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Sebastian Bach has once again slammed
Chris Jericho 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".
Asked about his Internet feud with
Jericho,
Bach told
The Aquarian Weekly in a new interview: "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."
Sebastian continued: "
Axl Rose sings live.
Mark McGrath of
SUGAR RAY sings live. I perform with him in a band called
ROYAL MACHINES and we don't use tapes.
Dee Snider and
RATT's
Stephen Pearcy both sing live. Miming to tape makes a real mockery of what real singers do. It also begs the question: 'What am I doing?' Maybe I should use tapes. Why do I spend a month before a tour warming up? Why do I lock myself in a lounge for an hour before each show to do scales?"
Bach also addressed the fact that
Jericho has 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 [record] 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."
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."
Sebastian, who has been outspoken about rock bands using pre-recorded backing tracks during live shows, later tried to explain his outburst, writing: "I'm not trying to beat anybody at anything. I'm actually trying to say hey
Chris maybe you're right maybe I'll stop singing live and prance around while the tape is playing just like you do
Chris. I'm tired of trying so hard it's like beating my head against the wall."
After a self-proclaimed
Bach fan called
Sebastian "an asshat" on
Twitter for firing "the first shots" in his war of words with
Jericho,
Bach came back with: "Hey man f*** you. I have spent my life learning how to sing live on stage. When someone comes along and mimes to a tape it sucks for all of the rest of us that don't. You want to go see a wrestling match good. Don't call it rock and roll".