday, December 12th
7:00 PM
Changing Hands - Tempe Square Shopping Center 6428 S McClintock Dr Tempe, AZ 85283

Saturday, December 17th
9:00 PM
Hard Rock Hotel - 4455 Paradise Rd Las Vegas, NV 89169

"Man, I am really starting to get excited about my book," says Sebastian Bach. "Sorry for the radio silence, it's just been years of trying to get it totally perfect, and it's finally looking like we are nailing it in every way! Watch this space for imminent updates on 18 And Life On Skid Row, coming your way, December 6th from Harper Collins."

“My favourite photos in the book are the day that I went to see KISS in 1979 at Maple Leaf Gardens,” Bach told Billboard recently. “I tell the story that my parents had divorced in Peterborough when I was 10 and then I didn’t see my dad for a long time with my mom. I would go back and forth. And then when KISS came on August 4 of ‘79, he came back to my family and reunited with my mom and took me and my sister to the KISS concert. It’s almost hard to even talk about. But he had pictures from that day, our outing, they capture 1970s rock and roll fandom. Nobody’s ever seen these shots, pictures of KISS too, of Gene because we’re in the front row. Nobody’s ever seen these. And me, he captured my excitement, at 11. And those are in the book. Then the pictures captured the time, like big time. It’s not like a bunch of Polaroids of little kids. It’s artistic, unbelievable photos just in and of themselves, as art, and nobody has ever seen these, nobody in the world because I couldn’t look at ‘em [laughs]. They’re too heavy. It’s too powerful. But then there’s the task of doing a book. So I have all those archives. I went through them all and there’s just so much in this book because this is the very, very first-ever Skid Row book. I know in the future there will be more books on the band Skid Row, but when I go to Barnes & Noble, there’s zero. There’s none. And every other band has a hundred books, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith; every band has 10, 15 books. There’s none on Skid Row. So this is the first one, so I’m going to pack it full of as much info as I can because you only get one chance to make a first impression [laughs].”

About 18 And Life On Skid Row Bach says. "Pushing the book gives us the opportunity to really finish it properly. The publishers asked me for 30 pictures. I gave them 150. There are easy ways to do memoirs, simple ways to do biographies. What separates these books is the archival content. 18 And Life On Skid Row could also be called the Skid Row Archives. I am giving you my personal collection, photos, & documents none of you have ever seen. A lot of them. I look forward to the book release and the book tour following the book release. If I am going to go on a tour of book stores, I have to really be into the book. June 28th release date gives us an extra month to pay attention to detail. In a project of this scope there are many details."

In his memoir, Bach recounts lurid tales of excess and debauchery as he toured the world with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Mötley Crüe, Soundgarden, Pantera, Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses. Filled with never before seen photos from his own personal collection, 18 And Life On Skid Rowis the story of hitting it big at a young age, and of creatively reeling from a band that broke up in its prime.

From a man who achieved his wildest dreams, only to lose his family, and then his home, this is a tale of perseverance, of wine, women and song, and of a man who has made his life on the road. 18 And Life On Skid Row is not your ordinary rock memoir, because Sebastian Bach is not your ordinary rock star.