Sebastian Bach Interview with BlogsNRoses.com
Posted by Craig Wettner at 6/19/2008
Sebastian Bach is a kick ass rock n roll star. He is charismatic and a fantastic interview candidate for our site. So when we heard Sebastian was getting ready to re-release Angel Down in the States and release it in the UK, we had to talk to him. Here is our conversation with Sebastian Bach.
Bach: Alright Blogs n Roses. What's going on?
BnR: Not much, not much. How are you doing?
Bach: Good.
BnR: I wanted to talk a little about the Angel Down record. I personally loved it. I thought the record had something for everyone. It had a bit of hard rock, southern sludge, punk. What was your main inspiration when writing and recording the album?
Bach: I just wanted to make a cd that would go in your iPod and make sense next to the Slave to the Grind and the first Skid Row album. That's basically it and to have Axl sing on it is insane. No one could have ever predicted that, especially me. That's amazing. To put out an cd with him and me on it. We sold about 100,000 copies worldwide with no touring. Well we did a month of touring. But the US tour starts in July 8 in Nashville. We are re-releasing the cd with a DVD called ROADRAGE, which encompasses the making of the cd and also five [5] live songs from the Guns N' Roses tour. It is like Pro-shot video and audio. That comes from Axl. He let us use his equipment. That is incredible. I am very happy to share some of that footage with the fans finally. It's going to be great. Also, we are putting out a vinyl picture disc with double-gatefold sleeves. And I love that shit. I love packaging and picture discs and shit like that. So I am pretty happy. We are doing about 40 or 47 shows with Poison across America. So we are playing pretty much everywhere except for Texas. I don't know why. Sorry Texas. But we are definitely hitting the United States and that is going to be great.
BnR: What is your favorite song on the album?
Bach: I would have to say it is Stuck Inside. I love the whole album, but Stuck Inside crushes me the way Monkey Business crushes me and really the way Axl sings the last mid part of the song into the last chorus. The way he hits the high note over the last chorus just fucking destroys me. It is so heavy and cool. When I am listening to it I can't believe it is me and Axl. All my fans are cranking it on their iPods.
BnR: I can attest to that. I also love the cover of Back in the Saddle with you and Axl.
Bach: Well that's cool. That's crazy. That song is so great that every time I hear it I laugh because it is so good. [laughs]. I do. I am like 'listen to this shit.' And that is real rock magic on there. I have a rule that I never drink alcohol before a show or before I sing ever, except to that song, dude. What happened was that I sang two songs in the studio that day. I can't remember which two. I did the lead vocal and I was done. Then Roy Z, the producer, said to the band 'hey first song tomorrow, let's do Back in the Saddle.' I thought I was done for the day and he said let's practice it right now. We taped it. The first time they played is what you hear on the record. I was sitting back there listening to it start and I couldn't believe it. I just ran out there with a couple of Model Especials in me. I grabbed the mic and I wailed it. And that is pretty much 90% of what made the record. There are so many lyrics in that song that I went back and made sure I had totally perfect. There's a lot of words in there. And Axl said he would sing on the record and he came down and picked which songs he wanted to sing on. Singers love Back in the Saddle because Steve Tyler is the ultimate screamer especially on that song. It's incredible. The first time I played that song for Axl goes 'Oh my god the guitars.' He just loved the guitars. It was kind of a challenge on who would get what part of the song between me and him. Because I didn't want to cut any of him and he didn't want to cut any of me. So we tried a few different versions and none of them were perfect. And then I said 'Let's just go by the words.' And then it all became crystal clear. 'I'm calling all the shots tonight, I'm like a loaded gun.' That's Guns N' Roses. And we went like that down the line to see who lyrically fit. Then we put it together. It's rock magic. That's what it sounds like to me.
BnR: I crank it up when I am at the Target or whatever. I scare all the soccer moms with it. They like 'What is that?!'
Bach: What at Target? Cool. That's great.
BnR: How did you convince Axl to sing on Angel Down?
Bach: There was no convincing at all. It was this simple. I was standing at Baggage Claim at LAX about to master my record. I had just sung on Chinese Democracy, a song called Sorry. And sorry, I don't know when it is coming out. When I was coming to LA, I just texted him from the airport and said 'Dude, when are you going to sing on my record?' I was just joking. He goes 'Where? What time?' I couldn't believe it. It was that simple. And he drove down in his Testarosa or whatever it is. And you can hear what he did. He's incredible. That's it. It is mind blowing that I can say that. But I love saying that because you have this guy from England painting this weird picture of him [Axl] on the internet or whatever. Writing books when they don't even know the guy. I do know him and he's a rocker. He loves rock n' roll. He's obsessed with making great rock n' roll. And that is who is he is.
BnR: You said you sang on Chinese Democracy. What song was that again?
Bach: It's called Sorry.
BnR: Do you think it has a shot at making the record?
Bach: Yea that's what Axl tells me. Yea I do.
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