18 and Life is a song that will continue down the annals of music history. It's one of those songs you instantly know and recognize. And it's a damn great song at that. Everything from the beat, the melodies the lyrics the guitars and the solos are phenomenal.
don't be so humble Dave, you wrote one of the best songs that I until this day still enjoy. the whole songs is amazing, the arrangement, the riffs, alls is good. it is an evergreen. never grows old.
I think this guy is talented in his own abilities, even if he doesn''t have the same abilities as the original singer of the song, Sebastian Bach, and certainly doesn''t even want to be like the original singer of the song. But i think Tommy Johansson put all his talents into play to perform this song and it''s a performance worthy of credit. It would be interesting to hear what Sebastian Bach, the singer of the Skid Row band, would think of this performance by Tommy Johansson as sung by him. 🤔🤔🤔
Fantastic reaction, thank you so much for doing this. I had a feeling Snake might like Tommy's cover and I'm so glad he did. Too many people who know Sabaton have no idea Tommy is a singer, and it's really a shame. Glad it seems to be changing
As a Swede I'm glad to be alive at the same time as Tommy Johansson and Erik Grönwall. They are just awesome singers 🤩 I would like to se Dee Snider react to Tommys cover of The price.
This was freakin 'awesome!!🤘😃 A member of Skid Row reacting to Tommy's cover of "18 and life"!! I had so much goosebumps that I had to pause the video several times!! It was overwhelming!! 🤩 And yes, Tommy deserves this! Thanks for a great reaction!! 🤘 Btw, I'm a huge Skid Row fan as well. The new album is awesome!! 🤘😍🙏
I've said it before! Erik Grönwall and Tommy Johansson should do a collab together! It would be epic! Fantastic reaction video. So awesome to see Snake himself react to this epic song! Tommy is a beast and the hardest working man in the business!
Tommy is so talented. Guitar, piano, and a voice from god! To think he is only a backup vocalist in Sabaton. Wow. Great song. One of my favorites and probably the 1st song I heard from Skid Row back in the day. Wouldn't it be interesting if Tommy saw this and commented?
Tommy Johansson is such a fantastic musician. Amazing with the guitar, but also bass, keyboards, some drums and he sings with almost 4 octave range, composes and arranges and all. Seeing Mr Sabo's approval made me smile as well. I was in high school when this song came out and I've loved it ever since. Greetings from Sweden! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
@@Metal_Auditor I think I’ve seen one but I can’t find it now. But in an interview with the Swedish rock magazine “Rockbladet” on Dec 20, 2020 when they talk about how he often gets challenged during a Sabaton show to sing or play keys, he mentioned that he also plays drums but he wouldn’t tell Hannes to step aside for him to show off. In the same article he actually also reveals that he’s more comfortable playing piano than guitar, although he doesn’t play it as often (as guitar) these days.
@@jregns Thank! Ridiculous how this platform is with deleting comments that reference others, but I found the clip of him playing. Nothing crazy, but he held down a nice beat.
I came for ”the Tommy” but I stayed for Snake .. Oh man what a good guy.. so I had to watch the whole serie of reactions to get theinterview 😀 and the resoning about cover vs tribute .. spot on 🌹
I think this guy is talented in his own abilities, even if he doesn''t have the same abilities as the original singer of the song, Sebastian Bach, and certainly doesn''t even want to be like the original singer of the song. But i think Tommy Johansson put all his talents into play to perform this song and it''s a performance worthy of credit . It would be interesting to hear what Sebastian Bach, the singer of the skid row band, would think of this performance by Tommy Johansson as sung by him. 🤔🤔🤔
A REALLY beautiful reaction by Snake! Tommy takes on songs that no one EVER thought could be redone properly not even close! He chooses the most difficult songs to reproduce She's Gone, 18 and Life and Alone by Heart and he breathes new life into them and in my view, actually surpasses the originals..which has been unthinkable till now.
The song and lyrics are fantastic, and Snake is not only a great musician, but his entire demeanor is super pleasant and down to earth. Appreciate all that you do to bring these great reactions. Cheers. 🙂
@@Anders_Eriksson I’m a 60 year old guitar playing metal head myself and I kind of just stumbled across Tommy’s music when one of his covers appeared in my suggestions thread. I thought he was a lot younger than 35. I called him a very talented ‘young’ man not realizing he was that old. But still my kids are older than he is. Lol
I really like seeing snake enyoing this. Also with high hopes tribute (nightwish) . I see other people you let react but they dont really "react". When is see snake smiling and enyoing i start smiling mysel also...great!
It literally brought a tear to a grown man’s 54yr old eye watching Snake’s reaction to literally one of my all-time favourite songs. Tommy also does incredible tributes to Gary Moore, he’s the only artist I’ve ever known who seems to capture the very heart and soul of every track he covers. Seeing Snake’s reaction though, utterly priceless - you could see in his eyes how this blew him away. It’s rare that cover songs sound as good as the artist they’re covering, yet Tommy takes things to a whole new level - I’ve yet to be disappointed by the genius. Superb upload, incredibly humble of Snake to praise it so highly as well, you could see he was moved by that. Me too! 😉🤘👍 Joel, after saying he’d not yet listened to the cover because: “I knew it’d be good and I’m glad that I was right” - spot on! Edit: Thanks TH-cam - only a year late with this one, seriously, thanks, and thanks again! Sometimes I really wonder why I bother with Premium at all - for better music quality obviously? Oh right. Yeah. TH-cam deliberately compresses the audio on the free service to make it sound worse than it really does - premium only sounds ‘better’ because it’s not being deliberately sabotaged.
When I think of Skid Row, I think of 18 & Life. When I listen to 18 & Life, it brings me back when Skid Row influenced me, along with some other bands, to pick up the guitar, and start playing Rock/Metal music. I still play 18 & Life till this day, at 45 years old 🤘🏻 and if Snake's reading this, I want to say, you, Scotti and Rachel are awesome, and now with new Rob and Erik, Skid Row has returned into our lives! I'm a fan of Erik in H.E.A.T and now he's in my all time favourite band Skid Row 🤘🏻 now my only wish is to see you guys in person and I my life is complete!!
You shoud check dan vasc any cover song it dosnt rly metter cause all of them are great he is young guy from Brasil very harismatic dedicated and cant say he is talented, he was talented when he was a kid he is a master now
Wow! Just awesome, what a wonderful voice❤❤❤ That reminds me.... Have you heard Erik Grönwall? He won swedish idol 2009 and sang this song in audition. Also have a video like this...and sang Iron Maiden in contest and everything, really talented guy! Greetings from Finland❤❤❤ Becoming your fan and I just love your Nightwish reactions, just keep going! I love your english (how you speak), that helps me a lot to understand and learning your language more. Also 1 thing. Käärijä? I Know...I hate eurovision, never whatched it, but my son is obsessed with the song: cha cha cha. Wanna react to it??😂😂 Love u&hugs
Oh my god. Sorry😳 I just made some research and noticed that Eric IS NOW the new singer in Skid Row. What?😄 I was just a little girl when I fall in love with Sebastian, and now Erik takes the place? Well, good for him wow🤟
Thinking of it, that i only know Tommy can Sing, as he did one for Sabaton as Filler, when Main S. were absent nearly Decade ago. Thought, hey do some on your own, works great. I werent at Concert of them a long Time, does they implent Tommy nowadays on an more frequent Base?
He is a great singer, but IMHO uses too much effects and digital stuff - with his voice natural straight singing would be much more enjoyable - so not Hating, just saying my opinion..
Not bad, admittedly. Compared to Erik Grönwall, however, there is one thing that really holds Tommy back. The Swedish accent. Seriously, his pronounciation is borderline terrible. All hail the mighty Snake, though. What a sweet person.
Funny that Tommy has a swedish accent, but wait so does erik, and i rather spend my time listening to Tommy supposed terrible pronunciation than eriks terrible singing
Look at that smile in Snake Sabos face... Skid Row approved cover!
No denying Tommy is an amazing all round musician oozing talent
Snakes reaction is priceless. He’s so proud and that’s great because it’s an amazing tune.
WOWWW.......HE IS AMAZING !... I'm blown away by a artist married to a song, and he nailed it ...🎶...🎸
7:27 The smile when you knew that you served Snake a perfect gem!
18 and Life is a song that will continue down the annals of music history.
It's one of those songs you instantly know and recognize.
And it's a damn great song at that.
Everything from the beat, the melodies the lyrics the guitars and the solos are phenomenal.
Amazing ❤❤❤Tommy❤ The Best Cover❤
snake was genuine on his review he enjoyed it shows he's a great full person and didn't criticize Tommy's cover he did a excellent job on it
Very hard to be critical when Tommy's cover was objectively brilliant but yeah he clearly enjoyed it from the start
That song ladies and gentlemen, WILL remain 18 forever!🤘🤘
He's smiling, meaning he approves 👍👍🤘🤘🤘 i do too
What a tribute!
don't be so humble Dave, you wrote one of the best songs that I until this day still enjoy. the whole songs is amazing, the arrangement, the riffs, alls is good. it is an evergreen. never grows old.
I think this guy is talented in his own abilities, even if he doesn''t have the same abilities as the original singer of the song, Sebastian Bach, and certainly doesn''t even want to be like the original singer of the song. But i think Tommy Johansson put all his talents into play to perform this song and it''s a performance worthy of credit. It would be interesting to hear what Sebastian Bach, the singer of the Skid Row band, would think of this performance by Tommy Johansson as sung by him. 🤔🤔🤔
Fantastic reaction, thank you so much for doing this. I had a feeling Snake might like Tommy's cover and I'm so glad he did. Too many people who know Sabaton have no idea Tommy is a singer, and it's really a shame. Glad it seems to be changing
sebastian bach please react also!
And some of us had already discovered him before joining sabaton
@@KrystalHarwood-ty7rk ABSOLUTELY !!!...🎶🎸🎶
You said it Snake,Tommy is the best he nailed it ❤🤟
Snake! Thanks for the music!
Proud to be swede 4 sure!
tommy's vocal range be mad crazy he also plays multipul instruments guitar,bass,drums,piano/keyboards and flute
Thanks to you introducing us to Snake, I'm officially a Skid Row fan. Super cool guy, bro. Thanks for showing Tommy off to your friends!
Wonderful to see Snake hearing such a great tribute
Great music is timeless.
I'm slow to show...but always support Tommy Johansson reactions! The guy sings in beast-mode!
As a Swede I'm glad to be alive at the same time as Tommy Johansson and Erik Grönwall. They are just awesome singers 🤩 I would like to se Dee Snider react to Tommys cover of The price.
That would be awesome to see Dee react!
With all due respect, Eric can't hold a candle to Tommy's vocal resonance and texture. Much lest the guitar...piano...bass...drums...and hair.
I love this guy you freaking ROCK MAN ❤️
Man, Snake seems like the nicest guy.
Tommy's enunciation herein allowed me to at long last learn the words. Phenomenal talent.
Love love ❤️🔥🤘💯👌😍🎸
Love it
Skid row forever my band favorite
Respect for Snake . It's a magical cover of a magical song . Thanks for bringin this to us PLRP 👍
This was freakin 'awesome!!🤘😃 A member of Skid Row reacting to Tommy's cover of "18 and life"!! I had so much goosebumps that I had to pause the video several times!! It was overwhelming!! 🤩 And yes, Tommy deserves this! Thanks for a great reaction!! 🤘
Btw, I'm a huge Skid Row fan as well. The new album is awesome!! 🤘😍🙏
I've said it before! Erik Grönwall and Tommy Johansson should do a collab together! It would be epic!
Fantastic reaction video. So awesome to see Snake himself react to this epic song! Tommy is a beast and the hardest working man in the business!
Snake Sabos is one of those rear breeds of Rockers who is so humble and i love it.
I understand what you're saying and respect what u mean. However "rear breeds" had me giggle. Lord i'm too old for my mind.
Hahaha, humor is always ok.@@sten9019
His voice has a super charger
With Hemi🤘🤘🤘
Tommy is so talented. Guitar, piano, and a voice from god! To think he is only a backup vocalist in Sabaton. Wow.
Great song. One of my favorites and probably the 1st song I heard from Skid Row back in the day.
Wouldn't it be interesting if Tommy saw this and commented?
Get the Majestica (and previously known as ReinXeed) albums, Tommy sings on them.
Never heard this cover by Tommy before today.
Really enjoyed it and it was great to see that Dave "the snake" Sabo enjoyed it too.
Seems like such a cool cat ! They played here in Detroit a couple of weeks back .
Rocked the house !
Tommy Johansson is such a fantastic musician. Amazing with the guitar, but also bass, keyboards, some drums and he sings with almost 4 octave range, composes and arranges and all. Seeing Mr Sabo's approval made me smile as well. I was in high school when this song came out and I've loved it ever since. Greetings from Sweden! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
I've heard it said that Tommy has played drums before, but I've never seen evidence of it. Are there any videos of him playing them?
@@Metal_Auditor I think I’ve seen one but I can’t find it now. But in an interview with the Swedish rock magazine “Rockbladet” on Dec 20, 2020 when they talk about how he often gets challenged during a Sabaton show to sing or play keys, he mentioned that he also plays drums but he wouldn’t tell Hannes to step aside for him to show off. In the same article he actually also reveals that he’s more comfortable playing piano than guitar, although he doesn’t play it as often (as guitar) these days.
@@Metal_Auditor my comment keeps getting deleted, but search for the band C h a r l i e S h r e d, on the Zuckerberg platform. They have two clips.
@@jregns Thank! Ridiculous how this platform is with deleting comments that reference others, but I found the clip of him playing. Nothing crazy, but he held down a nice beat.
@@Metal_Auditor was it All the broken by The Lost Rockers?
I came for ”the Tommy” but I stayed for Snake .. Oh man what a good guy.. so I had to watch the whole serie of reactions to get theinterview 😀 and the resoning about cover vs tribute .. spot on 🌹
Love this cover/tribute! I’m totally addicted to Tommys music and, oh my God, what a voice he has❤
Hell Yeah Skid Row Aprroved Tommy !!!!💥💥💥 Thank You Mr. Joel For Introduced Tommy's Tribute To Skid Row !!!!!💖💥🙏💥
hi sanke and party like, this is the best cover ever with the proper way
he might be their next choice as the vocalist since Tommy is not only a great singer but also resembles Bach with those hair a lot too;]
Yes thats a great cover for one of the best rock songs of my life in my opinion...thx Snake for giving us this song and thx for doing the reaction
Tommy Rocks❤
I think this guy is talented in his own abilities, even if he doesn''t have the same abilities as the original singer of the song, Sebastian Bach, and certainly doesn''t even want to be like the original singer of the song. But i think Tommy Johansson put all his talents into play to perform this song and it''s a performance worthy of credit . It would be interesting to hear what Sebastian Bach, the singer of the skid row band, would think of this performance by Tommy Johansson as sung by him. 🤔🤔🤔
Loved your reaction ❤️ Tommy is amazing ❤️
A REALLY beautiful reaction by Snake! Tommy takes on songs that no one EVER thought could be redone properly not even close! He chooses the most difficult songs to reproduce She's Gone, 18 and Life and Alone by Heart and he breathes new life into them and in my view, actually surpasses the originals..which has been unthinkable till now.
The song and lyrics are fantastic, and Snake is not only a great musician, but his entire demeanor is super pleasant and down to earth. Appreciate all that you do to bring these great reactions. Cheers. 🙂
Awesome 🤘🎸❤
So much fun see Sabo reacting 18 and life! Tommy deserve so much this.. keep ém rolling ! Sweden is the Rock of rock ✌
I still care about this song too! Nicely performed, I could hear every word clearly.
Tommy Johansson is so a sweet boy, with so sweet intentions that we almost forgot, when listening to his performances, that he's really skilled too
As a 61 year old it's lovely when You call Tommy a boy (he is 36). Makes me feel as a young adult. 😂😂❤
@@Anders_Eriksson I find him very young in real life, and in his mind and that's not critical. That's very refreshing !
((50 as for me ^^) )
@@Anders_Eriksson He is 35 🙂
@@Anders_Eriksson I’m a 60 year old guitar playing metal head myself and I kind of just stumbled across Tommy’s music when one of his covers appeared in my suggestions thread. I thought he was a lot younger than 35. I called him a very talented ‘young’ man not realizing he was that old. But still my kids are older than he is. Lol
Respect
Weuwww awesome! Is my favourite Tommy song.
Thank you once again. We get to learn something new and see a reaction from the artists themselves That is is why we watch you.
I really like seeing snake enyoing this. Also with high hopes tribute (nightwish) . I see other people you let react but they dont really "react". When is see snake smiling and enyoing i start smiling mysel also...great!
It literally brought a tear to a grown man’s 54yr old eye watching Snake’s reaction to literally one of my all-time favourite songs. Tommy also does incredible tributes to Gary Moore, he’s the only artist I’ve ever known who seems to capture the very heart and soul of every track he covers. Seeing Snake’s reaction though, utterly priceless - you could see in his eyes how this blew him away. It’s rare that cover songs sound as good as the artist they’re covering, yet Tommy takes things to a whole new level - I’ve yet to be disappointed by the genius. Superb upload, incredibly humble of Snake to praise it so highly as well, you could see he was moved by that. Me too! 😉🤘👍
Joel, after saying he’d not yet listened to the cover because: “I knew it’d be good and I’m glad that I was right” - spot on!
Edit: Thanks TH-cam - only a year late with this one, seriously, thanks, and thanks again! Sometimes I really wonder why I bother with Premium at all - for better music quality obviously? Oh right. Yeah. TH-cam deliberately compresses the audio on the free service to make it sound worse than it really does - premium only sounds ‘better’ because it’s not being deliberately sabotaged.
A very well done tribute to a great song ! I was 21 when it came out and have heard it since a few hundred times. Will see the gang on tour for sure !
When I think of Skid Row, I think of 18 & Life. When I listen to 18 & Life, it brings me back when Skid Row influenced me, along with some other bands, to pick up the guitar, and start playing Rock/Metal music. I still play 18 & Life till this day, at 45 years old 🤘🏻 and if Snake's reading this, I want to say, you, Scotti and Rachel are awesome, and now with new Rob and Erik, Skid Row has returned into our lives! I'm a fan of Erik in H.E.A.T and now he's in my all time favourite band Skid Row 🤘🏻 now my only wish is to see you guys in person and I my life is complete!!
This was so cool to see 😊❤
What a awesome reaction, thank you for this!
Its funny that Erik Grönwall also covers the same songs as Tommy Johanson (for example Alone),
He's from idols?
@@ceciellepeters4696 Grönwall yes, not Tommy I think.
Check out Tommys Cover of thunderstruck with Brian Johnson 😉 I think you will have a lot of fun.
A good song will stand up to the test of time
Hell yeah!!! Anyone sent a link to Tommy yet?
Tommy johansson has made more covers there are top 3 world wide editions of the cover.
I want Majestica “Metal United”. You have to play it!
I think you should have showed him the Price. Snake is a TS fan
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have you heard Dan Vasc's cover of this song? Absolutely worth a listen
You shoud check dan vasc any cover song it dosnt rly metter cause all of them are great he is young guy from Brasil very harismatic dedicated and cant say he is talented, he was talented when he was a kid he is a master now
Wow! Just awesome, what a wonderful voice❤❤❤ That reminds me.... Have you heard Erik Grönwall? He won swedish idol 2009 and sang this song in audition. Also have a video like this...and sang Iron Maiden in contest and everything, really talented guy! Greetings from Finland❤❤❤ Becoming your fan and I just love your Nightwish reactions, just keep going! I love your english (how you speak), that helps me a lot to understand and learning your language more.
Also 1 thing. Käärijä? I Know...I hate eurovision, never whatched it, but my son is obsessed with the song: cha cha cha. Wanna react to it??😂😂
Love u&hugs
Oh my god. Sorry😳 I just made some research and noticed that Eric IS NOW the new singer in Skid Row. What?😄
I was just a little girl when I fall in love with Sebastian, and now Erik takes the place? Well, good for him wow🤟
And...now I watched Erik's journey from Idol to Skid Row. He almost died in cancer before becoming the lead singer. I cried, there must be angels😢🙏🙏🙏
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Thinking of it, that i only know Tommy can Sing, as he did one for Sabaton as Filler, when Main S. were absent nearly Decade ago. Thought, hey do some on your own, works great. I werent at Concert of them a long Time, does they implent Tommy nowadays on an more frequent Base?
He has his own band... Reinxeed, now known as Majestica. But he does sing a little song on every tour with Sabaton these days.
@@NotAPrincess88 Thx Lady:) Majestica, ok, my beloved Lady is listening to them, i should widen my Horizon- again;) stay Healthy
Tommy even looks a little like a young Sebastian Bach!
Tommy like Dimas rockier from.indonesia and Gris from india rocker
they oughta do sebastian bach reacting
Help tiler ❤️❤️🌹 Petr
Tommy will crashes all😅
Cool one!! Check SkidRow´s frontman, Erik Gronwall´s cover.. He have a bless and kill it! Start with Painkiller by Judas Priest . Keep em rolling
Maybe Tommy can replace Erik now when he left Skid Row. Tommy would also do it great🤘🤘🤘
Do check out 18 & life - GATC Cover 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Tommy should be the new singer in skid row
Tommy is a much better singer than Erik in my option. His voice suits this style better.
I like it but Sebastian has that rasp to it but he did awesome
Better than Sebastian..
So many lead vocalists, Why ? Who is the problem now ? They can't blame Sebastian Bach anymore.
Not my style from the original
Nah, Skid Row are nothing without Sebastian Bach
Maybe ask Snake why they don't have this guy on tour instead of the dumpster fire they have trying to be Baz?
Don't care about Snake Sabo, he is not vocal. We need to se Sebastian Bach.
He is a great singer, but IMHO uses too much effects and digital stuff - with his voice natural straight singing would be much more enjoyable - so not Hating, just saying my opinion..
Not bad, admittedly. Compared to Erik Grönwall, however, there is one thing that really holds Tommy back. The Swedish accent. Seriously, his pronounciation is borderline terrible.
All hail the mighty Snake, though. What a sweet person.
Funny that Tommy has a swedish accent, but wait so does erik, and i rather spend my time listening to Tommy supposed terrible pronunciation than eriks terrible singing
Man. What he said about 36 years for a total banger of a song. Chills about hearing that song.
Snake is thinking. This dude like Bach... Plays lead and rhythm.. That's already 3 members in 1