In a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach was asked whether his recent social media post “endorsing Taylor Swift” could be interpreted as his support for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, given that the pop star publicly backed Harris following the September presidential debate.
Bach said: “You know, I don’t tell people what to do, but I will say that if we don’t have democracy, we don’t have anything. So there, I just said it. [Laughs]”
“People say, ‘You’re alienating your audience.’ When I say things like that, I gain, like, 40,000 f**king followers! So this whole ‘Don’t alienate people’ — there’s only side that is f**king alienating people! There’s only one! The other one is actually uniting people. So spare me, ‘Oh, he’s losing 50% of his audience.’ I don’t want that 50%, so f**k off! That 50% is not cool enough to listen to Sebastian Bach, so go f**k yourself.”
He continued: “I just have a problem when I hear people say, ‘I don’t want musicians to say what they believe in. Just shut up and sing.’ Well, I’ve got two words for you: BLACK SABBATH. When I listen to a song like ‘War Pigs’, I couldn’t think of a more political lyric of any music there is in life than that f**king song. ‘Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses.’ I mean, to me, that’s saying, ‘F**k these a**holes!’
“I feel that at times like these, there’s too much at stake to be silent. To be silent is to be complicit. For every f**king Ted Nugent out there, there is a Sebastian Bach, and I’m fine with that. I’m good with that. You go say what you want to say, and I’m gonna say what I want to say.”
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