Gary Graff of Billboard reports:
…Last week…former Skid Row singer, Sebastian Bach, was announced as the fill-in frontman for Twisted Sister‘s upcoming 50th anniversary tour after [frontman] Dee Snider withdrew due to health concerns. Bach has now included Twisted Sister’s 1984 anthem I Wanna Rock in his shows and tells Billboard he’s stoked about being part of the celebration — though dates have yet to be announced.
“I am a fan,” Bach explains via Zoom from a day off in St. Cloud, Minn. “They had the tour booked and (Snider’s) doctors told him he couldn’t do it. They had a choice to either try to get another singer or cancel the whole tour. I just look at it in the same way as when Brian Johnson couldn’t do the AC/DC shows (in 2016) and Axl Rose stepped in, or when Queen wanted to tour and Paul Rodgers came in.
And, I am a fan. I love the (1983) album You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll. I Love (1982’s) Under the Blade. I love I Wanna Rock, We’re Not Gonna Take It.’I like their version of the Rolling Stones’ It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll; it’s like punk/thrash/metal. My album I put out (in 2024) was called Child Within the Man; a band like Twisted Sister 100 percent makes me feel like a child within the man. That music is very youthful and fun.”
Bach says he had a 45-minute conversation with Snider the morning that the announcement was made (March 4th). “He gave me his blessing,” Bach recounts. “He just explained that he was very, very happy being a grandpa, and the doctors told him he can’t do it…I’m S.M.F. No. 2 — that’s what Dee named me a couple of years ago. He’s S.M.F. No. 1. If you can’t have S.M.F. No. 1, you’ve got S.M.F. No. 2” (S.M.F. is a track from Twisted Sister’s 1984 breakthrough album Stay Hungry and an abbreviation for Sick Mother F***er — also the band’s designation for its fans…)
…That wasn’t the only news surrounding Bach last week.
On the same day, reports surfaced about a revelation in Christina Applegate’s new memoir, You With the Sad Eyes, that she had relationship with Bach when she was 17 — which began when she ditched a pre-fame Brad Pitt for the singer at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. Pitt, she writes, was “not surprisingly…very mad at me,” though the two settled their differences some years later. “Eventually, we agreed that I’d been a child, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row.”
Bach, who had a girlfriend and children at the time, says he “was very surprised when that all hit. I was a single guy on tour, in a band, and I met a lot of girls and I apologize if I hurt her…if I hurt anybody. When you’re young you get thrown into the whirlwind of rock ‘n’ roll, meeting a lot of people and you better hold on tight. It’s like being on a roller coaster…It was a long time ago. If I hurt anybody, I apologize for it.”
Read more at Billboard.
Additionally, NY Post’s Page Six added, Applegate, 54, confesses that she took Pitt to the awards show that year, but found herself pining for the Youth Gone Wild singer, 57.
“I had spent all night staring at Bach, who was then a long-haired hunk fronting the band Skid Row,” the Married With Children star writes in the book, which dropped earlier this month.
“I hate to put it like this, but Brad back then was still making his way as an actor, and he wasn’t yet THE Brad Pitt, the man of so many people’s dreams.”
Still 17 at the time, Applegate recalls that she “felt so powerful and sure of [herself] for once” that she impulsively “left the show with Sebastian Bach” when it was over.
“And it gets worse: Brad was left to sullenly drive my mom … home,” she writes. “Apparently, at a gas station on the way, Brad almost got into a fight with a bunch of gang members, and, not surprisingly, was subsequently very mad at me.”
She and the F1 actor, now 62, “didn’t talk” following the incident for “many years,” and she regretted the decision once she discovered the rocker was in a relationship and had a 1-year-old child…
In the memoir, she also refers herself to as “the child who dumped [Pitt] for the lead singer of Skid Row” and quips that the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star “is now THE Brad Pitt, and Sebastian Bach … well, he still has long hair, I guess.”
The Anchorman actress also recalls in the memoir two of Pitt’s “movie star girlfriends” later asking “if it was true that I was the girl who left Brad behind at the MTV Video Music Awards. Brad had apparently told both of them separately that he was still mad at me.”
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As the resident female here, whom had a HUGE crush on Brad Pitt for DECADES, back in ’89, I would have preferred Bach as well, he was GORGEOUS.
However, in my humble opinion, no one touched John Sykes, especially ’84 era Sykes, perfection-LOL!