SEBASTIAN BACH

SEBASTIAN BACH - "We Looked Good In The Videos"




Allison Stewart of The Chicago Tribune recently spoke with SEBASTIAN BACH, an excerpt follows:


It must be a strange legacy, to know that no matter what you do, the
words "formerly of SKID ROW" will always come after your name.





Bach: "Yeah, it sucks, that's for sure. Yup. But I can't change
people, the way they are. I don't understand the mentality of a rock
fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not
that kind of a fan. I get bored pretty quick, and I want to hear some
new stuff. But I'm always working, I'm always singing, I'm very glad for
that. I could be working in a tollbooth, I guess. Not that there's
anything wrong with that."


What is it with '80s hard rockers like you and BRET MICHAELS and DEE
SNIDER, that you've been able to carve out second careers on Broadway
or TV, where a lot of the alternative rockers haven't? Was it the
over-the-top nature of the music that made it translate better?


Bach: "I think with heavy metal it was a visually-oriented art form.
We looked good in the videos and we knew how to front a band. A lot of
the (alt) rockers were anti-stardom. Like when you have a label called
Kill Rock Stars. How long are you going to be a rock star with that
attitude? Bret Michaels and Dee Snider and I know how to step on a stage
and front a band, and we're not ashamed to. We're not shoe gazers."


Were you really approached to play what would become Tom Cruise's role in Rock Of Ages?


Bach: "Yeah, I was the first actor on Broadway to be asked to do
that. They asked me many, many, many times to do it and I didn't know if
it was cool. I still don't. I haven't seen the movie. I'm in the movie,
but I haven't seen it."


To read the interview in its entirety, click here.