During an interview with the Jeremy White Show podcast, Rachel Bolan recently revisited Skid Row’s ‘Subhuman Race’ era. Mentioning the conflicts the album’s creation process brought along, he said:
“It was the beginning of the end for the band. The band was just falling apart. It was evident that this was probably going to be the last record that we’d do.”
Released in 1995, ‘Subhuman Race,’ did not achieve the commercial success of the first two multi-platinum records, ‘Skid Row’ and ‘Slave To The Grind.’ So, during the chat, the bassist revealed:
“I can’t say personally when I walked away from that record, I felt good about it. That record’s kind of like a cult classic now. Some people really like it. I didn’t like it sonically. I didn’t like the way the songs turned out from what they originally were.”
To create its third studio album, Skid Row worked with Bob Rock. But, according to Bolan’s words, the producer’s approach to the record differed from what the band experienced before, as he ‘tore the songs down.’ He explained:
“I’ve got to be honest; I didn’t know what Bob wanted. The only thing I have a feeling he wanted was not to be there. It didn’t seem that [Rock] wanted to do it from the beginning.”
After ‘Subhuman Race’ and the three-year hiatus following it, Skid Row reunited in 1999. More recently, last year, it released the latest album, ‘The Gang’s All Here,’ and announced plans for a supporting tour set for December.
