Behind them was the full Bon Jovi road crew.” According to Bach, an incensed Bon Jovi said, “I heard what you said on my stage, motherf-er,” and then he threw a punch, which Bach ducked.īon Jovi’s crew grabbed Bach, marched him to his dressing room and threw him against a concrete wall. Flanking him, side to side, was his dad and his brother Tony. “Leading the pack was Jon Bon Jovi himself. “We saw about 60 people coming toward us,” Bach writes. “What was wild,” Bach writes, “was that the crowd was on my side.”Īs he left the stage, his tour manager said, “Hey Sebastian - I think we got a problem here.” Skid Row with Sebastian Bach (second from left) and Jon Bon Jovi (far right) Mark Weiss He also took verbal shots at his mentor in between songs, making fun of his name. He had his roadies get two cartons of eggs, and he hurled them at Bon Jovi’s smirking security crew. The singer was headed to the stage at Rupp Arena in Kentucky when he was grabbed from behind by three members of Bon Jovi’s road crew, who secured his hands and “poured a vat of freezing cold ice milk over my head,” just as Skid Row’s intro music started to play.īach - wet, shaking and furious - ran on stage. While pranking among touring rock bands was not uncommon, Bon Jovi’s road crew tormented Bach in a more hostile and sinister way. Bach was “summoned into Jon’s room,” where, Bach writes, “he stared me down and said the words, ‘I’ll f-ing own you.’ ” But when Skid Row opened for Bon Jovi’s 1989 tour, their success with hits like “18 and Life” and “I Remember You” caused relations to sour.Īfter Skid Row’s T-shirts began outselling Bon Jovi’s, the headliners suddenly took issue with Bach’s swearing on stage. When Skid Row signed with Atlantic Records, Bon Jovi and his wife invited Bach’s wife and son to stay in their home, and Bon Jovi gave Bach some of his old stage clothes - “He literally gave me the shirt off his back,” Bach writes. Sabo snapped up Bach, who became the frontman of Skid Row, a band he would eventually lead to fame.īut according to Bach, that night also began a peculiar relationship between him and Bon Jovi, at first a friend and mentor who turned bitter rival. And Bach was about to taste stardom, too.Īccording to Bach’s new memoir, “18 and Life on Skid Row,” Bon Jovi’s parents liked Bach and thought he’d be perfect for a band they knew their son’s friend Dave “The Snake” Sabo was trying to form. In 1986, 18-year-old Sebastian Bach sang rock classics at the wedding of rock photographer Mark Weiss.Īmong the attendees were the parents of Jon Bon Jovi, whose “Slippery When Wet” album had just made him a star.

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