SEBASTIAN BACH Says STRYPER's MICHAEL SWEET Wasn't Asked To Produce Album
Published: January 31, 2015
Former
SKID ROW singer
Sebastian Bach has denied ever being in talks with
STRYPER frontman
Michael Sweet about
Sweet producing a
Bach solo album.
During
Sweet's appearance on the January 19 edition of
Eddie Trunk's
SiriusXM satellite radio show,
"Eddie Trunk Live",
Michael was asked if there was any truth to reports that he was supposed to be collaborating with
Bach on some new music.
Michael responded: "I don't wanna throw him under the bus or make him feel awkward or weird. I was approached to do a
Sebastian album… to produce it and to co-write with him and basically try to kind of go back to those powerful songs from the past. Not make a dated record, but just that style, the anthemy
SKID ROW stuff that everybody loves. And that was the plan."
He continued: "Management got involved, and
Sebastian and I e-mailed each other back and forth. It was going down the track a little ways and all of a sudden it came to a screeching halt. He decided he wanted to do an acoustic album, or wanted to do this, or wanted to do that. And I was just, like, 'Guys, let me know what's going on, if it's going on.' And I never really heard any more about it, so I guess it's not happening. But it would have been cool."
Sweet added: "I'll tell you right now, I think I could have helped
Sebastian make a killer album. But hey… We'll never know."
Michael also offered a theory as to why so few of
Bach's 800,000
Facebook followers purchased the former
SKID ROW singer's latest solo album,
"Give 'Em Hell", when it was first released.
Sweet told
Trunk: "This isn't a bash against
Sebastian at all; it's just my opinion. I think people wanna hear
Sebastian of old. They wanna hear the
SKID ROW Sebastian. They wanna hear the hits. And he's giving them modern rock. It's [
'Give 'Em Hell'] a good album, it's a good-sounding album, but it's not the glory days."
After a
fan wrote on Twitter that "the points
M. Sweet made about fans wanting 'old school'
Bach sounds - are ACCURATE. Not rude or mean. Just true,"
Bach responded: "ACCURATE? FACT: No member of
STRYPER was EVER asked to produce ANY album by
Sebastian Bach! EVER. Who do U think asks that?? Omg!"
Sweet has since taken to his own
Twitter to clarify his proposed role in the making of
Bach's solo album.
Michael wrote: "I was asked by the LABEL to produce
Sebastian Bach. I never said by
Sebastian."