Last week, attendees of this year’s Monsters of Rock Cruise boarded the Norwegian Joy and embarked on a trip from Miami to Grand Turk full of good times and great music. It was supposed to be a celebration of all things rock and metal on the high seas, but one dude apparently didn’t get the memo. For one dude, it was a chance to allegedly get belligerently drunk and throw a bitch fit at someone during an exclusive VIP party.
That one dude was ex-Skid Row and current Twisted Sister frontman Sebastian Bach. At least, that’s according to the first-person account shared earlier today by TuFF vocalist and Metal Sludge founder Stevie Rachelle.
In a post over on Metal Sludge, Rachelle claims the incident started on the final night of the cruise. A couple days prior, he’d been told by one of the cruise’s photographers that both Sebastian Bach and Stryper’s Michael Sweet had been talking about him and wanted to meet up in person. Now, Rachelle and Sweet are on good terms these days, he said he quickly learned where he stood with Bach — who he’d once been labelmates with back in the ’80s — during the Artists Only VIP Party.
Upon approaching the newly anointed Twisted Sister vocalist, Rachelle said he was immediately berated and accosted with all kinds of slurs. Oh and weirdly enough, an allegedly high amount of references to Bach’s dick.
“I kept my composure as he repeatedly called me a ‘fat homo’, and continued to ask me, ‘do you want to see more pictures of my cock’, he made sure to add, ‘your website sucks’ and also told me, ‘I’m going to have you kicked off this ship.’
“This went on and on, more insults followed but the ‘Fat Homo’ and asking me about his ‘Cock’ was repeated over and over… perhaps 6-8x… not sure what that all meant.
“I stayed calm, didn’t use any profanity and never even raised my voice… but, I made sure to stand right in front of him and stared at him similarly to the in-ring stare-down from Mike Tyson towards Peter McNeeley.
“I just watched him as he ranted and flailed all over… the same thing we’ve seen on YouTube videos when he throws a temper-tantrum. At some point security arrived and got in-between us, and separated us… of course once they were there, Bach‘s anger, and threatening words “let me at him” got louder and more aggressive.
“I stood there calm and offered the following: ‘I’m right here… come get me.’ Bach blurted out; ‘Fuck You, you Homo!’ again.”
Apparently, this was all in response to years of Metal Sludge covering Bach and his well-documented bad behavior. Rachelle contends that all of his coverage was “either A. 100% truth, or B. the opinion of those who have contributed” to the site.
While it’s understandable for a public figure to take issue with how they’re being portrayed in the media, it’s another thing to do so hurling homophobic slurs at people. Remember, this is the same guy that Rachelle points out was photographed in a 1990 issue of Metal Edge magazine wearing a shirt that read “AIDS: KILLS FAGS DEAD”. He said at a later date that he understood it was “not cool to make fun of death,” he followed that up by saying that he “[does] not know, condone, comprehend or understand homosexuality in any way, shape, form or size.”
So yeah, dude talks a lot about his dick to other men but it’s Rachelle who’s a “homo”. Strange.
According to Rachelle, security eventually had him removed at Bach’s request. That led him to be escorted out of the party, but his girlfriend was not thrown out with him. Still, when she went to go tell the other people she was chatting with that she had to leave, Bach allegedly began berating her. Here’s Rachelle’s recollection of what happened:
“Once I was outside the club, my girlfriend came to ask what happened as she was seated with her friends on the other side of the venue… I explained what went down and she went back to tell her friends she was leaving.
“Upon her re-entering the venue, Bach accosted her, got right in her face and berated her with insults: ‘F#@k you! You F#@king C#%t. You F#@king B!tch’ and more.
“My girlfriend was not with me for 1 second in that club, I was with other guys, and she was with her friends… not sure how he even knew she was my girlfriend, but regardless, he found her and went after her like only a coward would.”
If that’s true, that’s a massive L as the kids say, Baz. Huge bitch ass move. Real small pee-pee energy, bud.
Bach comes from a time when bad behavior by rock stars was anticipated and oftentimes celebrated. Those were the days when excessively teased out hair ruled the Strip, excessive alcohol and drug use was the norm, and women were nothing but sex objects that fueled countless songs of girls only being seventeen and whatnot. Hell, the “bad boy” persona basically made bands like Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, and the like.
Sadly some folks from that era seem to have never gotten the memo to reign it back in their advanced age. For them, the party never ended and unfortunately, it’s led to some super cringe-inducing moments on and off stage. Bach is allegedly one of those people, having found himself in the headlines for all the wrong reasons numerous times since his Skid Row days. At 58 years old, he just can’t help but keep acting out.
Rachelle ultimately closed out his statement/recollection/post by offering up a sort of olive branch to Bach. He suggests that the Canadian-born singer get treatment for his alcohol abuse while hoping that one day they could talk like grown-ups in the future. Rachelle is a bigger man than most, given the circumstances.
After reading what Rachelle allegedly experienced, I keep thinking one thing: Dee Snider is famously straight-edge. Up until recently, he’d never taken drugs, smoked cigarettes, or drank alcohol. The guys in Twisted Sister are used to that kind of leadership. What’s going to happen during their tour when Bach begins to have solo ragers and acts like a fucking moron on stage, screaming at women and being an all around dick? We’ve seen it before, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility.