![]() Such connections would be easier to make if Snider had a higher public profile, say along the lines of Ozzy Osbourne. Incidentally, Snider suggests Aguilera's not the only one commiting hair-esy, pointing to Hedwig (of the Angry Inch) and Sarah Jessica Parker ("She owes me a great deal"). Let's convince people once and for all, by being seen in the same place at the same time, that Dee is not Christina." C'mon, be a little self-deprecating, Christina. "The response from her people was no way! I don't think she has much of a sense of humor. Snider, who hosts a syndicated weekly '80s rock radio show, "House of Hair," and until recently did a daily morning radio show simulcast in several cities, says he tried to get Aguilera as a guest. "What were her hairdresser and makeup artist thinking? You're a petite, cute 19-year-old - let's make you look like Dee Snider from Twisted Sister!" "When it happened, my phone was ringing off the hook," Snider says, laughing. Even casual fans have noted that a certain Christina Aguilera has become the spitting image of a certain Dee Snider (for proof, go to Aguilera unveiled her new look in June of 2001 on the MTV Movie Awards when she performed "Lady Marmalade" with Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink. ![]() Not just Snider's mark these days, of course. ![]() My face makeup is as much my mark as Gene Simmons's demon makeup is or Alice Cooper's whiplash mascara is." Who could forget those mile-high platform boots, Snider's mascara madness and the kind of hair that defined hair band? Some Sisters apparently preferred to do just that.Īccording to Snider, "the resolution is that Twisted Sister is known for its look as much as for its music, and to go out there and not look like Twisted Sister - or a reasonable facsimile, given the fact that we're all a bit older than we were back then - is really shortchanging the audience. VH1 was filming the inevitable "Behind the Music" at about the same time and a reunion tour would have taken place last year, except that band factions had major disagreements about whether to go out with or without the outlandish costumes of yesteryear. "No makeup or costumes or anything, but we went out and played a short set together for the first time," Snider says. The band's final lineup got together in the studio to record a new song, "Heroes Are Hard to Find," and did so again in 2001 for a multi-artist tribute album, "Twisted Forever." The band went public again in October of 2001 for New York Steel, a benefit concert for the families of firefighters, police officers and EMS workers who died in the Sept. ![]() The "come together" moment was Snider's 1998 low-budget horror film, "Strangeland," based on a couple of songs from Twisted Sister's 1984 "Stay Hungry" album. But the bad fades away and you can sort of be friends." ![]() "Then we started to let bygones be bygones," Snider says, "accepting that, like a marriage, you had some good years and towards the end it got bad. Together, they'd weathered a decade of struggle before finding an audience in the early '80s with defiant metal anthems like "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock," only to lose it because of overexposure and mediocre recordings that exacerbated personal conflicts. "For a good 10 years, we pretty much didn't speak to each other," Snider says of former band mates Jay Jay French, Eddie Ojeda, Mark "The Animal" Mendoza and A.J. The group's last tour took place in October of 1987, after three years in the spotlight of MTV and the national media, as well as the searchlight of a Senate committee investigating "porn rock."īut not until summer, says Dee Snider, who brings his twisted show, but not the reunited Sisters, to Jaxx tonight. FOR MANY '80s metal bands, it was hair today, gone tomorrow. ![]()
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