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Sebastian Bach Drops Details On His Long-Awaited Skid Row Memoir

By Victoria Miller
Published on: 10:48 PST, Jul 9, 2016

Sebastian Bach’s memoir has been a really long work in progress, but there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel. According to rock website Blabbermouth, after months of delays, Bach’s memoir, which was supposed to be released last month, is now being pushed out to late September. In a recent interview with KATT radio, Sebastian explained what was up with the delay of his book, which is titled 18 And Life In Skid Row.

“It’s been delayed because it’s a very big project — six hundred pages with lots of pictures,” Bach revealed. “They asked me for thirty pictures; I gave them a hundred and sixteen. And I’m, like, ‘It’s my book, dude.’ It’s got a lot of stories of crazy sh*t that I did. But there is a beginning and an end to it, like a story arc, because my life was very weird.”

Bach added that while the manuscript is complete, the publishers (Dey Street, a HarperCollins imprint) are currently finalizing the book’s packaging. Sebastian also said that he penned the entire book himself without any help from a co-writer.

When Sebastian’s book deal was first announced in 2012, he admitted to Billboard that it seemed like an overwhelming project. But the rocker, who has been touring as a solo act for the past 20 years after splitting from Skid Row, said he thought he was up to the task.

“Oh, my story is insanely insane,” Bach said at the time. “I think I could do a hell of a book. I could make [Motley Crue’s] The Dirt look clean if I wanted to…The main thing is it has to blow me away before I release it. It has to give me goose bumps or I won’t put it out.”

Sebastian Bach previously told Billboard it took him a long time to get his thoughts together in order to write the tell-all.

“I have a great memory, but I have to have complete silence and it takes me all day, every day, to write something that I’m proud of,” Bach said. “It’s an extremely solitary process. I’m just alone staring at the computer screen [laughs] for 12 hours in a row… I could have somebody else do it, but I don’t want to read somebody else’s account of my life.”

Sebastian recalled that the book will start with his life growing up in Canada and detail how he hit it big when he landed the job as the lead singer of ’80s rock band Skid Row. Bach says he also includes a story about when his parents divorced when he was 10 years old, and how a 1979 Kiss concert briefly reunited his dad with the family after a long period of estrangement. Sebastian says he has all of the photos from that day, which will be included in the book.

“Nobody’s ever seen these shots, pictures of Kiss too, of Gene [Simmons] because we’re in the front row,” Sebastian, a Kiss superfan, revealed. “Those are in the book… It’s artistic, unbelievable photos just in and of themselves, as art, and nobody has ever seen these, nobody in the world because I couldn’t look at ’em. They’re too heavy. It’s too powerful.”

Bach said that he combed through all of his personal archives to put together his story about Skid Row, which he pointed out is the first of its kind.

“I know in the future there will be more books on the band Skid Row, but when I go to Barnes & Noble, there’s zero,” Bach said. “There’s none. And every other band has a hundred books, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith; every band has 10, 15 books. There’s none on Skid Row. So this is the first one, so I’m going to pack it full of as much info as I can because you only get one chance to make a first impression.”

Sebastian Bach’s memoir, 18 And Life On Skid Row, is slated to be released Sept. 27, 2016.

Take a look at the video below to see Sebastian Bach talking about his book.

[Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images]

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