10.28.04
JEKYLL & HYDE HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST OCTOBER 31 @ 6:45 PM!
Before the final show CONTESTANTS WILL BE BROUGHT ON STAGE and judged by a panel of judges (including WRAL's Pam Saulsby) and audience participation. Contestants can register for the show in the lobby preceding the show on Halloween Night. 
BEST OVERALL COSTUME : $1000 in prizes , including 2 round-trip tickets to anywhere in the continental USA that American Airlines flies in the USA , 2 season tickets to the North Carolina Theatre's 2005 season & more ! so dress up as Mr. HyDe, Sebastian Bach, KISS, your best 18th century gothic Victorian peroid piece, or anything you want & I will see ya on Halloween night ! E. Hyde 
Raleigh News Observer Article 
10.11.04
JEKYLL & HYDE IS BACH AGAIN!!!!
I am extremely honoured to be revisiting the role(s) of  Jekyll & Hyde at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh North Carolina this October . The reasons for me being so excited about revisiting this role are many. My Broadway debut was with Jekyll & Hyde in the year 2000, before 911, when the world was a very different place . My memories & emotional attachment to this show are deeply heart-felt & listening to the music again this last week has been a revelation . I cannot wait to bring Mr. Hyde to life again & to perform 10 shows this October as Dr. Jekyll trying to save his dying father. I only wish it was a longer run, but hey Raleigh I am looking forward to bringing some fresh Broadway BLOOD to the North Carolina Theatre @ Raleigh Memorial Auditorium ! See you soon ......if you dare !

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BACH ON GILMORE GIRLS #5 AIRS THIS TUESDAY OCTOBER 12 ON THE WB
'Tippecanoe & Taylor Too" is the name of the next GILMORE GIRLS episode I am on & it airs this Tuesday ! Look out as Gil & the band 'Hep Alien' return to your living room TV screen ! This Tuesdays episode was a blast to shoot & you will know that is true when you see it  - make sure you all tune in to the WB Network Tuesday Oct . 12 @ 8 PM 'cause I think this is one episode that  all you rockers out there are really gonna dig ! I can't divulge any more - you just gotta watch !

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SEBASTIAN BACH INSTORE AUTOGRAPH SIGNING
I will be signing copies of the ~FOREVER WILD~ DVD (& anything else you want me to sign) at Best Buy 237 Crossroads Blvd. Cary North Carolina 11 AM -1 PM Saturday Oct.16
'I MARRIED SEBASTIAN BACH' TOP RATED VH1 SHOW
Here are the facts straight from the VH1 execs :
'I MARRIED SEBASTIAN BACH' was the # 1 TOP RATED SHOW on VH1 the day it premiered ! It was the MOST WATCHED SHOW on the whole network September 14 ! This blows my mind, & is a very good thing. 'I MARRIED SEBASTIAN BACH' is the # 1 TOP RATED SHOW EVER in the 'I MARRIED' series !
'I MARRIED SEBASTIAN BACH ' is # 7 on the Top 100 rated shows on VH1 this week !!!!! UNBELEIVABLE ! Click here to view the official Top 100 VH1 Shows Ratings Chart !
' I MARRIED SEBASTIAN BACH' is already being aired again ! If you missed it you can catch it on September 20 @ 1:30 / 12:30C PM !!
      WOW ! On behalf of myself & Maria & my family I would just like to say THANK YOU to you all for making 'I MARRIED SEBASTIAN BACH' a far bigger success than any of us involved with the show ever expected it would be ! Once again you all ROCK & I am really glad you dug the show !!
9.07.04
ChartAttack Magazine Article :
Sebastian Bach vs. MuchMusic and Downloading
Friday August 27, 2004 @ 09:00 AM
by Keith Carman

Sebastian Bach’s first official DVD Forever Wild has just been released and us Canucks are eating it up like three pounds of back bacon. Compiled from a series of television programs Bach completed for VH1 last year, Forever Wild boasts not only live performances, but car racing with Vince Neil, gratuitous animal slaughter with Ted Nugent and all around hilarity. Some say it’s the precursor to a new album, but all we care about is that it gives Baz a reason to come back to the Great White North to vent.
ChartAttack: How exactly did your DVD come about?
Sebastian Bach: See, Canada never saw my show. I had a hilarious rock show on VH1 and these are some of my favourite moments. What was cool about (the show), was that when they gave me the show… a lot of music channels talk more about music than playing it. Halfway through the video, the director is talking! Why can’t we ever see the video? I said to VH1 that I’d do a show if they just let me play music. They’re like, "We don’t have any more shows like that," but I wouldn’t do it otherwise. I got to play whatever I wanted from W.A.S.P. to Twisted Sister to Motley Crue!
ChartAttack: And you got to fire off guns with Ted Nugent.
Sebastian Bach: Get this: VH1 said they wanted me to go to Ted’s house for an episode and hunt wild boar. Like a good Canadian, I emailed the president of VH1 and said I think it’s really shitty a major corporate television company wants to go murder a poor, defenseless animal for the sake of ratings. I think it’s mean-spirited and let Bambi live. The president emailed me back with like, "I think it’s really cool and I’ve forwarded it to everyone at VH1 to see how you stand up for what you believe in." After 10 minutes at Ted’s house, I’m murdering everything in sight! But he’s so intelligent and right about it… he’s like, "Do you eat BLTs? Where do you get the bacon? There’s some fresh stuff right there!" It’s hypocritical to hate hunters but eat meat. If you kill it, you gotta grill it!
ChartAttack: For someone who’s had heavy ups and downs, you’re really animated on this DVD.
Sebastian Bach: Yeah, but I’ve had my times. When I was kicked out of Skid Row that was very discouraging for me. I thought we would have lasted forever. I didn’t think you could tell the public they were wrong. You go platinum and then break up? What the fuck is that? But then again, there are some of my old bandmates that still don’t have record deals. We didn’t see eye-to-eye and I’ll leave it at that.
ChartAttack: Seeing such an amicable side of you on the DVD is in direct contrast to your last encounter with MuchMusic, you know, where you stormed out on VJ George Stroumboulopouloroumboulopoulroumboulopoulroumboulopoulroumboulopoulroumboulopouls?
Sebastian Bach: People wonder what the deal was with that and I don’t blame them. But think of it like this: When I was a 15 year-old kid playing around town in my band, I went to MuchMusic, walked off the street and went up to them, told them my story and they did a whole feature on us that night. I still have the tape and that started me on a career. I go and sell 20 million records, do a Broadway show and some MuchMusic guy comes down to interview me about Poison? How can I just be some turd that gets attention when I’m a kid, but when I sell 20 million albums and am on Broadway it’s like, "So, tell me about C.C. Deville?" I’m like, "Fuck you!"
ChartAttack: You’ve never really given your side of the downloading debate, but I know you feel pretty strongly about it. Divulge.
Sebastian Bach: What a concept: if you actually like a song, you have to buy it. If it was your job to sell shoes and shoes were free, you’d be like, "What the fuck?" My son is 16 and he spends a lot of his time and a lot of my hard drive on downloading bands. Then along comes Mr. Crusty Rocker like, [affects parental tone], "Hey son, you know that those bands worked really hard on that music so it’s not fair to just take it." He stares at me like, "Are you done, geezer? I have to listen to this when all of my friends do it?" I’m like, "If people were downloading my songs, I couldn’t have bought you the computer you’re downloading songs with! What pays for your bicycle? Did you download that?" He looks at me like I have eight heads.

                Baz fills us in on what you get with this new package, after ordering, with a straight face, from a very perplexed but upscale waiter, a bagel with cream cheese and a hot bowl of bourbon (much guffawing ensued). “Well, it's got the first ever DVD live versions out of ‘I Remember You’, ‘18 And Life’, ‘Monkey Business’, ‘Slave To The Grind’ and ‘Youth Gone Wild’, and we also do some cover songs in this set. We do Jeff Buckley's ‘Eternal Life’, ‘Parasite’ by Kiss; ‘Blasphemer’ from my solo album is on there. And the DVD starts out with the video from The Last Hard Men's ‘Sleep’, which is the first time that's ever been released, with Joey Ramone introducing us. It's also got ‘This Is The Moment’ from Jekyll & Hyde, the live version I did with Paul Crook and Al Pitrelli from Megadeth, and it's got a full discography of every album I've ever done, except for Maple Metal.” This last zinger is of course a reference to Baz’s scrappy Canadian roots, something explored often and loudly on this short Canadian promo tour, on which the man also got to sing both the American and Canadian national anthems at a Jays game.

                I asked Baz if the Forever Wild stuff is from the VH1 show, or if it was out-take material. “Some of it has been, some of it hasn't. The Vince Neil and the Ted Nugent, those were on TV. And the Bach Fu (laughs)… that's my SCTV influence coming out. He really punches me; that's the funny part. We were just doing this, like, right? And pow! That was funny; that was on TV. But Drea De Matteo from The Sopranos was not on TV because VH1 said the lighting was bad. And I'm like ‘Dude, I don't think anybody is going to be looking at the lighting with her on the screen, OK?’ It's like, she's good enough.”

                “I just paid some money,” answers Bach, at whether getting the rights to include that material was complicated. “They were very kind. I mean, they could've said no. But what I really wanted to put on was a lot of the Jekyll & Hyde footage, from the actual show. That does exist, a B-reel that is used for promotion and stuff, and also the commercial that was on TV. That was outrageously expensive. So I couldn't get the rights to that. But we did ‘This Is The Moment’ by my solo band… believe it or not, heavy metal show tunes (laughs). Annie get your axe!”

                Next up for Bach is a new solo album, this time to be recorded, thankfully, under no other name than Sebastian Bach. “Yes, just Sebastian Bach. I'm sick and tired of band names. That's it. It gets confusing to the marketplace. And in terms of direction, I don't analyze it. I just make as many songs as I can, and when I've got like 30 or something, I pick the best 12. I don't prejudge... although, in all actuality, I'll go to my grave trying to better Slave To The Grind. That's my favourite album from start to finish, that I ever did. But you know, if AC/DC can try that long, I'll give it my fucking damnedest (laughs).”

                Any songs for sure that you know you’ll put on the next album?

                “Yeah, the last song on the DVD; it's called ‘Always & Never The Same’; I might change that title, but that's going to be on there. And I've written about 15 songs with these dudes from Memphis, and this guy Adam Albright from the band Skinlab; he's from San Francisco. And that's a much heavier sound. And Ralph (Santolla, recently defected from Iced Earth) tells me he's got unbelievable amounts of music, that he's been waiting years to find a singer for.”

                And the lyrics, will these be wisdoms from Baz’s personal pen? “I don't know. So far I’ve done them all. I don't analyze that either. Whoever comes up with the best ideas. I can't work with people that decide that before a song’s written; that's ridiculous to me. That's not the way it works. But it's tough for me to put my name on something I'm going to put out. Because I have to compete with my catalogue. You know, the way I decide if a song fits in, is, if I do it live, intermixed with my other songs, the crowd gets into it and it feels right. Then I know I have a good one. We went on tour with Alice Cooper and Twisted Sister last fall and we did like three weeks, and I did half brand-new, never-before-heard songs, and they mixed in great. And I'm lucky to have a record company that is really cool record company that supports me. I find myself very fortunate in that respect.” This last bit was a tongue-in-cheek salvo formulated for Canadian Spitfire label honcho and Baz pal Dave MacMillan, who was with us for our chat. More guffaws ensue, with many more to come.

                Inevitably, talk drifts to that old band Baz used to lead, Skid Row, in particular, their new lead singer … “Who's that? Who? Wha... he plays restaurants. You know, one of his quotes is like ‘Sebastian’s a rock star, but I'm the singer of Skid Row.’ You're the singer of Skid Row? I am fucking Skid Row. All right? It's like, chew on that (laughs). You're in Skid Row. I am fucking Skid Row.”

                For more on Baz’s whereabouts, this more than amusing 125 minute DVD, and other news and goodies galore, head directly to www.sebastianbach.com.

Martin Popoff

Sebastian Bach is back and he's bringing a surprise Thursday to Allentown's Crocodile Rock.
He will bring with him a never-been-seen-before brand-spanking-new guitarist Ralph Santolla, formerly of Iced Earth, who joined the band after the two met less than a month ago at Germany's Bang Your Head Festival in Balingen.
With the new heavier-sounding guitarist Bach and Friends promise to bring fans the music they loved from Bach's former band Skid Row and some brand new stuff.
"I'm very excited," says Bach from his Red Bank, N.J., home, "It's the very first ever show with my brand new guitarist and I'm looking forward to it."
Probably most widely known for his wild antics as front man with Skid Row, Bach got his start in music in an unsuspecting, even holy place.
He says he first remembers feeling the high of performing music while singing hymns as lead soprano at All Saints' Anglican Church in Peterborough, Ontario.
From the choir, Bach jokingly says he began singing rock 'n' roll in the shower, belting out classics from his idols Van Halen, Rush and Kiss.
By age 13, he had taken the songs out of the shower and was overheard by a group of boys five years his senior, who asked him to sing with their band.
"They said to me, 'you gotta join my band' and they never talked to me before," he says.
Before long, he was invited to sing with the group at a dance where he was less than the enthusiastic singer he is today.
"I was petrified, they pulled me and literally threw me on the stage," he says. After the show he found his popularity had skyrocketed. "All the people that never wanted to talk to me, wanted to talk to me. I thought, 'this is a really cool thing to do.'"
At the tender age of 14, Bach joined Canadian band, Kid Wikkid, went on to become a member of VO5 and gained notoriety with the American band, Madam X.
"I was 16, 17 touring America, all six foot three of me folded up in the back of a Camaro," he says.
Luck and happenstance came together for Bach when he attended a wedding soon after where Jon Bon Jovi's parents got a chance to see him in an impromptu performance with the wedding band.
According to Bach, Bon Jovi's parents talked about his singing so much that Dave "Snake" Sabo, formerly of the new band Bon Jovi, wanted to nab Bach as lead singer for a new band he was starting.
Sabo sent Bach a tape with what would become Skid Row hits "Youth Gone Wild" and "18 and Life." He says he put the tape aside but found the songs growing on him each time he listened to the tape and soon came to realize he was "meant to sing 'Youth Gone Wild.'"
With the addition of Bach's powerful voice and video-friendly good looks, the band went on to sell millions upon millions of records, riding a wave of success which would end abruptly in 1996 when Bach says he was "kicked out" of the group.
Bach says he didn't stay down for long after leaving Skid Row. In 1996, he formed The Last Hard Men with The Breeders' Kelley Deal, The Frogs' Jimmy Flemion and former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin to cover Alice Cooper's "School's Out" for the soundtrack of the popular horror movie "Scream."
He also released a solo album "Bring Em Bach Alive," in November 2000.
Since 2000, Bach has taken on the monumental role of Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar; " played "Riff Raff" in "The Rocky Horror Show," and performed in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," all on Broadway.
"I think it's safe to say I'm the only guy in town who has moved up from Skid Row to Broadway," he says with a laugh.
Delving into all forms of media, Bach has also released "Forever Wild" a DVD shot in 1998 at LA's famous Whisky A Go-Go which includes a mix of solo and Skid Row material.
He can also be seen in a continuing role on the WB's "Gilmore Girls," citing his time on Broadway with his entrance into TV.
"If you can do three roles in Broadway shows, you got what it takes," he says. "You know what they say if you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere."
His television appearances don't end there, Bach and wife, Maria, recently finished taping for "I Married Sebastian Bach" a one-hour reality TV special set to air on VH-I.
"I don't know if it would be considered by TV Guide to be action, reality, comedy or horror," he says, "I guess we shall wait and see."

A recent Sebastian Bach concert at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, N.J., turned out to be a family affair. On hand to open the Aug. 7 show was Severed Hand, whose drummer is Bach's son Paris Bierk.
Sixteen-year-old Bierk anchored the New Jersey quartet of Dave Keelen (vocals/guitar), Mitchell Burger (bass) and Paul Christian (guitar). The young band (the eldest is 22) has the requisite rock 'tude -- Keelen dedicated "Dumb Bitch" "to all the dudes" -- but it was no joke when it came to performing their set of original tunes. Metallica and Iron Maiden nurtured these next-generation players, evidenced by the songs "Diseased" and "Harvey Bent." Their sound-mature and entertaining-proved they earned the opening slot.
Bach was obviously proud as he watched the band from the rear of the club: A grin split his face while he rocked to the beat, his hands drumming in the air along with his son.
New Jersey bands Beggar's Canyon and the Bog also performed before Bach took over. The Bog paled against the impression Severed Hand made, but Beggar's Canyon did an ample job of pumping the audience, cheekily announcing itself with "The Imperial March" from "Star Wars" and priming it for the headliner with its Soundgarden-ish jams.
When Bach launched himself onstage with "Slave to the Grind," at least 1,000 people had packed the club. Whereas the younger Bierk was intent on nailing his drum parts and eschewed flashiness, his father, with 20 years experience behind him, is as flamboyant as he is vocally proficient. Bursting with energy as he whirled his microphone like a slingshot and showered the front row with water, Bach makes it look easy to sing in his range and bound all over the place for 90 minutes. Bierk, in turn, intently watched from the audience.
The crowd, though enthusiastic, warmed up by degrees. Response was solid for new  pieces like "Bring Me Down" and "Just Can't Tell," with Skid Row songs drawing more fevered reactions. The band gave equal time to both catalogs.
Drummer Mark "Bam Bam" McConnell slammed on "Piece of Me" and "Rock N Roll." Despite being very new to the band, former Iced Earth guitarist Ralph Santolla fit in smoothly. A more subtle presence than his predecessor, Adam Albright, he worked well with companion ax man Randall X. Rawlings.
Feedback and muddy sound plagued each act during the night but Bach's crew got the brunt of the technical difficulties, with the singer gesturing through the first few songs for his mic to be adjusted and Brian "Cheeze" Hall halting midsong when the plug pulled from his bass. Such glitches were overlooked, thanks to the quartet sinking its teeth into "Monkey Business/Time Warp" and "Angel Down" and employing the crowd to flick lighters and sing along with "18 & Life" and "I Remember You."
Playing straight through without an encore, the room rabidly screamed for "Youth Gone Wild," and Bach introduced it with a wail that could have made the dead walk. Final song "Train Train" by Blackfoot was crowned by Bach pulling a woman onstage; she fell on her duff before scrambling up to dance with him -- just another technical difficulty.
Talking backstage after their set, Severed Hand's members were largely pleased with their performance. It was the second time they opened for Bach, and a mini club tour is planned come Labor Day. Santolla is working as producer with the group on what he called "a demo," but Bierk said firmly that Severed Hand is recording a full-length album of 10 songs.
"We have a lot of diverse influences," he noted of the band's sound, "but classic rock is where we come together, especially Iron Maiden."
The Bach Tight 5 tour closed following an Aug. 13 Poughkeepsie, N.Y., show with Twisted Sister. The band heads to Boston in September to start recording its debut album, which will be produced by Zeuss (Hatebreed, Shadows Fall).
"Everybody is writing," Hall said when asked who was contributing to the album. "That's why [Bach] picked us, because we all have a sound he likes."
Hall and the rest of the band  will be seen on VH1's "I Married Sebastian Bach" (air date to be determined), a ha;lf-hour reality special based on Bach's wife/manager, Maria.