If there is one moment that sums up Sebastian Bach, it comes during the recent Ronnie James Dio movie Dreamers Never Die. Invited to assess the one-time Black Sabbath and Dio vocalist Dio’s late-period creative flourish with Heaven And Hell, Bach feverishly proclaims that band’s Bible Black to be the greatest song Dio ever sang. When it plays, he loses his shit, instantly 18 again and lost in a haze of heavy-metal euphoria and voluntary neck damage.
An irrepressible big kid, with an even bigger voice, Sebastian Bach should probably have achieved more in the 28 years since he departed Skid Row with animosity fizzing in the air and decades of fruitless bickering ahead of him. A handful of good-to-great solo albums followed, but, just as his former band flailed around helplessly before the arrival of singer Erik Grönwall (and may flail again, now he's gone) Bach has been only an intermittent presence in the studio.
