In a new interview with handful of metal magazine, SLUM bass guitarist Rachel Bolan He was asked if it’s still viable to make a living as a musician these days. Raquel responded, “People have this misconception that everyone in the band is broke, and we’re not. We had some massive songs, which I guess got forgotten, and we sold almost 23 million records.” [laughs], so we’re not broke in any way. I heard a woman say, ‘Oh, they live in tents,’ and I was like, ‘Okay. I have a couple of tents, one in Jersey and one in Atlantic City, and they’re nice tents, you know?
“We never had to go back to day jobs; the albums are still selling and we made a lot of money along the way,” he explained. “That’s another misconception that we play for peanuts; that’s a lot of peanuts. [Laughs] Don’t slip on the damn shells.”
In 2015, Sebastian Bach saying Rodney Holder from Australia music business facts that only three of the members of SLUMThe classic lineup of ‘s was part of the band’s record deal with Atlantic: Bach, Bolan and guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo. “So those deals are made before you go into the studio,” the singer said. “You have entertainment lawyers who talk to each other about what’s going on and then you sign everything and then you do it. And the ironic thing is that I haven’t been in a room with Rachel Bolan in [more than] 20 years, but we are still in a business relationship together. We have the same accountant, and I get statements and we get… It’s very strange, because we’re very close in a business sense, still and forever, but I don’t even have any relationship with the guy. So it’s very strange and weird.”
When asked if he “did well” financially as a member of SLUM, Sebastian said: “We all did well. When you sell 20 million records, everyone does well. I mean, that’s how many albums we sold and videos, singles… But, you know, we signed a publishing deal with [Jon] Bon Jovi‘s, which gave him an extremely large part of the first album. And when that happened, none of us knew it, really, and we were very bitter when we found out. But our next record debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard graph, so stop whining. [Laughs] It’s like, I look back… He took us on tour… No one thought we’d make it. There were a million bands. we could have been BANG TANGO either TIGER TAIL or… We could have been… There are a billion bands. we could have been BABYLON ANNOUNCEMENT …Anyway, so the fact that we were one of the bands to pull it off was like a needle in the haystack. Then for Bon Jovi to put us on the road in front of their crowd every night, that’s how we pull it off. So he deserved to be paid for it. He could have taken any other band. So we did all those deals again after the first album, for “Slave to the Routine” Y ‘subhuman race’ and the best album. We remade all of that.”
As for whether he sees himself as a businessman, Bach saying music business facts: “Definitely. I am the president of Get off my Bach productions, and I’m the boss of my gang. I have a crew, I have a guitar tech, a drum tech, a sound tech, a tour manager, a monitor, band members… So yeah, I’m a businessman. It depends on what interview I’m doing, you know, how I’m going to answer that, like I said before. But of course I am… Here’s one thing I have to tell you: I write my own checks. If this is a business about business article, here’s something I’ll tell you: Be the person who signs your checks. And that took me years to realize. I had, in SLUM, accountants that sometimes I didn’t even know handled all the money and signed my checks for me. And you know what? That’s not cool. I would say that one of the best feelings I have is that I am the guy who writes my checks for my company: no one else has that power and people have tried to get it. And I’m like, ‘No, I’m the guy who writes checks for Sebastian Bach.’ And that would be advice that I would say would be good to keep.”
Bach in front SLUM until 1996, when he was fired. Rather than throw in the towel, the remaining members paused and played briefly in a band called OZONE MONDAY.
In 1999, SLUM reformed and, after a bit of shuffling over the years, featured a lineup made up of Bolanguitarists sabo Y scottish hillnext to the drummer Rob Hammersmith and singer johnny solinger.
SLUM switched on Solinger by phone in April 2015, a few hours before announcing ex-TNT vocalist tony harnell as his replacement. eight months later, Harnell left the band and was replaced by the South African-born, British-based singer zp the artwho previously led DRAGON FORCE, TANK Y I AM ME. The art was fired from SLUM in February and was replaced by Erik Greenwallwho was formerly a member of the Swedish hard rock band HEAT
SLUMthe new album of “The gang is all here”will be released on October 14 via EarMUSIC. The band recorded most of the effort in Nashville, Tennessee with producer Nick Raskulinczwho has previously worked with FOO FIGHTERS, ACID STONE, HALESTORM, EVANESCENCE, RUSH Y ALICE IN CHAINSAmong many others.