Report: Still Hungry But Not Dangerous - An Interview With Dee Snider Of TWISTED SISTER
July 5, 2009, 15 years ago
Examiner.com has issued the following report from Melanie Falina:
Ironically, a few days before my interview with TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider, I had interviewed metal mistress LITA FORD.
Snider, however, came up in the conversation with Ford as one of the people who was encouraging her musical comeback. When Ford was told that I’d be talking to Snider later that week she asked me to tell him hello and to give his family her love.
“Ah, my dear friend Lita,” exclaimed Snider just a few days later, “She’s one of my closer rock and roll friends but our bond is post-80s and like family-person to family-person, we’ve had a number of vacations together with our kids and our spouses like each other and it has nothing to do with the music, just people who enjoy each other’s company. She’s a doll. She blames me for making her come out and stay playing again.”Ford had commented that when she came back out for a meet and greet that she’d attended with Snider, she commented to him how it was weird that she was wearing rock clothes again.
“Yeah, they have a house on the islands and she said that all she ever wears is shorts and a t-shirt,” Snider laughed. “But so I’d ask her, ‘Do you ever think about playing?’ And she’d go, ‘No, I’m done with that. That’s behind me.’ And I go, ‘That’s behind you? That’s cool, I get that.’ Even to me it’s a hobby now not my livelihood or my focus anymore. But I go to her house and every room has a guitar in it. Not like sitting in the corner and on display, it’s like on the couch or on the table. And I’m like, ‘What’s with all the guitars?’ And she’d go, ‘Well, I like to play once in awhile.’ Oh yeah, you’re going to play again, you’re not done! Like my guitar player Jay Jay, when he quit the business for a time, you literally wouldn’t find a guitar in his house - he didn’t even want to look at it. He didn’t even touch the guitar for like a decade or something like that; he really just got to that point. So that was the tell with Lita, there are guitars in every room - you wanna rock.”Read the full story at Examiner.com.
