SEBASTIAN BACH Questions Whether NIKKI SIXX Really Kept A Diary At Height Of His Heroin Addiction

On December 6, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach was at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, New York to read from and discuss his long-awaited autobiography, “18 And Life On Skid Row”. Sebastian was joined in conversation by music writer and The Creative Independent editor in chief Brandon Stosuy. You can now watch the question-and-answer session below.

Asked if he has gotten feedback already from any of the people that he wrote about in his book, Bach said: “I don’t see how it’s possible to get mad at something that happened thirty years ago, like I called them a name or… Like, who cares? You’ve only got so many thirty yearses. So I can’t be mad… There’s a lot of books with me in them that nobody called me about. I don’t ever recall anyone [calling me to ask], ‘Is this okay if I write this about you in my book?’ No, I never got that call. Nah. And there’s a lot of fucked up books out there with me in them.”

He continued: “I’m not even saying that I remember everything perfectly. It’s like [MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist] Nikki Sixx [and his book] ‘The Heroin Diaries’. Were you really keeping a diary when you were doing heroin? C’mon?! Really? [Motions with his right hand as if he is injecting himself with heroin] ‘Oh, this feels amazing.’ We all know it’s a metaphor, it’s an artistic license that you’re using.”

Bach added: “I think at the end, it’s kind of a lighthearted book, I think it’s humorous. I don’t think there’s anything too crazy. For all the times I talk about cocaine, I come out and I tell everybody that it’s a horrible thing to do. I haven’t touched that stuff in fifteen, twenty years. It makes you feel horrible, it makes your heart blow up. Other than that, it’s great.”

Sebastian is not the first musician to question the authenticity of “The Heroin Diaries”. In a March 2010 interview with Brazil’s Dynamite magazine, Sixx‘s former MÖTLEY CRUE bandmate, singer John Corabi, said: “I love Nikki to death, and this is just my opinion… Everybody that I know that’s done heroin, they do heroin and they’re out. And I find it very hard to believe that somebody can do heroin and then have the foresight to write everything down. Everybody that read the book said it was great, though; it was a great book. It’s great reading, it’s a great book… More power to him, you know.”

Back in 2013, Bach and Sixx got involved in a war of words on social media after Bach stated via his Twitter account that he was asked to replace Vince Neil in MÖTLEY CRUE. Sixx quickly shot down Bach‘s claim as “absolutely not true.”

“18 And Life On Skid Row” came out on December 6 via Dey Street Books (formerly It Books), an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. In the book, Bach is brutally frank in his description of life on the road and exploits with METALLICA, Ozzy Osbourne and GUNS N’ ROSES, among others.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net