WEBVTT - One on One: Sebastian Bach 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:18.000 I Am all In You, I Am all In with 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.360 Scott Patterson and I Heart Radio Podcast. Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.160 I Am all In Podcast, I Heart Radio one eleven productions. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:31.280 We're gonna interview none other than Sebastian bach Uh, the 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:35.040 rock star from skid Row. The lead singer. He was 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.560 in Gilmore for thirteen episodes as guitarist gil He first 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.599 appeared September four, episode seven, Festival Living Art. Last appearance 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:46.959 was season seven, episode sixteen, Will You Be My Laurel Gilmore. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.040 He returned four a year in The Life episode one 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:54.000 in Winter. Uh. He is a Canadian singer who achieved 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.880 mainstream success as the front man of the American rock 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:03.120 band skid Row from seven to nineteen ninety six. Bach 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.240 released his debut solo album, Bring Him Back Alive, his 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.560 first release. After his departure from skid rowan two thousand, 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.480 Bach began performing on Broadway shows and productions. He made 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.280 his Broadway debut in the title role in Jekyll and 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.160 Hide April two thousand. He also appeared in Ripped Raff 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:25.479 in The Rocky Horror Picture Show two thousand one. From 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.880 two thousand three to oh seven, Sebastian had a recurring 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.760 role on the WB television show Gilmore Girls as Guild 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:38.040 lead guitarist and Layekins band hep Alien. He also appeared 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.720 in Rock of Ages two thousand twelve and Trailer Park 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.119 Boys two thousand seven to two thousand and fourteen. Let's 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:50.200 bring him in, Hello Sebastian, God, it's that's been it's 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:54.720 been since uh two thousand sixteen, Right, it's been I 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.360 think before that. No, no, no, no, the other show 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:04.000 right right, yes, yes, it's great sin you So let's 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.000 get into this man. Um. So fans right in a 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.280 lot of questions. They want to know certain things about you. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.760 Uh so here they are. They want to know um 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:21.280 and look everybody, you guys know that that that Sebastian is, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.000 uh one of the great rock singers of all time. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:30.080 He fronted, He fronted skid Row, had a bunch of 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:34.880 hits big powerful voice. Um, so I have to live, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.120 but they have to leave in the band. You went 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.839 to perform on Broadway. How did you make the transition 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:44.079 from rock? Start Broadway? Start talk talk about that? Well, specifically, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.359 Atlantic Records was the label that put out skid Row, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:55.400 and they also Atlantic Theater Division put out Jacqueline Hide 0:02:55.440 --> 0:03:02.480 the musical, the soundtrack record written by Leslie Brickuess, the 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:09.400 legendary librettist, and then also Frank Wildhorn, who wrote the 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:15.200 score the composer. So Frank went After four years of 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.960 the play being on Broadway, Frank went to Jason Flom 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.280 and Atlantic Records and said, I want a rock star 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:29.799 to play Jacqueline Hide. And Jason called me and he goes, hey, man, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.600 I don't know if you're interested, is I go, do 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.800 you have the right phone number? Like really? And then 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.560 he just explained to me that he thought with my 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.920 rough rock raspy voice, that would be like Mr. Hyde. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.120 And then I also have a very clean ballad voice, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:52.600 which he said would work for Dr Jekyl. I thought 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.040 he was crazy and uh so, But I went to 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:00.160 see the play with Jack Wagner in the lead, and 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.240 I totally loved the play. I just I loved it. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.240 I loved the clothing. It was all like Victorian cool 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.600 clothes and like effects smoke bombs and beating people up 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:21.520 with like walking canes. And the plot was Dr Juckle 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:26.760 gets the girl and high murders him. The skillers what 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:31.520 could be better that wasn't really the plot, but but 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.320 I just really loved it. I really really loved it. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.279 And there's a bunch of other reasons that I loved it, 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.560 but that's how I got the play. And then that's 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:46.720 how I got into Gilmore Girls because Dan Palladino, after 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:52.000 you had the other guitar, Jared Pillicky, right, he split 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.880 the show and he was in Lane's band, I believe, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:02.800 and so, um Dan and Amy Aladino went to Atlantic, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.240 who put me in Broadway and they said, we we 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.640 want a rocker to be on Gilmore Girls, and they 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.080 said me so. And then Dan called me at home 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.520 and he asked me, just when you asked me, how 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.599 the heck did you get on Broadway? And he was 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.159 fascinated by that, so he was that was what got 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.120 me onto your show. Um so, so obviously that's what 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.560 made you lean into the acting more so. You did 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:34.920 thirteen episodes as Gil on Gilmore and you replace uh 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.600 guitar player for Dave in Lane span. I don't think 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.320 it was John. I think Jerry was ever in the band, 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.600 but maybe I'm wrong. Had had you ever acted on 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.840 a TV series before? Was that your first time? Yes? 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.000 I I I don't know if you're a member of 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.440 the channel v H one that used to have all 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.880 these rock shows and stuff. I don't know if The 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.960 Gilmore Girls was before that. But I did a lot 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:08.039 of acting on um, some weird VH one things. But 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:13.040 but you know, I did some acting in school. Um. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.719 But I after Jacqueline Hyde, I was Rocky Horror as 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.920 you called me when you first met me. Uh, and 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:24.360 I played Riff Wrath um and that was after Jacqueline Hyde. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.520 Then I was Jesus Christ Superstar. Oh my goodness, yeah, wow, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:33.600 what a good with Carl Anderson, Like if you watched 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.800 the movie from seventy two. He was my Judas and 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:44.640 he taught me so much about hitting the stage with 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.080 like all your heart and soul. He was a master. 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.919 He was a member of the agot A Church. I 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.560 don't know they're gone to that, that the big singing church. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:08.760 And tragically Carl died during the during our tour. So 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.520 that was really really heavy and uh, you know, yeah, 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.600 and there's some other stuff I can go into about 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.120 my dad and what the plays mean to me, Jacquelin 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.320 and Jesus Christ Superstar. But that's this supposed to be fun. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:32.440 Who was your first Cloe Well Jesus Christ Superstar Wars. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.640 It was really hard because if you weren't at the 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.720 end of the play like on the Cross, if you 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:43.080 weren't crying, then then you were sucking you know, right right, 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.240 right right? And who wants to cry every day like 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.320 I would. I gotta put pictures in my dad, relatives 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:56.720 up in my trying to psyche myself in the right 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.840 the actor's process. Yet sometimes it was certain jobs it's 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.960 required and I guess with Jesus, you kind of know 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.400 the ending there, so it's gonna requires Yeah. Well, um no, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.280 I I hear you. I I just finished uh my 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.440 first season on a on a new TV series where 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.400 I had to pretty much cry in every scene. I 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.400 just sometimes dreaded to go to work, I said again, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:29.160 because if you're not crying, you're not pulling off right rights. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.240 And I you know, I I kind of you know, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.080 I was on location for four months. I missed my family. 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.280 I kind of went into the can a little bit. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.320 I kind of got a little depressed there. And you know, 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.839 because if you're mining so that so did that happen 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.480 to you too? Because because of the role, you went 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.080 into some dark places and you, Oh my god, right, 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.479 I mean, everybody's seen the play. There's so mean to Jesus. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.280 I don't mean to it's not funny, but it's like 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.400 they're really really Jesus. Act when he's riding on the 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:07.959 palms and he was like oh, then he like there 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.000 was like Jesus, and then act too. I'm standing on 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.679 the side of the stage looking down. I'm wearing a 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:22.520 diaper with no other clothes, basically nude. And I go 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.199 out there and I shuffled out there in my swaddling 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:31.920 clothes and uh. Then the stormtroopers and they're big jack boots. 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.120 They're like whipping me and like back and forth, and 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.800 I got no shoes on. One of these dudes stands 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:44.040 on my toe like on stage, and I don't it's 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.840 just it was the only time Jesus swore on stage. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.520 But man hurt. I wasn't part of the dial in 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.080 real Mouth. It's it's it's it theorized that he was 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.920 the head of real potty mouth. Um really no, I 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.040 don't know. I'm walking out of my um No. The 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.840 thing is to say, Sebastian, you know, Jesus didn't walk 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:11.240 like this man walk on how do you know? You like, really, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.840 what were you there? Were you there? Like maybe you 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:21.040 did walking about this what's up? Much more controlled and 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.880 like this? And I go, well, you know, that's pretty 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.000 subjective for you to tell me that, you know, maybe 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:37.520 you got the wrong Jesus, you know, maybe I should 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.920 have been insta maybe you know, No, you wouldn't. That's crazy, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:44.960 you wouldn't want to do that. You talking about a 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:51.240 career going from No More Girls, that's quitting, right right, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:59.439 that's a heck of the range there, bro from Luke 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:05.160 to Kill Our Clowns, clowns and saw But I hear, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.560 I know, I get you drifted. Very funny, all right. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.640 So here's another question. This is from Lila from Salt 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.920 Lake City. Going from being on stage in front of 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.680 millions to acting in front of a crew. What was 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:25.240 that transition like for you? Well? I think about filming 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.720 The Gilmore Girls, and I think about like each episode 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:33.320 was one hour long, and there's not a lot of 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.360 the TV shows like that anymore that I couldn't think of. 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.600 And what I enjoyed about it was we all got along, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:45.000 like as as a cast and a crew, we all 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.200 I mean, I wasn't there as long as you But 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:54.280 in my experience, everybody was like having fun together and 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.240 and we all were like auto mission to make something cool. 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:03.240 Well that's because they distributed mushroom at lunch so well, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.640 dude on on Twitter the other day they posted a 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:10.440 picture of help Alien and our band, but they spelled 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.280 it hemp Alien and I was like, I'll be old 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.120 with my sub my sub shock. I got some chiba 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.679 hut come on your way. But then they deleted it 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.000 because I think they didn't. Then they put heap aliens. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.920 That's just I'm just plaining disrespectful. You gotta go take 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.440 care of that. Yeah. Um, So my answer would be 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.320 that that everybody was on a team and I missed that. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.679 I love the feeling of like you know, it was 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.120 a big cast and was a big crew, but we 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.080 were all on the same page as far as making 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.959 something that we were all proud of and getting paid 0:12:53.040 --> 0:13:00.680 every Thursday. Was the rich don't plan to have you 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.920 on for more than one episode? Or did that grow 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:09.240 as time? Yeah? Okay, yeah. I became friends with Amy 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.160 and Dan. We would go to The Rainbow a couple 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.959 of times, and me and Dan uh bonded over old 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:22.440 Judas Priest and Rush and he's a real rocker. As 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:28.240 are you with your band? My band indeed? And so 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:32.920 are you too? Luring right now? No? No, no, no, no, no, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.360 I'm doing this. I did the TV series Uh. I 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:40.800 am going to Nashville uh in January to write some 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.720 songs with some artists down there because they wanted me 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.600 to come down and co write. I've never done that before, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.240 so I'm I'm looking for I don't know if I'm 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.000 gonna like it, but I'm gonna try it, you know 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.120 what I mean, because I I write in a very 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.880 specific way. But I'm really open to this and I'm 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.480 kind of excited about it. That's great. Craps. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:04.199 how about you you guys? Well we just I just 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.880 did the Taylor Hawkins concert at the l A Form 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.840 with day Roll and Geezer. Butler from Black Sat on basin, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.080 Lars from Metallica on drums, and then after that we 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:24.600 did the Kiss Cruise Ship, which sounds fun. It's a 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.600 lot of work. I mean, I love Kiss. But Tom 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.480 waits when when he was asked, hey, you're like going 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.320 on cruise ship and He's going, you on a cruise 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.000 ship is like being in jail with a chance of drowning. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:45.320 And that's kind of you can't leave your room, you know, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.720 like if you want a Gilmore Girls, Cruisi'd be stuck 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:53.320 in a room because I mean and a short for fanatic, 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.560 right right, right right. But I love kiss and uh 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.680 so that's one of my favorite bands. So that was 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.600 really a lot of fun. So that's great. So so 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.800 the music is still there, you're torn around. I have 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.000 a new record label and we're putting out a new 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.320 record very soon. I'm not supposed to talk about that, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.840 but I'm always working on new songs and new music 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.520 right right right. And you write your own material mostly 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.320 not all the time. Like if someone has a great idea, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.360 I'm not gonna take a crap all over it right 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.440 right right right, Like a good song, a good song 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.120 right exactly, you know when you hear it right away? 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.720 Absolutely skin Row. You know, we broke up a long 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.960 time ago. Now let's say, well, Sebastian can be hard 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.360 to work with, but I wasn't hard to work with, 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.480 Like on the song I Remember You, that was really easy. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.480 You've got wild done? Next? Is there any talk to 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.560 you guys getting back together and doing uh and touring 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.800 because so many everybody's doing it now. Yeah, there was 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.440 texting and a little talking, but there needs to be 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.720 more talking. I mean some of these older bands are 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:12.440 doing stadium shows for Godson and Joan Jet my career 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.120 je Leppard. Yeah, and you're right in the pocket there. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.840 You could you could team up with somebody, you know, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.400 any of those bands and oh my gosh, what's wrong 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.440 with these guys? What the hell is wrong with these guys? Well, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:33.360 I have a manager named Rick Sales, and he you know, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:37.680 he protects my interests. Okay, sure, I mean they got 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.240 a deal with the business side of things, and they 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.200 would rather maybe not deal with that as far as 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.840 I can tell, like, just not deal with that. But 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.840 you know, there's always the number, right, So I mean, 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.160 we're we're all still alive. We're all still alive. Then again, 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:02.560 so it's Heap Alien, We're all still alive. They got 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.200 to get the band back together, ye do, because there's 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.800 you know, all those great Heap Alien hits that everybody 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.960 everybody knows going back twenty three years. You know, there's uh, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.280 you know, don't chew on my hemp and uh, you know, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.600 but this one, don't step on being around that track 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:25.040 and it's not good to happen girl that you wrote 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.119 that that's happen. That's a heap alien song. That there's 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.040 the the hit Mrs Kim Get off my Neck. You 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:46.280 know that's a big, big song. Uh Lane Lane Kim's Uh, well, 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:53.200 everybody knows the hit. You know the fifteen thousand Bibles. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.200 You know what's amazing, though, dude, is about the Gilmore Girls. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:04.800 When I go onto you know, other countries, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.440 all these different I get into hotel room and I 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.840 put the TV on and sixty percent at the time 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.119 there's the go in a different language, and I'm like, 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.840 I'm my Holy moly, I mean like really, And I 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:28.479 get noticed in public in different places for different things, 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.120 Like if I'm in a rock club, it's skid row. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:37.640 If I'm in Canada, it's trailer part boys this show 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:43.200 that I'm on. But if I'm in a mall, if 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.399 I'm at a mall with with women walking around with 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:52.679 their daughters, are you like? Are you? Are you kidding? 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.600 Like it happens all the time and people love the show. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:02.040 I really. One of my favorite memories is when Getty 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.520 leave from Rush brought his daughter down to the set. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.600 Do you remember when we were in the house. I 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.679 think you're in the scene we were playing the guitar. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.960 I kind of do remember gettie Lee coming. I do 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:20.600 remember that now, yeah, because his daughter loves and he 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.960 just when I just played with Rush at the l 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.080 A Forum for Taylor Hawkins and I was hanging with 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.520 them and I got him to sign one of my 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.560 vintage Rush albums and he put Sebastian I owe you 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:39.440 for that day on mc gilmore with my daughter, thank 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.879 you so much and so hey man, than that was 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.560 a fans dream for me coming to come. I'm want 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.960 to talk about your voice. Were you born with that 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.840 or did you work on that and and really train 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.840 your voice? I did, I do still to this day. 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.520 So it's work, well, it's an it's a natural ability 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.760 mixed with technique. What's work is knowing how to do 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.120 a two hour show and then drive for eight hours 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.359 and then do it again the next time. That's work. 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:19.760 That's work, and so you have to know how to 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.800 not push it too hard. So you have to there's 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:26.960 a technique called speech level singing where you don't you 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.160 don't you're not pushing it as hard as people think 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.520 you are, but then you save your power for those 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:38.679 epic screams or whatever. Your hardest thing to do. But 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:40.400 you have to learn how to do that. And when 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.560 I got in skid Row, bon Jovi was helped us. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.760 He took us on the whole New Jersey tour way 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.639 back in and he put me with his vocal coach, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.120 a guy by the name of Don Lawrence in New 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.639 York City who still teaches. So you want to go 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.960 get a lesson, he allows you to record a lesson. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.919 So I have tapes and tapes of me vocalizing with 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.080 this guy, and one of them is a vocal warm 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.080 up that I do before every single time I sing 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.840 every time, and it's just scales, but against your voice, 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.359 it turns it into like an instrument. I don't know. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.359 The more I do that properly, more you sing properly 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:31.560 without like blowing it out, then it gets stronger. And 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.560 I find like the more the more I sing clean, 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.960 the stronger my voice gets. If I put too much gravel, 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:44.520 then then the quality the tone becomes less and if 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:51.000 I keep it clean, it becomes this huge sound. So yeah, yeah, 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:53.240 it's it's work. Yeah. I had to really, I had 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.679 to really train my voice to build it up to 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:00.159 the throat muscles strong enough to sustain playing in a 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.520 short set. Right, it's it's a lot of work. People 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:05.920 don't realize that it's it's it's a lot of work. 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:10.000 But also when we were kids, you and me, nobody 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:15.359 had cell phones under nobody was filming the whole show 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.120 from the front row like underneath like and then posting 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.640 the whole thing. But when when I was a kid, 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:26.560 we does sees Dan Halen David Lee Roth would run 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:31.000 out there and you go, I forgot that goddamn words, 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.840 and we would go yeah, and we would like each 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:36.800 other go, you mustn't even know a lot of words. 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:38.719 He doesn't even know the words. And there's the greatest 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.480 thing I ever saw. Like it was completely different. It 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:48.120 was like it wasn't dissected. And like in skid Row, 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:52.320 we would do a photo session for I don't know, 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:59.240 six hours with six different photographers and shoot thousands of pictures, right, 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:02.640 and we looked out like three you know what I mean, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:07.120 Like you would pick the best ones, and that's what 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.879 the public saw. It wasn't like it's just when you 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:13.119 talk about work Like. I used to go out on 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:17.480 stage and we would look at each other and we 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:22.920 would go, let's go crazy. Now I go up there, like, 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:26.680 don't don't move around too much, you know, don't don't 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:30.600 jump around, because if you're running around and jumping around, 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.120 you know, it's not gonna be the same as if 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:38.800 you're standing perfectly on the mic, you know, because that's 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.239 how you make records. You know, you're not you're not 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:44.960 leaping off the drum riser while you're recording your album. 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.320 You're in a you're in an air conditioned room. It's hard, 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.960 isn't it. I found being like, especially the laying down 0:23:56.080 --> 0:24:01.120 vocal tracks on recordings are difficult. Man. That's hard to do. 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:03.520 You have to stand right there and if you don't 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.040 feel it, man, it's gonna come out flat. It's oh yeah, 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:12.280 it's hard man. It's I like doubling my voice was 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.040 you know, I don't know if you've done that where 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:17.760 you're staying and then you sing it to yourself and 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:23.000 it gives this thick, thick tone. Ozzy Osbourne when you 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:26.880 hear him saying Everything's dope. John Lennon. John Lennon never 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:30.320 put out a vocal that wasn't doubled really, so he 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:34.440 records it twice and they just lay one's one's way 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:39.119 lower volume really so yeah, so it gives your voice 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:43.920 this really like Auzzy when you listen to Crazy Train, 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:49.000 he sounds crazy. Yeah, it's powerful. Yeah, that's called doubling. 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:51.200 And next time you're in the studio and give that 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:55.960 a shot, because I find that really adds a nice tone. God, 0:24:56.000 --> 0:24:57.600 I wish you'd known you were in Vegas. I was 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.520 just out there for U our Heart Radio music festival 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.120 through a weekend we stayed. We stayed a little bit 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:11.159 outside of where we stayed at that Green Valley. Yeah. Yeah, 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:15.600 beautiful resort. Um. I love Vegas, man. I saw all 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:17.680 these acts. I saw all these bands and all this, 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:23.920 you know, lion Al Ritchie and Pulls. Oh no, no, no no, 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:26.800 the who were wasn't there? Yeah? We we saw the 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:29.440 little like last week they just came in. They played 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:38.119 the stadium. No, they played the full orchestra, like like wow, 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:41.280 it was crazy and they're while there. It was it 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:44.919 was Pete Towns and it was Roger Daltrey. Yes, and 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:51.479 I love the whom Yeah, man, sure see who's next album? 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:57.640 Incredible album? Um? Whose Next is incredible, incredible, the sound 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:00.679 of it, the production, it's an acoustic out him but 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:05.080 it's so like, so much going on, but it's but 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:09.159 He's like, it's it's an acoustic album. It's not. I 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:15.479 love the synthesizer like you know, Babo Riley trippy. It 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:21.160 never gets boring. Every track on the every work of genius. 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:25.280 That album is a genius. Well. I read an interview 0:26:25.280 --> 0:26:28.159 with Pete Townsend like two years ago or something, and 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:30.359 he was like, you know, I'm sorry. I want to 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:37.760 apologize to the planet for inventing heavy metal. Uh what 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:39.920 he does? I didn't intend to do that, but yes, 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:43.119 we did do that the album Live of Leads. I go, 0:26:43.240 --> 0:26:48.000 that's a pretty ballsy interview to say that. So I 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:51.240 didn't have the album Live with Leads. So I went 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:54.840 got it and I put the needle down. I go, holy, 0:26:55.760 --> 0:27:01.520 that is that is the first all right hanging. And 0:27:01.840 --> 0:27:05.480 then the album has all these like you know, posters 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:10.000 and stickers, all the fun stuff you get to look 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:12.960 at like a crack of jack box. So you're ready, 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:17.280 Pete Townson's right, Um, so you're still rocket on stage? 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:20.119 Did you just mentioned the kiss crews and recently was 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:23.280 easy top I feeling of being on stage? What does 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:27.200 it feel like to be on stage nowadays for you? Well, 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.480 you know, as you get older, you you read interviews 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:33.200 with some singers and they they say, oh, I gotta 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:40.080 tune down the keys, or I gotta I gotta use tapes. 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:45.719 Everybody does that. I don't know, you know, but but 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:49.120 I don't. I don't use tapes. I still don't. I don't. 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:54.320 I don't tune down the keys. I don't. Uh. I 0:27:54.359 --> 0:27:58.879 can still hit the notes that I could hit before. 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:01.560 Like some time times. You know, if I'm playing a 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:06.240 club in Iowa or something and it's a Wednesday night, 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:11.200