Sebastian Bach Flees NJ After Hurricane Irene Destroyed His Home

via Sebastian Bach's Facebook

Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach lost his home in New Jersey after Hurricane Irene swept through town. The performer wrote on his Facebook page (recommended but not necessary: click play on the below video while you read it).

I am numb, in shock, & devastated to report that my home of 21 years, my house featured on MTV Cribs, has been destroyed, condemned, & deemed uninhabitable due to the extreme flooding courtesy of Hurricane Irene.
In the 2 decades I have lived in this home, there has never been a single drop of water in the basement or anywhere else in the structure. Now Irene has overflowed the reservoir adjacent to my house. The surging waters have snapped the bridge in half next to my house & sent the bridge straight into my garage, knocking the house off of its foundation.

The basement that has been dry for over 2 decades is now overflowing with water & I am not even allowed to start pumping the water out due to fears of electrocution. Original Skid Row & KISS fans, I have bad news for you. Gone are irreplaceable items, such as my KISS Gargoyles from the 1979 tour. KISS pinball machine. Skid Row master tapes, video & audio, concerts, master tapes from Oh Say Can You Scream etc. Boxes & boxes of one of a kind Skid Row memorabilia, from the first tour to our last, all stuff I collected on the road that no one else had. I had a library in the basement with every single magazine that had Skid Row on the cover. This library took up a big part of the basement. All of this is lost now. We will salvage what we can of course. But how I wish there was a reason to do a box set or something before Hurricane Irene hit. Nobody cared. Now it's too late. Don't know what you got till it's gone, indeed.

Having been into Skid Row a bit back in the day (they were a part of MTV when MTV was good, after all), it's hard not to feel bad for the guy. Bach, who recently filed for divorce from his wife of 18 years, plans to make a new start in Los Angeles. He concluded, "I will always love New Jersey but now there is literally nothing left for me here except memories of a past life. Hello, Los Angeles. Hello, New Life. Here I Am. It's time for a new start. Like I have a choice."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on August 30, 2011 10:22 AM

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jtbattz

My stuff also got destroyed, I didn't have much probably worth about a grand since it was a small room .. but the person that put the claim in for the insurance is keeping all of it for himself and wont even give me anything to replace the essentials .... All I want is to replace my winter coat and winter boots and he said no... :( I'm thinking of things I can make to sell to raise some money to replace them before the winter comes so I'm not shoveling in a cardigan.. last year we had a total of 63 feet the entire winter...

Guest

I hope his comics survived. He has/had some rare stuff.

jibbly

I mean he tries to explain that in 20+ years the basement has been completely safe, but still, one of a kind memorabilia should have been sent to an archival storage space.

Elderta2

I'm an archivist. I concur. No matter how dry your basement normally may be, that can change quickly under the right circumstances. Sadly.

anon

"Never played by the rules, I never really cared."

Elderta2

And that's why his stuff has gone wild now...

whiteiris

Right, cause it's not like he had any warning.....idiot.

edgie168

i'm sure you can prepare for a bridge slamming into your house, care to share your secret recipe?

Matt F.

When they talk about a storm and the potential for flooding, you protect your stuff. Period. Katrina flooding usually doesn't happen, but all it takes is 6 inches to ruin your stuff, especially if it's just left of on the floor.

Matt F.

This is gonna sound like coulda/woulda/shoulda - but if there's a potential for flooding in a storm like this, grab a couple of roughneck containers and throw everything you can possibly fit in them and move them up to the higher floors of your house. Obviously you can't do that with a pinball machine but other stuff could have been saved really easily.

whitecastlerock

bring it Bach alive...

Matt F.

So he's moving from NJ due to a natural disaster... to Los Angeles.

BrassMonkeyBallz

even though it's Sebastian Bach.....I feel really bad for him. I was never a fan of Skid Row or that type of music but as true music fan I respected his talent. Dude can sing.

And to lose all that stuff is hard to swallow....although he should have invested in storing that stuff in a storage facility...high and dry perhaps.