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They look like women, they play like men,
and they are the biggest collection of hell-keepers to get out of America!
This is Twisted Sister!
♪ Good evening! ♪
♪ Welcome to our event! ♪
♪ If you have that problem, yes ♪
♪ All right I think so You must know ♪
♪ I want to tell you something ♪
♪ I am someone you can trust ♪
♪ You better take good ones look hard ♪
♪ Because there are diamonds in this dust ♪
♪ Hit it! We are not an overnight sensation ♪
♪ There's no Cinderella fantasy ♪
♪ Please do not have compliments or applause ♪
♪ I've heard it before You see... ♪
In the summer of '72
I was determined enough that the drug scene
that I have become part of a New York City
hippie child is pretty much over.
And during that summer I succeeded subscribe to "Fusion Magazine"
and by subscribing to it comes a Lou Reed album,
a David Bowie album, and Mott the Hoople album.
And the cover of "Fusion" David Bowie is in it.
And I go whoa! Whoa! What is this?!
This is not a Grateful Dead.
This is something is completely different.
And I change gears 180 degrees.
Then when The Dolls starts playing at Mercer Arts Center,
That is a new world for me.
Bowie is there, and Lou Reed is there.
And here it is glam glitter is kinda thing.
You know I'm strangely connected to it,
unless I am a musician
and these bands It's not music for me.
Actually they are very bad.
I mean they are terrible.
They look great. Man, The Dolls look amazing.
I will go home and go,
"The band, if they can play, they will make a lot of money.
But they suck."
And I thought, "Wow, if possible a band like that, but be good!"
I started to get rid of taste,
You know, what I want to be in a glitter band.
And I received this call from a man
which sounds a bit like Rocky Balboa.
And he is like, "Hey, how are you?
My name is Mel, You are a Glittah?"
"You are a Glittah?" - I've never heard that phrase,
"Youse inta Glittah." Like you
Yes, I became glitter.
"Bowie, Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople, yeah, yeah."
"We have to unite,
and we will be like dress like women."
I say, "Really?"
I said, "Are there many groups?"
He said, "Oh yes, you will lie a lot."
And when he comes to my house,
You know, the doorbell rings and I look out
And here it is African-Americans there.
And I go, "Sorry, who are you?"
And he said, "This is Mel." And I went, "Oh, okay, whatever.
We got into the car and drove for the first training in New Jersey.
basically it's yours
The band has sort of template
There is Michael singer,
and Billy the guitar player
who form themselves like Mick and Keith.
Mel more jazz influenced drummer,
I think, but a good drummer.
Kenny on bass is this great musician
which seems a little out of place Overall, socially,
but sensational musicians.
So I think this is a good band.
And we will be like looking really great--
like, we will look like The Dolls,
but we will sound much better, and we will get a recording contract.
Hello, Stu? You will panic
You must see this action.
The New York Dolls have no in these people
One of the first questions they ask me if you will be,
um, fight like wearing anything makeup or something.
And I thought yes, okay I can do that
I have never Now it's a different thing
than I used to play.
They are playing like David Bowie--
like David who ?!
It's like, a little weird. I don't say anything,
Because I want to be like a team player
So I'm not so sure if I like it,
but when we play some songs,
Like the energy that is there.
And one thing that is certain is,
I don't want to get real work anymore
In the 70s, in New York,
the world capital that has been abandoned
by adults at that time
and left to anyone who owns it balls to stay there.
In the right city you have rap,
who you are know born and develop
and punk grow out from the city center
And once you go over the bridge
or through a tunnel and leave the city...
You are in America, Basically,
and that is a different world
The beauty of that era is that there really is...
nothing to do as far as nightlife,
except to go to the cinema or go see a live band.
And usually more happens with a live band.
And that's good
because everyone just comes out in droves.
The current scene, mid 70s or more, in the Tri-State area
originally started like in Westchester County
and some parts of Long Island,
and it only grows and grows and grows.
What I understand,
it's the only place in the country
it has this kind of intense club area
And it seems there are still To this day the band is Top 40,
uh, club owners are looking for
the band that plays hits today
We are playing Led Zeppelin,
we are playing The Who, we play Jethro Tull,
we are very famous for that.
And all that is done right.
It's all done until tobacco
Everyone wants to see, oh, can they do AC / DC?
Could they do Led Zeppelin?
How good are they doing this?
Nobody wants to hear original music
And no one plays original music at that time.
And look, Once you enter the circuit,
and you swim in that stream,
You know, suddenly everything is open, and that's it.
First show on Satellite
Certainly something is different.
It's like a very big place,
and that's true _ near the Fort Dix Army base
and then right across the street from McGuire Air Force Base.
So you like the Air Force and Army
and all these people come here
Our makeup Doing it is very feminine.
And I remember being like really nervous
Because I think well of them We will see us
and they will start throwing things
But there isn't anyone in this room
It is a giant bowling alley which holds 3,000 people.
Maybe there are 20 people per night
Tuesday night, no.
Wednesday night, no. Thursday night, no.
We feel rather comfortable into the groove,
Maybe no one will show it and we will learn the song
Because we barely know enough songs to get past three sets.
We have to play five. Come on weekend, bro!
There are 3,000 G.I.s-- God!
I am sick, It hurts physically to my stomach.
Looking out, see these 3,000 people,
see myself dressed with a dog collar,
think, "Oh, I'll just be killed
"This is where I will die.
Come here, dress up In drag, I will be killed."
But for any reason,
soldiers there drunk and want entertainment!
About 16 years I come to the crossroads
where as an unpopular child
who doesn't have many friends or doesn't match
with every click or Things like that,
I, um, arrived at a point where I was really aware that I faded a little.
I fade into the background,
and I become nonentity.
And I remember literally Trembling and saying,
That, you know, I won't go silent at night!
And I'm an outcast like this but I don't really care
I just became my own person.
I always sing in the band. And I started to excel.
So my band started to become popular bands in school.
Harlequin is mine post high school--
My first band started playing in a little club
But somewhere along the way,
I was offered the opportunity to join a band bar that works,
which is hardly the Harlequin band is
They are called Merak.
But it will happen give me a chance
to really make a living
And I think I will really hone my skills.
So I left a much better band to join a weaker band.
People can't forget it as we see it.
Actually there aren't anyone else out there on the scene
it's doing anything like what we do
We will kiss it in the Bowie medley.
And that will happen outrageous, but cool.
And the chicks will dig it, and we will lay a lot.
We got this dog collar -
quite severe, you know, like this is high, and buttons.
And we have a chain and we will do it Chain with each other together.
One thing we must be careful about though is to make sure
the amplifier is grounded correctly
If not, you will get it a surprise.
We have very cheap trucks.
And we can to make $ 150 a night,
six nights a week play in one club
You really can make money.
I mean, without sounding like my father,
gas is, you know, 29 cents per gallon
and a hotel for $ 39 a night,
and truck rentals like 50 bucks a week
I mean you can actually function
We get a band performance at home Mad Hatter in the Hamptons,
which is this big nightclub on Long Island.
For summer '73, 15 weeks in a row, stay above the club.
We are 20
What do you think?
I mean it's ridiculous. That is fun.
That's crazy. There are women everywhere.
The place will be truly packed shoulder to shoulder.
People go crazy.
The only problem is Michael will get drunk because the night will continue,
and we only play less music Michael will start, like, drool.
That, like, well I shouldn't say funny,
but when you look on stage
and you don't see the front man up there
and you wonder - and one of you your guard or bartender
tells you, "Bob, he's here..."
And I, "Where?"
He fell off the stage. He is on the side of the stage.
I mean, what kind of thing, you know.
But the whole band is drunk.
Mel fell in the drum chair one night.
I remember he drank something like nine Rusty Nails.
He collapsed. Billy fell.
Kenny is drunk all the time.
I am surrounded by alcoholics, and I don't drink.
But we made music
and we are clear make people happy
And this band becomes bigger
and finally we succeed into the second summer
We are a home band in East OBI,
which is a club 10 times the size of the Hamptons.
... we must be good.
Unfortunately, we don't have it the ability to use it.
Our management really doesn't understand what we are
It's like trying to throw a saddle on an atomic bomb.
You know you like it rather hold the sucker as long as possible
before the whole things explode.
And in this case with Twisted, no one can control it
And finally the alcohol dismantled the band
Well, we decided to get rid of it Michael and Billy.
So we tried to find out what to do next.
We need new singers and new guitar players.
We contacted a man named Keith Angel,
He works with a singer named Rick Prince.
And they are both transplanted.
And that's good.
Except in the history of from Twisted Sister,
Rick Prince is there for a total of nine weeks.
Rick only one day shows no show,
and we never heard of it from him again
So now, the question is, What are you doing?
We don't have singers.
I am very sick depending on people.
I thought, well, I would sing.
Because I know I will appear on the gig.
But I'm very limited vocal abilities.
God created Dylan so I can do cover material.
So the point is I become the main singer,
and it changes the focus of the songs
We do Kinks songs now.
We are Mott's song, more Lou Reed,
so I can sing.
So now the band has four members, and we're working
My days in Peacock,
P as in urination, C like in chickens - You are on the left
can see urinating, you on the right can see chicken -
that's what the keyboard ordinary player says
In Peacock I have the opportunity to hone my skills
five days a week, five sets of nights
But also buildings a name for myself locally
I know that Twisted Sister is a name in the club scene.
I used to see them in the local newspaper,
and from hearing about them, people will talk about it
Mott The Hoople, Lou Reed, You know, David Bowie,
it's their thing
I like all that. I love all that.
So I am very interested in dealing with some people
like who goes into it
This new version from Twisted Sister,
winding road to summer
We lost our big show on OBI, and I can feel it
if we don't do it something drastic,
This band won't last long.
And my agent suggested we get n - the main vocalist
And he suggested this child is Danny Snider,
from a band called Merak.
And I told Mel and Keith in the locker room
that I bring a man down who shows real interest
as the main singer.
I should be aware of from their responses
that this won't work well.
They leave, "No, there's no reason
why do we need singers We're fine."
Well, we're not okay.
I remember he came and said, "I am what you need,
I can do this, I can put you on top."
I say, "Yes of course, you know, go."
And I said, "OK." And when I walk away,
Jay Jay is pragmatically - always pragmatic -
said, "You know, give me your telephone number just in case."
We play a performance at Batu Palace
on Lake Carmel on Labor Day '75 weekend,
and after that night that we played,
Mel and Keith take the truck
And basically, "Fuck and Kenny. Give another injection? "
I said, "Well I can call my parents Guitar players from high school,
I'm always in a band that works,
I always play for life.
When Jay Jay first gave I know
but there is something... You have to play dance.
We look around for drummer
and find Kevin John Grace and basically try to collect
some of the same ingredients we used to have
We try to do a four pieces, and that's cool.
We do more like Rolling Stones items,
more middle of the road rock.
I am now exposed as a singer.
So we used to do songs and I would berate the audience
and try to get it clap with us
Hustle them in any way I can to try to get a reaction,
because we are sucked,
or I think we are sucked or I am not confident
in what we do, and I think is good, if I can't do it -
if we can't play better,
I will beat them to death until they clap.
It's fun but it's isn't - like,
we certainly only cover band.
That only happens a pleasant closing band
I have a desire to return to where I just got -
forget more than that.
I've - I feel, like I said, 2,000 people at the bar.
I feel the power of a band.
I want that, man, I really want it
So we know we have doing something.
So we decided, let's sing.
And so on...
I called Dee again.
And he invited me to come to Hunter Mountain
This band is ordered for the weekend
We can audition, and if successful,
we can practice, and we can play that weekend.
This happened to become my big audition
and my big shot at the star.
So we finally gave him a chance,
and we are amazed how good he is.
And one of the biggest things like,
uh, he doesn't drink!
After I auditioned for me,
Jay Jay took me out and he rather said,
"Well, I have a name, and I have a P.A. system.
Are you cool with that?"
And I said, "Yeah, okay."
And he said, "OK, we will see how it goes."
I have never been officially informed, "You entered
That's just, " We'll see how it goes. "
So I've been on a basic trial for the past 35 years.
You know, I don't know, I'm waiting to get a call.
So we started practicing with Kevin
And that's a problem because Kevin drums aren't that good,
and we know That is the next issue.
Jay Jay has a friend named Tony Petrie,
Jay Jay said, "This guy Tony is a hard hiter,
he's a great drummer, and he is in
So, uh, we started the training behind the back Kevin John Grace.
We formed a pattern in Twisted Sister
that you don't fire a man until you have a new man ready
because you can't afford lose date
So we practice with Tony, we prepare Tony.
We tell Kevin it's over.
And now with my band and Dee and Tony and Kenny and Eddie,
the current band makes frontal attacks
in the Long Island bar scene.
Let's go!
Come on, baby! You all know the words, this -
Hey bro!
♪ Hey man ♪
♪ Ah leave me alone you know ♪
♪ Hey man ♪
♪ Well Henry, get off the phone, I have to ♪
♪ Hey man ♪
♪ I have to straighten my face ♪
♪ This soft little girl put my spine from the place ♪
♪ Hey man ♪
♪ My school day is crazy ♪
♪ Hey man ♪
♪ My work is in vain ♪
♪ Hey man ♪
♪ Well, he's really blurry ♪
♪ He said he had to blackmail him but he... then he... ♪
♪ Ah don't lean on me, man, Because you can't pay for tickets ♪
♪ I returned from City Suffragette ♪
♪ Oh don't lean on me, man ♪
♪ Because you don't have time to examine it ♪
♪ You know me City of Suffragette... ♪
I remember my father was in a show
And my father is very blunt about that. He said,
"You are pretty boring until you He takes him on stage."
♪ Ohhh, Wham Bam Thank you, Ma'am ♪
♪ Suffragette City ♪
♪ Suffragette! ♪
♪ Oh, Suffragette! ♪
So when Dee joined band, he said,
"Oh, let's use make-up and you know,
and return to that view."
Listen, honey?
Maybe it's hot but we will make it hotter!
♪ Doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo ♪
♪ You have your mother in a vortex ♪
♪ He is not sure if you are boys or girls ♪
♪ Hey, baby, your hair is fine ♪
♪ Hey, baby, let's go out tonight... ♪
Little by little we just started being very striking
and use more make-up and arrange hair
and you know, clothes and goods,
and steal our mother's clothes and things like that.
But I only really took one - two shirts from my mother
It's not like I stole all his clothes.
♪ You like the band when they play hard ♪
♪ You want more and you want fast ♪
♪ They drop you, they say I'm wrong ♪
♪ You are tacky, You put them in... ♪
As far as the image goes,
I, like I said, looking to get more adventures.
Then I met Suzette.
Both I am 15 and I am borrowing my cousin, I.D.,
which is much older than me, but I see - I don't see 15.
So I slipped in, and I went to go see the girl band, Twisted Sister.
I thought they would become a group of girls, but it didn't.
They are a group of men who try look like girls
I was a little blown away away when this big guy--
because Dee's 6'1 "- and he uses,
I think, like an eight-inch platform,
with a little hot pants
He doesn't look attractive. He looks creepy,
but outside on stage.
And Dee misled me with a smile, like, I came to her.
And Dee slowly approached me,
and he bent at his side from the stage
and he kinda gave me this one .
And I kind of felt like I was like being sucked into a vortex.
He thinks I look ridiculous
and if I will do it I must be better at it.
So he started to encourage me to wear lipstick
And me, "Hey, I'm not gay."
This is a strange thing to say.
I wear stockings and hot pants when I meet him,
and high thigh leather boots and gloves.
You know - "I Dee, Blow Me" my shirt said.
But for me it's like the
line You know, Do you wear lipstick?
I don't wear lipstick. And I remember he said,
"Well, I have this little tray lip glossing."
And here at the bottom is just clear.
And at the other end is bright red.
And I'm like, "Okay, obviously. But you know.
I'm not gay." Okay.
Clear the gloss.
And I quickly ran out of the compartment
and the next one a little beige-ish.
So I go through that.
OK about one dozen.
At the moment I ran out of the last,
the color is red like red.
I'm just full of red breath.
We think will be a good idea
to get a band house
The idea of being that we will live together,
we will create together, we will be bound
And we rent houses in a very nice environment
in Massapequa, Long Island-- Old Harbor Greene.
And we all move.
We work all night and then we go home.
We will sleep. We will wake up.
We will meet in the kitchen every day
So this is our life.
One two three four!
♪ When I'm on a rock 'n' roll band ♪
♪ And I play ' one night stands ♪
♪ And I said I want be your man ♪
♪ And that's fine ♪
♪ But T says that we don't make it ♪
♪ Even though it's invaded ♪
♪ The situation is tired and it is evil ♪
What happened, rather than bring
band together and bind us,
my isolation starts in that house
I really want to be hung with these people
They are older than me. They are from Manhattan.
They are from the Bronx. They have been on Twisted Sister.
You know. They are these cool people.
And I'm 21 years old from Long Island,
a rube, a dork,
and I don't have nearly cool credibility
that they have any way.
And I really admire them and look at them.
Jay Jay is our manager.
Kevin is our agent.
And we are meeting and discussing the original
and we are talking about everything "Can't stand still,"
"For One Minute," and "Wife TV," "Follow me."
He hates his songs which we do
And, of course, Dee becomes Dee not polite about that
Not that he left, "Hey, you know..."
I just exclaim,
and just say, "These songs - I don't like these songs.
They aren't right for this band. They're not very good songs.
They won't make a difference. Bla blah blah... "
And I just fence,
and Kevin Brenner said, "Do you write songs?"
And I said, "Yes."
I've written it with Harlequin--
co-written one.
And he said, "Do you have one? there is a song... to submit?"
And I said, "No."
And he said, "OK until you do it."
I came to Jay Jay with an idea for a song,
and I don't remember that
I am very nervous bring it to him
Jay Jay, of course, is unconscious
the importance of from what happened to me
And when I present the song He and I sing it for him
and I'm very nervous
and uncomfortable sing this song
Jay Jay says,
"Oh, that's about you and Suzette? Cute."
And he turned,
and start an conversation with other people
And indeed a big mistake.
Depends on how you see it.
I mean if you see it as
driving, motivating strength for me
to prove Jay Jay and the world
that I am someone,
and encouragement for me become this maniac songwriter
who just started rummaging through songs
with ridiculous speed -
If you see it like that, then it's a good thing.
But that really keeps me away from the band,
and I just go to my own world
and I started creating apart from the band.
My only goal is to eliminate Jay Jay French and his song
and take over songwriting altogether.
I'm crazy
and evil
And uh...
I do it.
♪ You and me, We light a fire ♪
♪ We build it, baby, My desire ♪
♪ But now you say I'm over ♪
♪ Be careful, honey, Don't make me choose it ♪
♪ Oh, always, Oh, always ♪
♪ Must pay the price ♪
♪ Oughta hears who wants to be loved for free ♪
♪ Must pay the price ♪
♪ Oh, pay the price to love me, huh... ♪
Dee doesn't suit me.
But again, I am a pragmatic.
I need a singer, I'm not a singer
I mean, I need someone that and if it comes with baggage
I am ready to install with luggage to a certain level.
That is "Come Back." That is "Pay Price."
I think it's the first song.
That's when I kinda go, "Wow,
that person has... There's something there."
♪ Pay price ♪
♪ Oh, pay the price to love me, yeah ♪
♪ To love you, yes... ♪
When I joined this band,
Jay Jay already has a relationship with the audience.
I think that's what you will call it A relationship where he will speak between songs
There is a certain song where will he go
for a little audience participation or whatever
So that definitely has
for my memory, and I will do it just stand aside.
We will finish a song and I will retreat,
Jay Jay will speak. maybe I throw a word or two here.
But this is Jay Jay's band,
You know I joined Twisted Sister.
And I am the child and he is an experienced pro.
As summer begins, women and men,
and we all party ourselves to death,
We want to welcome you to the summer of '77
with a song titled, "Jane is sweet!"
♪ Standin 'in the corner ♪
♪ Suitcase in my hand ♪
♪ Jack in his corset, Jane in her vest ♪
♪ I'm on the rock 'n' roll band ♪
I sang "Sweet Jane" and that is mine
And somewhere in the middle of from "Sweet Jane," one night,
I will get the audience to sing the phrase "Sweet Jane" I stopped the show.
♪ Sweet Jane ♪
Now as easy or what?
And I said, what do you know?
Why don't we get a partner? people on stage
and sing together.
So we invite people on stage to sing together.
And we have a big gong behind us, Because at "Gong Show,"
they will gong you if you suck
So I will tell people to sing
and then if they suck, my drummer will -
the audience is basically be like a Roman amphitheater.
You know, "They suck." And he will get rid of it.
And if they sing well, they will get a big round of applause.
And that lasts several from weeks.
But you know I need more.
So I said to the bartender,
"Send a few glasses of shots and give me some liquor
and maybe we will take a picture something and try it."
What are you looking for, people stoned?
I'm looking for beer!
So they send a bottle of tequila up or Wild Turkey or the like
and maybe there are five or six girls and guys
And we will try it and they will sing "Sweet Jane"
and then they will only get more drunk and become stupid,
and the reaction will get bigger,
and crowds start to get bigger
♪ Sweet Jane ♪
This is the big difference between us and all other bands.
We don't play music here. We're nonsense
We tell jokes. We just drunk people
and tell them to sing "Jane sweet!"
And make them laugh out loud the stage and their gonging.
And more alcohol, and more alcohol enters
And finally one night I thought we were six or seven shots in
and some guys vomit on stage,
and he is this big fat man - they call him Buddha
And he throws up in a garbage basket
and the place goes crazy.
"Buddha, Buddha." And I think,
Wow man...
they vomit, and they love it.
This... what is the picture!
So we will do "The Drop Till You Vomit Gong Show."
No, this is "The Sweet Jane Drink Until you Puke Gong Show."
Right. That is what it is.
Yes, believe it or not There are lines of people
who can't wait to drink until they throw up
I feel really messed up up now
And that's very good!
A man actually turns around and puked.
And then turn and say,
"Okay, I'm ready to go again."
That's evil...
unless you like vomiting.
♪ Some people like going out dancing, baby ♪
♪ Well people like us, we have to work ♪
Last night we made they drank...
Let me say to you this way...
Do you know how to do it? When you see a hot dog
meal contest at Coney Island, skinny men always win?
There are like fat people,
but like some small Japanese people dude eat 1,000 hot dogs?
Well, that's down for Buddha
and some really thin, Little dude,
and they drink.
And at some point at night, the bartender said,
"I think you've given they are quite dead" -
or something like--
"I think you've given them might turn off..."
I mean, don't know!
I hate this. I don't drink!
I don't know what turns off the amount of alcohol or not.
But it goes without saying,
the winner gets a beer case, which is a joke
So the child, the skinny kid wins
and they submit the case to him and he is only colla--
He can't hold it back. He is so messed up!
If we try it today,
it's criminal - I'm sure we will all be imprisoned.
Eh, they're not friendly this kind of thing again
But back in those days was just good, clean fun!
Long Island, you're outrageous! Thank you!
I mean crazy stuff happens.
And also embarrassing things happen.
For example the World Series,
when the Yankees played in '77, we couldn't...
People don't want us to play.
The match will be on television.
They have partners from TV sets there,
and we will leave the stage - "Hey, shut up!
We are watching damn Yankee games!"
We walk outside the stage and go, "Fuck, do you know what?
We won't play until The World Series has ended!"
So we will appear in... we will appear
and just sit around until the bad game ends.
And that, by the way, it's not the only time that happens.
You know, you are a band bar,
You are only an additional until night
Maybe this is another reason why we want to be loved
and want to make something from ourselves.
Because we are not like,
"Oh, let's go to the bar!
Oh, there's a band there."
Yes, and indeed just damn--
they are only there to be-- to give us some background music
while we find out how to get high and get put down.
And we think, "No no No!
" We are a band! We are more than that!
"We are more than just background music
for you to get high and laid! We are something!"
Tonight we have a little message for you,
women and men. Everybody reads it?
It says, "Disco Fucking Sucks," Do you hear what I say?
Now everyone,
I want you to count from three to read the sign!
Are you ready to go?
One two three-- Disco Fuckin 'Sucks!
Class, again!
When you are on stage and do schtick
You try to kill four hours a night, you know
This is a lot to do, a lotta music to be played
and you are looking for for other things
to stretch it.
And "Disco Sucks" becomes very large response from the audience
so it quickly becomes something for us
Dee or I say something like "Disco sucks."
Someone yells something.
Maybe someone shouted,
"Yeah, disco sucks!"
Maybe. And we left, "Yeah, the disco sucks..."
I don't know But the reaction For those words like whoo!
It feels like you are lighting a fire,
Suddenly we see each other and go - Bingo!
Disco sucks!
They will go down to the record store
and take many from disco singles
And they will spread it on the stage.
And then Dee will get it a big hammer hammer
and you know everyone at the count of three -
"Disco sucks!" and he will do it just take a sledgehammer
and bash damn fucking from fucking disco recordings, ahh!
Disco sucks!
And that is part of club touring equipment
is a sledgehammer
You know, amplifier, guitar, hammer hammer
And uh, it's about metal like you can get, right?
♪ Alright, I hate Disco music ♪
♪ Because disco music really sucks ♪
♪ Alright, I hate Disco music ♪
♪ Because Disco really sucks ♪
Everyone will pump their arms in the air because you believe these people will save rock 'n' roll
and stamp out dirty Disco, do you know?
That - it's a real fight!
There are people who are disco and there are rock people.
And that, you know, no one met
This is not a racial problem
because so far because I'm worried,
There are no African-Americans
in one of these clubs to see one of these bands.
It used to be-- for me seems
a Brooklyn Cliché John Travolta
versus guys wearing jeans and t-shirts and sneakers.
And we are exploited sociological breaks.
Are we using boys?
harder!
I hate Disco music...
Why ?!
Because Disco really sucks!
Kataku, Village People and Barry White,
take a rocket to the moon and stay away from my sight!
♪ Because I hate Disco music ♪
♪ Because Disco really sucks, oh yeah... ♪
We decided to hold it back an experiment from Barry White
and find him guilty of destroying American popular music
They have this big mannequin wearing a tuxedo,
with a long, curly black wig in
and they will do it remove it and say,
"Barry White can't be here tonight
so we will only have to hang him on the statue.
They will hang it, and then beat him like a piñata. And the crowd will go wild and "Kill him, kill him!"
They will read, you know.
So we are offstage think,
"Yeah, it goes better. "You know?
Well, I tell you something We do it for a while
until we do it once in some rural cities
in the northern part of New York-- Lake Carmel, Batu Palace.
And we do our hanging from Barry White
and many people go crazy, like it.
I think we even lower the body and start tearing it up.
I mean we will really just enter into it
And after this show is real The redneck club owner told us,
"I don't know Barry White,
but you survive a nigger in this city,
You are fine in my book. "
You know I'm like, " What ?! " He said," You hang a Negro. You can't go wrong! "
It feels like," Damn! "
You know like us - Long Island,
body, that's what -
so far from our mind.
At a certain level I can laugh about that and that's absurdity.
Besides that I'm sick of
and uh the fact that I can have become part of anything
it will definitely appear that response by anyone,
the fact that I will bring negative energy to anyone,
really - you know, makes me sick
And we immediately stopped it and continued to advance.
And our antidote to that
to build an electric chair and Andrea Saute Right
It must be around two months into our relationship,
and I wear clothes that Dee was fascinated by.
How beautiful I look and how beautiful the shirt is,
and where I got it, and how amazing I looked.
So about two weeks later I decided
that I will go see him
and I will wear this shirt that blew it away.
And I will never forget pull to the bar
And Dee is on stage,
and he uses The same shirt I wear!
I feel horrified.
I mean, The worst thing you can imagine,
You go somewhere and someone else uses what you wear
But your girlfriend?
So I said, "That's it. I will start making clothes.
And this won't happen same I'm wearing! "
Suzette humiliates me, costume
I will use whatever he makes,
and he made some silly clothes for me
People used to feel embarrassed.
Eddie will say, "How can you wear it on stage?
All of your johnson are hanging out."
I'm like Suzette who made it, I wear it.
At the beginning,
people start to call me Twisted Sister,
because I am dressed one up, and the band doesn't.
I know it's not right with band
Jay Jay comes to me and Jay Jay confronts me
and ask me if I will start basically
make a costume for everyone in the band.
And I told you at all.
And the whole band starts getting onboard one by one
And slowly I started teaching everyone in the band
how to make up, and start doing
everyone's hair - everyone's clothes
Twisted Sister is designed to flood the audience.
You know, another band is just going with music
Well, we also have music.
But what can we do It has already passed the music?
Well, the glam thing gives us the costume
and then make-up, and then if there is a performance,
or other implementations we can do--
whatever we can bring to the table
to add weight towards us
We succeed.
So when another band will fight us
if you enter, You know, and you have a bat,
and others have bats and pistols and knives,
you will lose
So whatever they can do,
we will always find out how to beat it
I don't know how many from our music band,
just like us a predator band
Which one, Put this fish in water
and give this fish a target,
and say this fish must kill the fish,
and this fish will come out there and kill the fish
And I don't care How insensitive the sound is,
I don't care how, uh...
childish sound, That's how the band is.
We are very predatory.
And at the bar, it kills or gets killed.
Zebras are rumored to be this band of murderers from New Orleans,
anyone, You know, dragon killer.
I remember the first day I saw Twisted, you know,
I've heard of them but I've never met them
And I expect this crazy person to enter
and you know they just came in their jeans
and ordinary clothes.
Maybe a little skin or something.
But they only dress normal you know
And I said, "Oh, this isn't a big deal."
So I remember that night the band really improved their game,
and everyone is dressed in and everyone wears makeup.
That night we went down in our dressing room
and I see Dee coming out from the locker room
And I don't really know what I wear,
But in my mind it looks like pink neglige
Poor Zebra,
they are just sort of a prog band from New Orleans
wearing jeans and t-shirts and very talented bands,
but we just came out loaded for bears.
And we only destroy them.
That's really crazy,
I mean these Southern children get real doses
People will come to the show to watch I and Dee do this tandem skirt,
But what is this ripping doing? are two things -
it's not just ripping someone or band,
it is to create an atmosphere that we are kings
This is our world, we have this world
We are the number one band in this world.
So we set out to destroy the Rat Race Choir and Good Mouse
and Zebras and others You throw in our way.
You know, tell us a band It's more popular than us,
we will go out, we will swim out there,
we will eat it
Dee might wake up every morning with wishes
to destroy me or make me eat bad luck
or to prove how great he is fine
I wake up every morning thinking
how will I make more money by blowing away
this band or the band - okay.
We all have our own property small mini targets
Sister must be band type
where you have to be ready to throw with -
when you're talking with certain people
about bands and music,
because it's true there is no middle ground with them.
People really like them or really hate it.
I bring some to see them with me
and they basically go one or two times
and that is not for them.
Some of my friends like the band
Some of my friends aren't like bands.
Some of my friends really hate bands
One of these friends decided that he thought I was really
sort of lost my mind,
like really losing my mind for facts
that I will go three or four consecutive nights and he--
We are included in this big argument One day in front of my house.
And we really have in fistfight.
As I beat him.
What do you think are you gay or something?
You follow a group of people wearing makeup and women's clothing?
I say basically fuc - go see them and judge for yourself
I am very excited about what I do
No one shares that passion...
with me and be it.
I don't ask anyone to do it.
What I'm trying to say to them is that you don't know what's missing.
From February '76 to August '78 there was no rest
Five or six days a week,
every week, playing perfectly, every show
We started playing called Speaks,
held, I think, more than 2,000 people.
And they will be like shoulder to shoulder,
I mean really jam packed,
and people outside are waiting to enter to see the band.
That's very interesting.
During this time,
I have got a drink, like, worse and worse
I'll wake up 2:00 p.m.
But at 4:00 in the afternoon I've started drinking.
Often times is like depending on,
what they call white-knuckling.
When I have passed SMA
I was playing nightclub in the band.
Do all the copy music at that time.
One day a drummer with the name from Fred Enoch told me,
He said, "I brought an audition with a band
" It travels around the world and makes albums and everything. "
" Okay, what's wrong? " And he goes, " This is called The Dictators. "
Who?
" Dictator Dictator. "
Never heard of it.
He brought me an album, and I saw the cover
and I was horrified.
I don't believe that someone will have a man
as a singer who can't sing.
That's more like special effects.
But I don't know anything from punk rock at that time.
I don't know all of that is in town,
I have never gone to New York
something must be done with the music scene there.
Short story,
I spent about 2 1/2 years in the dictator and it was enough.
I left the band.
And I have become a good friend with the people on Twisted Sister.
So they say so tour this great summer club.
They will be very busy and they need help with the crew.
I said, "Okay, I leave a band and I run out of work.
I'll do it, why not?" Summer '78 is our big -
first very large summer statement,
that we are a band to be reckoned with.
We are a home band in Speaks.
We are a home band in the Hamptons.
That is very important.
We issue a large calendar in the newspaper--
Summer Of '78 Tour, we call it.
We can to order it first.
And the target is,
that we will play Calderone,
theater in Hempstead, Halloween.
I operate a theater on Long Island calling
Calderone Concert Room.
That's one where we work.
I met the band.
We have to discuss staging, lighting, sound
They don't play on the theater stage before.
Um, I work together with Jay Jay at that time
in making all preparations.
Jay Jay wants to use it as a showcase
to try and bring some record companies out.
The idea of Calderone is a statement
That will be original music, and we will
Show that we can sell it a theater
We don't have transaction records. This is important We have a large number of amps to make a statement
the Twisted Sister must be taken into account,
with Black Sabbath and anyone
Because we carry artillery
We want to adjust every square inch -
and by the way - most of the are installed
♪ All right, I feel like jumping '♪
♪ And walk right the door ♪
♪ You can't stop shakin '♪
♪ Goin 'to save legs stompin' floor ♪
The show itself was sold out.
We performed that night and that was an eye-opening experience.
You know, I remember coming from the stage
full of wind and fatigue, really run.
Pain like you get from running
And I can't understand it.
I have never that experience before
It turns out we were on stage for more than 2 1/2 hours,
which is crazy
But we don't have a concept.
We just put every song we know
on a piece of paper and only play it.
By the time I was finished Aerosmith at Madison Square Garden
Black Sabbath, Kiss-- many good performance bands.
And what I saw happened to that stage with the audience,
is something I can It may have been seen five times.
So the Calderone event takes off
and the phone rings The next day.
And that's Kenny.
And he said are you sitting?
And I said...
"Why?" I thought he would go to tell me
he married his girlfriend, Carol.
And he said,
"Well, I have to tell you that I have to leave the band."
And I said, "What are you talking about?"
So I finally decided to try one of them
popular recovery program
And I started to get my brain back and started, uh...
being... aware.
This is also like a spiritual program
So I started thinking
Maybe there is something more out there
So I have a few of my friends
who are in the program, like in my same age group and all that,
who has become a believer.
Kenny, as much as you know,
reformed alcohol, they are reborn.
And after a few months
I feel like I'm leading a double life
Because I have this item here,
with my new Christian friends, plus I like the band.
And I started to really think
Maybe it's indeed time to continue
And I remember one night at Zaffy's
Kenny flopped Dais, his church,
about half a dozen people enter,
see the band,
and he wants their verdict to be in Twisted Sister
contrary to him being a Christian
And they say that,
Satan speaks through some of my songs and Jay Jay's mouth.
And yes, is a direct conflict
and that he must go.
And, remember, you are still very on track -
we go to the top of the mountain
Wait a minute!
You leave the band and you tell me
you leave us because they say
Devils talk through me and Dee? Let me understand this.
Dee and I don't drink. Dee and I don't smoke.
Dee and I don't do it any medicine
You are an alcoholic,
but the Devil speaks through me and Dee.
Is that what you say?
I want to really get this straight
"Well I know it's a bit sounds weird..."
Yes! That sounds strange, Kenny!
I don't trip.
I have no idea what are you talking about
I am a player.
I went there and I did schtick.
I do a show - anything.
So I tried to talk to him out of it
And I kind of made a breakthrough in looking after him
So one day in Speaks, my drummer, Tony, entered,
and he bandaged it arms, and I went, "What is that?"
And he left, "This is my new tattoo."
And I go, "What's wrong?"
and he pulls sideways and it's like devils or the like
And I'm like, "Oh good, what about this cliche?"
And then he left, "You know Mike Bruno, he did it.
Mike, why didn't you show it? Your tattoo band?"
And Bruno takes off his clothes and his entire back is Demon.
And I saw Kenny leave, "You won.
I think there are Devils worship."
Good. You know?
That's a bit like what would you say?
Right before Thanksgiving,
we have done it a Saturday night program somewhere
and we all go home. And the phone rings in my house,
and I'm just about falling asleep.
It is currently around 8:00 or 9:00 am, on Sunday morning.
And I wake up and it's Jay Jay French.
And he said to me, "Are you? Still looking for a band?"
And I said, "Yes, of course."
I say, "You know it's fun work with you
But I prefer to be a musician."
And he left, "I have a band for you."
I say, "Okay, who is that?" And he left, "Twisted Sister."
And I said, "You know, Don't play with me like that."
And he goes, "No, no, I'm serious.
Kenny stops, and we need bass player Do you want it?"
And I said, "Yes, I will do it Take it," just like that.
He said, "Okay, talk to you later." Click and he hung up.
Mark is very similar to me.
We are closer. He is a year younger than me.
We are both from the suburbs Long Island.
We only live a few cities away from each other.
We grow up with suburban men, bicycle men.
We are musically connected for the same thing
Finally there is someone in the band
who is my partner in crime
I have to tell you, when Mark enters,
who just finished Dee metamorphosis.
What Kenny can't do, that's what Mark finally did.
Dee's music feels heavy But Kenny is finessing it.
Mark is like that knock it to 747
and ramming it through terminal
♪ Often you move me ♪
♪ When I know you care deeply ♪
♪ I know that you will be there ♪
♪ But I can't let you out that door ♪
♪ I can't let you say goodbye ♪
♪ And I can't let you out that door ♪
♪ I can't let you, You know I'm crying, I'm crying... ♪
I have now managed bands, uh,
itself since we were reformed in '75.
And I found it grind everyday
playing and managing becomes impossible
He doesn't sleep at all he - it's very tiring,
he almost has physical disturbances
So I said, "Do you want me? to help you find a manager?"
And he said, "That would be great."
I started dealing with people
and tell them about this band,
people I think have management skills.
And one by one they just say, "No."
And Jay told me one day, "Well, why don't you do it?"
I said, "Okay, I'm not A Manager. I'm a promoter."
And he said, "Okay, it's over more for us than the other people have.
We will take a shot if you want."
So I give some thoughts and, uh, go to business management
We never played in Manhattan...
for various reasons.
Clubs in Manhattan are small and they don't pay.
They think so Help this band
to allow you to play there.
And we think...
we are too good for them
If you look at a map, I mean, what are we like?
We are 20 miles from CBGBs?
We might as well 1,000 miles away, right?
There is no cross
Sometimes our fans will go into the city
and return with the words from the front.
Like, "Oh yes, We are at the Mudd Club
" or we see this band tonight
and we see Ramones or whatever. "
I will go," Yes, how many people Do they pack in that place? "
In knowing them in the field of management,
I will go out to see the show and I will realize
Long Island the fight is sold out,
2,000 people, 500 people queue who is can't enter
Same thing in New Jersey, same in Westchester
They have suburbs really dominated.
And I feel nothing really
give them time.
So my strategy appears with is to attract them
out of place during a period of from several months
and then only do one show in Manhattan.
The main place in New York City is The Palladium.
And I think it's more than 3,000 or 3,200 -
it's bigger than Calderone.
And that is true in the heart of the recording industry So I called Ron Delsner a friend, but a competitor,
and I say, "I have a band
that I manage what I want to play Palladium."
And he said, "Who are they?"
And I said, "Twisted Sister."
And he said, "What date do you want?"
The show will go on sale on Tuesday
And he called me on Tuesday afternoon
and he said, "Do you advertise the show?"
I said, "There's no Ronnie, it's your show
I won't advertise your show Why?"
He said, "There are 1,110 seats sold.
This goes on sale at noon today, We don't even break the ad."
And the next day the ad broke in "Village Sounds"
and the know-it-all industry, who is in the cool scene,
chuckles,
"Watch, next week will say" canceled "
And on Thursday it's sold out
And next week he says, " sold out. "
To order Palladium, sell palladium,
in the heart of New York basically just...
The fact that Twisted Sister sold out Palladium
without a record deal -
You know, it's really cemented In everyone's mind,
These people are rock stars!
Playing Palladium It should be the last step
on the road to superstardom
The next step is a big record deal,
world tour, world domination.
It must be perfect.
That's right.
Staging, lighting, new costumes,
practice at the facility that we can do full lights,
full voice, full staging.
So we have to rent SIR's biggest room.
We even rent Palladium
for rehearsals the day before the show
This will be that. Every record label comes,
and we have blurbs in newspapers - big deal.
And then during exercise - dress rehearsal
on palladium-- disaster hit
I went down trying to get ready
and I just, I don't even remember,
I just fainted. I think my head hit something.
They look for me and I am downstairs,
You know, I experienced a grand mal seizure.
The next thing I know I'm in an ambulance.
The human I feel -
like I was shot from a canon then thrown
in a gorilla cage and has an ape weighing 800 pounds Defeat my crap.
The show is postponed.
Because they can't do it without me.
Man, you make a plan and you take a hit
and that's very devastating.
I mean, it's really destroying I go for a walk - how will I come back from this?
How will we return from this?
This is our shot, this is our chance
Listen, you do what you do
You lift yourself up, dust yourself,
the spandex rope returns to light and returns to it.
♪ They say, hey how are you doing do with your life ♪
♪ Why don't you settle... ♪
Nobody wants it to end.
We are all proud.
This band, you know, is grateful.
They are given electricity. They are tired.
And we know, shows for life
♪ I say ♪
♪ I will never grow up, I will never grow up. ♪
We are rescheduled, record label,
basically all who are supposed to come, don't come.
Instead of now the head A & R department is there,
the audience is filled with their secretary
and their assistant
Within a month people see us
with a large Marshall stack
and costumes and staging,
and say we are past.
We miss our opening.
One person who is interested again
is Epic Records-- Lennie Pizzi,
head of Epic Records.
Now Lennie, again,
he has sent his secretary or his assistant,
so he needs to see it for himself.
Now we can offer limousine rides to rooms that are packed every night.
But no, this must happen in New York City
at lunchtime on Monday
Here it is, head from Epic Records
want to see the same show
which we have just used on palladium.
We agree.
That makes me sick because you know on Monday we go
Monday means we have to come on Sunday night,
preparing for the show
He will come at noon or 1:00 at lunch time.
It's embarrassing. But we agree.
So what do we do?
We rent SIR-- we rent all the equipment,
sounds, lights, staging, everything--
and perform shows for Lennie Pizzi at--
is it 11:00 in the morning?
That's in...
It was dawn at that time Twisted sisters were concerned.
And he entered.
And understanding,
they go to pay us fees,
he will pay for the show
I think around 12:00 or 1:00, Lenny entered,
The door opens on the back SIR, there is one chair.
He sits on a chair.
We play as a whole Palladium shows.
We finish the show, he is not there
He told our manager he had another meeting
We have never heard from him.
They never pay the money for performances
We run out of bags even more money
We can't enter and... we slip.
As a fan and not an insider
or someone who works for bands or with bands,
You don't know this
You don't know that a failure, so to speak.
Because, you know,
the next night they will be in Hammerheads
or, you know, Detroit, play again
Judas Priest!
Hell Bent For Skin!
Can you forget these things?
Somewhat. You are playing five nights a week
You lick your wounds, huh.
You can handle it, huh.
But it still kicks into the solar plexus.
♪ Look for him here, find him on the highway ♪
♪ Never know when she will appear ♪
♪ All waiting, the machine beats more than ♪
♪ Hearing the roar because they feel fear ♪
♪ Wheels! ♪
♪ Glare of steel and flash of light! ♪
♪ Screams! ♪
♪ From the line of fire when he attacks! ♪
♪ Hell bent, hell bent to the skin ♪
♪ Hell bent, hell bent to the skin... ♪
I see - I go somewhere.
And my big stumbling block Is this a shithole club?
I hate them.
They are necessary crimes. They are hot.
They are narrow. The stage is small.
They don't allow me to do it what should I do
They don't treat me like stars.
Point to be -
I will really take a lot out at this club,
and I will verbally abuse it club.
And if something goes wrong and something disgusting
I will let everyone know how much I hate these clubs.
Dee will panic on sound proofing,
and he will expel from the club during the sound check.
And I have to go and talk
for bartenders and rather cold they come out.
He will start the argument with the club owner
Maybe I will do it to silence it
And he is a skinny little man with, uh,
40 pounds of hair so you will sell nonsense from the stage?
Wait until you get off stage, buddy
♪ Hell bent, hell bent to the skin... ♪
I keep running disorders
for Dee bull head, silly behavior
Keep you sick bastards!
But they are all really stupid
The crew does stupid things.
And as a manager who has to make phone calls,
must order the truck, open lighting equipment
I will say one thing about that,
because I do that every day,
because I can't sleep,
because I have to wake up in the morning
and talk to trucks company, lighting company,
dealing with battles with the crew,
dealing with battles with bands,
dealing with battles with agents,
dealing with agents and club owners,
I can never be a rock star
I have been robbed my rock star
And I said, "Now you understand you're a road manager
who will handle these people, I won't be there.
I don't want to call 3:00 a.m.
when someone does not want to pay you, or whatever it is. "
So I brought Joe in
So now we have Mark Puma and we have Joe Gerber.
So we are like - there is a support system there. because
All he does is he who submits me Kevin Brenner's phone number--
agent--
a bag of receipts,
some looseleaf pages future date,
and says, "Good luck "
And so.
And I have to do it find out for yourself.
The half - both terror and pleasure.
But you know, Fear is a great motivator.
Here it is, baby!
So licking our wounds now we leave from April, May, June.
However, we heard it that there was a concert format
at Adventureland Amusement Park.
And they will have the biggest band on Long Island
play every Tuesday night for a month.
We rent airplanes and fly them over Jones Beach
July 4 weeks said,
"Twisted Sister Free Concert, Adventureland."
A week before Zebra did it about 6,000 people, I think,
think promoters 6 or 7,000 people appear.
I think we also do it.
I call one of my friends and say, "Come on, the program is free. We can't understand from where the traffic is.
Never expect thousands and thousands of people.
Three to five miles in both directions.
The car has just been left on the side of the road.
We are so far behind,
People are above the building to watch the show
That is a zoo.
And I, "So how do I look out there?"
And white Joe.
He is like, "Look out the window."
And I see and that the ocean, the ocean of people!
There are no 7,000, not 10,000, not 12,000, not 15,
But 22,000 people appeared.
23,000 people according to According to police estimates,
waiting to welcome us
Boys and girls from all the people we have played -
There are two floors office building,
across the parking lot from the stage
Children are hung on it, are dangerous
Because nothing is wrong prevent them from falling.
We find it later
there is also a ridiculously expensive microwave antenna
that they have bent into their shape from "T" and "S."
We put this anti-disco attack to the point
where children are running to Republic Airport,
painting "Disco Sucks" on the side of the plane.
We cause almost riots
and because of damage done by our fans,
we are briefly banned from all outdoor events on Long Island
since that day.
Oops!
You really wake up in the morning
You eat
Often in summer time
we will go to the beach,
we will come back, we will eat, we will go play,
and um, we might stay awake whole night damn
and go home, fall asleep, wake up.
This is a constant five seven nights a week playing
and it's just a constant party
Because you know other people.
You don't know if you will go home or not,
You will only end in someone's home
and go to the next show.
That's very similar, um,
"Repeated days."
The clubs are different, but the days are the same,
Repetition is what happens day after day
and week after week and month after months and years after years.
Already arrived at the club 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon,
do your voice checking,
hang out until 10:00 a.m. at night, do your shows,
return home at 6:00 in the morning,
wake up at 1:00 a.m. in the afternoon, take a shower,
do everything again.
Sunday after week after week,
You play the same song, three sets, four sets of nights.
And until Tuesday, becomes Wednesday,
be Thursday, Friday, to Saturday
I just count down songs set - five, four...
Until you close Saturday night at 6:00 a.m.
Sunday morning you sleep all day long.
You have - your relationship
with your boyfriend messy because you don't have energy.
A day off, two days off and back again.
I did it for years!
You know I used to go home several nights and think,
"Humans, this never will end."
Like this nightmare
I will crawl into the bathtub every morning!
I will crawl out of bed, I can't talk.
Then I crawled right into the tub.
And I just fell into the bathtub -
a 20 year old man - and soak in a hot tub
to make my body loose so I can do it again!
We arrived at the stage at that time
that we are contracted to ride the stage -
because this is a discipline we have as a professional band.
We play until we can't play anymore,
We collapsed on the stage until nothing was left
But!
It tastes really good. It's a joke, It feels so good when I stop.
I am alwa - I love achievement have blown the crowd.
This extraordinary desire to prove to the people who pay
that we are the greatest life the band you have ever seen
And we will go to drain us,
and in the process, you, of all energy to convince you
I think it's like any athlete,
or runner or anyone who's superior, you know
Like, you can't win unless you are willing to -
if it's easy everyone will do it
This is one of our singles
"I will never grow now!"
♪ They say, you should stop dreamin you '♪
♪ You go to a fast place... ♪
A girl appears as long as checks the voice and says to me,
"My mother told me
Eddie Kramer was away to come and see you."
And I go, "Eddie Kramer..."
Eddie Kramer... Like, there are only one Eddie Kramer I know,
You know he's a very famous person a male producer / engineer
for Hendrix and Zeppelin and Rolling Stones.
Eddie Kramer?
♪ You look like that a slob... ♪
What are the opportunities?
I say to everyone that Eddie Kramer should come
Yes, right, sure, Eddie Kramer came to Detroit.
Yes, right, of course.
Well, look, That night's rain,
there are 100 people in the room.
Eddie Kramer enters
Seeing the band, like it, saying, "Let's do a production deal."
So here's the next thing.
We will sign with Eddie Kramer,
we will do the song, we will enter the studio,
we will make a demo
♪ Why don't you listen to it? the music we play? ♪
♪ Go choose someone else... ♪
We don't have a large budget this thing,
we must immediately enter and record these things
like "I will never grow" and "Under The Blade,"
and "Shoot 'Em Down."
We are together Eddie Kramer. It's like a big problem.
Man, Eddie Kramer...
Wow, how big is that right?
And he is a good friend, and stays up to this day,
But he can't get a deal.
He can't make us an agreement.
We are rather coming to this conclusion
that if he can't get us an agreement,
let's at least press up on our own note
and issue on Twisted Sister Records.
And at least use it for ads on radio
and sell some - something-- give them -
just say we make notes
We have to have us and the word "note" is somewhat spoken together.
The reason we issued a single,
is to maintain excitement about the band,
show record company
Because our singles are sold out all the time
We are amazed how much we will sell
And I guess that still doesn't make sense record company
I don't consider it at all chaotic.
Above all,
I think we started to suffer a decline
following us in some clubs.
We have gone and pushed Next to another area,
to build a new market,
and we let some of us the regular market soften.
We need something to take it to next summer
And Dee said, "Well, I have this new song
called 'Bad Boys of Rock' n 'Roll' and let's--
Maybe we can have it Summer Bad Boys in 1980. "
This is our new single,
will be in the shop on June 4 -
called "Bad Boys From Rock 'n' Roll!"
Dee throws down challenges and says,
And we can focus continuously next attack on the bar.
I feel it "Bad Boys" really
solidification from my creative control
I'm basically given full power,
and the band accepts all my ideas,
We climbed into the studio in White Plains called Minot
and record "Bad Boys" single,
and Memorial Day weekend we hit the target,
take an ad in the newspaper, Twisted Sister Bad Boys 1980.
Set a new stage, new clothes,
new songs, new promotions and bang!
♪ Now we our boys bother you ♪
♪ Alright, we regret your way ♪
♪ You can't stand anything we do ♪
♪ And have fun with everything we do ♪
♪ We only have fun time, so let your guard ♪
So I thought "Bad Boys" was a business to give everyone something fresh to see,
That's when we became a record company,
Everything is interrelated,
Because we cannot rely on on others,
Records in stores, radio places,
and play Staten Island on Friday
and doing business,
and Queens or Jersey on Saturdays
and doing business.
I think they play, If I'm not mistaken,
from Wednesday to Sunday
And every night that is the same thing,
they will do business.
Check this one we go to do for you -
"Rock 'n Roll Saviors!"
Hammerheads Closure in Levittown
actually is the beginning
period of stone destruction from Twisted Sister.
We performed at the club and we were told the club would
Get out of business that night - It's finished, it's done.
They will move to another location
and that club owners and landlords hate each other.
And club owners have told us
to tell our fans they can do whatever they want.
They hate the owner.
They don't care, destroy the room
Take what So our fans start taking.
What they take
They take urinals. They take the toilet.
They take the toilet stall. They turn on the fire alarm.
They take everything from--
They tear clubs physically apart.
I remember the bathroom---- the flattened wall,
just come out and see water and bowl,
and the sink has run out.
I hear someone's ears flogged -
it's only pandemonium!
♪ We are rock 'n' roll savior ♪
♪ Rock 'n' roll we will defend ♪
And the last thing left, At 4:00 a.m.,
is an air conditioning system.
And at 3:55 a.m., someone reaches
and interesting the entire false ceiling drops.
All AC cracks system
The water pipe is cracked.
The room is full of water.
We shout, "Get out!"
What I know is that they stop playing,
and I turn
and the club ceiling basically is on the floor.
How much do I destroy?
I am on stage playing, I can't destroy anything
I want to.
♪ But the disco is dead, it's dead ♪
♪ Well, baby, it's dead ♪
♪ Dead, dead, dead... ♪
During the Bad Boys tour, we have the opportunity to close,
or re-christen, disco 2001 Uh, which is very significant, is very symbolic,
to be a nightclub
that John Travolta dances His legendary dance
in "Saturday Night Fever."
Club owners say, "You have your fans in
" and basically engrossing Disco from our room
and turn it into a rock club. "
Elmo, turn on all the lights on!
It's time to take out the old, and bring new ones!
Because we have something to say about that!
Bastard sick!
That's us!
Fuck "Saturday Night Fever!"
Now I ask to sing with us like this - everything now!
The destruction of the club,
causes phone calls from others club owners who say,
"I quit my contract.
I don't care, ask your fans come and destroy the room."
And he brought out advertisements - 'Emmett's RIP - Rest in Peace. "
What are we Destruc-- uh, we entered,
" Well this was last night, take what you want! "
Enthusiasts dismantle the room.
2000 disco?
Dismantling the room
Soap Factory in Jersey -
the last one.
Does anyone want to listen to us playing music?
For me that is schticky,
It's fun, it brings people in, definitely
But I know it's not that kind of thing
it will make Twisted Sister world famous.
Need more bands, more about the music.
It needs to be combined this idea and their focus.
The sick mother Friends of Twisted Sister
officially developed around the time of Bad Boys,
with member card, and welcome letter.
Our friend knows that we refer to our friends
as the mother meets the sick, you see?
That's because we sick bastards
So what we do is we start an organization,
rather than calling it Twisted Sister Fan Club,
Because it sounds like pussy shit, Do you know what I'm saying?
I am a Twisted Fan, ooh!
That's nonsense.
We call it Motherfucking Pain Friends of Twisted Sister!
I have a lot of sadness from people,
like you know, "do you like it?"
And I think the band is reversing it To their advantage, you know?
You are one of us You are dirt
You biker You are S.M.F., you know. You're one of us
And it's banded people together.
I have hatred for all types of people
who will look down on me with disgust.
I deal with them my whole life
And find that there are more than "mes" in the world
from there from cool people.
All S.M.F. what's wrong about all these people
come together and find each other...
and create "cool" where none.
If you want to clap and shout, clap and shout!
If you want to jump around and get out of your damn mind,
out of your damn mind
Because it's not fucking trouble!
No problem what other people think,
the only is a damn problem
what do you think?
And if you like you, fuck everyone
Beautiful people. Beautiful people,
cool people, and people together,
they are a minority.
The majority of us are fair Joes and Janes are ordinary.
And we feel less than others--
not in the Twisted Sister world.
I will sit at home and consider,
okay, I can get out with my friends to a bar
in an area five miles away and see some other bands,
or drive 40 miles snow to go see Sister,
you know, at Emmett in Jamesburgh.
And for me That is an easy decision.
Rain, snow, hail, hail, don't matter
We just left We got into the car.
We have a pot. We got beer money. We have money to enter
We bring it to Detroit!
We have a broken car. We have to leave the car there
and basically have to stack seven people
at Firebird to go home.
And it's still worth the trip
Just say I will go on average three times a week.
Maybe four.
I remember most of the from the audience that came
from Farmingdale, Long Island.
Dan Farmingdale, Long Island
is a good three and a half hours away from the Final Examination.
I will not go to Farmingdale.
It's possible to see Sinatra, but that's about it
And for children from Jersey there always rule these two rivers.
I mean, you will cross one river into Manhattan,
but cross two rivers to Long Island,
That means too far.
And we will go and be hammered and exit,
You know after the show,
and enter the car and faint
and in the morning get up and go home.
Often I fall off right at work
Basically washing my face, works eight hours,
sleep a few hours and do everything again.
You laugh That's what we do.
If you like what we are doing,
show us what we are we do, bastard
Or if you don't want to do it,
You can turn around, loose your fucking ass,
and get out of here,
and go to another place where you will be more appreciated
Because we can't give two nonsense about you
I started to get angry men, that is my thing on stage.
Jay Jay is a storyteller,
kind of relaxed from men, you know
But I did it was angry with the audience,
and tear others in the audience.
♪ He spends his life sentinel silent ♪
♪ For everything to fear ♪
♪ He walks, he talks, According to him, he feels ♪
♪ But no one dares to approach ♪
♪ He takes everything he sees ♪
♪ Nothing escapes his gaze ♪
♪ And when he attacks ♪
♪ He attacks for right, beautiful scenery ♪
♪ Destructive, destructive, he's in town... ♪
I equate Jay Jay with being a preacher.
He can make people cry and scream.
He has a gift gab.
He is like a preacher.
Dee isn't so much like a preacher,
Dee is like a demon.
You know. If not, he will kill you
He usually chooses that person will stand there, you know,
"Oh, I'm not going to enter Twisted Sister. I'm too cool."
That's all.
Dee put his view on people
and we turn on the lights on them and they are smashed to pieces.
If you are one person who is just standing there
- He caught you - Yeah.
- surely you have - We are very diligent
that we will come out from our mind crazy at all times.
So Dee doesn't catch us yawning, or like not crazy.
If he looks at our direction, what are we like?
♪ One day will arrive ♪
♪ You will be interested your city center ♪
"Yeah, you're back there!
I want to see you put your hand together!"
And if not responds well,
then Dee will invite the rest from the audience
to advise them, by turning around,
face that person At the back of the room there,
and at a count of three we want you to shout,
"Release it!"
"Release it! Get it - and you will be -
The sound will deafening.
" Release it! Get - "
These people really will - You will see them starting to crawl to the corner
because now everyone See them,
bands make fun of them,
I mean after three o'clock or four minutes
they will only be destroyed
You'd better stay outside from that damn 'way
This will kick your ass.
Yes!
I get everyone
where to react by threatening them
But they are afraid,
not only from me, but from the people around them.
That if you don't respond,
that this crowd is very intense can turn it on
Sort of "Day Of The Locust" briefly.
Be the people in the audience,
even though I have started 100% participation,
Their hearts are not really in it
They are just afraid.
You have Mad Hatter in Stonybrook
You have Hammerheads in Levittown
You have Gemini at Yorktown Heights
Then the next level above is your Speaks.
Speaking is the culmination of it holds 2,000 people.
And you will start doing that.
When new Hammerheads are opened, room hierarchy
are as follows - Long Island Hammerheads II,
3,300 people.
Glen Island Casino, 3,300 people.
And then as much as that like a Soap Factory can hold,
2,500 on several floors,
big daddy is a Fountain Casino.
5,000 people.
If you can headline this room,
You are the biggest band.
So in 1981 we finally reached our goal,
and not only are we headlining each of them,
we don't like all others
We are the number one drawing in the fountain
We are number one drawing on Glen Island.
We are number one drawing in Hammerheads.
And where did it leave us?
If we don't come out, we will die
These bands Markets make lots of money
it's very difficult they even try to branch out,
say go to California, go to L.A.
There is no point-- they will go to L.A.
They may have to pay to play.
Where in this market they make three,
five, seven thousand rupiah night
Twisted makes ten thousand in several places.
That's crazy!
You can make lots of money - in some cases - on this circuit,
that many people see it as it works on this circuit
is the end for himself.
I have to call him "velvet dagger".
Where, you know,
it will be very comfortable but you stay at the end.
You can definitely fall into a situation
where will this never end, do you know?
I mean who wants sit at the table
and say, what if the age of drinking changes?
Because of me That is what happened.
It killed him. I mean, When you are drinking in,
then you have younger children who might have entered it,
they can't go to the club anymore
I know that human cuts, right, from 18 to 21,
I can't imagine how much
that in the span of three years who can't come to the nightclub,
can't enter the bar, can't enter the liquor store
I was born and raised in Brooklyn,
like I said before, so I'm always 18.
And at 18 it means you drink at 16
So the rock scene starts to die little. This starts to die.
And the club can't afford band
like Twisted Sister or Zebra or Rat Race,
But they need those bands.
Because they can't survive without them.
We will sit and book for six months.
And we will say it give us twisted
every six weeks because we need to pay rent
So we know that Twisted is there,
You will have a crowded night, register will ring,
and you will pay rent from them!
The money we make
put back consistently into the equipment, become a demo,
and become advertising.
And the ad part
I can't discount because the ad part is
This is what gives the world ideas
that Twisted Sister is everywhere
♪ You are cornered in the alley way ♪
♪ You know you're alone ♪
♪ You know it will happen end this way ♪
♪ The cold goes to the bone ♪
♪ Right now he's a sparkling lamp ♪
♪ This goes to your side ♪
♪ Darkness comes, Tonight night ♪
♪ Blade will rise ♪
♪ Because you are under the knife, ohh ♪
♪ You are under the sword... ♪
We are in the media capital of the world, New York City,
and we don't have it a record contract
But we can buy radio time.
Airplay, what really is, In those days,
really driving everything in the music business -
FM is played-- is beyond our ability.
So what are we trying to do to fill That hole makes hits.
So what do we do?
We started buying air time with the club.
We will buy 30, 40, 50 - 30 seconds or one minute on weekends,
So what do you get for your 30 dollars for a while?
Now you can write a very funny place,
or you can take your own music and play it
for all minutes and only marks the beginning of
and commercial end
with Twisted Sister playing Speaks,
and it sounds like Twisted Sister's the song is on the radio
So many people think of our song
is playing on the radio even though it's actually just
the constant drumbeat from the ad.
And everyone hears it this ad
When Twisted wants, Say, you know, you must have played
"Bad Boys of Rock 'n' Roll" - whatever it is,
the song they play - people will go crazy
because it's like a cover song that they hear on the radio.
And they heard it it on the radio!
We are children of posters for unusual actions
And people will say all kinds of things insulting things
about us based on the series we play,
It's difficult to get an agreement.
Label coming to table,
is the one that-- You will make a deal with,
You will shake hands and everything.
And it looks like you will never hear from them again
Now we lower it our view is to indies
I remember the Handshake deal. When we get a contract,
they are basically indentured slavery
Literally, the man takes it all
and we just want, uh, sort of salary.
And we have to say, "No."
But the Hansa or Handshake agreement doesn't work.
But agreement with this German company, X, does it.
And this person likes our stuff and we negotiate
all recording contracts with him.
Overall agreement And in spring '81,
he flies from L.A. to New York back to Germany.
And we met him at the airport
and we submit the last letter to him
We give him a new demo.
He submits us final contract
And we think this is our agreement
And then I understand the phone call the next day.
My lawyer said, "Are you sitting?"
"Yes, why?" He said, "Alright the record producer collapsed
on the plane to Germany. He had a heart attack."
The deal is complete Bang.
Everyone says how difficult it is to get an agreement now
It always happens it's hard to get an agreement
There are always several reasons--
they are always something wrong with the economy.
That's the world.
I mean, you know, do you give up?
No. You don't give up.
You keep going until it happens.
Or you die trying.
Twisted Sister extinguishes it The single "I Will Not Grow".
Initially Joe Gerber will do it
sell them out from the trunk of his car,
You know to the local store in the Tri-State area,
where they play, where they will be sold, at the show.
And I work for Important Record Recording
And I think is a good idea,
Because I really love this band to try to get the distributor
to sell it outside the New York metro area.
So it feels like, uh, this rinky-dink single...
why are we playing? No one cares.
So, work for record distributors
related to imported music, Not just a note,
You will get all music papers - "New Music Express,"
"Voice" is directed a little harder.
So I sent a few more singles to the "Sounds" magazine
write a little handwriting letter, "This is the biggest,
biggest band bar in New York.
Next Superstar -" whatever I write
Look, three or four weeks later,
Twisted Sister in the chart.
Wow! This is good
Next week, they are in that chart again.
Suddenly, at the distributor,
we don't sell singles for people in America,
but we export single -
Because there is a request there
What you have in "Sounds,"
You have a personal playlist from the authors,
which every week we will choose three songs we listen to.
And they might be three songs
which is actually released.
With me often or not it is a demo tape.
Or sometimes you will even put songs you've ever seen live
That's not scientific. That is really populist.
We feel it's our way
directly communicate with readers
And there are many readers coming back Then, you know what I mean?
"Voice" at that time was close to to a quarter of one million sales,
be a reader Maybe four times.
So even though one in ten of them pay attention to the playlist,
That's still enough people to go out and make something happen.
We got a call saying that "Sounds" magazine in the UK,
has this playlist,
and one of the authors has placed "Under the Blade"
as the number one song in his personal playlist.
In the real paper,
on music paper it's not Long Island paper!
This is actually not even American paper!
This is an English paper!
They don't know us. They don't know anything about us
None.
And we contact "Sounds"
and they sent a writer, Garry Bushell.
So I go down to some damned hole in,
um, Westchester-- Westchester state
And that's awesome!
Seeing Twisted Sister and their audience,
in what we will call a spit and sawdust pub,
like an old club that is rude and rude.
And rightly so like the right wild person--
audience-- they really went for it
Twisted Sister, I mean they have a glam look,
but because it is so so big and so butch,
they see like docker in drag.
They are not like boys who are beautiful at all
It feels like Cinderella is ugly sister who has a convention
That's shocking!
And he wrote this incredible story
called "Sledgehammer Sister."
And, you know, talking about want to release this iceberg -
this will be published in '81,
I don't believe, what might happen?
The next thing you hear is that this label is called Secret Records--
a punk-- label wants to sign it.
Our manager tells us he flew in
to see us at Mid-Hudson Civic Center.
We are headlining and, um, do you know?
This is our cynicism.
I say, the man's plane will be accident before landing
But even if the land is,
He will die in a car accident on the way to the gig
But even if he gets there, P.A. will fall on his head
But even if we are great,
he will die on the way home to the airport.
But even if he lives,
he will die when the plane crashes into the sea
when I.R.A. bomb that blow.
I took my girlfriend, and we will do it Ever been to a party the night before
and we haven't slept yet.
And we catch a redeye out there and don't sleep
And we got there and we just messed up.
And uh, Mark picked us up and, uh,
with all the best wishes In the world,
Mark can speak Olympic level.
And he just persuaded my ears all the way out to Poughkeepsie.
and Poughkeepsie--
I've never heard of it from Poughkeepsie,
I only hallucinate, I'm very tired.
And, uh, we got there and that place... big.
I kind of expect a small club
And it's like a big hall.
And we go in there and there are several thousand people.
And I think, "This is crazy!"
This is a band that hasn't got a record contract,
how do they do this?
And the reaction From children is spectacular.
I mean they are fair go crazy.
So, uh, I look at me boyfriend and he loves that.
And I think, "We can do something with this.
This is brilliant. "
At the end of the event I go backstage to see the band
than I've seen in my life.
Cash, piles of it from merchandising. big,
I think there's a torn poster below.
And, uh, and I'm looking for on this thought,
"Nonsense, I'll never be able to buy this band ! "
And one of them turns and says,
" Hey, you have to sign it. We are very cheap! "
So he shows up. He loves bands. He says band,
he wants to contract us We don't react at all.
We are just like, uh, okay
It feels like, you know, I think Martin Hooker,
his name, he is like,
And Mark Puma is like,
"Yeah, they've heard this _ a few times before.
" Don't worry, they will be happy
when are they actually on the plane. "
Come on dear!
It's time to tear it loose!
♪ There's no way I will do it wait Saturday night ♪
♪ I work all day, I work hard far away, I have to set it right ♪
♪ Will hit the streets, sail around ♪
♪ I have to find some action ♪
♪ It won't stop until I fall or get some satisfaction ♪
Unfortunately there are some problems
with our drummer Tony Petrie, and, uh...
he left the band.
He was asked to leave the band in other words.
There are many things that lead to it with violence,
just like aggressive and violent behavior, you know
That is difficult for everyone.
♪ Will tear it, the torn loose ♪
We passed it series of drummers.
We have Joey Brighton
and then we bring Ritchie Teeter temporary content
until we find someone
Everyone we try is competent, you know?
Good players, but only-- for some reason - not gelling,
And then so we tried A.J. Pero,
I knew right away.
I looked at Dee and she looked at my , and we left like, "Oh yeah!"
Everyone!
On drums, A.J. Pero!
It feels like me missing link
I am what they need. I am power
I am an additional fee, do you know?
Load them, boom!
We signed the agreement.
We did our farewell concert in the New York area in June.
Six years we've worked,
play, finish off our ass,
play for every sick person bastards on Long Island,
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut!
Doing our ball to get us a recording contract
so we can be what we are meant to be--
the biggest, heaviest,
rock 'n' roll band most kick-ass In the world!
And now the time has come.
This is our last performance before we leave Friday night
to fly to England to record our first album.
And you all make it possible, right!
Making "Under The Blade" for Secret Records in the UK.
We recorded it on a farm down in the south of England
in a small town called Battle.
We stayed in a 16th century hotel
It's haunted and recorded most of the albums are stored in
Our baffle to keep the sound in. is straw bales.
Good? Chickens running around
They say that when I play my bass for that album,
most eggs and cows
giving the most milk they have ever done.
Very nice just go
Sometimes when you go and recording,
that's all you do there.
So there is no interference,
You know, you can't take calls from home like,
"Look, the faucet breaks you can come out and -"
Deal with it!
You know, deal with it. Like, "Oh my brother hit me!"
You know like... I... You know, is like,
"I can't, I'm in England."
Motorhead is being headlining a festival in Wales,
Wrexham Festival.
And we go down, "From USA Twisted Sister."
And that's our first show east of the Hamptons.
And we keep going, I don't know, maybe around noon?
Besides that, make up bands are really unpopular.
There is not only resistance, But there is hatred for the glam band.
And here's Twisted Sister-- full makeup
KISS has taken their makeup, Your thoughts, at this time.
This - no-- no Motley Crue.
This is a Twisted Sister that carries torches for glitter rock...
happened before Motorhead, one of the most disgusting,
the ugliest band In the world,
the joke will happen that you would rather have
sex with people in their crowd rather than girls -
They are much more beautiful.
And that doesn't mean they're beautiful
And they are tough.
And they are angry.
Uh, and we're not so sure how it will go all suddenly.
This band is scared - and...
to the point where is a discussion
on taking make-up and costumes off.
And, uh, what people want to go on clothes.
And I said "I didn't do this.
We have used this make-up and costume
for seven years now, six and a half years?"
I said, "We go through - I have fought for this, we have...
I am as scared as anyone else but I don't--
I didn't come this far to retreat."
I always joke that Lemmy knows the smell of human waste.
When he passes our dressing room door
He smells people throw in their pants
And he entered and said, "I will invite you."
Nobody knows who we are.
And all of a sudden we are on stage
and it feels like "Night Of The Living Dead."
I mean, people who are sitting wake up, and they see,
and they walk towards us like...
I swear you can see
bottle of people back like this,
they are ready to start throwing away dirt,
and Lemmy steps out and says -
I translate, because you can't understand Lemmy,
but "These are some of my friends ,
give them listening From America, give them a listen. "
And that only gives us sufficient space
to go there and do what we do.
And we just rip it. of big ovations...
my life. offstage,
someone says "Listen."
And you can hear the crowd
still singing, "Twisted... Sister...
Twisted... Sister...
Twisted... "
I gave up on the idea wanted to become a rockstar
around the time I heard notes Van Halen first,
and decided I needed to change the side of the table.
So I thought I needed to find a band
So I found Zebra through extraordinary strings
synchronicity and all sorts of other things.
And Randy Jackson, who is the singer of Zebra,
says to me one day he left,
"Flom, you must see Twisted Sister. "
He said," They are the best live band in the world
We can't touch them, no one can. "
So I said, " Okay, I want to see them. "
He said," Let's open for them on Wednesday,
in Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie. "
Civic Mid-Hudson Center holds 3,000 people. the big
So I drove there on Wednesday
Zebra playing, polite applause
And when Twisted Sister took the stage,
These 3,000 people are erupting.
And Dee got up on the stage and he said,
"Okay, you're New York bastard!"
He said, "We just returned from England with a bloody bloody
and we are sick and damn are tired of hearing that lime
telling us how good we are!"
He said, "How are you New York? bastards say?"
And all 3,000 children go, "Twisted Fucking Sister!"
And I'm like, that's it. I am finished. I don't care That's it. This is religion.
And that is.
And they play and I'm just out of my mind,
I can't wait to get it to the office the next day
to tell everyone what I saw
That reaction, "You need to sleep."
And uh, I do, but...
"This band is a joke and everyone
in the Industry knows about them. They are idiots.
They are dressed in women's clothing and it's nothing . "
And my mind, should go see them again tonight
at the Fountain Casino in New Jersey,
which is almost two hours in the other direction
So sleep deprivation and may be quite chaotic,
I wound at the Fountain Casino.
And that is the same.
And I just left, this is as real as that!
Children give me a road map
I still love him,
I like their music, but I don't care if I like it
because I see joy with children
And I leave, I can market this. This works
There is no question about that.
So again I went to the office
to be encountered the same response
And warm will be too good from a word
The answer is, "Go from here!
We didn't sign it. Damn it!"
So that is part of the idea
to get them in front of from as many people as possible.
We managed to get it at Reading Festival,
which is a big show for rock bands in those days,
I mean you have 70 or 80,000 people in one hit Welcome to our event!
Legend reads it for fans throwing.
People will throw items in the band.
This one is called "Shoot 'Em Down!"
There are 40,000 people in Reading
There are 10,000 people that likes you
and 30,000 who don't.
So each band continues
has 10,000 and 30,000 of them are not
And they all bear fruit.
You know that peaches and pears
and apples and bananas and Kotex and bottles of pee!
I mean, not a small bottle, big fucking bottle!
And quite a stamp,
it ends late until it hits something, and bang!
There is only a wave of goods coming again Dan Dee says,
"Wow, stop, stop!"
Walk forward and say...
There are some cowards throwing things at us.
Pussies.
I am very angry at the things thrown.
I'm angry. I am very serious and I say.
Everyone who wants to throw something on Twisted Sister,
after the show, meet us back there - all of you,
I don't care - and you can do it Tell us that we suck our faces.
You can try throwing something on my face
But don't be a coward.
Don't throw something and hit people
Here in front, okay?
Just come!
We are ready! Are you ready?!
And it really changes in outline.
No one throws the , people cheer.
And they end steal the entire show
I go sideways from the stage
to see if there are people - just in case anyone wants to fight me
So I go and nothing.
Only fans, "We are with you, Dee!"
All are ready for dust-up but nothing--
there is no-- no taker
We have won that day.
So we sit back there and just admire
about the number of items that are thrown into the band.
We never experienced it before
We have this great Scottish man work for us and he goes like,
I don't believe anyone throws a shite!
And we go like-- What do you say?
I can't believe that someone threw a shite!
"Shite?"
He goes, "Damn! Someone throws dirt on the stage!"
As hate filled like me,
Can I take it? human waste and throw it away?
Then, where can ?
Has anyone succeeded? Is this yours?
What is that-- do you save it for later?
Do you buy it at-- is there a shite stand,
You know, or are you standing up bad?
Can I have some crap I can throw in the band?
Hot steam please, with some chili on it.
I'm just trying to imagine - what--
how this arrived at the point to where it was actually on stage.
But yes, someone throws human waste in the band.
That - that - you really Must hate a band to do that.
When we come back, is a victory again,
and, uh, playing for me I think it's a few months
when we should return
and release the recording there and do a mini tour.
We plan to bring them to do another great tour
and really stuck in with lots of consecutive dates
it will happen to a large audience, and...
We just made an agreement with Virgin
so that the distribution will be great
We got big progress.
So there is a lot of money in the bank ready to do everything.
Basically we go home, and we take more ads.
Twisted Sister Big Tour from Europe
Thank you very much. Goodbye, New York.
This is very good, blah blah blah.
And we say, "Goodbye, Long Island. Goodbye, New Jersey.
Thank you for the amazing 10 years.
We go to see the wizard. Thank you good night.
Because it's him!
We go
We go to England.
And when you send us go to wild blue there,
tell us how you feel about rock 'n' roll.
Now get ready!
Are you ready?
Are you ready ?!
When we release recordings
it's straight into the national chart
That is the first top 75 weeks.
And to do that outside the box, it's not easy And especially for metal notes at that time.
Get ready to go for Europe, September '82.
And my lawyer calls me.
"Are you sitting?"
"Yes."
"Secret Records go bankrupt."
"You're kidding."
"No. The album came out
and the label goes bankrupt the next day. "
It just disappeared overnight.
My partner disappears with money,
and goes with it my company.
And I'm left together - uh,
less than anything and, uh, The band was left without a tour.
So we can't play
because we now tell everyone that we are on tour.
So we can't play.
So we don't. We hide in our place home for, like, two months.
It is a long, cold winter.
Somewhere around 50th time
I was told to shut up about Twisted Sister.
I was called to the office from the president
from Atlantic Records, Doug Morris.
I was told that if I ever mentioned
Twisted Sister name again,
I was fired from my job.
So this is a problem.
And the solution I found is--
One day I saw a man named Phil Carson in the office.
I don't know him, but I know he is a very important person
And, uh, he's from England, from our English company.
And I think maybe he will help me
So I contacted him in the hallway.
And I have a cassette made.
And I have a lot of from sheets of handwritten paper,
Because I don't know how to type .
And I said, "Phil, you don't know my , you have to help me, man.
You have to sign these people."
And he handed me this manilla envelope
and I put it in my bag.
And I went to get in my first class seat
and sip my first class champagne.
And after the flight takes off I think,
"Oh, I'll listen to it for a small Jason recording."
And the first thing I pull out is this handwritten memo
from Jason to me,
and that must happen 12 paper pages stenographer
with very small writing.
And I see it, and it turns out that won't wade through this.
Then I pulled out the photo from this band he owned.
And they dress this group in women's clothes!
Oh God, do you know ?!
So I put everything in a sick garbage bag
and never listen to the tape and throw it away
There is no place left to go.
At this point, after taking it so far for 10 years,
it has reached the end.
We have run out of our markets in America.
We have created all of this hype in the UK.
that we will not do it can cash in
and damage our reputation there.
We will blow us reputation on two continents
And we sit there freaking out,
"What will we do? What will we do?"
And our manager said, "Do you know what?
You laid this foundation in England.
You have this recording contract The secret was unsuccessful.
Maybe we can something in the UK. "
Somehow the label, before they go up,
has succeeded for the appearance finagle for us
on the live television program is called" Tube. "
I don't remember its existence a big discussion
other than the unique chance,
and we hope to use it to arouse interest to encourage us,
You know, to get a new deal, or something, you know
We don't have one another.
We are stuck here. We have to go there.
This is really - it's the only that makes sense.
But how do we do it?
We need money.
So we go to friends and family, as much as we can,
and get a small amount, but it's not close enough.
So Jay Jay and I go to - I believe that -
the three clubs we have are very good relations with
Difficult people, tough people.
Some of them are people I think have lent money, cash before.
But not under this requirement.
Below "listen we will give it back to you
"If everything goes well. Otherwise, we will only--
we will play a few dates for you for free."
You know, we are friends with them
You know after a while you're dealing
with someone to, you know, a few years -
we are friends with them
They ask us to give them some money
to bring it and, uh, we helped them out.
We fly alone like in a cattle car.
That's not even a coach.
There is first class,
business class, coach, and then where you put the dog
That's where we are.
A week before Christmas we finally arrived in England
to do "Tube" on live English television.
Alright, hello and good night to "Tube."
Tonight we go to have a number of bands
who is guaranteed makes your ears bleed.
Here we are, Harimau Pantang, and Iggy Pop.
The only problem is it a live broadcast
So as we don't have it is enough to worry.
We only have 20 minutes to get our point on,
and talk about getting We mean,
Oh by the way, You can't curse.
So this is half vocabulary Dee.
Get out of the door
But what's the problem?
That is only the most The important performances we have
or will never play in the life of the band.
They look like women, they play like men,
and they are the biggest a group of hellraisers
to get out of America!
This is Twisted Sister!
Good night!
Welcome to our event!
I was in the studio all day
and holding concerts sold in America.
And I made my call,
and Phil Carson from Atlantic Records are there.
And he's in the next office doing the same thing
So I asked what he did, and he said,
"I manage this group called Twisted Sister,"
I have never heard of.
And I see all these people move back and forth
which is seven feet tall and I think,
"Who are they?"
And then I realized, of course, that they were Twisted Sisters.
Which, you know, doesn't lure them to me,
I am quite serious about my rock 'n' roll.
♪ What you don't know sure can hurt you ♪
♪ What you can't see makes you scream ♪
♪ What you don't know sure can hurt you ♪
♪ What you don't have is what You dream, what you dream of ♪
♪ Dreams, dreams, dreams... ♪
Mark told me that they have the following is good in America and will I come and see them?
Good night!
Welcome to "The Tube" on Channel 4!
We are Twisted Sister!
I go down and see a little set.
And I think, "Ah, they're not half bad."
Get your hands...
In the studio
there must be some heavy metal fans there,
which is very reactive and very responsive to the band.
But most rooms do not respond to
And we have three songs.
And I have to reach the audience.
We get the entire front go here
But I think the back is
and part of the balcony must be on Quaaludes or something,
because they all stand Will happen, "Uh..."
Again, Twisted Sister always has That attitude, you know,
we don't fight fair
I don't think is good enough
And I think the problem is here do we need help
We have to bring out artillery, you understand?
And we called Lemmy, who is our friend now and ask if he will come come out and play with us
And he and Brian Robinson come out.
Yes! This is Robbo!
Lemmy and Robbo from Motorhead!
Can we hear it for them ?!
Come on now. Let's hear for them.
Ready let's go, come on!
Alright okay
Come on let's listen now!
The audience is not react well.
Everyone doesn't get into it,
and if this audience, in the room,
get the full effect from Twisted Sister
not responding, what people will
sit in their comfortable chair at home--
What are their reactions?
We got Twisted Sister away from America.
We have Motorhead.
But it seems that still is a problem
We still lose people in the audience.
And that's where I speak, again don't fight fair
You can do something where You can talk to an audience
and communicate your feelings
But I think you people want something else
before you give us what we need.
I think you have a little hang-up, some of you people.
I think there are some people out there
who can't take Twisted Sister, Because of the way we see.
That's the problem, isn't it now
And you won't do it listen to us,
You won't pay attention to us out there, now will you?
No, you won't pay attention.
Because we have make up, that seems to be a problem.
So we have to take the results up off, right now right?
I told my roadie,
I said, "Take my can the makeup and towel remover,
and have it on the side from the stage, if I call him."
I did not talk to the band About this, I did not discuss it.
I just - behind my mind, have an idea
Give me the item.
Is that the problem, man? I make too much, man?
You can't take me seriously I'm not crazy enough for you?
Now I don't have there is no make up,
So what will you do now?
Now you have to give yourself to me, okay
Don't let me be disappointed,
I did something for you It's Christmas time.
Give Twisted Sister what they want!
And the place is crazy.
Aah!
Come on!
Thank you!
Robbo Robinson!
- And Lemmy! - Twisted Sister - alright!
So they destroyed the audience and it was an amazing show.
So I turned to Mark. And I said, "Okay, I'll sign it."
And he looked at me and said, "To the Atlantic?"
And I said, "Well where I work, you know
I will sign them to the Atlantic.
He doesn't say a word.
Then he says," Okay come back and meet the band . "
I say," Not at all. "
Who wants to meet that? "I said I would sign it."
He said, "They will never go Believe me!"
And he left, "Atlantic Records."
And I think, "There are thousand record labels!
One label where the quote is From the president of the record company,
" The next person who mentions this band! '"
I don't want to say anything because - but I--
He walks out.
" We are messed up, we will not be signed! "
The next day Phil Carson goes in and he leaves,
"So boy, I will sign you to Atlantic Records,
" but I have to tell you very Interesting conversations that I have.
Do you know this person? named Doug Morris? "
" Yes. "
I called on Tuesday the following weekend
I had seen Twisted Sister and said,
" Oh, I have a new band, I just signed a band .
This is the first time I have signed an American band
But they happen to be finished and they are really good. "
And Doug Morris said, " What did they call? "
I said, "Twisted Sister."
When Doug is like, "Are you kidding me?
They suck! They suck!
I don't want them on my label. They suck!"
And Phil goes, "Of course they suck, but you know that
will sell lots of notes!"
We noted "You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll."
We have a record in England, sold out tour,
we are above The Pops-- three times.
We do our best. Come back to America.
Of course, Atlantic Atlantic Records .--
zero support, no.
Records out and as you can imagine
That is not a big priority for the label
That, uh, The staff didn't work that.
I'm working on it.
I'm calling a radio station.
I do a lot of things I am not allowed to do it.
But if it's not a priority For companies, it's very difficult.
We chew a little to get out
and prove ourselves to the world but, you know,
no one wants us to go on a tour with them.
So we open this tour open for Krokus and Blackfoot.
29 minutes.
And we don't have a budget, you know.
And hire a Winnebago and drive 56 hours.
56 hours to Salt Lake City
and Winnebago then break down.
And Mark is below it and fix it,
You know, like he would do it on Long Island, right?
All to play 29 minutes.
But we were very bent when playing 29 minutes.
I mean, that's what you do, right?
Every city we visit we make an impression
Every city we go for us to sell recordings
Every city we visit, representatives of the local Atlantic
will call following Monday and go,
"Damn, I just saw the future of rock 'n' roll.
Their name is Twisted Sister."
And its main office, Doug Morris and company,
must hear the dreaded word "Twisted" repeatedly.
One day I was called to the president's office
from Atlantic Records, Doug Morris,
and he said, "Do you know what?
This - this is the real thing."
And they will do new recordings with Twisted.
They will push all the buttons
and withdraw all stops,
throw money into this object and make it happen
Doug Morris, head of Atlantic Records,
our enemy--
who definitely hates has me, this is nonsense,
dirtbag, Dee Snider in his office--
tell me what they will do
And I debated with him about different movements
they want to make
He has a lot of ideas how to clean Twisted Sister.
And I argue with everything.
You know, our fans, our fans, our fans.
And finally Doug has it!
And he said, "How many fans? what do you think?"
So I did some math, you know, we sold 150,000 albums,
added there are abroad, so whatever it is,
I come with that number 100,000 - 150,000 - 200,000.
And he said, "What do you want? And this is it 12 year old young man
on Atlantic Records and see the president,
you know, this big important man.
And I give up.
I say, "I want to have a platinum record."
He said, "Okay, shut up. This is what you have to do."
Of course behind I realize
the correct answer is, "I want both."
You know, there are ways to achieve both.
But I'm really thrown with that statement
You know I never thought in terms of millions.
But here is a man, This is a record label
and that's the only way they really think
They think in terms of 500,000, one million,
two million, do you know?
We finally sell three and a half million "stay hungry" in the U.S.
So, that's cool.
I always wonder how fans feel
When we finally pass it and become so big,
they must have felt it very justified
What is the Donnas in the world? feel the justification
for their five unforgettable days-a- weeks-trips-everywhere
Twisted Sister diehard support?
You know... when you are so close to the band,
like really feet away from a band, and you get a bit,
I don't know, maybe it's so possessive about them?
And you have this feeling, um, you know it will go
So you really are happy for them that they are
get success that they deserve it,
and recognized, you know,
around the world for what they do here in our little club
But at the same time little tearing my heart
because I will lose them
Good night everyone!
We... Twisted...
Fucking...
Brother!
Whoa! What is Twisted Sister about that?
Well it's simple!
We are just about having fun.
That's it!
We just want to have fun!
We want to forget work. We want to forget about school.
We like to forget about home problems
We want to forget everything
except partying
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