DECADES OF HATE Madame-X bassist Chris “Godzilla” Doliber; ‘I pushed Sebastian Bach to the point of him hating me for 30 years’

DECADES OF HATE
Madame-X bassist Chris “Godzilla” Doliber; ‘I pushed Sebastian Bach to the point of him hating me for 30 years’

Totally Driven Radio — Totally Driven Radio, the weekly radio podcast heard live every Thursday night from 8 – 11 pm Est time on the Totally Driven Entertainment Radio Network, hosted by Bay Ragni and Nick Wilkinson covers the world of sports and entertainment each week, as well as bringing you celebrity guests interviews.

Us here at Totally Driven Radio have recently been talking with the band Madam-X about being guest on Totally Driven Radio, but when all 4 members were presented to us, I asked if I could do individual interviews to get 4 sides of the story of Madam-X and more. So this is Part 1 of 4 with our guest from Madam-X, the one they call GODZILLA, Bass player Chris Doliber.

Chris talked with Bay Ragni, for over 90 minutes for a very open and emotional interview to discuss a ton of topics like….

**Bay’s first impression of seeing Madam-X

**playing the Detroit club scene with Chad Smith from the Chili Peppers, Dick Wagner, Bob Seger & more

**How he was always a fetish guy, and the girls hired him into the band, and he brought his fetish with him

**How they toured around the country in the early days and followed the good weather

**That they decided it was time to go to Los Angeles and get their record deal

**How Gilby Clark was their sound man, the night they played Madam Wong’s in LA for their first show.

**They were brought in full stage clothes after Madam Wong show to the Rainbow, and met people from Jet Records there

**Don Arden coming to their 2nd LA Show at the Troubadour and signing them

**How Don Arden’s rep is sugar coated compared to the stories Don told the band, and Chris was actually scared of him

**That the band had Zero creative control over anything once they were signed to Don Arden

**That Don fell short on a lot of promises

**he tells the story of Don beating up his account for embezzling money from him

**Jet Records collapse, followed by Roxy leaving for Vixen & Bret leaving to rejoin his old band

**He discussed the Sebastian Bach era in depth, and opened up about things he doesn’t usually talk about

**Sebastian use to beg Chris & Maxine to punch him, beat him, or spit on him, if he would screw up on stage

**How he finally went to see Sebastian a few weeks ago, for the first time in almost 30 years

**How Jon Bon Jovi came to Chris during Mark Weiss wedding, and said Sebastian would be perfect for this band Skid Row we are putting together, and Chris said to Jon, ….”He’s all Yours”

**Chris talks about his feelings on Skid Row & Sebastian’s rise to fame

**How he called Doc McGee about Sebastian badmouthing him, and threatened to sue for slander

**That Sebastian literally hated Chris for 30 years, because of what he did to him

**How it really has affected and bothered Chris so much all these years

**Chris talked about how he has had nightmares of this, and really has bothered so much

**what Chris did after Madam-X called it a day

**That he had offers from bands to play Bass, and he turned it down

**That if he wasn’t playing in Madam-X he didn’t want to play

**He discussed the making of the new Madam-X Record

**He explained how the original band has gotten back together

**playing Sweden Rock Festival last year

**How he got the name Godzilla

**He talked about his wife and his little boy

**He talked about growing up with Madonna

You can listen below

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