James Wood at AXS recently caught up with Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French to discuss the recent passing of drummer AJ Pero and the band's final tour, featuring Mike Portnoy (The Winery Dogs) behind the kit. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

AXS: When the lights do go down for the final time on Twisted Sister (whenever that may be), how would you like the band to be remembered?

Jay Jay French: "We’ve had a lot of great music over the years but I’d like people to remember us as one of the greatest live bands that ever was. We were always honest about it. We learned our craft through the bars and were forged through the fires of the club scene. That taught us discipline, which taught us professionalism and professionalism taught us entertainment value. It’s something that we prize. I love it when people come up to me and say, 'Your show really inspired me and made me feel great!' As a performer, that’s the best feeling you can get!"

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Twisted Sister: A Concert To Honor AJ Pero will be held at The Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ on Saturday, June 13th. Tickets are $45 in advance / $50 day of show.

The show is all-ages to enter, 21 and older to drink. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

Andrew Horn has announced the acquisition of his latest documentary film, We Are Twisted Fucking Sister by Music Box Films in the US.

Some considered Twisted Sister a joke, but others called them the greatest bar band in the world. While the microcosm of punk/new wave was being born in Manhattan, Twisted Sister was battling their way to the top of a working class, suburban, cover-band bar scene, that surrounded NYC in a 100 mile radius, yet existed in a parallel universe. Twisted were the Grand Funk of glam and the NY Dolls of metal, channeling youthful fury, and a wicked sense of humor, into a sort of blue collar performance art in a vast scene that boasted monster clubs, attracting audiences of up to 2-5000 a night. It was both a great living and a dead end, offering no future outside the suburban enclave. If you think you know them from their hit songs, the MTV videos and massive stadium shows, this is the untold story of how they became that band - full of strange, and often hilarious, twists and turns. It's about Rock 'n Roll and the business of Rock 'n Roll. It's about perseverance and things blowing up in your face. It's about finding yourself, finding your audience and doing literally anything, however wild, to connect with them. A mesmerizing, and wickedly funny story of a 10 year odyssey to overnight success. Dress like women, talk like men, play like motherfuckers!

Andrew Horn is a filmmaker, journalist and researcher for documentary films. East Side Story, which he wrote and produced was included in the year’s Ten Best List in Time Magazine while his last film, The Nomi Song won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale and was named in the year’s Ten Best of VH1. His films have shown worldwide and appear in the collections of MoMa, the BFI, Deutsche Kinemathek, Cinematheque Français, etc.