When: Wednesday,
May 18, 2016, 8:00 PM
Where: B.B. King
Blues Club & Grill
237 West
42nd Street, New York, NY, United States
Biography
Sebastian
Bach is a singer, songwriter and actor hailing from Ontario, Canada who was
born on April 3rd, 1968. Best known as the lead singer of Skid Row, he has also
released three solo albums and appeared as an actor in everything from Robot
Chicken to Jesus Christ Superstar.
Born
Sebastian Bierk and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, Sebastian Bach's music
career began at the tender age of 14 when he joined a local hard rock band by
the name of Kid Wikkid in 1983. However, that band would only last until 1985,
and after they split Bierk began singing wherever he could, and in 1987, that
took him to rock photographer Mark Weiss's wedding. Also attending the wedding
were members of the New Jersey glam metal band Skid Row, whose singer had
recently left the band. They were all impressed with the 18 year old up on
stage, and shortly after the wedding, they asked Bach to join the band, which
he gladly accepted. Skid Row went on to become the last truly enormous glam
metal band before grunge arrived and shut it all down, with their self-titled
debut album going five times Platinum within months of its release.
Of course,
Skid Row wouldn't have been a true glam metal band without inner tension and
pettiness, and it all came to a head in 1996, when Bach booked a show for the
band opening for KISS. The other band members resented this, claiming that the
band were too big to open for anyone, and the resulting arguments lead to Bach
leaving the band in the same year. Ever since then, Bach has succeeded in
everything he's tried his hand at, from his solo career which began in 1999, a
Broadway career which began a year later in the title role of Jekyll And Hyde
and a screen acting career that's seen him show up in everything from The
Trailer Park Boys to Spongebob Squarepants. He's one of heavy metal's great
survivors, and thirty years after his first foray into rock music, he still
comes highly recommended.
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