Bas D Man Speaks!

N - Club Quatro
As singer Sebastian Bach plans a solo tour and the remaining members of the officially defunct Skid Row prepare to record with a new singer under a new name (now they are called Ozone Monday), Atlantic records is getting ready to issue a "best of" album that includes two previously unreleased tracks. But don't ask Bach about that project, he says he's reading about it in the press just like everybody else.And he makes it clear that it doesn't make him a very happy camper -- not the usual demeanor for the happy-go-loudly "Bas."

"This whole album they're putting out is
completely against my consent," Bach
recently told MTV News Online. "I don't
even know what it's going to sound like.
I've called to try to hear the mixes of these
two old demos and I can't, I haven't even
got a call back from the producer and I've
been calling him over and over."

Bach contends that the album is missing some key material and blames bandmate Rachel Bolan for the exclusions:

"He wants to be perceived as the songwriter
in the band and no matter even if I co-wrote
five songs off "Slave" or if I co-wrote four
songs off "Subhuman" this is his album,
so it's his view of what Skid Row was."

One of the "new" tracks, says Bach, was the only song ever recorded and not included on an album this song is called "Forever" and was recorded during the Skid Row sessions back in 1989.

"I know my singing on it is not what I would
want to put out at this point, but I called my
lawyers and they said technically if the
band outvotes me on what they want to put
out then I have absolutely no say as per the
contract, so kids out there make sure you
read the fine print "

Bach says he hasn't seen his bandmates since they toured South America together two years ago, supporting their last release, 1994's "Subhuman Race." The final straw came, says Bach, when Skid Row were asked to open a New Years Eve concert for Kiss -- Bach's dream gig -- and the rest of the band declined the invitation. These days all communication is being dealt with through lawyers.

"Snake and Rachel own the name, they
kicked me out of the band in December'96,
and if they tell you that they didn't I have it
on tape. I actually had a downloadable up
on my site for one day but my friend said it
was a little too mean so I took it off. You
know I just want to tell the truth. So shoot
me. They own the name and they kicked
me out, but I'm part of the partnership, the
whole business partnership is between the
three bandmembers, actually the five
bandmembers, so if they want to use the
name they have to consult me so that's why
they're changing it "

Despite all the grief, Bach still seems to have a place in his heart for both the old music and the band.

"The part that's frustrating is that I'm the biggest
Skid Row fan of all the old songs, and all the
old stuff, but if they don't want to do it I can't
force them to."

"If there could be a case of pizza and a case of beer and a frisbee involved we could probably do another record, but whatthe hell do I know?"

Sebastian Bach,1998

I always thought that It could happened with any other band...but not with Skid Row. Seems clear that Sebastian was the one who didn't wanted to change their style and attitude. Sebastian was Skid Row soul..and why Rachel and Snake did that we will never know. H A R D R O C K S T A G E wish them all luck in their new "modern rock" style. But we still stick with the old youth gone wild of Sebastian.