SEBASTIAN BACH Says He ‘Hates’ A.I.: ‘I Will Always Give You Real Stupidity Instead Of Artificial Intelligence’
Publish Date: 2026-02-21 09:56:00
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In a new interview with Elizabeth Zharoff of the popular YouTube channel The Charismatic Voice, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach commented on bands who rely heavily on pre-recorded tracks during their live performances. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think that the situation with all these bands having taped vocals is just ridiculous. It’s like the verses sound one way and then the chorus starts and it’s, like… Who’s up there doing that? Nobody. And it’s every chorus. And these bands — you can watch it on YouTube or whatever, and you watch these giant bands that we’ve loved for a million years on stage, and you can tell every time the chorus comes in that it’s a complete joke. And I don’t understand why musicians think that that’s okay, ’cause, to me, I couldn’t imagine being on a click track and having to do it the same exact way every night, and then you wait for the chorus to come and here comes the background. To me, it sucks. To me, it’s just terrible… But there’s also a part of me that feels like a dinosaur for not doing it. If everybody else is doing it, why am I the only one not doing it? Part of me feels stupid. ‘Well, I’m gonna go warm up for an hour and a half.’ Well, a lot of these guys don’t have to do that, do they? They can do other things with their day, because it’s all on a track. But that’s not what I do for a living.”
During the same chat, Bach weighed in on a debate about people using an A.I. (artificial intelligence) music generator as a tool to create melodies, harmonies and rhymes based on artificial intelligence (A.I.) algorithms and machine learning (M.L.) models. He said: “I can guarantee you this, anybody watching this, you have to understand: I hate A.I. I hate it. Every time I see it in my feed, I unfollow the person. Just the other day, somebody posted this old VAN HALEN footage from Fresno, California, in ’78, David Lee Roth live on stage, and it was one of the coolest Instagram posts I’d ever seen,…
