Sioux City Journal — When it comes time for audiences to rock out with Sebastian Bach at Awesome Biker Nights, it might not be a bad idea to keep those cellphones at the bottom of your pockets and just watch the performance.

“Be in the moment,” urged Bach during a phone interview. “You’re distracted and it’s distracting to the performer as well. Like, put your f***in’ cellphone away, dammit! You’re never even going to watch that footage.”

That’s just the age we live in, Bach said. Everything and everyone could be recorded and shared on the Internet almost immediately.

“If I go to a wedding and sing a song, it’s on Blabbermouth (a heavy metal and hard rock news source) the next day and everybody analyzes it,” said Bach.

“It’s a really backwards way to watch a band.  It’s a drag sometimes when I go up there and the first thing I see is everybody getting their phones out and holding them toward my face. It makes you feel intimidated.”

Bach said he tries to convince fans to make the videos they take during a show look and sound perfect before releasing them on the Internet.
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Speaking of Blabbermouth, the site noted in their coverage of this article the following: Bach said that he finds it impossible to stand still while singing in concert because adrenaline takes over, leaving him open to criticism by making it difficult for him to deliver pitch-perfect performances.
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“I try to tell myself that but I can’t do it,” said Bach with a laugh. “The music gets in me and I want to move and jump. I don’t want to stand there frozen like a tree and be filmed.”

He remembered a time when he was at a Van Halen concert, having the time of his life. “Dave went out and yelled, ‘I forgot the f***in’ words!’ And we’re like, ‘Yeah! You forgot the f***in’ words!’ We thought it was the greatest thing ever. We thought it was cool.”

Such a thing wouldn’t fly today without the embarrassing viral social media aftermath. Bach said some people will say the performance doesn’t sound like the record or the musician wasn’t trying hard enough.

“Give me a break,” Bach said. “It’s supposed to be fun.”

The only other times Bach got a reprieve from the smartphone spotlight was when he was the frontman of Skid Row in the late ’80s and mid ’90s, and when he was performing on Broadway.

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