KINGS OF DEMOLITION (United World Rebellion: Chapter One EP, 2013) For me, this song accurately reflects what that period of time was like for Skid Row. That’s what happened to us in the mid-90s. It’s amazing how success can paper over the cracks in the relationships between band members, but when you have adversity, people’s real characters come through. And there was a lot going on with the band at the time. Of course, it was a crazy time for music, so the album didn’t do much.
Skidrow in a darkened room movie#
It was the first song I wrote on my own, and also the first Skid Row song ever to be used on a movie soundtrack ( The Prophecy, starring Christopher Walken). But we were always so much more complex than we’d shown there. It might have been strange given the way we sounded on our first record. But I wanted us to talk about the whole situation. For a band who were known back then for something like Youth Gone Wild, this was something really different. It was very brave for anyone to openly discuss how they were abused as a child. People were only just coming into the open, to talk about this. Back in 1991, this was very much a taboo subject. Yes, it’s a ballad, but so what? The sentiments expressed here are very dark and heavy. IN A DARKENED ROOM (Slave To The Grind, 1991) So, Rachel referred to it as Quicksand Jesus, and we thought that was a great song title. But because of the way it was positioned, it always looked like it was in quicksand. In the midst of the flowers was a small ceramic bust of Jesus. The title came about because in my mum’s backyard, there was a tree surrounded by flowers.
And we knew that through our music, we now had a voice to express our emotions on how ugly and devastating the whole thing was. It was the first time we could see a war going on through adult eyes. We started writing it when the first Gulf War was going on. QUICKSAND JESUS (Slave To The Grind, 1991)
Skidrow in a darkened room full#
Rachel can take an idea we’ve come up with, lock himself away in a room and come back with 17 pages full of great lyrics! At the time we did Youth Gone Wild, we were in in our early 20s and wanted a song that would be representative of us.
He sees things from an interesting and obscure perspective. It was then that I understood he was a lot better as a lyricist than I was. But Rachel then went away and rewrote them. It originally had a different set of lyrics. Rachel took it a step further, and then we developed the song from there. The way it worked was that I had an idea for the song and where it could go. And we appreciated what we had as a writing team was the potential to reach people. As this came together, I could tell that our partnership was real. It’s such a personal thing, but this song galvanised the writing partnership between Rachel (Bolan, bassist) and me.
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