Sebastian Bach joined NIGHT RANGER on stage last night (Friday, June 24) at the Promenade Park in Toledo, Ohio to perform the DAMN YANKEES song “High Enough”. Fan-filmed video of Bach‘s appearance can be seen below.
Earlier today, Bach shared a backstage photo from last night’s concert and he included the following message: “I have always been a fan of the band @nightranger . I remember buying Speak of the Devil by Ozzy Osbourne when it first came out and being knocked out by @bradgillisofficial insane guitar playing. From my band KID WIKKID doing ‘don’t tell me you love me’ live in the bars in Toronto all the way up to High Enough by DAMN YANKEES and their new music too. (‘Breakout’ kicked ass last night) this is a great band of consummate professionals and such excellent people. I love the song Night Ranger.
“We had such an incredible time last night in Toledo Ohio and for @jackblades to ask me on stage to sing ‘High Enough’ with them is a memory I will never forget.
“Thank you Toledo and NIGHT RANGER & @promedica_live for an incredible summer time night of rock and roll. If only every day on Earth could be like that”.
DAMN YANKEES was the supergroup formed more than three decades ago by NIGHT RANGER frontman Jack Blades, STYX‘s Tommy Shaw, Ted Nugent and Michael Cartellone.
DAMN YANKEES launched in 1989 and released two albums, an eponymous debut and the 1992 follow-up “Don’t Tread”. Hit singles included “Come Again”, “Coming Of Age” and the aforementioned “High Enough”.
Last fall, Bach completed a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of SKID ROW‘s double-platinum, acclaimed album “Slave To The Grind”. The trek kicked off on September 25 in Waterloo, New York and wrapped in San Diego, California on December 17.
Bach fronted SKID ROW until 1996, when he was fired.
Back in 2018, Bach told Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF 101.1 FM radio station that he was going to ink a deal with a U.S.-based heavy metal record label that would help him make a “career-defining” new solo album.
Bach hasn’t released a full-length disc since “Give ‘Em Hell”, which came out in 2014. Like its predecessor, 2011’s “Kicking & Screaming”, the disc was released through Frontiers Music Srl, the Italian label which specializes in what’s commonly called AOR, a term that once signified a popular radio format (“album-oriented rock”) but nowadays applies to acts whose airplay is marginal.