10 Replacement Hard Rock Singers That NAILED It (Or Just Didn't Fit)

Skid Row arrived at the end of the 80s hard rock revolution, with their 1989 self-titled debut instantly propelling them into the big time.

Their follow up album Slave To The Grind cemented their success in 1991, and huge world tours followed with the likes of Guns N Roses and Pantera. Guitarist Dave ‘Snake’ Sabo and bassist Rachel Bolan had formed the band and wrote the songs, but it was the louder than life front man Sebastian Bach who became their talisman.

By the mid-1990s his antics were grating on the rest of the band who appeared to be resentful of his popularity. Trouble often seemed to follow, and after a lukewarm reception to their third album Subhuman Race in 1995, tempers flared on the subsequent tour and Bach was fired.

It took until 1999 before Skid Row announced they had hired Johnny Solinger and began touring again, and it took a further four years before they released another album, Thickskin.

They followed up in 2006 with Revolutions Per Minute, but the music they were making with Solinger would never see them reach the heights of success they had achieved with Sebastian Bach a decade earlier.

Johnny Solinger would eventually leave the band in 2014 having been with them twice the length Bach was. But to this day if you think of Skid Row, you think of their earlier hey-day, and everything since is unfortunately a little forgettable.