Former Skid Row frontman has been outspoken during his career and that has landed him
in trouble not only with his former bandmates but other musicians. Today,
let's take a look at Sebastian Bach's more notable feuds.
Maroon 5 frontman and The Voice judge Adam Levine would give an interview in late 2018
with Variety where he said the following about Rock Music Rock is nowhere..really.
I don’t know where it is. If it’s around, no one’s invited me to the party. All the of
the innovation and incredible things happening in music are in Hip-Hop.” .
Rock artists would weigh in on the comments with Slipknot / Stone Sour frontman Corey
Taylor responding on twitter saying "“Just because you claim to have ‘Moves Like Jagger’
doesn’t mean you come anywhere CLOSE to ROCKING like Jagger. tell that schmuck
to go back to the fucking Voice.” Sebastian Bach would weigh in saying Rock is nowhere,
but when you want your team to win The Voice, you choose the song "I Remember You". You're welcome.
Bach 4 years prior had dressed up as adam levine on the show sing your face
off miming Moves Like Jagger you can check it out on youtube. The
feud would be reignited after Maroon 5’s dreadful halftime show performance at
the super bowl in 2019. Following the horrific performance Bach would write
“Whatever he was trying to do on stage tonight is way more dead than Rock will
ever be,” While Levine wouldn’t respond directly to Bach he would
respond to a fan who called him a sellout claiming some of the best
songs every written were rock but the genre hasn’t evolved much in the last 20 years.
Jon Bon Jovi would be instrumental in helping Skid Row early on in their career. They would
share the same manager, helped nab the band a deal with Atlantic Records and even opened for
Bon Jovi in the late 80’s. But the relationship between Bach and Jon soured when Jon and Ritchie
Sambora as part of taking the band under their wings got a lionshare of Skid Row’s publishing.
According to Bach’s book 18 and Life it was when Skid Row’s merchandise started to
outsell Bon JOvi’s that Jon took exception with him recalling in his book that he was
summoned into a room by the bon jovi frontman writing "he stared me down and said the words,
‘I’ll f—ing own you.’ ” Bach would also claim that during the tail end of their
tours the band’s would play pranks on one another. Ahead of Skid Row’s set in Kentukcy,
Bon Jovi’s entourage soaked Bach Bach with ice milk who was furious went up on stage
slamming the headliner Skid Row’s crew responded by throwing a carton of eggs at Bon Jovi’s crew.
It was when Skid Row walked off stage that Jon and his
roadcrew were waiting for Bach with him writing “We saw about 60 people coming toward us,” Leading
the pack was Jon Bon Jovi himself. Flanking him, side to side, was his dad and his brother Tony.
Behind them was the full Bon Jovi road crew.” Jon Bon Jovi would throw a punch at Bach,
that missed. Bon Jovi’s entourage would throw Bach into the dressing room and throw him up
against the wall with Bach adding in his book. “Bon Jovi Senior pointed in my face as I was held
against the wall,” Bach writes. “He said, ‘I’ll (blanking) kill you,’ or something like that.”
Both Jon and Ritchie would eventually relax their rights to Skid Row’s publishing under
the condition that Bach sign a gag order according to Loudersound. It was years later
either in the late 2000’s or 2010’s when Sebastian Bach, who was no longer in Skid
Row was touring with Guns N’ Roses and having dinner with frontman Axl Rose at a restaurant in
London that he mended fences with Jon. Chris Jericho
Apart from wrestling, Chris Jericho also built a career
in music fronting the band Fozzy. A user on twitter tweeted to Sebastian
Bach that Jericho was starting to copy Bach’s style to which Bach responded
“https://twitter.com/sebastianbach/status/1283587097966731264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1283587097966731264%7Ctwgr%5Efdd4d7f6255e6e611ef0607b97e9cbd77f3e627c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetalinjection.net%2Fnews%2Ffeuds%2Fsebastian-bach-vs-chris-jericho-is-the-most-insane-feud-of-the-week”
Then another user would insult bach saying jericho has him beat to which bach claimed and i quote “he
definitely does considering he mimes to a tape.” The user responded that he does not mime based on
his own experience seeing fozzy live to which bach Cool let's see a clip of that then because every
single clip I have seen is Milli vanilliresponded Eventually Jericho wayed in tweeting Hi... I’m
Chris “Milli Vanilli” Jericho. I have 5 top 30 singles in the last five years w
my band @FOZZYROCK. I’m a huge fan of @sebastianbach ... who had 3 top 30
singles 30 years ago. I always admired him as a singer and a friend! And I still do.
They would trade more barbs and jericho would challenge bach to have a sing off. Eventually
Bach would start trending on twitter because of the feud and upload a screenshot of derogatory
text messages he sent to Jericho saying he should stop singing for the good of mankind.
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Skid Row Bandmates In 1996 Sebastian Bach
would be fired after supposedly booking the band to tour with Kiss as part of their reunion tour.
While Bach has claimed that the band has gotten several lucrative offers to rejoin and has been
open to discussing the possibility, his bandmates don’t want a reunion. Bach was a lightning rod for
controversy for the band during their early years. Apart from the Kiss tour, as the band went further
in their career Bach wanted a bigger role in songwriting with guitarist Dave Snake Sabo
telling Loduersound “I could understand his desire to write songs,”. “Rachel and I had been learning
our craft for eleven years. Sebastian could sing 18 And Life way better than I ever could,
but writing a song like that isn’t something you can just snap your fingers and learn.
When that distinction got lost, that’s when the real troubles began. The most interesting thing
about Sebastian’s ego was that it grew more and more out of control the smaller the band became.”
Regarding reuniting with Bach bassist Rachel Bolan
“Sebastian is delusional as always,. “He’s out of Skid Row and he’ll never rejoin. You might as well
say Paul Di’Anno would go back to Iron Maiden. As much as he claims to hate singing our songs,
his live record [1998’s Bring ’EmBach Alive] is full of songs that he had very
little to do with the writing of.” “It’s amusing that he has to recite
his résumé to justify himself,” Bolan laughs hysterically. “When I buy a car I don’t say: ‘Hi,
I’m the guy that played bass on the first heavy metal record to top the Billboard chart’. I don’t
always need to be Rachel from Skid Row, sometimes it’s just nice to be Rachel the guy at the bar.”
Ted Nugent This feud began
as part of a VH1 reality show from 2006 called ‘Supergroup‘. The show saw Bach, Ted Nugent,
Jason Bonham, Scott Ian and Even Seinfeld and manager Doc McGee living together in Vegas to
rehearse for a live show set to take place in Las Vegas. Their band’s name was Damnocracy,
but they would never ended up producing any albums and their setlist mostly consisted of covers.
Ted Nugent has been a vocal critic of substance abuse even appearing in those infamous Rock
Against Drugs ads i previously covered on my channel. It was during the filming of
the show nugent tried to confront bach about his substance abuse issues, Bach claimed he
had no drinking issues.. Despite his reassurances Nugent continued to point out Bach’s substance
abuse issues claiming he was and i quote ‘weak’ and ruining his life and his marriage.
Bach would fire back accusing Nugent of being the rude towards certain groups on the set and
slammed his Nugent for being a draft dodger and stating online that he would be giving
away collection of ted nugent albums. Nugent would fire back claiming the accusations were untrue and
that he paid homage to the forefathers of rock n’ roll including bo diddley and chuck berry.