TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French is featured in a new interview with UGO.com. An excerpt from the brief chat is available below:

UGO: What's up next for Twisted Sister, and what are the chances of the group recording an all-new studio album?

Jay Jay French: "We are unique in that we are only one of five bands remaining at our level from our era that perform with the original album line up (AEROSMITH, ZZ TOP, RUSH and MÖTLEY CRÜE are the other four). We continue to play around the world as the demand calls for it. This year we will play in Russia, Greece, Spain, England, Finland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Mexico, and two shows in the US. There will be no new music as far as I can see at this point, and the end of the band can come as early as the end of this year.

It is not a hype for me to say that the last posted show may be the last show. The reunion has gone on for much longer then I anticipated and can't go on forever. This is not a threat. It is how I look at the band. As every festival season ends, I assume that it will be done. The band members themselves are all over the place on this one. Some would play until they can't stand, some would just as soon retire tomorrow. I don't think that bands that have been around nearly 40 years are all that different in this regard. It has been a great run. It surpassed my wildest dreams that we would come back and be embraced around the world and become one of metal's greatest festival closers in history.

There is really nothing left to prove. We consistently get the best reviews compared with all the other bands we play with. For me, we have blown off the stage every band that we ever cared to be compared with. It has always been a very predatory approach to performance. This is why we headline and get paid what we get paid. Don't be naive and think that most bands don't feel this way. The festival world is like the Roman Coliseum. It's kill or be killed. Personally, if I can no longer attain that much satisfaction then no amount of money will keep me going. Many bands are criticized for 'doing it for the money.' I can say this - I have never phoned in a performance in my life. The day that that changes is the day I will walk away."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the landmark metal debut of 1982, Under The Blade by TWISTED SISTER on May 31st. The CD—originally produced by Pete Way of UFO—will also contain four tracks from their 1982 Ruff Cuts EP (never before on CD) as well as 'Shoot ‘Em Down', an ‘82 live track from England’s prestigious Reading Festival. The lavish package features the original Under The Blade cover, which has not appeared on any domestic versions of the album until now, and reflects the original Secret Records track list and remastered audio mix.

The DVD contains the entire previously-unreleased Reading concert. Vocalist Dee Snider, guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda, bassist Mark Mendoza and drummer A.J. Pero gave the crowd something they had not exactly ever seen before. It was, for all intents and purposes, a coming-out affair for this great band. They play as if their life depends upon it. They play as if they have something to prove. And they did. They’re young, hungry, determined and wind up headbanging with a desperate ferocity usually reserved for those kinds of life-altering performances that make a band. This is one of those performances. The set concludes with a show-stopping version of 'It’s Only Rock “N’ Roll' as the band jams out with Pete Way and MOTÖRHEAD’s Fast Eddie Clarke and Lemmy! The DVD also includes 40 minutes of newly shot interviews with the band about the recording of Under The Blade and the Reading Festival.

French joined the band SILVER STAR, a New Jersey based glitter band, in December 1972. The band, whose original purpose was to be the New Jersey version of the NEW YORK DOLLS, changed their name to Twisted Sister on Valentines Day 1973. The band however continually changed line-ups and didn’t take off until Snider joined in 1976. The lineup didn’t fully coalesce until 1982 with the final addition of drummer AJ Pero. Under The Blade first came out on an independent UK based label called Secret Records, but really gained momentum when Atlantic Records released a different mix of the album nationally in 1985 while taking advantage of the bands newly minted stardom. Their meteoric ascent came in tandem with the simultaneous rise of MTV. This version you now have in your hands is the most requested and sought after. The new digital re-mastered original mix of Under the Blade.

CD tracklisting:

'What You Don’t Know (Sure Can Hurt You)'

'Bad Boys (Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)'

'Run For Your Life'

'Sin After Sin'

'Shoot ‘Em Down'

'Destroyer'

'Under The Blad'

'Tear It Loose'

'Day Of The Rocker'

'What You Don’t Know (Sure Can Hurt You)' (Ruff Cutts Version)

'Shoot ‘Em Down' (Ruff Cutts Version)

'Under The Blade' (Ruff Cutts Version)

'Leader Of The Pack' (Ruff Cutts Version)

'Shoot ‘Em Down' (Live At Reading)

DVD tracklisting:

'What You Don’t Know (Sure Can Hurt You)'

'Sin After Sin'

'Bad Boys (Of Rock ‘n’ Roll)'

'Destroyer'

'Shoot ‘Em Down'

'Tear It Loose'

'Under The Blade'

'It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll'