In a brand new interview with Terrie Carr of the Morristown, New Jersey radio station 105.5 WDHA, ex-SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach as soon as once more addressed the potential for a reunion along with his former bandmates. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “There’s actually no cause why the unique SKID ROW can not reunite. And the rationale I say that’s as a result of we’re all nonetheless alive and we’re all wholesome. And I actually assume the rationale that that has by no means occurred is simply enterprise. You possibly can’t be mad at any person that you have not been in a room with since 1996.”
Bach fronted SKID ROW till 1996, when he was fired. As an alternative of chucking up the sponge, the remaining members took a hiatus and went on to play briefly in a band referred to 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, guitarists Dave “Snake” Sabo and Scotti Hill, alongside drummer Rob Hammersmith and singer Johnny Solinger. SKID ROW fired Solinger over the telephone in April 2015, just a few 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 exhausting rock band H.E.A.T.
Lower than a 12 months in the past, Sabo informed Ruben Mosqueda of We Go To 11 about the potential for a reunion with Bach: “It is not even part of any kind of thought course of. That is SKID ROW. And that dialog is 23 years previous [since SKID ROW reformed without Bach]. And I’ve no want to… I am not ; none of us are. It comes all the way down to happiness, and we’re actually, actually, actually completely happy the place we’re at and the way the band sounds and feels. I really like taking part in our music, and I really like taking part in it with the fellows that we’re taking part in it now with. And so I do not wanna change that. I am in an excellent place personally, and I feel we’re all in an excellent place as a collective.”
In March 2022, Sabo was requested by Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio how he feels about individuals nonetheless calling for a reunion with Bach. He stated: “Effectively, it has been 23 years [since SKID ROW reformed], so to say that I am over it could be an understatement. We tried [a reunion] barely [back in 2016]. We dipped our toes within the water and realized that it did not really feel so good. It is simply a type of issues the place we nonetheless couldn’t see eye to eye; we could not even get previous the purpose of easy texting.
“I’m actually, actually completely happy the place we’re,” Snake continued. “I am very pleased with our previous, and all due credit score to all people who’s been concerned in each facet of our profession, whoever which may be, ‘trigger all of it led to the place we at the moment are.
“I have been requested a thousand occasions: ‘What in regards to the payday [of a reunion with Sebastian]?’ And that is all effectively and good, but when that is why I did this — if that is why we did this; I can communicate for everyone — we in all probability would not be doing it,” Sabo defined. “I wanna be completely happy, and I am very, very completely happy. And so are the fellows; all people’s actually completely happy.
“The music local weather is what it’s, and we’re a basic rock band, and I am pleased with that. And we’re nonetheless in a position to make music. I imply, Jeez — I dwell a really, very blessed life, man,” Snake added. “I’ve nothing however gratitude and humility for what now we have achieved and for what we’re in a position to proceed to do. So whereas there could also be individuals on the market who’re flashing greenback indicators with loads of zeroes, I nonetheless should be completely happy doing it, and I’m. And that is what’s most necessary. I must be completely happy being in a band with the individuals I am in a band with. A whole lot of different bands can exit they usually do not see one another until they’re on stage and journey on separate buses and all that stuff, and that is all effectively and good, however I do not wanna dwell my life like that. I do not wanna be up onstage and form of dwelling a lie; it simply does not really feel good. So, whereas I am grateful for individuals’s curiosity and whatnot, I am much more grateful that we nonetheless get to play music for a dwelling underneath our phrases.”
In the summertime of 2021, Bach informed Florida’s 98.7 The Gater radio station that “there is no cause” for the basic 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 now have not been in the identical room collectively because the 12 months 1996,” he stated. “Shut the eff up about you considering you realize what I am like. You do not know something about what I am like. And the ‘Gilmore Women’ 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 operating out of bands — bands that may play in sheds,” he stated. “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.”
Three years in the past, SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan additionally confirmed that he and his bandmates “had been entertaining the thought” of reuniting with Bach following Harnell‘s departure. However Rachel shot down the potential for a rekindling of his friendship with Sebastian, explaining: “Effectively… Here is the soundbite for Blabbermouth. I would not say we had been associates [when we were in a band together]. We had been bandmates. what I imply? We’re two very totally different individuals.” Bolan added that he hadn’t seen Bach “in years.”
4 years in the past, Bach was requested by Rolling Stone what it could 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 take care of a man like that. They wish to give some singer who does not have a supervisor $700 to $800 bucks every week. I’ve acquired a staff that is labored with me and do not enable me to get fucked round. I did not have that staff once I was 19 years previous.”
In response to Bach‘s statements in regards to the earnings of SKID ROW‘s singer, Sabo informed Rolling Stone in an e-mail: “I assume fact-checking is not in his talent set… The 5 of us go on that stage as a band and all of us receives a commission equally. We’re on this collectively. There isn’t any egos.”
Sebastian went on to say that SKID ROW was “near reuniting, however then it did not occur. The truth that it did not occur clearly makes me considerably bitter, as a result of life is barely getting shorter, because the tune says,” he added.
“I would not say ‘got here shut,'” Bolan informed Rolling Stone in an e-mail response to Bach‘s account of the reunion talks. “We entertained the thought. Snake and I went so far as speaking with brokers and promoters about cash. However we rapidly realized after just a few textual content conversations, why we fired him within the first place. Nothing is price your happiness and peace of thoughts.”
Sabo added: “It was already a depressing expertise, and we did not even get on the telephone.”
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”.