In 1996, Bach formed a rock band called the
Last Hard Men, with
Frogs guitarist
Jimmy Flemion, The Breeders lead guitarist
Kelley Deal, and
Smashing Pumpkins drummer
Jimmy Chamberlin. The group recorded a full-length, self-titled album for
Atlantic Records, who then optioned not to release it. In 1998, it was released on Kelley Deal's label,
Nice Records, with no fanfare and a very limited pressing of 1000 CDs, which may have been sold via
mail order only.
In 2000, Bach began performing in
Broadway productions. His roles included
Riff Raff in
The Rocky Horror Show, the title role in
Jekyll & Hyde.
On November 28, 2001 Sebastian appeared at
New York Steel, a benefit concert in response to 9/11. He appeared early in the show, left to perform on Broadway, and returned at the end when all performers gathered for a final song.
In early 2002, he became the host of
VH1's Forever Wild.
In October 2002, Sebastian was signed to perform in the national touring production of
Jesus Christ Superstar and played the role of
Jesus successfully in the show until April 2003, when he was fired for alleged
diva-like behavior. He has said if he ever did the show again, he would like to try the role of
Judas Iscariot next time. He is currently working on a
DVD version of
VH1's Forever Wild that will be released in
June.
Sometime in 2003, Sebastian tried out for
Velvet Revolver before the band found
Scott Weiland, but was turned down because, according to Slash, "We sounded like Skid Row!"
He had a role on the
CW television show
Gilmore Girls as
Gil, the lead guitarist in
Lane Kim's band Hep Alien. The other members of the band, all
teenagers, initially objected to his age, but his undeniable talent and tough-luck history with rock and roll won Lane over.
In 2005, Bach cooperated with
Henning Pauly to be the singer on the
Frameshift album called
An Absence of Empathy which has been released in April 2005.
He still performs with his band,
Sebastian Bach (formerly noted as
Bach Tight Five and
Sebastian Bach and Friends). Members of
Bach Tight Five lived with him and his family as recently documented on
VH1's "
I Married...Sebastian Bach", one of the "I Married..." series. Stars also included
Dee Snider, of the rock band,
Twisted Sister.
On May 12 and May 14, 2006 at Guns N' Roses' warm up show at the
Hammerstein Ballroom in
New York City, Sebastian joined
Axl on stage for the song "
My Michelle". He joined Axl and gang for a third time the following night (
May 15) to sing "My Michelle" once again. He also joined them for their Pre-Download Festival show in the Apollo Hammersmith,
London, singing My Michelle. Rose introduced Bach by saying that the two had rekindled their friendship in the previous week after 13 years of not speaking. On June 4, 9th & 11th he again joined Rose on stage at the 2006 Gods of Metal Festival (
Milan), Download Festival in RDS
Dublin and in
Donington, respectively. He also appeared on several other tour dates during GN'R's European tour. On September 23, 2006, he joined Axl on stage once again at
KROQ's Inland Invasion festival in California for a rendition of "My Michelle".
On July 30, 2006, Bach filled in for an ailing Axl Rose for “
Nightrain” and the encore “
Paradise City".
Bach starred with
Ted Nugent, Evan Seinfeld, Jason Bonham and
Scott Ian on the VH1 show "
SuperGroup" as of
May 2006. The musicians formed a band called
Damnocracy for the
reality show, during which they lived in a
mansion in
Las Vegas for twelve days and created music. During the show, he became particularly close to Ted Nugent, whom he looked to as a father figure. This was acknowledged several times on the show. He also appears to have developed good relationships with Evan Seinfeld. However, at a November 5, 2006 Guns N' Roses concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Bach referred to a SuperGroup episode where he promised Ted he would quit drinking, and claimed that he had lied. Bach had previously said that he had taken offense with disparaging comments Nugent had made about
Dimebag Darrell.
On 13 September 2006, during a show at Selinas in Sydney, Bach stormed off stage during the encore. After two earlier similar incidents, Bach had warned the crowd that the throwing of any more plastic bottles and/or cans onto the stage would lead to him walking off. As the encore began (Youth Gone Wild), Bach was hit by a plastic cup, threw down the mic and left the stage.
On September 28, 2006, he appeared on Celebrity Duets singing with
Hal Sparks. Bach later was on the road with Guns N' Roses, touring around the world until late 2006.
On the 7th season episode of
Trailer Park Boys titled
Friends of the Road, Bach played himself as a celebrity guest hosting a model train convention. He later meets Ricky and Julian in a parking lot to smoke marijuana. In a later episode in the same season, Bach returns as the accomplice on the American side of the border helping to facilitate a drug deal.
During beginning of June 2007 Sebastian Bach headlined a tour of Japan, playing to Japanese fans in Nagoya, Osaka and 2 nights in Tokyo. His touring band consisted of "Metal" Mike Chlasciak on guitar, Johnny Chromatic on guitar, Rob De Luca on bass and Jason West on drums filling in for the injured Bobby Jarzombek. After the Japanese tour, his band supported the Australian & New Zealand Guns N' Roses 'Chinese Democracy' tour.
Bach recently announced a partnership record label with
EMI. Jointly, they will be creating a label owned by Sebastian, including his new album
Angel Down, which was released on November 20 2007. Bach also recorded backing vocals for a track on
Guns N' Roses' long-delayed album,
Chinese Democracy.
Bach has also recently joined a new television show featured on MTV,
Celebrity Rap Superstar. Celebrity Rap Superstar involves eight celebrities, one being Bach, hailing from the worlds of music, TV, film, sports and more to compete in a winner-takes-all rap contest. The show began on August 30, 2007 with Bach performing "I'm Gonna Knock You Out" with coaching help from rapper Kurupt. Soon after this appearance, a remix was posted on YouTube that brought a possible rap career-move into question. However, it seems that he is more focused on keeping things rock for now. During the 3rd episode of the show, Bach even worked an announcement of the upcoming "Angel Down" CD into his original composed rap, and also mentioned his team-up with Axl Rose. Bach managed to finish in third place losing to runner up Playboy Playmate and Girls Next Door star
Kendra Wilkinson and to
Shar Jackson who was crowned the first Celebrity Rap Superstar on the MTV competition show.
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