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How did you get the gig with Sebastian Bach? What is it like working with Sebastian? |
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It's sort of a strange personal timeline how I got the Sebastian Bach gig. In the summer of '04 I was playing with Iced Earth when we headlined the "Bang Your Head!!!" festival. Sebastian Bach and Testament also played the BYH!!! festival earlier that evening. When the festival was over, Sebastian approached IE bandmate guitarist Ralph Santolla with an offer to be his lead guitarist and musical director. Ralph accepted the offer. As musical director for Baz, Ralph brought in bassist Steve DiGiorgio, guitarist Johnny Chromatic, and drummer Mark Prator. As a band they continued playing throughout '04/'05 and began writing material for Sebastian's new CD. During the writing process, Steve called on Testament buddy Metal Mike to offer a couple song ideas. Baz and Metal Mike began collaborating. At this same time, Ralph received an offer to join the death metal band Deicide. Ralph decided to join Deicide, which left the Sebastian live guitarist spot open. Metal Mike agreed to fill the vacated spot. At this time, summer '05 festival dates were booked and drummer Mark Prator had a couple prior commitments. Sebastian then sought out a drummer to sub for Mark - Mike and Steve suggested me. If you know anything about Sebastian, one thing is for sure: He's a huge Rob Halford fan. He was very excited about having 2 of the guys that played on "Resurrection" in his band. The Sebastian gig is very cool.... and pretty wild as you can probably imagine. When it's great, it's awesome. When things go bad, it's interesting, ha ha! Sebastian is a great guy and he's full of life. It's refreshing to be involved with an artist that is so enthusiastic about creating music and playing live.
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