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Skid Row Press Tag’s is proud to announce the next show in the 2019 Concert Series on the Budweiser Summer Stage at Tag’s. ‘The Legend Continues’ with The Metal Music and Mayhem Party – featuring Vince Neil, with Skid Row, and Lita Ford. Sebastian Bach will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his debut album with Skid Row by performing the record in its entirety on tour this summer and fall. The album launched Skid Row and Bach's careers and has been certified 5x platinum on the strength of four hit singles, 'Youth Gone Wild,' '18 and Life,' 'Piece Of Me' and 'I Remember You.' After a week without food, skid row activist still hungry to make a statement about housing shortage. By Steve Lopez. Feb 21, 2018 3:00 AM. I took him up on the offer. In the latest data.

It was one of those digital town hall chats on social media, and the subject was one that impacts almost every neighborhood in Los Angeles — homelessness.

The conversation, by residents of Eagle Rock, Highland Park and southwest Pasadena, was fueled by a story my colleague Gale Holland wrote. She reported last weekend that despite spending $619 million in the last year, local officials believe little or no progress has been made to reduce the number of homeless people, which stands at greater than 50,000.

Comments in the social media forum ranged from exasperated to compassionate as residents debated causes and solutions. One writer was worked up about “vagrants” who’ve made bad choices others shouldn’t have to pay for. But the post that caught my eye offered an insider’s view.

“I live in San Rafael Hills, own a house, pay my taxes, walk my dog. And I’m an addict,” wrote Kevin Schick.

He revealed that he had been homeless for years, used to live on skid row, and was available to talk to any neighbors who’d like an education on things they “really don’t know about!!!!!!”

I took him up on the offer. In the latest data, poverty is a big driver of homelessness, especially in a region like ours where wages haven’t kept up with housing costs. But mental illness and addiction are also huge factors, and often, the two disorders team up and complicate efforts to get people housed. Tens of thousands of people were moved into housing last year, but their replacements keep stacking up on streets, under bridges and in river beds.

Schick invited me to meet up with him at the Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena. It was there, in 2010, that he got sober after decades of drug abuse that began when he was a Santa Monica teen. Today, he is the center’s procurement director.

Schick, a tall 54-year-old redhead with a commanding voice, led me through Impact’s residential facility, which is a temporary home to 130 recovering addicts who come from jails, courts and the streets. And the waiting list of those who’d like to move in is long.

“From age 15 to 23 I was under the influence every waking minute of the day,” said Schick, who started with marijuana and then moved on to crack and other drugs. He said his absent father was an alcoholic, his mother worked and he took advantage of the situation, but paid a price.

“One day in front of a 7-Eleven in Hollywood I just started crying uncontrollably,” said Schick, who wanted to escape, but couldn’t. “I was homeless, basically. I’d get a job, get an apartment, but never keep anything for more than 30 days.”

Several rehab attempts failed, but the last time around, “I was willing to take the steps. The 12 steps. But I mean thoroughly … not playing around with it.”

He got clean and married another recovering addict who had made some good investments and lived comfortably. He sponsors dozens of addicts now, and says he knows he will always remain one himself. But today he feels free of what for many years had him firmly in its clutches.

“People don’t understand what an addict is suffering from,” Schick said. “Addicts or alcoholics form a physical craving beyond their mental control.”

He called the spread of homelessness a sad reality in “the wealthiest society there’s ever been on the face of the Earth,” and he wants people to think of addicts “as human beings” first and foremost. But don’t think that makes him a soft-hearted liberal.

Reduced penalties for drug offenses make it easier to keep using, Schick said, and so do handouts from well-intended people who want to help but end up enabling instead. Nobody kicks a habit, he said, without taking full personal responsibility.

“I blamed everyone else for my problems my whole life,” said Schick, speaking the language of recovery. “If only society had given me a break. If only I didn’t have red hair. If only my father wasn’t an alcoholic. Whatever the circumstances are in your life, you are not powerless over alcohol.”

That may well be true of the disease, but the absence of well-paying jobs and affordable rent can sabotage self-control and crush hope. We were visited in Schick’s office by clients who testified to that.

“When I was 22, I worked as a waitress and was going to school, and I was able to bank my paycheck and live off my tips,” said Jennifer, 63, a former Impact counselor who lapsed back into addiction last August and is a client now.

Jennifer said she paid $125 a month for a nice apartment back then, and later moved up to a rented home for $750. But every rental is out of reach to her now. She said she’ll be graduating to a sober living home in a few days, but noted that a lot of neighbors don’t want such places near their homes. And when she moves on from there, finding a good job and a place she can afford will be a puzzle. If she has to, she said, “I guess I can fit in my Honda Fit.”

I asked if she had considered moving to an area with a lower cost of living. Jennifer said it won’t be easy to leave her “recovery network” and start over in a place where she doesn’t know anyone.

“The rent is too high and the minimum wage doesn’t pay for things,” said Vicky, 61, who grew up in Nickerson Gardens and ended up on skid row. Drugs were so prevalent there it was hard to break the habit, and she ended up in jail more than once. Her plan is to get through Impact, study to become a counselor and move to Tennessee, where living is cheaper and she’s got family.

Christina Gonzales became a client 11 years ago after leaving her teaching job because of a drinking problem. She went from sleeping in her car, and in parks, to completing the Impact program and getting hired on as an administrator. Now she attends county meetings on homeless strategies and is a few weeks away from earning a doctorate in public administration.

“One problem I’m seeing now is that we don’t have enough beds,” said Gonzales. “We could open three treatment centers like this if we had enough availability.”

Schick said he doesn’t have all the answers to homelessness. But he knows that addicts need treatment, and they need to be ready for it, as he finally was. Affordable housing is an obvious need, he said, but housing without help won’t work.

“It’s a treatable illness, and we absolutely do recover,” he said.

“When I help my 82-year-old mom buy food, I pull her wine off the shelf and it could be lima beans. It has no emotional connection for me whatsoever. It doesn’t mean I’m cured. Not by a long shot. But I’m not dominated by the obsessions any more.

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Skid Row is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey. Their current lineup comprises bassist Rachel Bolan, guitarists Dave Sabo and Scotti Hill, drummer Rob Hammersmith and vocalist ZP Theart. The group achieved commercial success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with its first two albums Skid Row (1989) and Slave to the Grind (1991) certified multi-platinum, the latter of which reached number one on the Billboard 200. The band's third album Subhuman Race (1995) was also critically acclaimed, but failed to repeat the success of its predecessors. During this period, the band consisted of Bolan, Sabo, Hill, drummer Rob Affuso, and frontman Sebastian Bach. The band had sold 20 million albums worldwide by the end of 1996.

After replacing Bach with Johnny Solinger and Affuso with Phil Varone in 1999, Skid Row released Thickskin (2003) and Revolutions per Minute (2006), both of which garnered mixed to negative reception. In April 2015, Skid Row announced that they had parted ways with Solinger, and replaced him with former TNT singer Tony Harnell. Eight months later, however, Harnell left the band. In January 2017, former DragonForce vocalist ZP Theart was named the official lead singer after spending a year as a touring member of the group.^[1]

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History[edit]

Early years (1986–1988)[edit]

Skid Row was formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey, by bassist Rachel Bolan and guitarist Dave Sabo.^[2] The pair recruited guitarist Scotti Hill and drummer Rob Affuso through newspaper ads.^[3] Lead vocalist Sebastian Bach replaced original singer Matt Fallon after the band spotted Bach singing at rock photographer Mark Weiss's wedding at the age of 18, and the members asked him to join in early 1987. The band began playing shows in clubs throughout the eastern United States.^{[citation needed]}

Sabo and John Bongiovi were teenage friends and Sabo was briefly a member of Bon Jovi before being replaced by guitarist Richie Sambora. Sabo and Bongiovi agreed that if one of them made it in the music business, he would help the other out. Bon Jovi's manager Doc McGhee sought out Skid Row, and secured the band a record deal with Atlantic Records in 1988.^[2] Skid Row recorded its debut at the Royal Recorders in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with producer Michael Wagener. Before releasing the album, the management paid a reported $35,000 to guitarist Gary Moore for the rights to the name of his namesake band.^[4]

Skid Row (1989–1990)[edit]

The band's debut album Skid Row, released in January 1989, was an instant success. The record went 5× platinum on the strength of the Top 10 singles '18 and Life' and 'I Remember You'. Skid Row supported the album by opening for Bon Jovi on their New Jerseytour. As part of the six-month tour, Skid Row played its first ever UK gig supporting Bon Jovi's outdoor show at Milton Keynes Bowl on August 19, 1989. The next day, Skid Row played a successful club show at London's Marquee Club in Charing Cross Road.^[5] Skid Row also took part in the Moscow Music Peace Festival, which was set up to keep McGhee out of jail. McGhee was facing drug trafficking charges, and therefore set up an anti-drug/peace concert in Russia, featuring a few of the artists that he and his brother managed.^[6]

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Skid Row returned to the UK three months later, opening for Mötley Crüe on their European Dr. Feelgoodtour in early November 1989 with White Lion.^[7] That was followed by a UK headlining tour culminating in a show at London's Hammersmith Odeon, with Vain supporting.^[8]

In what is referred to as 'The Bottle Incident' by fans of the band, Bach was hit onstage with a bottle thrown from the crowd at a concert in Springfield, Massachusetts, where Skid Row was opening for Aerosmith on December 27, 1989. Bach threw the bottle back, hitting a girl (not the thrower), so he jumped on the crowd to beat the person who can be seen on a tour video released by Skid Row called Oh Say Can You Scream in 1990.^[9]

Shortly thereafter, at another show, Bach put on a T-shirt proclaiming the anti-gay slogan 'AIDS Kills Fags Dead'. A poorly tasted spoof of the slogan for the bug spray, RAID KILLS BUGS DEAD™. The shirt was given to him by a fan, on MTV News Bach dismissed the controversy saying 'I don't see what the big deal is really but I guess if someone wore a T-shirt saying 'Cancer Kills Grandma's Dead' I'd probably be a little bit pissed too.'^[10] But, Bach eventually expressed regret over the incident, claiming that he did not read the slogan before putting the shirt on. Even though he wore it for a photo shoot in Metal Edge magazine.^[11] The band also recorded a cover of the Sex Pistols' 'Holidays in the Sun' for the Make A Difference Foundation release Stairway to Heaven/Highway to Hell.^[12]

Slave to the Grind (1991–1992)[edit]

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Skid Row returned to the studio with Wagener in 1990 to record its second studio album Slave to the Grind. The album was released in June 1991 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, reaching 2× platinum status without any radio hits.^[2] Skid Row once again went out on a worldwide tour which lasted over a year, including a leg supporting Guns N' Roses in 1991 and an appearance at Monsters of Rock in Castle Donington in 1992.Slave to the Grind was a departure for the band; while Skid Row was an album that followed the typical 1980s band formula, Slave to the Grind had a heavier sound, even verging on speed metal with the title track. Skid Row took out Pantera as an opening act on much of the tour supporting Slave to the Grind.^[13] Skid Row originally asked upcoming grunge band Nirvana to open for them but they declined, saying that Skid Row was 'too homophobic', relating to the Sebastian Bach T-shirt incident.^[14] Coincidentally, Nirvana's original band name was also Skid Row.^[15]

Subhuman Race and split with Bach (1992–1998)[edit]

After the Slave to the Grind promotional tour, an EP of covers B-Side Ourselves was released in September 1992. Before beginning work on their third album, Skid Row took an extended hiatus in 1993 on McGhee's recommendation to wait for the grunge movement to fade away.^[16] Also during this period, Skid Row parted ways with Wagener, possibly due to the music taking a different direction for the follow-up to Slave to the Grind. In 1994, the band returned to the studio with producer Bob Rock to record its third album. Subhuman Race was released in March 1995, and charted in the top 40 on the American charts. Although it did not achieve the success of its predecessors, it received positive reviews and only one single, 'Into Another', charted in the US. As of 2018, Skid Row rarely plays any songs from Subhuman Race live; most of them were last performed on the album's tour in 1995, while 'Beat Yourself Blind' is the only song they have played live with its subsequent singers Johnny Solinger and ZP Theart.^[17]

At that point, the band shifted to performing at smaller venues and its videos were rarely played on MTV, partly because of the rise in popularity of grunge and subsequent decline of many 1980s heavy metal styles. Skid Row was the opening act for Van Halen on the North American leg of their Balancetour. Eventually, Bach left the band in late 1996 after an argument with Bolan who turned down an opening slot on the Kiss reunion tour even though Bach already booked it. Other band members told Bach that Skid Row was too big for an opening act and that they were not going to do the show. Bach then left a message on a bandmate's answering machine telling them the band was never too big to open for Kiss.^[18]

Bolan had a side project, a punk band Prunella Scales who was playing at the same time as the planned Kiss show. The rift between Bach and the other band members subsequently led to him leaving Skid Row.^[19][20] Four years later, Skid Row was one of the opening acts for the 2000 Kiss Farewell Tour.^[21] In 1998 Skid Row released the compilation 40 Seasons: The Best of Skid Row without Bach's imput.^[22] After Bach's departure, the remaining members continued as Ozone Monday with singer Shawn McCabe of Mars Needs Women. In 1998 and 1999, the group opened up for Kiss and Mötley Crüe under the new moniker.^[23]

New lineup and Thickskin (1999–2005)[edit]

Skid Row re-formed in 1999 with new lead vocalist Johnny Solinger and drummer Phil Varone. After re-forming, the band opened for Kiss on its farewell tour, and also played with other 1980s metal bands such as Poison and Mötley Crüe's singer Vince Neil.^[24] In 2002 they were part of the Rock Never Stops Tour.^[25] Skid Row released its fourth full-length studio album Thickskin in the summer of 2003, which was the first album to feature Solinger and its first studio album in 8 years.^[26] In 2004, Dave Gara was announced as the new drummer.^[27]

Revolutions per Minute (2006–2012)[edit]

The fifth Skid Row album Revolutions per Minute was released in October 2006 by SPV Records.^[28] Wagener reunited with Skid Row and became this album's producer. In 2007, the band recorded 'Jingle Bells' for a Monster Ballads Christmas album.^[29] In early 2010 Rob Hammersmith became the band's new drummer.^[30]

Speaking in 2009 about the next Skid Row album, Hill said 'we haven't sat down and recorded anything yet, but we have sat down and worked out some ideas and just played them on a handheld recorder. Everybody's writing and we're getting into that mind set. Once the wheels get in motion we'll all probably fly out to Atlanta spend a week or two up there come home, go back up there do it again, we're all living in different cities, which can make it difficult at times.'^[31][32]

United World Rebellion trilogy (2013–present)[edit]

In February 2013 Skid Row signed with Megaforce Records, and stated the new material would be released as three separate EPs. The first chapter United World Rebellion: Chapter One, was released in April 2013, with two more EPs set to follow in the following 12 to 18 months.^[33]

In February 2014, the band began working on the second EP. In August 2014, Skid Row released the second chapter of the trilogy titled Rise of the Damnation Army. In April 2015, Solinger was fired from the band.^[34] Later that day it was announced that Tony Harnell, formerly of the Norwegian melodic metal band TNT, will replace Solinger.^[35] That same month the band released a re-recorded version of its early single '18 and Life' as a free download. In February, two months before Solinger's departure, Skid Row announced they were writing the third chapter of the United World Rebellion series.^[36]

Harnell left the band in December,^[37][38] and former DragonForce vocalist ZP Theart was filling in as the lead singer for concerts in 2016.^[39] In January 2017, ZP Theart was named as an official member of the band. In March 2018, it was revealed the band's next release for the United World Rebellion trilogy would now be a full-length album and would be released sometime in 2019.^[40]

In the summer of 2019 Sebastian Bach announced plans to play Skid Row's debut album in its entirety on tour as a celebration of its 30th anniversary, and issued an open invitation for the band to play on stage with him for the first time since their split.^[41]. Guitarist Dave 'Snake' Sabo has rejected this offer.^[42]

Band members[edit]

Current members

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• Dave 'The Snake' Sabo – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1986–1996, 1999–present)
• Rachel Bolan – bass, backing and lead vocals (1986–1996, 1999–present)
• Scotti Hill – lead guitar, backing vocals (1987–1996, 1999–present)
• Rob Hammersmith – drums (2010–present)
• ZP Theart – lead vocals (2016–present)

Discography[edit]

Awards and nominations[edit]

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

• Skid Row at AllMusic