So that would be three nights in a row that I would see them play, in just one week.”, “I always liked Twisted Sister as a cover band. And I wasn’t even a fan of the music. “I’d always go with my friend George and a bunch of guys I was in a band with. The Metal Meltdown DVD’s released by Loud And Proud Records consist of a concert …, July 1, 2016 (2018– ). Bloodstock Release Day Tickets; Launch YouTube Competition, Metal Meltdown – To Launch on August 5th Featuring “Twisted Sister – Metal Meltdown Live @ the Hard Rock Casino Las Vegas- A concert to Honor AJ Pero”, Twisted Sister’s last ever UK show at Bloodstock – The Ultimate Setlist, ‘We Are Twisted Fucking Sister’ – The Twisted Sister documentary, Bloodstock to hold M2TM video competition again in 2016, ‘We are Twisted F*cking Sister!’ The Movie – Cover Artwork Unveiled. Event Reviews I thought it was a pretty good overview of their history up into the album You Can't Stop Rock n Roll. And me and my friend kept hearing about all these Rock clubs in New Jersey and then one night we just said, the hell with it, let’s just find these places!”, “We used to see them at Speaks constantly! – Dan Epstein, Rolling Stone, “ fascinating (…) a comprehensive and sometimes harrowing portrayal of the grind a working bar band in the 1970s had to endure to get by.” To unravel a murder mystery, investigators dig up secrets long thought buried, and come face-to-face with people who will do anything to keep those secrets in the ground.

And it was unique to Twisted. [1], Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a raucously riotous rags-to-riches record of rip-roaring rock renegades". So we wanted to find shows, and we liked things that were loud and raucous, and that’s what Twisted Sister was.”, “In the very early 80s I was running a label called Secret Records. So we actually had a name for that condition, it was called “Speaks Neck”.”, “Attending high school in Queens NY, most kids were sporting Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, The Doors and Led Zeppelin on their jackets. Festival Announcements Or I thought we sucked or I didn’t have any confidence in what we did and I figured well, if we can’t play better, I’ll beat them to death until they clap! You didn’t want to be too close because then Dee would certainly pick on you. To celebrate, day tickets are now on sale! I attended the Twisted Sister Press Conference at this years Hellfest. I liked all that stuff, I loved all that stuff. Cause we were only 16 or 17, my father forbade me to go to Nassau County, so I would have to sneak out.

It was kill or be killed time…but I ran fast at my age…”, “Twisted got signed to Atlantic in the UK so then they had a much bigger fan base here and it was obvious that they needed a fan club. This is not about their  hit songs, the MTV videos and their massive stadium shows, rather it’s the untold story of how they became that band – one full of strange, and often hilarious, twists and turns. Lauri: Twisted didn’t come on until 11:00 maybe? With Mark Krenik, Stuart Todd Martin, Aundrea Smith, Colt Carville. Festival Announcements Comments Off on Twisted Sister Press Conference, Hellfest 2013. Comments Off on ‘We Are Twisted Fucking Sister’ – The Twisted Sister documentary, PlanetMosh had the undeniable pleasure of reviewing We Are Twisted Fucking Sister – a captivating documentary DVD spanning the early, at times undisclosed career of Twisted Sister. Saw them quite a few times, they played covers of Lou Reed, Bowie, Zep, etc.

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I found it weird to watch as the clothes and makeup progressed and then suddenly the band is playing Under The Blade without explaining how they got there, although Under The Blade was obviously covered later. Through interviews, filmmaker Andrew Horn traces the history of Twisted Sister from their origins in the bar scene of early 1970s Long Island to their pre-MTV rise as a popular regional, New York-based band in the mid 1970s and early 1980s. I hope if they do something like that they do go back into the You Can't Stop era a little. Festival Announcements When you’re passionate about something either way, it makes it worthwhile.”, “It was usually me, my buddy John, my buddy Mike, this guy Donny, Bruce, Al, and then we met a bunch of girls that we knew there. Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2016. And Speaks was tough to be standing in the front because the stage was so high and you’d stand up there all night long – your head was at an angle looking up, so the next day you were really sore. Immensely compelling” Text Interviews Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by lschwart, Aug 20, 2016. Comments Off on Bloodstock to bring ‘Metal 2 The Masses’ again in 2016, Bloodstock Open Air has confirmed that it will be running its annual ‘Metal 2 The Masses‘ competition in 2016. (…) a film for everyone, not just fans, one which [imparts] a deeper understanding of and respect for the men who lived it.” on Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016 – Friday 12/8/16. Archived. With haunting, real-life 911 calls as its through-line, Murder Calls is true-crime storytelling taken to a new level. Great film.

I was the cute one in the band. You know they slowly worked in they’re own material over time, but they performed the cover songs with such intensity, whether it was Johnny B. Goode or a Judas Priest song.
I do hope for a part 2. Whether you know Twisted Sister, love them, hate them or just couldn’t care less, it’s probably not the story you know or expect. But, for my sins, my heart was always into Heavy Metal and I wanted to kinda experience that all again. Dee Snider: So I never heard Twisted but I knew from the ads what they did and from hearing about them, people would talk about them – Mott The Hoople, Lou Reed, David Bowie, that was their thing. And then during dress rehearsal at the Palladium, catastrophe struck …. The disco sucks stuff was worth it for the hilarious, then sobering story of what happened when they hung Barry White in effigy in some small town upstate. DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL: 24 new bands, Trivium stage boost, day splits revealed! The movie spends almost all its time in the club years. The film, lenght 137 minutes + over 2 hours bonus material will be available on VOD (iTunes & Vimeo on Demand) and as DVD (Amazon Europe and Monoduo Films …. Cause I love guitars, I love the shape of guitars, I don’t know, especially Les Pauls. But you see it wasn’t my kind of thing, that’s what it was. [Twisted] were playing like uh, David Bowie – like Davie who?! I was sporting a custom painted Bad Boys Of Rock ‘n Roll Twisted Sister logo on the back of mine. November 10, 2018 They regaled their audiences with comedy rants, dragging them on stage for vomit inducing drinking games, engaging them in fits of disco record smashing and, at their most extreme, whipping them into club-destroying frenzy. While this film didn't change my opinion about that, it did leave with a lot of respect for what these guy went through and how much they believed in themselves. And it was like…that’s where I stood every time.”, “Yeah, we came up here from Louisiana and started opening up for a lot of different bands and Twisted was one of them, and it kind of helped us get a following. I talk to hundreds of bands and nobody’s ever gone through what we went through.

And they liked that they all looked like they were one. The very mighty SLAYER are set to close out the festival at Catton Park next August. With Mark Krenik, Stuart Todd Martin, Aundrea Smith, Colt Carville. I'd say that Quiet Riot did have better musicianship without question (Banali is a good drummer, Chuck Wright a talented bass player, and Carlos Cavazo is a pretty talented guitarist).