I don't ever want to go up there and have people say, 'Man, you should have seen him in the old days, he was really good. I'm just playing it by ear, saying, What's next. Nobody, that's the answer. The reason is that I had very strict parents and I didn't go to my first concert until I was, like, I didn't really start to going to concerts properly until I was 17 or I never saw Alice Cooper , one of my biggest influences, until I toured with him with Twisted Sister. My inspiration was from photographs.
I'd see photographs of Alice Cooper and think, 'If Alice is doing this, then he must have been doing this to get there. I sort of created my own style by imagining what my heroes must have done to rock the way the pictures showed.
Do bands these days put in the hard yards like you did in Twisted Sister, or do they expect it to be handed to them? Very few bands put in the kind of time we did with Twisted, and they do expect it to be handed to them. But I expected it to be handed to me too. Don't you hate that? It was not supposed to be that way. You were supposed to put together a band and make a record. It wasn't supposed to be eight, ten years of slogging it out. There's a certain pride in that, but I would trade it for instant fame in a hot second.
What kept you going back then, when you're banging your head against a brick wall? As hard as it is for people to believe, by the late 70s Twisted was playing for to kids a night, five nights a week. We'd get every rejection letter from a suit in a tower in New York who was hanging out at Big Apple punk mecca CBGBs signing bands who played to 50 people. We'd go out in front of a couple of thousand kids losing their shit, lining up around the block to see an unsigned band.
Those kids, they knew the truth. Those suits, they didn't know shit. The point where it all went really wrong? The end of hair metal , the start of grunge. We don't do that.
We don't sing like you, we don't perform like you, we don't write like you, we don't look like you. But that was it, over. I was married, I had three kids, and I was broke. Yeah, I'd made millions and I spent it like a rock star. And that was without drugs and alcohol. How did you get through? Was it just you knuckling down to dig yourself out of a hole?
I saw an article in a business magazine on personal branding, and they cited me as a person who branded himself. I was laughing reading the article, cos I did nothing of the sort. It was pure desperation. In , Snider performed with Ohio-based metalcore band Attack Attack! He starred in a commercial featuring a mock audition where he came on as himself, and after drinking a soda turns into the lead singer from Twisted Sister himself.
Snider agreed to come because he is personal friends with Rich and wanted to support the charity effort for St. Jude Medical Center. On July 27, , Snider and his family began appearing in the reality television show Growing Up Twisted, airing on the Arts and Entertainment Network.
On October 8, , started an week run in the cast of Rock of Ages as Dennis, the owner of The Bourbon Room, with his official start date being October He admitted to being a huge fan of the show during an hour-long 10th anniversary documentary of the show in , and to be asked to voice a character on the show was a real honor.
The show recruited famous musical celebrities who competed against each other to win a chance to release a country song. Also in , Snider appeared on the first episode of season two's Kitchen Nightmares who Gordon Ramsay had recruited as part of the marketing for the re-launch of the Handlebar restaurant.
On the show, Snider donated a motorcycle for auction in which customers of the Handlebar were able to bid on through the Handlebar restaurants website. Bush's mistakes that he made while in office. Snider lived part-time in East Setauket, New York. In , Snider's brother-in-law, Vincent Gargiulo, was murdered. The killer was apprehended in The following year, he rejoined with the reunited Twisted Sister.
In , he appeared with actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at campaign events during his drive to recall incumbent California Governor Gray Davis. Snider narrates and hosts many shows and specials on VH1, movie trailers, behind the scenes segments, and DVD special features.
Every year since , Snider has narrated a live show known as Van Helsing's Curse which tours the US around Halloween giving a mix of famous music with dark overtones and an occasional part of a storytelling to accompany the music. The concert has also been released on CD. Snider hosted VH1's "Aftermath" concert in remembrance of the victims and survivors of the Station nightclub fire.
His show returned to the air at night in August on He fondly referred to his listeners as his "Peeps," and "DEE" euro stickers, printed by the station, could be seen on the bumpers of his fans' cars throughout Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. According to Snider, Dion at the time was not aware of who wrote the song.
Later that year, he also wrote and starred in the horror film Strangeland. Snider has also penned the script to a sequel which has the working title of Strangeland: Disciple. In January , however, Snider was less than optimistic that it would ever see the light of day, saying in an interview with Bullz-Eye. Give me a call. Snider indicated in a fall of interview that there was still no movement on the development of Strangeland: Disciple. It is syndicated by the United Stations Radio Networks.
The show's format runs two hours and features Snider's closing catchphrase, "If it ain't metal, it's crap!
It's really a great performance. Is it weird that his mouth seems so wet there? It's disturbing. So that's time two. For time three, we get Snider in the total dick Dad role. It's clear that he's relishing this opportunity and makes the most of it. There we have it.
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