Metal School - Skid Row 

Correct. They don't even sound the same now. The same thing happened when Sepultura lost Max. They now sound like some nu-metal band.

I love Bach, but the dude cannot sing those songs or do them any justice, anymore. They would simply be playing for a pay check instead of keeping their integrity and doing it for the love of music. They don't get along. Why would you want to play with someone you cannot get along with, just for money? Their current singer does the songs justice, hits all the notes Bach couldn't since the 90's, and the band doesn't hate him. He brings a new energy to the band and the new album sounds like it came after Slave to the Grind. The band was formed before him and all the songs are written by those members. They have found their footing with Erik after 25 years. They sound renewed. Bach has his own band and sings Skid Row songs and it still doesn't sound like Skid Row. Had the band pulled Bach back in, they would have toured for a while and eventually kicked him out again, while falling once again to irrelevance. With their new singer, they have a good energy, and are attracting Erik's built in audience made up of a younger crowd. They sound great at shows and are gaining traction once again.

Skid Row is Rachel Bolan. His songs.

They've turned down megabucks deals to reunite on more than one occasion. The band just don't want to work with him again. Says everything really.

@shanewalsh4337 well, no matter how handsome he was or how well he sang, the way he behaved was too much to take it over... Bolan has a nasty character as well, though. He's just meant to be the leader, and that is partially he was better off after firing Bach.

Candle box first album is right up there

Hahaha! Dude, I was like geez just casually drop the N word on national TV white bread!

@@j.alambertmetalator7417 well it's the name of the record.

The VJ's back then were terrible!

@@henrys.6864 at least we played music back then

One of the best metal albums, period. That thing was swinging fists from the first song until the end. A lot of metal heads dissed Sebastian because he was pretty, that didnt matter at all, SLAVE was proof

For me i thought Slave to the grind destroyed the first album. And I thought the first album was great.

@@nightmarerealms5372 I like the first one better

Agreed!

Yeah I had the debut on vinyl when I was 11. By the time this came out I was listening to And Justice For All at least once a day, and I was very surprised, in the best way possible, upon buying and listening to it. I'd learned that once a band got big they usually softened up. Not these guys.

That is hard to argue. Definitely one of my favorites from the time.

as an oldskool thrash metal guy,i do have a handful of Skid Row songs & have seen Bach live when he supported Axl Rose in 2006,definitely has a voice that can marry into most metal genres

IMO, Sebastian Bach’s performance on Skid Row’s first album is the greatest rock vocal performance ever recorded.

Agreed.

I like Stephen Pearcy from ratt and Tom Keifer from Cinderella better

Indeed.... and they way he says it.. classic! "Waiting for those aliens again" (or something similar)

Agreed!

7:15 "You think for a second he's going to be smart about it and move on to the next song..... but he doesent....dont do it....Sebastian NO!!.......Ahh Sebastian!" LMAO Im in tears.

That’s pretty cool! Rachel seems like a nice guy.

@@MetalSchoolChannel he really is. He moved to Atlanta because there was this great bar and rock venue north of the city, especially for older 80s bands. There was an Ozzy tribute band that would play all the time. Rachel had an Atlanta plan. But the community complained about the noise so much they were forced to close. Rachel moved away, and that was that, unfortunately.

Oh yeah. Tim Skold

First three albums are awesome. Very different but kickass

@Cuber Newb That was first album, even came with the cassette lol.

@Cuber Newb Me too. Wish I had kept those, but a lot if them were wearing out from use anyway.

I do remember them. The singer had killer hair.

Wow, that sounds like a hell of a show!

@@MetalSchoolChannel It was! Rachel Bolan's bass strap broke and he finished out a song with the body of the bass pressed against his stomach!

Just like guns n roses.:)

Skid Row is not hair metal to me. They don’t wear makeup, or dress too flashy.

What about W.A.S.P. and Dokken?

All these bands were hair metal, its just that after appetite for destruction the make up and glam just went away.

SUBHUMAN....SOOOOO GOOD!!!!

@Butt Head No you are.

Thanks! ❤️🤘🏻

That’s pretty cool! Had no idea

Didnt know that. Awesome.

He the man

The last one with Bach Subhuman Race also rocked .. 🔊🔊🤘🏻🤘🏻

Yup, a loose cannon you might say…

That footage when he falls through the hole in the stage. Lol

Even had music videos for delivering the goods, psycho therapy, and little wing

Also forgot those crappy Damnation Army eps

Thanks! And yeah, big Bas fan, he just did some dumb stuff. But who hasn’t?

I remember that as well it was awesome

Yes sir good times back then brother

Gotta love the Baz!

I'd also add the amazing Geoff Tate, from Queensryche !

..........And "SUBHUMAN RACE" was not good ?........☝🧐

@@momotaro6113 Bad production ruined it

That's the most Canadian album title I've ever heard. Nice

I’d love that too. You never know! It seems like everyone has mellowed out by now so maybe someday

Scotti never left. Bach was fired and Rob left after they formed Ozone Monday when as he said he didn't like their singer Sean McCabe or the direction the band was going in, that was '98.

That’s a really good question. Wow. Well, I honestly can’t remember for sure, but this one (and Ratt) was severely butchered by RU-vid and I had to cut down or remove a lot of the music videos. But I also see some other YT channels have posted the In a Darkened Room video with no problem. This was actually only my second video and my first really after deciding to do them “regularly” so by now I’d have figured a way around the video or something and mention it for sure, as I totally agree with you. But yeah, I know I watched the music video for it when I made this one and I try to mention every track with a video, so either RU-vid wouldn’t let me show it or it was a brain fart on my end. Either way, good point!

@@MetalSchoolChannel Ah yeah that's fair enough man. Still an awesome video though.

They did the one for Ratt, I saw it last night.

They have been talked about too much, let the lesser known bands have some light and stop feeding more into bands that have already been talked about millions of times.

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No, Ricky killed his buddy. That's why he's doing 18 an life.

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