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Sebastian Bach
Rock and Roll
Album: Bring 'Em Bach Alive
Genres: Metal
Former Skid Row frontman is "Bach" with a dull, plodding and pedestrian paean to the "Rock and Roll" he used to play. |
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Quite frankly, Skid Row was one of the more pedestrian outfits that came from the deluge of hard rock/pop metal bands spawned by Bon Jovi, Van Halen and Guns 'n' Roses in the '80s, and on his own, frontman Sebastian Bach is no better off. Culled from Bach's solo debut, Bring 'Em Bach Alive, "Rock and Roll" is, in a word, dull. Co-written by former Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann, "Rock and roll" lets us all know that Bach will never turn his back on rock 'n' roll, a decidedly unoriginal notion that's been expressed a million times better by a thousand other – and better -- acts. The band itself is solid, though nothing to write home about, and Bach's already cheesy "rock guy" vocals are made even more grating by a myriad of vocal effects. While none of those '80s pop metal tunes were particularly earth shattering, the best of them all shared a sense of devil-may-care fun that "Rock and Roll" is missing. Every cock-rock posture and bad-boy pose Bach does comes off excruciatingly forced to the point of near self-parody. Maybe "Rock and Roll" will appeal to the hard-core Skid Row faithful (it's nowhere near as embarrassing as Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem), but for the rest of us, Sebastian Bach's music is best left to teenage memories and CD cutout bins.
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Matt Thompson |
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A native of Tupelo, MS, Matt Thompson got into music journalism in college and spent five years in Gainesville, FL, writing for Ink 19 and Gainesville's MOON Magazine. Before moving to Athens, GA, he wrote the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun's weekly music column "Soundcheck." Thompson currently freelances for a number of publications, including Athens's Flagpole, Atlanta's Creative Loafing, Raleigh's Spectator and Ink 19.
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This is no "I'll Remember You" but if you're a fan of Skid Row, I'm sure that you'll find something to like about this song.
Ruth
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All Music Guide: Sebastian Bach
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