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In a brand new interview with Loaded Radio, SKID ROW guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo was requested how he feels about folks nonetheless calling for a reunion with the band’s former singer Sebastian Bach. He mentioned (as transcribed by Phoosi.com): “Properly, it has been 23 years [since SKID ROW reformed], so to say that I am over it might 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 kind of issues the place we nonetheless couldn’t see eye to eye; we could not even get previous the purpose of straightforward texting.
“I’m actually, actually glad the place we’re,” Snake continued. “I am very happy 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 are actually.
“I have been requested a thousand occasions: ‘What in regards to the payday [of a reunion with Sebastian]?’ And that is all properly and good, but when that is why I did this — if that is why we did this; I can communicate for everyone — we most likely would not be doing it,” Sabo defined. “I wanna be glad, and I am very, very glad. And so are the fellows; all people’s actually glad.
“The music local weather is what it’s, and we’re a traditional rock band, and I am happy with that. And we’re nonetheless in a position to make music. I imply, Jeez — I reside a really, very blessed life, man,” Snake added. “I’ve nothing however gratitude and humility for what we now have achieved and for what we’re in a position to proceed to do. So whereas there could also be folks on the market who’re flashing greenback indicators with plenty of zeroes, I nonetheless must be glad doing it, and I’m. And that is what’s most essential. I have to be glad being in a band with the folks I am in a band with. Numerous 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 properly and good, however I do not wanna reside my life like that. I do not wanna be up onstage and sort of dwelling a lie; it simply does not really feel good. So, whereas I am grateful for folks’s curiosity and whatnot, I am much more grateful that we nonetheless get to play music for a dwelling below our phrases.”
Bach fronted SKID ROW till 1996, when he was fired. As a substitute of dropping out, 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 Sabo and Scotti Hill, alongside drummer Rob Hammersmith and singer Johnny Solinger.
SKID ROW fired Solinger over the cellphone in April 2015, just a few hours earlier than asserting ex-TNT vocalist Tony Harnell as his substitute. 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.
Final summer season, Bach advised Florida’s 98.7 The Gater radio station that “there is no cause” for the traditional SKID ROW to not reunite. “When these guys [in SKID ROW] attempt to say [about me], ‘He is troublesome to work with,’ let me simply say this yet one more time. We’ve got not been in the identical room collectively for the reason that yr 1996,” he mentioned. “Shut the eff up about you pondering you understand what I am like. You do not know something about what I am like. And the ‘Gilmore Women’ suppose I am okay to work with; Broadway thinks I am okay to work with; the ‘Trailer Park Boys’ suppose I am okay; GUNS N’ ROSES suppose 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.”
Lower than two 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 opportunity of a rekindling of his friendship with Sebastian, explaining: “Properly… Here is the soundbite for Blabbermouth. I would not say we had been pals [when we were in a band together]. We had been bandmates. You realize what I imply? We’re two very completely different folks.” Bolan added that he hadn’t seen Bach “in years.”
Final yr, Bach accomplished a U.S. tour throughout which he celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of SKID ROW‘s sophomore album, “Slave To The Grind”.
