Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited recently caught up with Skid Row bassist Rachel Bolan. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

 Jeb: Has your approach to the music changed over the years?  You make the music and you are a businessman... it has to be different than being a bright-eyed kid who signed on the dotted line.

Rachel: "We've grown a lot wiser and we've learned a lot. We've asked a lot of questions over the last twenty five years.  I consider Snake and I ‘wise businessmen’. You have to protect the brand and you have to do what is right. It may mean more money, or less money, but you have to do what is right and what makes you happy.

We still get to go on the road and play music for a living... a comfortable living. That is a really cool thing. We get a lot of flack for playing small places, but what is better, having a night off, or playing some little rock club? Tonight, we are playing a small rock club in Manhattan, Kansas, which I have never heard of before.  We will get about three hundred people and we are going to go in there and tear it up. If one of my favorite bands played a small bar in Atlanta I would be first in line for tickets, and it would be very memorable. We want our fans to feel that way. It is working out great for us."

Jeb: The drawback is the guys on the Internet who are going to harass you and say, for lack of a better term, that you've hit skid row!

Rachel: "(Laughs) That's funny. The haters... I feel bad for them, but at the same time I laugh at them. There are so many people that tell me to give it up. I am like, just because you hate your job does not mean I hate mine. We still love playing for Skid Row fans and they love us playing for them. We are not going away anytime soon."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Skid Row have released their new EP, entitled Rise Of The Damnation Army - United World Rebellion: Chapter Two, via Megaforce Records. The release is available on CD digipack, gatefold vinyl and digital audio. A full EP stream can be found below.

Tracklisting:

"We Are The Damned"
"Give It The Gun"
"Catch Your Fall"
"Damnation Army"
"Zero Day"

Bonus tracks:

"Sheer Heart Attack" (Queen)

"Rats In The Cellar" (Aerosmith)

EP stream:

Trailer:

Skid Row is surprising their fans with an unusual way to release their new music. Instead of one full album, the band is releasing three mini albums over the course of several months.

Rachel Bolan states: "I liked the idea of a steady flow of new music - we decided to release it this way to keep new music coming for our fans."