d to Sebastian Bach over allegations that the FOZZY frontman uses pre-recorded vocal tracks during live performances.
The former SKID ROW vocalist initially accused Jericho of “miming to a tape” at FOZZY concerts in a social media post last July. In response, the wrestler-turned-rocker insisted that he had “never mimed anything ever” and challenged Bach to a “singoff” with “no effects, no tuning, no bullshit”, saying “Bas is a great singer…but I’m better”.
In the months that ensued, Bach brought up Jericho‘s alleged lip syncing on several occa
sions, most recently earlier this month in an interview with The Aquarian Weekly. Asked specifically about his feud with Chris, Sebastian said: “I have an open mind about everyone. If I read on Blabbermouth.com [sic] that some band says, ‘We’re the future of rock ‘n’ roll and we are the next thing after THE ROLLING STONES,’ I think, this must be incredible! What have I been missing out on? So, I checked out one video
during which the singer was 100% miming to a tape on stage at The
Rockpile in Toronto. I thought to myself, ‘That’s weird, that’s not the
next ROLLING STONES.’ So, I watch another video where he was opening up for NICKELBACK
in an arena and, again, he’s miming to a tape. You can go watch it for
yourself. Then someone said, ‘Here’s a clip of him singing live. Legit,
bro.’ And it’s him miming to a tape again. It’s crazy obvious. It is not
my opinion, it’s fact. It is not me starting a fight. But don’t tell me
what singing live is, ’cause I have never used tape. I don’t even know
how to do that.”
cho accused him of having a less-than-original stage name after Sebastian slammed Jericho for copying the name of a SKID ROW tour for FOZZY.
“I switched a couple of letters of my legal last name [Bierk]. Who’s Mongoose McQueen?” Bach asked, referring to Jericho‘s original FOZZY stage name. “What kind of a stage name is that?
“How about this: professional wrestling sucks,” he added. “Everyone
wishes they were a rock star. It hilarious. Evidently, all you have to
do is [re
cord] a tape, go on stage, and jump around. You can jump off
the drum riser and do jumping jacks. It doesn’t matter if you are miming
to tape.”
Earlier today (Monday, January 25), Chris took to his Twitter
to write: “I’ve been told that @sebastianbach continues to go out of
his way to bury me. My response is this…be my guest! You are entitled
to ur opinion & it doesn’t affect me either way. I still dig ur work
on the first 3 @OfficialSkidRow albums & look forward to ur new
record.”
When Bach first went public with his Jericho accusation, FOZZY guitarist Rich Ward called Sebastian “universally disliked” and said that seeing Bach “publicly go after the only guy that I have ever witness utter a nice word about him is sad.”
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