Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH is featured in a new interview with Jane Stevenson for the Toronto Sun. An excerpt from the story is available below:

Bach was playing a show with Godsmack in Colorado when he found out his home had been wrecked by (Hurricane) Irene. He has since secured temporary residence in Atlantic Islands, N.J., but says he intends to move to L.A.

"My next place is going to be lost by a fire or mudslide," he said with a laugh. "Maybe I'll just go up to North Bay (Ont.), build myself an igloo, call it a day. It's been a good run!"

Returning to Peterborough, it seems, is not in the cards.

"Since (my dad) died in 2002, it's kind of eerie. Most of my family live in Toronto now. It's haunting 'cause (Peterborough is) a little town, so every street, every house, I just remember everything."

Bach wisecracks that he only gets back to Toronto "when I go to jail" -- which happened last November rather unexpectedly. It started when Bach was arrested in Peterborough -- about 140 kilometres northeast of Toronto -- following an altercation with Riley's Olde Towne Pub owner Jim Kakouros. He was charged with assault, mischief and for possession of marijuana. A case will be heard in Peterborough court on Tuesday, when it is expected to be remanded again.

"I went to Peterborough to deal with my dad's estate, and pack up his art and put it in a truck and drive it to New Jersey -- and it was pure misery," he said. "So that was a rough day. One of my friends wanted to sing a song to me, a song at the microphone, and (Kakouros) wouldn't let her. I ended up tackled up from behind so the only thing I could do, of course, was bite the dude. I had to go and take a rabies test to make sure I didn't have communicable diseases. I'm happy to say I am rabies free. I'm not rabid."

Upon his arrest for that incident, police discovered an outstanding warrant against him on a 2004 charge of mischief in Toronto, for trashing a strip club when it refused to take down a photo of his naked ex, taken when she was a stripper in 1988. That matter was quickly settled; charges were dropped and he paid a $250 fine.

Bach finds the humour even in that experience.

"I'll tell you where The Trailer Park Boys is really big -- in jail. At (Toronto's) Don Jail I was in a van handcuffed to all the other people with my hair back. I didn't want anybody else to notice me or anything, and they were talking and I said something, and everybody turns and goes, 'You're the guy on The Trailer Park Boys!' The whole jail went nuts."

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Bach recently issued the following update:

"Wow I don't know what to say! For four years I have waited for this day. The new CD/DVD/LP Kicking & Screaming sold 7,089 Copies this week and just debuted on the Billboard Current Album Chart at #67 and on the Top 200 Album Chart at #73! My last CD Angel Down debuted on the same chart in 2007 at #190. So to say 'things are looking up' is an understatement! Today marks the highest position I have been on the Billboard top 200 since 1995 and the highest ever as a solo artist so THANK you USA!!! I am happiest about this because this means we will get to make another one!! Yeah!! Thanks to all of you who went out and got the album!"

The Kicking & Screaming first week Billboard Chart Positions:

Top Current Albums: #67

Billboard Top 200: #73

Top Independent Current Albums: #9

Top Current Rock Albums: #15

Current Hard Music Albums: #6

Top Hard Music Albums: #7

Also in the UK :

BBC Top 40 Rock Albums: #30

BraveWords.com caught up with Baz about his new album recently. Check out the chat at this location.