JJ Moore
06-24-2005, 08:19 AM
So last night I went to see Sebastian Bach, Ex-Lead Singer of the infamous Skid Row. Im a huge fan of his so abre with me on the review, I sound like a total fanboy but really dont care, he's one of my fucking idol's, check it out.
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Ok first off the Setlist *READS THE SETLIST HE OBTAINED FROM THE GIG*
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Slave To The Grind
Big Guns
Frozen
American Metalhead <- New Song
Piece Of Me <- Very Special for me *see below*
18 & Life
Livin' On a Chain Gang
Rock N' Roll
The Threat
Wasted Time
Monkey Business / Riot Act
Take You Down With Me <- New Song
I Remember You
Youth Gone Wild
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Of my fucking god. What a Day!!!!!!!!!
Where to start, ok first off I arrived at around 4:30PM, parked my car up and made my way to the entrance and sat and soaked up the sun. Then they started soundchecking the durms, i found myself being serenaded by bobby with some fucking heavy metal bad ass drumming! I couldnt believe my luck, sat in the sun with Bach's Drummer kicking ass in my ears. A few mins later i hear a very distinct voice, BACH'S IN TOWN BABY!
He is chatting to the band etc. and then they Begin to soundcheck! The band soudns shit hot, I heard new song's in Soundcheck and they soudned awesome *cough* Also recorded the soundcheck to my camera! ;) *cough*
The soundchecked for about an hour or so Jamming and so forth, before the really got into things BAch shouted out to the people, "ok what should we do? Here I Am or Breakin' Down" I was like :o omfg! The soundcheck kicked all ass, below is what they played.
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Here I Am (Jam)
Piece Of Me
I Remember You (1 Min)
Slave To The Grind
American Metalhead
Piece of Me (Jam)
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Ok after the soundcheck im just chilling outside and who walks out, Bach himself! He was chattign to a friend, the sound engineer and I didnt interrupt him, we brits have manners and all that shit! lol And so yeah missed a chance to talk to him or even get an autograph! *sulk*
So gig time rolls around, By now i've buddied up with "slayerrulz" from this board and were stood centre stage waiting for Bach.
They stormed the stage with full force into slave to the grind. At the end of the song he notices I have a few signs ;) the first one was "WELCOME BACH!" and he grabbed it and paraded around the stage showing the crowd and gave me a thumb's up and a handshake and carried on into the set. The next sign to appear that he noticed was the "FUCK HENNING PAULY!....ASSHOLE!" in which he laughed his ass off at in the middle of a song and poiinted it out to all the band, i htink only me, bach, the band and slayerrulz got what it meant, HARDCORE FANS BABY! lol anyway, moving on into the set, Here I am play's and i hold up sign number 3 saying "WHERE'S THE PARTY AFTER?" and he says "RIGHT HERE BABY!" and grabs his crotch, i was nearly in tear's!!!!
And then, Piece Of Me plays... half way through, he is invting people on stage, a few jump on and jump off straight away, and then he will's me up!!!!!!!!! I jump up with a bit of help from people pushing my ass and my tired legs thus far, and im on the stage headbanging away going ass crazy next to my fucking idol!
I AM ON STAGE WITH SEBASTIAN BACH!!!!!!!
I then look up after my metal session and say thankyou to Seb and the crowd went fucking nut's! I cant believe it!!!!!
The gig went on after that obviously and they stormed through more songs, Wasted Time was emotional, such a good song, so much emotion into it! I loved it.
After I remember you, Mike knelt down and held his hand out to me, i held mine out and....
HE GAVE ME THE PIC HE USED ALL NIGHT FOR THE GIG!!!!!
HOW COULD THINGS GET ANY BETTER!!!!!!!?!?!
By now my jaw has dropped, is this all real!?!
Before youth gone wild, the Skid Row slagfest starts, Skid Row made such a huge mistake!
Bach said, "YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE BAND BUT YOU CANT TAKE THE BAND OUT OF THE MAN!" which is so true! YGW play's and the place erupts.
The gig ends and were all hanging about hoping to meet the man and band! Bobby comes out on stage and I grab him for a moment and get his autograph plus a handshake. Johnny Chromatic comes out next and i get an autograph, a handshake and a picture with him! Steve and Mike then both come out and i get pics and autographs from them both and Mike put's his intials on the pic he gave me!
Then, the man himseld comes out adn makes a b-line for the door, he signs a few things but is obviosuly in a rush, but takes him abtou 20 misn to get out etc. I wait patiently outside and as everyoen was ahrrasing him I softley said, dude, can i ahve an autograph and he looks at me and says's "Sure buddy" and then signs my ticket and carries on, people harras him a lil' more and i softley say again, dude, may i have a picture?........."Sure dude!" and there it was, the last thing of my night, a picture with the boss.
The sign's I made were the following
"Welcome Bach"
"FUCK Henning Pauly!...Asshole"
"Where's the party after?"
"Can I have the following? A Picture, an autograph, setlist, a vocal warm up tape" - I got the first 3 except the warm up tape.
Also on a little envelope I had I wrote "Bring Em' Bach Alive" - Baz took it and stuck it on his chest with his sweat and walked around with it on him, I also wrote "Bobby" on the other side and got the "BOBBY" chant's going, Bach also grabbed this one and held it to bobby so he could see and then put it on the front of his bass drum for a lil while. And on another little peice fo paper i wrote "MIKE \m/" as I was right in front of him and got a handshake half way through the gig.
Christ, so many thing's happened, What a night.... let's recap how many things i blagged...
-Several handshakes from the man on stage to the front row
-Him noticing all my signs i had for him
-Getting on stage with Bach and rocking out to Piece Of Me
-Mike giving me presonally his pick he used for the gig
-Autographs and pictures with every band member
-Setlist from Bach's monitor
-Bought a "~Forever Wild~" shirt
What a night.
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Ok first off the Setlist *READS THE SETLIST HE OBTAINED FROM THE GIG*
=================
Slave To The Grind
Big Guns
Frozen
American Metalhead <- New Song
Piece Of Me <- Very Special for me *see below*
18 & Life
Livin' On a Chain Gang
Rock N' Roll
The Threat
Wasted Time
Monkey Business / Riot Act
Take You Down With Me <- New Song
I Remember You
Youth Gone Wild
=================
Of my fucking god. What a Day!!!!!!!!!
Where to start, ok first off I arrived at around 4:30PM, parked my car up and made my way to the entrance and sat and soaked up the sun. Then they started soundchecking the durms, i found myself being serenaded by bobby with some fucking heavy metal bad ass drumming! I couldnt believe my luck, sat in the sun with Bach's Drummer kicking ass in my ears. A few mins later i hear a very distinct voice, BACH'S IN TOWN BABY!
He is chatting to the band etc. and then they Begin to soundcheck! The band soudns shit hot, I heard new song's in Soundcheck and they soudned awesome *cough* Also recorded the soundcheck to my camera! ;) *cough*
The soundchecked for about an hour or so Jamming and so forth, before the really got into things BAch shouted out to the people, "ok what should we do? Here I Am or Breakin' Down" I was like :o omfg! The soundcheck kicked all ass, below is what they played.
=================
Here I Am (Jam)
Piece Of Me
I Remember You (1 Min)
Slave To The Grind
American Metalhead
Piece of Me (Jam)
=================
Ok after the soundcheck im just chilling outside and who walks out, Bach himself! He was chattign to a friend, the sound engineer and I didnt interrupt him, we brits have manners and all that shit! lol And so yeah missed a chance to talk to him or even get an autograph! *sulk*
So gig time rolls around, By now i've buddied up with "slayerrulz" from this board and were stood centre stage waiting for Bach.
They stormed the stage with full force into slave to the grind. At the end of the song he notices I have a few signs ;) the first one was "WELCOME BACH!" and he grabbed it and paraded around the stage showing the crowd and gave me a thumb's up and a handshake and carried on into the set. The next sign to appear that he noticed was the "FUCK HENNING PAULY!....ASSHOLE!" in which he laughed his ass off at in the middle of a song and poiinted it out to all the band, i htink only me, bach, the band and slayerrulz got what it meant, HARDCORE FANS BABY! lol anyway, moving on into the set, Here I am play's and i hold up sign number 3 saying "WHERE'S THE PARTY AFTER?" and he says "RIGHT HERE BABY!" and grabs his crotch, i was nearly in tear's!!!!
And then, Piece Of Me plays... half way through, he is invting people on stage, a few jump on and jump off straight away, and then he will's me up!!!!!!!!! I jump up with a bit of help from people pushing my ass and my tired legs thus far, and im on the stage headbanging away going ass crazy next to my fucking idol!
I AM ON STAGE WITH SEBASTIAN BACH!!!!!!!
I then look up after my metal session and say thankyou to Seb and the crowd went fucking nut's! I cant believe it!!!!!
The gig went on after that obviously and they stormed through more songs, Wasted Time was emotional, such a good song, so much emotion into it! I loved it.
After I remember you, Mike knelt down and held his hand out to me, i held mine out and....
HE GAVE ME THE PIC HE USED ALL NIGHT FOR THE GIG!!!!!
HOW COULD THINGS GET ANY BETTER!!!!!!!?!?!
By now my jaw has dropped, is this all real!?!
Before youth gone wild, the Skid Row slagfest starts, Skid Row made such a huge mistake!
Bach said, "YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE BAND BUT YOU CANT TAKE THE BAND OUT OF THE MAN!" which is so true! YGW play's and the place erupts.
The gig ends and were all hanging about hoping to meet the man and band! Bobby comes out on stage and I grab him for a moment and get his autograph plus a handshake. Johnny Chromatic comes out next and i get an autograph, a handshake and a picture with him! Steve and Mike then both come out and i get pics and autographs from them both and Mike put's his intials on the pic he gave me!
Then, the man himseld comes out adn makes a b-line for the door, he signs a few things but is obviosuly in a rush, but takes him abtou 20 misn to get out etc. I wait patiently outside and as everyoen was ahrrasing him I softley said, dude, can i ahve an autograph and he looks at me and says's "Sure buddy" and then signs my ticket and carries on, people harras him a lil' more and i softley say again, dude, may i have a picture?........."Sure dude!" and there it was, the last thing of my night, a picture with the boss.
The sign's I made were the following
"Welcome Bach"
"FUCK Henning Pauly!...Asshole"
"Where's the party after?"
"Can I have the following? A Picture, an autograph, setlist, a vocal warm up tape" - I got the first 3 except the warm up tape.
Also on a little envelope I had I wrote "Bring Em' Bach Alive" - Baz took it and stuck it on his chest with his sweat and walked around with it on him, I also wrote "Bobby" on the other side and got the "BOBBY" chant's going, Bach also grabbed this one and held it to bobby so he could see and then put it on the front of his bass drum for a lil while. And on another little peice fo paper i wrote "MIKE \m/" as I was right in front of him and got a handshake half way through the gig.
Christ, so many thing's happened, What a night.... let's recap how many things i blagged...
-Several handshakes from the man on stage to the front row
-Him noticing all my signs i had for him
-Getting on stage with Bach and rocking out to Piece Of Me
-Mike giving me presonally his pick he used for the gig
-Autographs and pictures with every band member
-Setlist from Bach's monitor
-Bought a "~Forever Wild~" shirt
What a night.