TWISTED SISTER: SNIDER AS USUAL
They have a new album out, their fourth, Come Out And Play. They’re on an 11 month world tour. So of course Twisted Sister talks to the press. Then again, Dee Snider doesn’t need reasons or excuses to talk; one imagines the man talks in his sleep.
TWISTED SISTER: SNIDER AS USUAL
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Laura Fissinger
They have a new album out, their fourth, Come Out And Play. They’re on an 11 month world tour. So of course Twisted Sister talks to the press. Then again, Dee Snider doesn’t need reasons or excuses to talk; one imagines the man talks in his sleep. At any rate, he ranks as one of the all-time greatest interviews in rock. This time, with a few handy subject headings to break things up a little, we just let Dee go. Last time we looked, he was still going.
SEAN PENN, TAKE NOTE
“I get along great with interviewers. They don’t seem to want much, just to talk and be honest. Seems to me that interviewers hate people who bullshit ’em, or don’t talk. You know, like one of those—‘So how’s the show?’ (Pokerfaced). ‘Big.’ The reporter thinks, ‘That asshole, he made me feel stupid, so I’ll write things.’ So I talk too much, so they can’t get mad.”
JERRY FALWELL, TAKE NOTE
‘‘Hey, I really dig that button (points to one hanging in his open briefcase, that reads: ‘‘Jerry Falwell, suck my dick.)”.