Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke has addressed his past feud with former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach and radio host Eddie Trunk in a recent interview shared by Rock Feed. Both accused him of lip syncing during live performances.
Radke explained the use of backing tracks in his live shows and defended himself against the accusations, arguing that the criticism misunderstands how modern touring acts operate.
“He was trying to make it seem like I don’t sing my songs. Like I’m literally a live singer. It’s just you don’t understand what it’s like. Everybody uses laptops. Metallica uses lap. They have laptops like we have laptops. We use laptops,” Radke said. “Imagine me performing Watch the World Burn with no laptops. You’d have to hire a f*cking 60-piece orchestral and 1700 buses for all this. We can’t do that. It’s like we need laptops and like that’s why I have DL singing. That’s why I have Christian singing. We have more singers and better singers than him in my band. Like it doesn’t make any sense.”
He went on to insist that his vocals during live shows are genuine. He said no evidence has ever surfaced to suggest otherwise.
“I think he thinks that because there’s a laptop, it means we’re mimming our music. If you’ve been to my shows, you know that it’s my vocal. I have never lied in my life, ever. It’s very obvious. That’s why there’s not a single YouTube video people want to catch that. They want to be the guy that catches try to catch it,” Radke continued. “You’re not going to catch it because it doesn’t exist. It’s like after 20 years of me being on YouTube of live videos on phones and all whatever it is, you’re going to find it at least once if I’m doing that. But you can’t, you know, it’s, you know, it’s very very obvious. You know, so it’s stupid.”
Radke then turned his attention to Eddie Trunk directly. He criticized the radio host’s stance on the matter and pointed to other well-known acts that also use tracks during performances.
“It’s very stupid because all those bands that Eddie Trunk and all them that praise, they’re all using tracks, right? Eddie Trunk, I don’t understand. I don’t get Eddie Trunk’s whole angle. He is not a musician, but he’s speaking on behalf of musician, bro. Your favorite bands that you glorify are using tracks. Aerosmith uses tracks. You can hear it. I’m a musician. I know for a fact, you know, so he just doesn’t respect the younger generation. It’s like old man yelling at a cloud,” Radke said.
Radke closed out his remarks by reflecting on how the experience with Bach and Trunk shaped his perspective on treating other musicians, particularly those from younger generations.
“I will always remember how Eddie Trunk and Sebastian Bach treated me and I will go out of my way when I get too old and I’m yelling at the cloud to really understand musicians these days. Or those, you know, that are coming up. I that it they taught me a lesson to not be like them, you know. I think it’s really stupid, you know,” Radke said.
The feud between Radke and Bach did not stop at accusations of miming. It escalated well beyond the stage, spilling into personal territory that pushed the dispute into far more hostile ground.
Bach posted alleged private and explicit photos of Radke online. The move further inflamed tensions between the two and prompted challenges to fight from Bach’s side. That escalation appears to be at the heart of why Radke says he “will always remember” how he was treated. It frames the conflict as something that went beyond a simple disagreement over live performance practices.
Radke maintains that no footage has ever surfaced showing him failing to sing live, despite years of scrutiny surrounding his live shows. “And I didn’t lip sync,” Radke said.
