This is sorta sad. Sebastian Bach has hundreds of thousands of fans on the blue social media site yet his latest solo release Give ‘Em Hell’ only sold 4,000 copies in the States during the first week of release. How can that be? I mean, aren’t all those ‘fans’ grabbing his new music the moment it’s released? Apparently not. I gotta be honest with you I don’t buy music either- Spotify is where it’s at!
Bach is coming across as a whiny old man in this odd radio interview with 14 year old “The Shoe”. Why Sebastian would hop in with such a odd disposition to a kid is beyond me and hell his album did hit Billboard at number 72 (but who cares about that anymore?)
“I have over 800,000 people that like my Facebook page, that read every word I write on my Facebook page — over 800,000 — and yesterday, it said…75,000 or 80,000 people are talking about it,” Bach tells the radio host. “I would like to thank the 5,000 out of the 800,000 that got my record, and I would like to ask the other 795,000 people, ‘Why are you on my page? Are you there to look at the pictures? Is that why you’re there? ‘Cause that’s simple. If that’s what you want, I’ll put some pictures up, or whatever.’ But I have no clue, when it says 800,000 people and 70,000 people today are talking about this, what are you talking about? What? Like, what are you talking about? [Laughs] I don’t get it. Like, what? What? What? ‘Oh, he’s got a new record out. I’ve loved him for years. I’m not gonna buy that.’ [Laughs] I don’t get it. I don’t understand. I don’t get it. I don’t know why you’re on my page. Like, for what? Why? What? [Laughs] I totally don’t get it.”
During the interview, Bach also takes the time to address the general consensus that rock music is a dying breed. He singles out the pop, rap and country music genres as continuing to post impressive overall album sales and wonders why rock fans aren’t engaged in the same way.
“Country music fans go out and buy the CD. Rappers go out and buy the CD. Justin Bieber fans go out and get the CD. I’ve got 800,000 people on my page, and 795,000 of them don’t get it. [Laughs] Thanks! Killer! Thank you! I appreciate that. Thank you, rock and rollers,” Bach says.
“It’s up to the music fans. It’s, like, you read rockers [complaining about how], ‘Oh, rock is dying,’ and everything. Yeah, you’re killing it. Unless you’re down at Best Buy buying your favorite band’s new album, don’t talk about rock being dead, because you’re the one murdering it. Country music is alive and well, rap music is kicking ass. So I don’t know what to say.”
Poor thing such sour grapes. He goes on to whimper about how Skid Row members refuse to reunite despite being able to earn alot of coin. That part is too pathetic to rehash. Now hurry go buy his album.