The phone rang and a loud voice yelled, "Dooood!" I knew immediately it was my old bud, Sebastian Bach. He wanted to let me know what he thinks about rehab, Celebrity Rehab and his last reality-TV show, SuperGroup.

On SuperGroup, the producers, 3 Ball Productions, played up Bach's "drinking problem." With Ted Nugent and Evan Seinfeld both confronting him, they surely pumped up the show's ratings. "At the end of the day it hurt my career as far as people thinking I’m a drunk all the time," he explained. "That’s what reality TV does. I’m not gonna whine about it, but ever since that show I’m trying to put the focus back on music and not drinking, because that show did damage to me."

After SuperGroup concluded in 2006, Bach agreed to a 30-day rehab, at the request of his management: "It was a joke. It was such garbage. This is the new trend in Hollywood - put celebrities into rehab for 30 days. When I grew up in the ’70s, there was Cheech & Chong, Van Halen, the Eagles, smokin’ weed, partying and drinking. Now the trend in Hollywood is this rehab bullshit. It's this hip Hollywood thing. But then you’re completely demonized from the industry. It's ridiculous."

Bach, who lives in New Jersey, said Dr. Drew Pinsky has attempted to recruit him for his VH1 show. “They ask me every season. I’m not interested in making bad art. Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew is out of control.  That show sucks. Dr. Drew wants to be a rock star more than anybody else."

"So are you actually sober?" I asked.

“I don’t drink at all - except for some red wine, that’s it," he noted with a sharp giggle. "As far as smoking goes, all I can say is that I’ve done every drug there is to do. Comparing pot to other drugs is like comparing gasoline to water. It’s not like anything else. It’s been my experience, if you’re gonna partake in anything, the safest alternative is marijuana and I will always say that. I’ll always stick up for that, dude."

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