Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach has disappointments with David Lee Roth.
In a new interview with Paltrocast, the singer recalled a part from the Van Halen singer’s book about being lonely. He then explained getting in contact with him, thinking that they would be friends. However, things didn’t go as planned. Bach explained:
“There’s a part in David Lee Roth’s book where he tells a story of being bullied at school and he tells the story of going home and being so hurt that he’s on his porch and he says, ‘I’m never going to have a real friend ever again.’ That’s in his book that he made that choice when he was like 13 or 12.”
After reading that, the rocker wanted to be Roth’s friend. He continued:
“I wanted to be Dave’s friend because he treated me like that. He was my bud, he was always so nice and funny to me and cool. He gave me his cell phone number and as soon as I got home from that plane flight I was texting him, ‘Let’s hang out man I’ll be your buddy,’ and I never really heard back from him. When he gave me his phone number I had it in my brain that we were going to be best buddies. So Dave if you’re reading this interview give me a call man, let’s hang out.”
Bach Almost Joined Van Halen
In 1985, Roth left the band to start a solo career, and Hagar took over. Hagar left in 1996, before their first greatest hits album, ‘Best Of – Volume I,’ came out. Former Extreme frontman Gary Cherone joined briefly after Hagar, and they worked on ‘Van Halen III’ before parting ways a year later.
During that time, there were talks about possibly bringing in Bach as the lead singer, as he mentioned in an earlier interview. He shared:
“I was summoned into Doc’s office, and there was talk about it. At the time, they were looking for a singer. But I didn’t get to audition. I don’t think Doc was into me leaving Skid Row either; there was something about that.”
You can watch the interview below.