TWISTED SISTER Frontman DEE SNIDER - "I Don’t Want To Get To The Point Where I’m Disappointing The Fans"
July 19, 2009, 15 years ago
TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider is featured in a new interview with Metal Express radio. An excerpt is available below:
Q: You’ve mentioned about retiring Twisted Sister or scaling back on the number of shows you do. Is this still your plan?
Snider: "It’s really what we’ve been doing; in the UK we did a run of dates with Alice Cooper a couple of years back. We always enjoy doing select dates. The shows with Alice were a one off and we haven’t done anything since or before but it was a great chance to play with Alice. At one show I got up on stage and sang 'Under My Wheels' and that was the dream of a lifetime. We just do 15, 20, 25 shows a year, mainly at festivals and for now we’ll continue on in that fashion. There’s some guys like Lemmy, I love that guy, who’ll end when he dies, and I remember a great quote saying that death is nature’s way of telling us to slow down. I thought that was brilliant, it was so Lemmy. I’m not one of those guys. I don’t want to get to the point where I’m disappointing the fans, whether it’s physically, vocally or performance-wise, and I’m happy to say that I don’t think I’ve reached that point yet, but I really don’t want to push it to the point where it is disappointing."
"I don’t want fans talking about how great it used to be. That to me will make my heart break on that day as I have an obligation to the fans to keep that memory of high energy, exciting performances alive. It keeps things exciting for us, too. It takes me back to being at high school where you’d have a concert once a month and you’d look forward to it coming and would be counting the days. I don’t want to end up like BON JOVI on 'Wanted Dead Or Alive' and crying in the dressing room. It becomes a job that you have to do, there’s crew, ticket sellers and all sorts and you can’t walk away. There were times during our heyday when I had no voice left and no body left but I still had to get out there and do it. Now we love doing this, we’re happy to see each other and we’re not together all the time to get on each others nerves, and it’s just great like this."Go to this location for the complete interview.
