Gene isn't a front man, Paul Stanley is and yes he could give coherent interviews. I have a lot of love for Uncle Ted, I have met him a couple time growing up in Chelsea, MI near where he lives(d) and even a sober Ted can give some pretty whacked out interviews. Cant really say I remember any Halford interviews from the 80's.
not a twisted sister fan but great respect for Dee , the only person still alive who fought for our right to listen to music uncensored before the senate PMRC hearings (RIP to FRANK ZAPPA & JOHN DENVER)
I'm still a fan of their older stuff (Under the Blade, Stay Hungry..to a degree) and Dee did carry the rock/heavy metal flag into battle against Tipper Gore and the PMRC.. and Dee made them all look like pathetic fools. RESPECT
I've always loved Dee Snider. Whether you like him or not, dude is sober and intelligent and nothing short of interesting in interviews. He's had to mend some fences along the way with bandmates because of some of his running off with the mouth, but man...he's real. You have to respect the fact that he's real. "Twisted is the next Menudo..." beautiful. lol
@@reubination Yes and no. Record companies really shafted musicians back then. When they reformed TS (after Dee had made money writing a Christmas song for Céline Dion), Dee was putting flyers for his wife's beauty salon under car wipers in and around Long Island. Dee made more cash from the royalties off Dion's song than his whole TS career, IIRC...
I could have lived in the 80's and 90's forever. Especially the 80's. Such a great time with some cool new technology that was more than enough for me.
Uff, I always say this, technology in the 80s was more than enought. Computers, synths, instruments pedals, video games, idk, you have a lot of stuff without being so instrusive like today. A lot of classic music albums and bands of every genre, rock, punk, metal, country, pop, idk... Of course you have a lot of good stuff in other decades but in the 80s you can have everything.
The first album that I ever got was Twisted Sister's Come Out And Play at seven years old at Camelot Music store back in 1987. I got it from the $1 section of cassette tapes. I listened to that album very often and loved it big time. About two years later I found Love Is For Suckers at Camelot Music store in the $1 cassette tape section and got it. I listened to that album very often also. Both Come Out And Play and Love Is For Suckers are very special albums to me still because I have amazing memories as a little kid listening to both of them hundreds of times. Over thirty years later both albums still sound amazing to me and I still really enjoy listening to them. I know that both of those albums were considered failures and did not sell that well, but to me they are very special and so is Stay Hungry. Twisted Sister is and has been a very special band to me because they are one of the first bands to get me into Heavy Metal/Hard Rock music. Quiet Riot is the first band that got me into that music but Twisted Sister's Come Out And Play is the first album I got as a little kid.
They didn't talk about his testify before the senate about censorship of music. There was a tv movie in 2002 called Warning: Parental Advisory. It was about the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with "obscene" lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it. Dee did an excellent job defending free speech.
Born in 73. I remember being 11-12 in grade 6 listening to Stay Hungry, Shout at the Devil, Kill em All, and Piece of Mind constantly. I'd save up allowance/lunch money to hopefully buy a new album maybe once a.month from the record store. Good times
Watched the twisted sister documentary on Netflix a few nights ago . On the documentary Dee said how he would take the mike stand and punch holes in low ceilings in clubs is totally true . I saw him one night trash talk this club beggars opera in queens ny . A club a few blocks from my house . Take his mike stand and break holes in the drop ceiling . He used to stop the show to call out people who were not into the show .
One of the few rocker musicians I have great respect for. Great voice, great talent, great concept man, great Christian. Thank God for you Dee bringing clean rock to the world.
He’s an extremely intelligent man if you’ve ever seen his movie strangeland you would understand that not only him writing the movie and acting in it as captain howdy/Carlton Hendricks but the things he says in it.
all of TS crap is .. pretty crappy ....... ole TS had a few decent/good songs .. they were a hair/makeup joke of a band !! .. hahah .... Dee hates everyone it seems ..he's pissed at like anyone in the industry !! .. haha . What a Fugly douche !
+gremlinjr2 - Dee Snider and Twisted Sister are legends...period. Their music has stood the test of time...and many bands list TS as influences! DEE rules!
You can really sense a difference in Dee's "inner self" when comparing this appearance to the one in '84. Of course the state of TS is probably at least 90%, if not 100%, of why that is. Nice to see that he (and they: the rest of TS) faced and fought their demons and made a remarkable and much better managed rebound these past 15 years. They've actually been around longer since they reunited than their original run of Dec '72 - Oct '87. It's over next year. It'll be a bitter sweet '16.
As much as I enjoyed watching this interview, I wish it wasn't clipped. I remember that Dee had asked what the fountain was for and Dave turned it on. That is what the "I feel so foolish" remark is about. I was 18, a freshman in college, and I saw this interview on it's initial airing and still use "I feel so foolish" to this day
I love 'em b/c nothing really seems to faze them. take Dan Akroyd's cameo in the ghostbusters reboot, he's a taxi driver who's all blasè about the ghost invasion in NYC. at the end of his cameo, he says the famous ghostbusters' line: "I ain't afraid of no ghost" and drives off.
Look up "We're not Gonna take it" You may also look up the time he went in front of Congress to defend his music, when his type of rock was called "porn", and had to defend his right to play music, or get serioulsy fined
I like the bit where he says " He's so cute! " lol ... Dee Snider is such a funny, cool guy. People often don't respect the fact that Rock Gods are skilled writers and musicians. Rock on!
Are you kidding? I'm guessing the fight would have been back in the early 80's or even late 70's. At a club, not a huge concert venue (2k is a fairly big club, but still). You think they had cameras set up to record every show? Or were you expecting someone to upload it from their old 1980 iPhone?
Twisted Sister was pretty much done by this time, they played their last show 2 months later in Oct of 87, they wouldn't play together again for about 12 years.
OMG! Hilarious! I worked 3-11:30 in 1987. I spent months coming home to catch a last bit of Johnny Carson and Dave Letterman entertained me. Geez! Sure could have used the internet! Oh, then I enjoyed the rebroadcast of the local channel 4 11PM news. Then MTV had videos! When people were like....why don't you just come home and go to sleep? Get your butt out of bed by 9 am? Ok, I was a 24 year old and an RN. Kind of nocturnal and not exactly a slacker sleeping all day. Must have finally had something fun to do that night! Thanks RU-vid! I can see it now! Oh and I went to day shift that year. Who cares? LOL Just 1987 Dave Letterman and Dee Snider reminded me.
Too bad Howard trashed their relationship. I do sincerely believe Howard is too protective of his latest wife to the point it makes him nuts. HEY DEE ! Thanks for using your time on this planet WISELY :o)
lol when letterman was holding the record in the beggining i thought "what the f is that" it looked so big and then I thought ok they weren't made compact yet
Uh huh, I was 13 in 1986 and I'm glad that we were born in the early to mid 70's. The 80's to be growing up in is a decade I would not trade off for anything in the world... I just wish that I could of been born 3 years earlier, that would of made a difference at such a young age then to experience the decade.
