Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach recently answered Syncin’ Stanley’s questions about KISS singer Paul Stanley’s ‘rumored’ backing tracks usage.
In a recent YouTube video shared on September 3, Bach was defensive of Stanley while stating why he didn’t have a ‘problem’ with the singer’s possible lip-syncing. He said:
“My position on that is that if you are in your 70s; if you’re 72 and you gotta put on foot-high monster boots and a Godzilla a Godzilla costume and hook yourself up to wires and fly to the top of the roof and sing, a guy in that age, I don’t really have a problem with a guy that’s in his 70s or 80s that might use the technology to give us a show.”
However, this didn’t mean the Skid Row singer ‘approved’ using backing tracks:
“I don’t mind the technology being used for its proper thing, like an old dude giving a show, trying his best. But he’s old, right? What I do have a f*cking problem with — excuse my language there, but you know who you’re talking to here — I don’t like when I have an opening band who’s 23 and they have the whole show on a click track and the background vocals are going.”
He continued by once again defending Stanley and the singer’s ‘possible’ preference to lip-sync:
“If KISS were in their twenties, I would not like them to use tapes. Or if they were like an athlete one day and said, ‘Oh, I think I wanna be a rock star.’ And then they just get up there and do jumping jacks and have a tape going, I’ve got a problem with that. I don’t have a problem with a 75-year-old man giving me the show that he’s always given, but also… We’re not, as fans, d*cks.”
After accusations regarding Paul’s lip-sync, KISS’ representatives and manager dismissed the rumors, stating the frontman did not use backing tracks while performing live.
However, whether Stanley is actually using backing vocals or not could be a question that’ll go down in history soon, as KISS’ farewell tour is reaching its end, and perhaps, the frontman might take a break from performing live.
