Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.
Sebastian Bach
I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.
I actually had a bunch of songs that I worked on with Jamey Jasta from Hatebreed, but they were too heavy for me because my voice sounds good when I sing clean. It sounds good dirty too, but when I hear my voice sing really clean, that's a special sound.
So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
I went to audition for an episode of 'Law and Order,' and they didn't understand why I was talking so fast, and I was like, 'No, you don't understand. I was on a show called the 'Gilmore Girls.' We had to say everything like that.'
The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.
You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.
I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.
They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.
Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
My voice has gotten me everything in my life, not my hair.
I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. It's absolutely incredible.
No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.
I do Skid Row every night.
That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that?
Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.
Yes, but I have to say this: the band is going to decide where the band plays.
I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalists and interviews and articles and pinups and posters to follow our favourite artists. Nowadays? Twitter is actually the new rock magazine.
Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.
The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.
What is music for? It's to make you feel good.
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic regions.
Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.
It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.
There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way.
I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.
I want to do something creative, not just easy.
It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.
