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Sebastian Bach has offered his condolences to the family of
Johnny Solinger, the singer who joined
SKID ROW three years after
Bach was fired from the group.
Solinger,
SKID ROW's longest-tenured frontman, died on Saturday (June 26) at the age of 55. His passing came more than a month after he announced that he was suffering from liver failure.
Earlier today,
Bach, who fronted
SKID ROW until 1996, addressed
Solinger's death in a tweet. He wrote: "My condolences to the family & friends of
Johnny Solinger the singer who replaced
Sean McCabe in
SKID ROW. Only contact I had was back in 1991 or so years b4 I was kicked out in 1996. Awkward to wake up to headlines '
SKID ROW Singer Dies' some using a pic of me. Sorry 2 hear".
After
Bach was fired from
SKID ROW, the remaining members took a hiatus and went on to play briefly in a band called
OZONE MONDAY with vocalist
Sean McCabe. In 1999,
SKID ROW reformed and, after a bit of shuffling over the years, featured a lineup consisting of bassist
Rachel Bolan and guitarists
Dave "Snake" Sabo and
Scotti Hill, alongside drummer
Rob Hammersmith and
Solinger.
In July 2012,
Bach posted a letter on his
Facebook page in which he said he was willing to reunite with
SKID ROW. He said he wanted to write the letter in response to
Solinger's interview in which
Johnny said a tweet by
Bach about a possible
SKID ROW reunion was an attempt to "get attention."
Solinger reportedly married actress
Paula Marcenaro in 2011. She broke the news of his death on Saturday, writing: "
Johnny has passed. I was holding his hand. He went in peace."
Solinger was fired by
SKID ROW in April 2015 and replaced by
TNT singer
Tony Harnell.
Tony quit the group only eight months later, and was succeeded by the South African-born, British-based singer
ZP Theart, who previously fronted
DRAGONFORCE,
TANK and
I AM I.
