In a recent interview with EMP, former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach talked about his latest album, ‘Child Within The Man.’ While chatting about appearing at the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany, the rocker compared himself to the Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.
“This was our 44th show this year. When I started out this year, I was doing all my headbanging, and I f*cked my neck up, I paralyzed my back,” Bach explained. “And I thought I was gonna have to cancel some shows, but I don’t cancel shows. But when I’m on stage and I look at the crowd, I feel like I’m 19 years old; I feel like a little kid. And then I get off stage and my body says, ‘F*ck you. You’re not a f*cking little kid, man. What the f*ck are you doing?’ But it’s okay.”
“If Mick Jagger can be rocking and rolling at 82, you better get used to me, man, ’cause I’ll be doing it for f*cking 40 more f*cking years. All right,” he added.
Bach started his career back in 1983 with a band called Kid Wikkid. The band lasted only two years, and he later joined Skid Row. It has been 41 years since the start of his career, and he doesn’t have any plans on retiring yet.
“I don’t know what to say. Just the fans have shown me that I can be like Willie Nelson or George Strait or Neil Young or Sammy Hagar. I can be like that, dude,” Bach explained in a different interview. “I can keep doing this when I’m 70, 80 — God willing that I’m still around. But I know how to sing. I know how to warm up my voice to get it to do what you guys want it to do and what I want it to do. There’s no difference for my vocals. The only difference is, is that because everybody’s filming everything, I can’t run around as much.”
Before ‘Child Within The Man,’ Bach hadn’t released a full-length album since 2014’s ‘Give ‘Em Hell.’ Like its predecessor, 2011’s ‘Kicking & Screaming,’ the new album came out through Frontiers Music Srl.