During a recent interview with Kyle Meredith, ex-SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach was asked about his intentions regarding his new solo album, Child Within The Man. Specifically, Meredith asked whether Bach aimed to satisfy fans by integrating elements reminiscent of his past band into the album’s sound.
“Well, the sound of my voice harkens back,” he responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “I was gonna be the singer of VELVET REVOLVER before Scott Weiland. You can Google interviews with Duff [McKagan, VELVET REVOLVER bassist] and he’ll tell you, ‘We wanted Sebastian, but the problem with Sebastian is that you just think of SKID ROW when you hear his voice.’ And I didn’t take that as an insult, ’cause it’s true. That’s the way it is.
He continued: “But do you give them what they want? I don’t think the audience knows what they want. I give the audience what I want [laughs], and I’m a son of a b*tch, getting stuff the way I want to get it. And for ‘What Do I Got To Lose?’, the first song and video, I wanted fun. I wanted F-U-N. I wanted a video like WHITESNAKE or VAN HALEN or RATT where Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee play the cops and Bobby Blotzer arrests them and throws them in jail. That’s, to me, fun.
“I wanna put a smile on people’s face when everything is so f**king miserable. I want people to laugh and have fun, and that’s what I want. Even the second video, which is a tough subject, because I wrote it about losing my home in a hurricane, and then the record company [said], ‘But we want a video.’ And I was, like, ‘That’s not very fun.’ [Laughs] But I turned it around and I made it about the Maxell tape commercial, which is fun. And in the end, I’m watching all the footage of my house being destroyed and climate change, and I turn off the news and I put on my new record and start rocking out. And so that’s still fun.”
“It’s my mission to bring back the fun of rock and roll, which I find sorely lacking,” Sebastian added. “I can’t find fun on the Internet. No matter how hard I try, I can’t find it. It’s all negative fighting. This guy said this about this guy. That’s not rock. Rock is supposed to be coming together, and that’s what it always was before it all went to the Internet and now it’s all clickbait and fighting and bickering. So I’m trying to just bring back the fun. That’s it. That’s all I’m trying to do.”
Sebastian Bach released his latest album, Child Within The Man, on May 10 via Reigning Phoenix Music (RPM).
The 11-track album was recorded in Orlando, FL, produced and mixed by Elvis Baskette, engineered by Jef Moll, assistant engineered by Josh Saldate and mastered by Robert Ludwig (Gateway Mastering). BACH wrote or co-wrote all the album’s tracks and sang all lead and backing vocals. Child Within The Man features guest appearances from John 5, Steve Stevens and Orianthi – who all co-wrote their respective tracks with Bach – and two tracks co-written with Myles Kennedy (‘To Live Again’ and ‘What Do I Got To Lose?’); Devin Bronson on guitars, Todd Kerns (bass) and Jeremy Colson (drums) round out the players on the album.
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