Skid Row Guitarist Gets Candid on a Reunion With Sebastian Bach, Compares Relationship to “Food Poisoning”

While going through a few lineup changes over the years, Skid Row proved their talents on stage as they released songs like “Monkey Business”, “Slave to the Grind”, and “Wasted Time.” Looking at their time in the studio, the heavy metal band released six studio albums. Their last, The Gang’s All Here, hit shelves back in 2022. While the band continues to play and entertain fans, many discussed if the band would ever reunite with former singer Sebastian Bach. Spending numerous years with the group, guitarist Scotti Hill wasted no time setting the record straight as he considered time spent with Bach like suffering from food poisoning.

Appearing on the Appetite for Distortion podcast, the subject of Bach eventually took over the conversation. Again, fans continue to ask about Back and what the future might hold. Wanting to clear the air, the musician insisted, “We did great things in the past, but this is about way more than a band or music. Do it for the fans.’ No, no. I’m not going to put my good life and well-being and peace, I’m not gonna sacrifice that for the fans. That’s not what I do. And anybody that calls himself a fan wouldn’t ask the band to put themselves through something they don’t want to do. But people just want what they want. They just want what they want.”

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Scotti Hill Claims Sebastian Bach Is Like “Food Poisoning”

Although Bach left the group back in 1996, some fans loved what he brought to Skid Row. But that didn’t seem to matter to Hill, who continued, “I don’t want to have food poisoning every day of the week. That’s all. It’s toxic.” 

As for fans who continue to push the issue, Hill simply said, “If you don’t like Skid Row without that singer, you don’t have to listen. And on the flip side of that, if you love that singer, if you love both of us, then go see him, go see him.”

With some wanting the band to put their difference aside, Hill concluded, “I don’t want to do it. There are no differences. I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be in the room with somebody that I don’t like.”

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