Conversations With… podcast, manager Doc McGhee – who has worked with names like Kiss, Mötley Crüe , and Bon Jovi – recalled an episode from his career involving Sebastian Bach and Skid Row .
According to McGhee, years after Bach left Skid Row in 1996, the vocalist contacted him again with the idea of forming a supergroup that would include Ted Nugent , Evan Seinfeld from Biohazard , and Jason Bonham . During a show they were both doing for MTV , someone reportedly mentioned that Sebastian was "angry" with McGhee for "taking away his publishing rights" to Skid Row's music.
“I went to talk to Sebastian and said, ‘So, Baz, I heard you think I took your publishing rights away from you.’ He said, ‘I never received anything.’ And I said, ‘Sebastian, you never wrote anything. If you don’t write something, you don’t get the rights,’ but he doesn’t understand that,” Doc McGhee recounts.
This is not Sebastian Bach's version, who six years ago claimed to have written all the songs on the band's first albums. "The biggest lie these guys tell is that they wrote all the songs on every record," Sebastian said at the time. "They say they wrote '18 And Life' and I just sang it, but let's analyze that claim. You can listen to the original version of that song online and then you can listen to the way I sing, and there's something called a melodic line, right? Every time my voice reaches a register where you turn up the volume and think, 'Holy shit! Did you hear that?' those are the notes I wrote."
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