SEBASTIAN BACH - "I Can’t Pretend To Rock; I Have To Love The Music"
February 13, 2013, 11 years ago
Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH is featured in a new interview with UK-based TBFM Online, conducted at the Hard Rock Hell festival in Wales. An excerpt is available below:
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TBFM: Late 2011, Kicking & Screaming came out; how well has that done?
Bach: "People love it! I play the songs in concert right next to the SKID ROW songs and they stick together. I think I’ve proven you know with Skid Row, Slave To The Grind, Sub-Human Race, Beside Ourselves, Bring em Bach Alive, Angel Down, Kicking & Screaming, the fans know I make good fucking albums (laughs). I’ve made a lot of em now! When I get excited about a song, it’s a real excitement. It’s not fake, and I can’t fake that feeling. If a songwriter writes a song with me and I don’t like it, I cant lie to him and say 'Oh, this is great.' I either love it or I can’t sing it. I cant sing a song that I don’t love."
TBFM: You don’t feel it?
Bach: "I’ve tried to, but... in the old band, I would come up with something that I wouldn’t be into, and I’d go up to the mic and try to be a good guy and one of the team, and I would start singing and then my mouth would just shut (laughs) and everyone would go 'What the fuck dude?' I don’t know what to tell you – I can’t pretend to rock. I have to love the music. I didn’t get into this business to release music that I don’t like. I got into this business to create music that I fucking love and I wanna grab you by the collar and go 'Listen to this!' (laughs)."
TBFM: How hard do you find it, with radio stations and the like, to get your new stuff heard? Everyone likes to play old Skid Row tracks that everyone knows...
Bach: "Well, I just keep my head down. I don’t bother like… the video for the song 'Kicking & Screaming' is over a million plays on Youtube. A million plays is a million plays, and you cant fucking argue with that! I mean how many people is that? It’s a million fucking people! So I’m lucky you know, I just keep my fucking head down you know. I don’t say 'Oh, what's everyone else doing?' I don’t give a shit what anyone is doing. I have one life, and I’ve been doing this all my life, and just like RONNIE JAMES DIO, I will do this when I’m 63, god-willing, if I make it that far! But I am that kind of guy, I will be singing '18 And Life', hitting the scream, god-willing, when I’m fucking in my 60?s, coz I can do it!"
Go to this location for the complete interview.
Bach's new CD/DVD package, ABachalypse Now, has now been set for release on March 22nd in Europe and March 26th in North America via Frontiers Records.
The ABachalypse Now Ultimate CD/DVD Edition includes never-before-seen footage from this year’s Graspop Festival in Belgium, the full never-before-seen Hellfest set from France and the fully-remixed and remastered Nokia show from Los Angeles (originally broadcast on AXS TV), as well as bonus music videos. The DVD contains a running time of nearly 160 minutes.
ABachalypse Now will be available in two configurations: the Ultimate CD/DVD Edition (2 CDs + DVD) and a standalone DVD.
Bach’s latest album, Kicking & Screaming, was produced by Bob Marlette (BLACK SABBATH, ATREYU) and debuted in the Top 75 of the Billboard Top 200 Album chart and received rave reviews from critics and fans alike.
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Sebastian Bach has sold in excess of 20 million records worldwide as lead singer with SKID ROW and as a solo artist. Far from just being a multi-platinum recording artist, the singer/songwriter/actor/entertainer has expanded his career over the past decade to include episodic television with a 5-season recurring role on the CW’s hit series Gilmore Girls, starring roles on Broadway (Jekyll & Hyde, The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and national touring companies (Jesus Christ Superstar), and has appeared regularly on MTV and VH1.
ABachalypse Now tracklisting:
DVD:
- Live At Hellfest, France- Live At Nokia, Los Angeles, CA
- Live At Graspop, Belgium
- Bonus Music Videos: 'Kicking & Screaming', 'TunnelVision', 'I’m Alive'
CD1:
- Live At Hellfest, FranceCD2:
- Live at Nokia, Los Angeles, CASet lists:
Live At Hellfest, France - June 16th, 2012
'Slave To The Grind'
'Kicking & Screaming'
'Here I Am'
'Big Guns'
'Piece Of Me'
'18 & Life'
'American Metalhead'
'Monkey Business'
'I Remember You'
'Youth Gone Wild'
Live at Nokia, Los Angeles, CA - August 2nd, 2012
'Big Guns'
'(Love Is) A Bitchslap'
'Piece Of Me'
'18 & Life'
'American Metalhead'
'Monkey Business'
'I Remember You'
'TunnelVision'
'Youth Gone Wild'
Live At Graspop, Belgium - June 24th, 2012
'Kicking & Screaming'
'Dirty Power'
'Here I Am'
'Big Guns'
'18 & Life'
'American Metalhead'
'Monkey Business'
'I Remember You'
'TunnelVision'
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