Omslaget till Skid Row - Skid som släpptes 1970. 

Brush Shiels frustrerad på Jon Bon Jovi och Skid Row

Brush Shiels grundade bluesrockbandet under 1967, och gav Gary Moore sitt första professionella musikerjobb. De turnerade över hela USA och Kanada och släppte tre album innan de splittrades 1972.

Shiels fortsatte att använda namnet Skid Row och är redo att släppa en ny skiva under namnet. Men nu ber han Jon Bon Jovi (som var med och hjälpte SKID ROW i början) och hans ledning att kontakta honom och förklara vad som hände när de beslutade att kalla Bachs band för Skid Row 1986.

Utdrag ur intervjun:

Philo, Gary and myself toured America, playing with Frank Zappa, the Allman Brothers, Iggy and the Stooges. Rod Stewart and the Faces never turned up so we topped the bill. Everybody knew us.

“A couple of years ago, I’m looking at MTV and Sebastian Bach, the ex-singer of the American band Skid Row. He said they paid Gary Moore $35,000 for the use of the name.

“Now, I know for a fact this is a complete lie. I got in touch with Seb, and he said as far as he was concerned it was the truth. But that couldn’t be the truth.

“The late Gary Moore told me Jon Bon Jovi asked him if it was alright to use the name. Gary said it was nothing to do with him and he’d have to ring me. For some reason, Jon Bon Jovi never rang me.

“If anyone knows him, let him get in touch with me and tell me if this is true: did Jon Bon Jovi ring Gary Moore and ask him could he use the name Skid Row, and did the late Gary Moor tell Jon Bon Jovi it had nothing to do with him and he’d have to ring me?

“I don’t think for a minute he’d be as disrespectful as to not to bother contacting me. But he’d know for a fact under no circumstances could anyone use the name Skid Row except for us.”

Shiels insists of the $35,000 story: “That never happened.”

But he continues: “I have a new Skid Row album coming out and I want it sorted out once and for all. I’d expect somebody from Jon Bon Jovi’s office to say, ‘There’s been a misunderstanding, something’s happened.’ I don’t know what it is, but I must be entitled to use the name Skid Row.

“Jon, if you’re out there, from one professional to another, give me a call. I’d appreciate it.

Av Nico Linde 16 jan 2012 17:59