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...
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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?
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)
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.
I love Dee and Twisted Sister but many people dont know the true history behind Love Is For Suckers. Originally conceived as a Dee Snider solo album, record company pressure convinced him to finish LOVE IT FOR SUCKERS as a Twisted Sister album. Of course, most fans had little idea about these backroom politics when they heard it for the first time. Jay Jay French admitted that he didnt record here about two years ago and said that Joey Franco programmed the drums. Reb Beach, Kip Winger (Before he started with Winger) and Joe Whiteman (Kix) are the musicians that recorded Love Is For Suckers. So Dee was not too honest here or Atlantic forced him to keep his mouth shout for contractual motives.... But Dee RULES!!!!!!
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 RUclips! 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.
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
David Eddy that was bullshit too..try watching the documentary on Netflix before making lame remarks like that. Trump asked Dee if he could use the song and Dee gave his blessing. However Dee had a conversation with him after one of his rallies and told him he could not agree with some of his stances. He said (Dee) Trump said and I quote.... "Fair enough". But he didn't prevent him from using the song.
One of the most underated front men of all time. He's Everythign you would want for a centerpeice to your band if your band Is a little out there and offten misunderstood. This is the guy you want on the front line.
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Dee, the only front man in the 80's that could give a coherent and sober interview.
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.
WOW!! You people take these things way to seriously.
They might be sober,
Gene and Ted are just jerks.
Blackie Lawless from WASP is another one that's really cool in interviews.
Rob Halford had a massive drug and alcohol problem because of him hiding how he was gay and Alice Cooper had a massive alcohol problem and some drugs.
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)
Agree 100 percent
+Jeff Clean 18 Also agreed
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
Burn in hell song is badass, they rock and JJ French TS guitarist is a marathon runner who can beat the whole PMRC dumbass senators in a race
Back then yes. Nowadays it should be censored. Especially rap. Which is not actual music but more noise pollution!
Dee is an intelligent, well articulated and funny guy.
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
ricky would nt like that!
Dee has an awesome personality to go along with an amazing voice.
snider is a smart dude - funny, great work ethic, no drugs or booze - make fun of him - i bet he's doing better than you.
Kevin Richardson umm ya he’s doing better than the vast majority. These guys made a ton of money.
@@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...
Dee is a great bloke, he's not afraid to tell it how he sees it and honest thanks for uploading
Did you notice he looks & sounds like Nicola's cage.
glen phillips he does a bit, but its not his fault. Lol!
Nicola owns a cage and it can talk?
I saw Twisted live in 2010. This guy gives 110% on stage from beginning to end. It was mind blowing.
Dee Snider is a class act! Gives a such a great interview. =)
I simply love dee's honest responses... someday imma be meeting this guy in person and enjoy the whole day hanging around... :D
Twisted sister rocks. Stay hungry.
Feel the fire
I'm a Russian. 44 yo. Love Dee and it's so freaking funny about the Russian lockers and stuff.
he's so cute! lol
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.
He is raw, real, funny and cool while he maintains a sympathetic aura around him as well. Amazing frontman
"Oh she's so cute!" LMAO That made my day :D
Dee Snider is amazing
i agree with the ''disgusting display'' part. sorry
Toooo funny! 😆☺️☺️. Love it
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.
Dee Snider is brilliant!
This guy is high on life. Love it
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
I hope you enjoyed Kill 'em All the most.
MAN I still have my LP AND CD's from that era ....
@@kevinthaynes sad to say at the time I didn't. I fell into the hair metal abyss lol. Until master of puppets was released👍
We had a designated row in our class named, Twisted Students.
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 .
Dee is so funny, great interview
Saw an interview with him a couple of years ago and he was still married to the same woman. So 30+ years.
He is so down to earth and genuine.
Twisted Sister is so awesome, DEE has an amazing voice.
Dee Snider is always awesome. Incredible voice, great character. Awesome.
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.
One of my favs
Dee Snider may be the coolest man on the planet!!!
Dee is a living legend!
This is great.
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.
What a fun, awesome interview!! You never get guests like this on the show!
dee kinda reminds me of rocky balboa the way he speaks and makes jokes.
hes a brilliant guy and top class artist
Tipper gore was so laughable. Thanks Dee for rocking always!
Old classmate. Sold him my SG in high school. Support his motorcade ride for cancer research. A very decent guy- always was. Happy for him.
Dee You are always fantastic and I love your performance
"How does that make you feel?"
"Like a piece of...ahhh, I don't know Dave..." *grins*
man, old school. First album i ever got? Stay Hungry! love it!
The price, is my favorite song🔥🤘n I like your hairstyle .Dee snider you rocking man....
It's great, I know allot of people who arnt into TS's music, but what I have shown them of clips of Dee and they instantly love the guy.
love him very funny
Yea he's not even a "comedian" and his improvisation is funnier than most thought out scripts
Love is for Suckers is very underrated
colemann76 "Love Is For Suckers" is for suckers.
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 All their albums are great. I bet you haven't even heard them all
+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!
Yup 1 of my favs, lot of great songs
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.
Dee is fantastic! Love the man!
Actually, USSR published his book in a children's newspaper, article by article every week. I believe it was somewhere in 88
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 saw Twisted Sister live back in 1986, that was fucking awsome
I love how Dave's set had a random ass wall thermometer in it. I wonder if it had a purpose or if it was just aesthetics.
It was the 80s. lol. I think it was probably part of Dave’s “Schtick” as it were.
Dee is great.
Dee looks & sounds like Nicolas cage.
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
This is why I fucking love New Yorkers.
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.
Sadly the New Yorker toughness and culture appears to be going to the wayside.
I'm Russian, and that's kind of insulting(
Still a great show, and Dee Snider is still one of the best people I've heard of
He’s always been someone that spoke his mind. But I can see where it might be offensive. I don’t think he meant it that way though.
He is a very tall well built man and intelligent
30 years ago i listen to Twisted Sisters and had till today no clue that Dee is a really funny guy.
Holy molly he is still alive!
What an awesome dude! Dee represents what metal is all about! Regular Joes playing bitchin' music. What an era! Love that guy!
This is so awesome. I miss the 80s
there's a name I haven't heard in a While, Joe piscapo
Joe Piscopo
I would so love to meet Dee Snider
Same!
one of the only guys who can wear pink vests and pink converses and have long blonde permed hair and still look manly!
Dyed blonde yes, permed no!!
Dee seems like, even today, he would be a very fun guy to hang with! I love this guy!
Dee Snider is the MAN!
For me he a real rock or metal hero \m/
snider is immortal! lol
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!
hahaha "no i dnt mind, come up and interrupt me during my meal ANYTIME" lol XD
Thanks for posting this:-) Classic Dee
Dee Snider is greatest singer and the only singer for Twisted Sister
Dee is awesome. Looks like Dave is really enjoying this
и вот спустя 14 лет, Я смотрю это видио и восхищаюсь Ди..
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.
can somebody upload the fight? id love to see it!
Dee is an original. 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?
+Dragaan what fight?
the one he talked about where the guy threw the bottle at him.
i have it in 1080p just Watch my channel
@@cooperminion825 the one he talked about at the concert
He's a great storyteller!
i love this guy,he is like a blonde Rambo :)
seen Dee n TS in clubs before their rise. Those days were special
Dee Snider é um exemplo no heavy metal sempre teve uma vida exemplar sem vícios , bom pai,honesto e muito talento, parabéns Dee!
he is such a good shit , good old dee
Awesome stuff, cheers for the vid!
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)
Who’s Howard?
The band was over, cannot believe he is on Letterman. He quit the band about 2 weeks after this.
Dee is hilarious, down to earth New Yorker
He handled mean hecklers who throw bottles better than Justin Bieber. This man is enjoyable and awesome to be with. I wish I could meet him. :)
Plainly awesome and smart.
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.
Dee is a legend!!!
I feel for ya, I was born in 1980 and I've pursued good stuff for years now that I missed growing up, damn MTV unplugged
I love Dee and Twisted Sister but many people dont know the true history behind Love Is For Suckers. Originally conceived as a Dee Snider solo album, record company pressure convinced him to finish LOVE IT FOR SUCKERS as a Twisted Sister album. Of course, most fans had little idea about these backroom politics when they heard it for the first time. Jay Jay French admitted that he didnt record here about two years ago and said that Joey Franco programmed the drums. Reb Beach, Kip Winger (Before he started with Winger) and Joe Whiteman (Kix) are the musicians that recorded Love Is For Suckers. So Dee was not too honest here or Atlantic forced him to keep his mouth shout for contractual motives....
But Dee RULES!!!!!!
His outfit is so fukin dope
I liked their music good old rocking roll
You could tell even then that he would be good at radio.
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 RUclips! 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.
Dee Snider
15 de marzo de 1955
68 años.
Voz de Twister Sister.
born in 91 here too, dont knock so hard on the 90s man, hell rust in peace came out in the 90s
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
towards the end of an era,,,had to wait 20 plus years for a come back!
rock for ever 🎵🎤🎶🎸🎸🎸👏👍
What a nice guy, easy to talk to, down to earth
When Dee said he wanted to rock, he meant it.
Poor bastard had no idea what was about to hit him. I'm glad he bounced back. Dee is a class act.
he tells it better on Podcast. Title- Twisted Tale
did u know he actually used WNGTI as trump's campaign theme
No, that was not the case. Trump used the song and Dee asked him to stop since Dee doesn't agree with Trump's platform.
oh ok gotcha
David Eddy that was bullshit too..try watching the documentary on Netflix before making lame remarks like that. Trump asked Dee if he could use the song and Dee gave his blessing. However Dee had a conversation with him after one of his rallies and told him he could not agree with some of his stances. He said (Dee) Trump said and I quote.... "Fair enough". But he didn't prevent him from using the song.
haha great interview
I read his book, he’s a good person
One of the most underated front men of all time. He's Everythign you would want for a centerpeice to your band if your band Is a little out there and offten misunderstood. This is the guy you want on the front line.