"I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now"
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The flex here is deliberately low-key. Sebastian Bach isn’t name-dropping awards or reviving old drama; he’s doing something more strategic: turning longevity into credibility. “I’ve been solo since 1996” lands like a timestamp stamped on the listener’s memory, a reminder that his post-Skid Row life isn’t a side quest or a comeback narrative. It’s the main storyline, and it’s been running for decades.
The phrasing matters. “So I’ve been doing it for a while now” is almost shruggy, like he’s stepping away from mythology and into workmanlike reality. That casualness reads as both humility and defense mechanism. Rock culture loves to freeze artists at their peak era, then treat everything after as optional footnotes. Bach pushes back without sounding bitter: don’t call this a detour, don’t call it nostalgia, don’t call it a reinvention. It’s simply the job, done continuously.
The context is the long shadow of a famous band. When an artist is synonymous with a specific moment of late-80s hard rock, the solo years are often framed as exile. Bach reframes them as endurance. Implicitly, he’s asking for a different metric: not whether he’s “as big as he was,” but whether he’s still standing, still touring, still making noise. In a genre obsessed with youth and peaks, “since 1996” is a quiet dare to respect the long game.
The phrasing matters. “So I’ve been doing it for a while now” is almost shruggy, like he’s stepping away from mythology and into workmanlike reality. That casualness reads as both humility and defense mechanism. Rock culture loves to freeze artists at their peak era, then treat everything after as optional footnotes. Bach pushes back without sounding bitter: don’t call this a detour, don’t call it nostalgia, don’t call it a reinvention. It’s simply the job, done continuously.
The context is the long shadow of a famous band. When an artist is synonymous with a specific moment of late-80s hard rock, the solo years are often framed as exile. Bach reframes them as endurance. Implicitly, he’s asking for a different metric: not whether he’s “as big as he was,” but whether he’s still standing, still touring, still making noise. In a genre obsessed with youth and peaks, “since 1996” is a quiet dare to respect the long game.
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