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Sebastian Bach Name-Drops As He Details Drug-Fueled Life On The Road With Skid Row

By Victoria Miller
Published on: 02:52 PST, Dec 7, 2016

Sebastian Bach is telling all in his new tell-all, 18 and Life on Skid Row—and he’s naming names. The former Skid Row frontman logged 448 pages of rock ‘n’ roll antics in his long-awaited memoir, and not surprisingly, a lot of the stories illustrate his hard partying days with other rock stars during the band’s late 1980s/early ’90s heyday.

Bach dropped plenty of names in his book and in his corresponding interviews to promote it. During a pitstop at Jenny McCarthy’s Sirius radio show, Sebastian dished that Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee had the best cocaine in L.A. in the late 1980s. Bach revealed that Lee once climbed a ladder and into his attic to get a hidden stash of coke to share with his friends.

Rolling Stone posted an excerpt from Bach’s book in which the rocker described a particularly wild night with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Sebastian revealed that the trio once openly dumped a bag of cocaine on a restaurant table and brazenly snorted lines as businessman and families walked past them.

Bach also wrote that he tried Quaaludes for the first (and last) time with McKagan and Ulrich while at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, with the Metallica drummer later charging fans five dollars to get photos with his slobbering, ‘Luded cohorts.

And in yet another drunken incident, a rooftop photo shoot with Metallica went awry when Sebastian shot a bicycle wheel off of the roof’s edge causing it to smash through the windshield of a brand new Mercedes-Benz SUV down below.

In his book, Sebastian Bach details his rampant cocaine use back in the day, touting the drug’s “dietary properties.” In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sebastian says he doesn’t like the drug but admitted he did like one of its side effects.

“I was a cocaine freak,” Sebastian said.

“I was almost like a dead person. Let me tell you, when you see a picture of Joe Perry on the Aerosmith Rocks tour, or David Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour, or me on the cover of Rolling Stone, and we have this gaunt, skeletal, alien, androgynous, unnatural appearance—it is unnatural. None of us are doing mounds of blow these days. At least, I’m not. I don’t like the drug, the way it makes me feel. I do like the way it makes me look, though! Sorry! We’re in a business that is obsessed with appearance. People will go to extreme lengths to achieve a certain look.”

Sebastian Bach definitely partied like a rock star back in the day, but these days he doesn’t like how the term “rock star” is used so loosely. Sebastian told the Huffington Post it gets under his skin when regular celebrities and athletes are now called rock stars.

“It bugs me when Kris Jenner calls Kim Kardashian a rock star. And it bugs me even more when Kanye West calls himself a rock star,” Sebastian said.

A for his own label, Bach and Skid Row were dubbed “The New Bad Boys of Rock” by Billboard back in the late ’80s. Sebastian chalked up the label as “a marketing thing,” but in retrospect he lived up to the name.

“I thought, well I guess I better live up to this somehow, because that’s like my job description, I suppose,” Bach told HuffPo. “You can have some fun along the way, but it’s a fine line between having fun and getting your nose broke by The Hells Angels.”

In an interview with Fox & Friends to promote 18 and Life on Skid Row, Sebastian said he hasn’t heard from any of the rock ‘n’ roll legends that he wrote about doing drugs with in his book. But Bach also admitted that the book had just come out and “it’s only 7:30 in the morning.”

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Sebastian Bach’s 18 and Life on Skid Row is available in bookstores now.

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