Rachel Bolan recently discussed the record he wanted to remaster with his bandmate, Erik Grönwall while speaking with the Jeremy White Show.
The rocker was discussing what went down while making the 1995 album ‘Subhuman Race;’ Skid Row’s final record with Sebastian Bach. He explained:
“It was the beginning of the end for the band, pretty much… Even more than the beginning of the end. The band was falling apart. It was evident that this [‘Subhuman Race’] was, probably, gonna be the last record that we do, but the songs were rushed; I shouldn’t say rushed because we had some cool stuff but they were really torn apart.”
Bolan then carried on and detailed how working with producer Bob Rock was:
“Bob just tore down and [said] ‘Do this, do that.’ and we were like… I can’t say, personally, [that] when we walked away from that record, I felt good about it… That record is kind of a cult classic at this point [laughs], some people really like it. [However] I didn’t like it sonically, I didn’t like how songs turned out from what they were originally were.”
Then, when the host asked whether he had self-doubts about the album, the rocker said:
“It’s not so much self-doubt. It’s doubting the song. It’s doubting if guys would like it [the songs]. Like I said, the infighting was bad. It’s like, ‘Why do you get to write a song and we don’t’ type of thing.”
He added, further detailing the ‘infighting,’ and how he wants to rerecord some tracks:
“Man, we were just following the process that made it successful. Let’s just do it the same way. It happens with every band, it is what it is. I still like some of the songs on that record. I would love to rerecord a few of those songs with Eric.”
If interested, you can check out the full chat below.
