Skid Row Singers – Where Are They Now?
For many bands, the prospect of changing a lead singer could be an insurmountable hurdle. But Skid Row is not like most bands.
The chart-topping rockers have maintained a revolving door of singers since getting their begin in Toms River, New Jersey, in 1986. They launched to stardom a number of years later due to a pair of multi-platinum albums that includes megawatt singer Sebastian Bach. But Bach wasn’t Skid Row’s first singer — and he was removed from their final.
The story of Bach’s fallout with Skid Row is effectively-identified exhausting rock lore by now. As their report gross sales slumped and the intra-band dysfunction escalated within the mid-’90s, Bach leapt on the alternative to open for KISS on their 1996 reunion tour. Unfortunately, his bandmates weren’t all onboard with the thought. Bach expressed his emotions to them in no unsure phrases — and was promptly dismissed from the group after leaving a profanity-laden tirade on guitarist Dave Sabo’s answering machine.
Bach’s ouster marked the tip of Skid Row’s business heyday, however when it comes to personnel, they had been simply getting began. Following a quick hiatus, the band relaunched in 1999 with singer Johnny Solinger, who turned their longest-tenured vocalist and sang on a number of albums.
Following Solinger’s departure in 2015, Skid Row’s lead singer turnover charge elevated dramatically, as they cycled via a number of extra vocalists with little recorded music to indicate for it. It appeared that they had lastly damaged the spell in 2022 with the recruitment of ex-H.E.A.T. frontman Erik Gronwall, who sang on that 12 months’s The Gang’s All Here. But that, too, proved a false alarm, as Skid Row introduced Gronwall’s amicable departure (and a short lived, excessive-profile fill-in) in 2024.
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What Skid Row does subsequent is anybody’s guess. Will they ever entertain a reunion with Bach, or will they discover any person else to do the job? If our record of Skid Row Singers: Where Are They Now? proves something, it is that these rockers refuse to go down with no struggle.
Skid Row Singers: Where Are They Now?
The band has stored a revolving door through the years.
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