In an interview on the Illinois radio station 95 WIIL Rock on Friday morning (August 25),former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach mentioned that his look on the Taylor Hawkins tribute live performance on the Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles, California final September was one of many “coolest” moments of his profession. Sebastian was joined on the occasion by BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, Dave Grohl and a few of Dave‘s FOO FIGHTERS bandmates for a efficiency of two traditional SABBATH songs: “Paranoid” and “Supernaut”.

Bach mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I used to be lucky sufficient and honored to play the Taylor Hawkins tribute on the L.A. Discussion board with Dave Grohl and the FOO FIGHTERS as my band and Lars Ulrich on drums and Geezer Butler on bass. Sadly, that was pretty current. That was ‘trigger Taylor Hawkins was my good friend and my buddy, they usually requested me to sing with them on the tribute. So I could not consider [it].”

He added: “You realize, all of them say, ‘Oh, NIRVANA‘s ended rock,’ or no matter. Nicely, NIRVANA requested me to sing with them on the Discussion board. So, thanks. Thanks very a lot. That was the final time I performed L.A.

Bach fronted SKID ROW till 1996, when he was fired. As an alternative of falling by the wayside, the remaining members took a hiatus and went on to play briefly in a band known as OZONE MONDAY. In 1999, SKID ROW reformed and, after a little bit of shuffling over time, featured a lineup consisting of bassist Rachel Bolan, guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo and guitarist Scotti Hill, alongside drummer Rob Hammersmith and singer Johnny Solinger. SKID ROW fired Solinger over the telephone in April 2015, a couple of hours earlier than asserting ex-TNT vocalist Tony Harnell as his alternative. Eight months later, Harnell exited the band and was changed by South African-born, British-based singer ZP Theart, who beforehand fronted DRAGONFORCE, TANK and I AM I. Theart was fired from SKID ROW in February 2022 and was changed by Erik Grönwall, who was beforehand a member of the Swedish arduous rock band H.E.A.T.

Throughout an look on a December 2022 episode of the “I Am All In With Scott Patterson” podcast, Bach was requested if there was any discuss of a reunion of SKID ROW‘s traditional lineup. He responded: “There was texting and slightly speaking. However there must be extra speaking.”

When interviewer Scott Patterson identified that a number of the different Nineteen Eighties rock bands have been in a position to play stadiums in recent times, Bach concurred, saying: “Completely. POISON and Joan Jett, MÖTLEY CRÜE, DEF LEPPARD… Yeah.”

Requested “what’s improper” with the SKID ROW guys that they will not conform to reunite with Bach, Sebastian mentioned: “Nicely, I’ve a supervisor named Rick Gross sales, and he protects my pursuits. In order that they’ve gotta cope with the enterprise facet of issues, and they’d quite possibly not cope with that, so far as I can inform — simply not cope with that. However there’s all the time a quantity. I imply, we’re all nonetheless alive.”

In 2021, Bach informed Florida’s 98.7 The Gater radio station that “there isn’t any cause” for the traditional SKID ROW to not reunite. “When these guys [in SKID ROW] attempt to say [about me], ‘He is tough to work with,’ let me simply say this another time. We have now not been in the identical room collectively for the reason that 12 months 1996,” he mentioned. “Shut the eff up about you pondering you recognize what I am like. You do not know something about what I am like. And the ‘Gilmore Ladies’ assume I am okay to work with; Broadway thinks I am okay to work with; the ‘Trailer Park Boys’ assume I am okay; GUNS N’ ROSES assume I am fairly cool. We’re not getting any youthful.”

Sebastian went on to say {that a} SKID ROW reunion “ought to” occur “for the followers. And we’re completely working out of bands — bands that may play in sheds,” he mentioned. “The truth that we’re all nonetheless alive and we’re all in our 50s — some nearer to 60 than others — however that, to me, is egocentric that we’re not collectively.

“I can play with anybody. I do play with everybody [laughs] — aside from them.”

4 years in the past, Bach was requested by Rolling Stone what it will take for SKID ROW to be reunited. He responded: “It will take these guys to appreciate that I’ve a lifetime supervisor. His identify is Rick Gross sales. I have been with him since 2006. They do not wish to cope with a man like that. They wish to give some singer who does not have a supervisor $700 to $800 bucks per week. I’ve bought a staff that is labored with me and do not enable me to get fucked round. I did not have that staff after I was 19 years outdated.”

In 2021, Bach accomplished a U.S. tour throughout which he celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of SKID ROW‘s sophomore album, “Slave To The Grind”.