NEWS – Founder of ’60s Skid Row Calls for Sebastian Bach to Join Him
Published on January 27, 2012 by Christian Sellers · No Comments
The name Skid Row has long been a sore point for Irish singer Brush Shiels. Having formed the band with legendary guitarist Gary Moore in the late 1960s, they enjoyed minor success before eventually splitting in 1973. A little over a decade later a hard rock group were formed in New Jersey and decided to adopt the same name, eventually enjoying success with their 1989 eponymous debut and the hit singles 18 & Life and Youth Gone Wild.
Shiels posted a video on YouTube earlier this month about his own band’s success and how he came to discover a couple of years ago that there had been another band in America performing under the same name. He has now followed it up with a new clip in which he has invited Sebastian Bach, who performed as frontman with the New Jersey group for several years before leaving in the mid-1990s, to join him on a new project; “The reason I’m trying to get into contact with you, can you imagine this… Sebastian Bach and Skid Row?”
“When I say Skid Row, when Rachel and Snake and Bon Jovi and half of them were in kindergarten I was trucking around America, playing for very little, blessed to be playing with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore West. Playing with the Allman Brothers, up around Canada with Beck, Bogert & Appice. Down in Lafayette, Louisiana with Professor Longhair. Now the reason I’m trying to get in contact with you, it’s very simple… if you were singing my songs we couldn’t fail… I’ll split the band with you, fifty/fifty. Your name is top of the bill: Sebastian Bach and Skid Row.”
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