Almost year and a half following TWISTED SISTER‘s one-off onstage reunion at the Metal Hall Of Fame in Agoura Hills, California, Dee Snider was asked by “The Hook Rocks!” podcast about the potential reunion of himself and the band for special performances.
As a result of all the bands retiring and dying, the offers get bigger and bigger for the holdouts to come back,” Snider responded. “And we retired in 2016, I think it was. So we’re on eight years now of not playing, with no intention of coming back. But — my father, he says, ‘Everything before the word ‘but’ is bulls**t — but at some point, you’ve gotta say, ‘Well, how can I say no to that?'”
“Is it there yet? No. Is it getting close? Yeah. Is there talk amongst us, like, ‘Well, in the event that the numbers do get there, and they sure as hell seem to be going in that direction, how are we gonna do this?’ So there’s a little bit of that conversation. And that’s both physically how we’re gonna do it and on a number of other levels. And that’s a recent occurrence, that the conversation has gone from ‘never’ to ‘in the event that they make as an offer we can’t refuse, what’s the plan?’ And there’s some very general discussion on that, involving personal trainers [laughs], diets, hair extensions. And that’s the first time in eight years that the conversation has changed.”
“We’re all friends, by the way,” he added. “The surviving guys, we all talk and we’re all friends and we love each other. And that was one of the great things that came out of getting back together the first time is that we managed to fix the friendships and be friends and that, to me, is really why I wanted to do it in the first place, getting back [together] last time… So, anyway, we’ll see what happens.”
Snider has previously confirmed that TWISTED SISTER is likely to reunite in 2024 for special performances at various political rallies that require their support.
The band aims to ensure that their iconic song “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is not misused by the extreme right and that it continues to represent inclusivity and freedom. While there are currently no plans for a full reunion beyond these special performances, the band’s reunion at the Metal Hall of Fame has sparked speculation.
“Well, I won’t be surprised if we’re reuniting this election year to champion some important causes,” Snider said in an interview with Canada’s The Metal Voice. “We’re all on the same page — pretty much all of us are on the same page — and I could see us helping fight the good fight. ‘Cause this is a big-picture election, and with things like women’s right to choose, that’s a big-picture thing. That’s gonna hurt the other side. I said ‘the other side’, because I’m not on that side, [on the side of] Mr. Trump.
“You can’t roll back the clock,” he continued. “We’re not going back in time. We’re going forward. The fact that my granddaughter does not have the right to choose just blows my mind. So these are important, important issues. It’ll be less about the politicians and more about the parties they represent and what they represent. [Issues like] gun control. By the way, I’m the weird… I’m gunned up, man. But I am for intelligent gun control. I’m gunned up. I’m the moderate. I’m that person. I drive a Tesla and an H2 Hummer. I’m an environmentalist and I ride motorcycles.
“When Al Gore said to me, ‘Oh, is Sick Mother-F**kers [TWISTED SISTER‘s fanbase], is that a Christian organization?’ And I said, ‘Christianity and profanity have nothing to do with each other.’ There’s no ‘thou shalt not curse’, the 11th commandment that apparently was dropped or lost. No — those motherf**kers are cursing too. So everybody’s cursing — like I just did. Sorry. I’m losing it now.”
“People say, ‘What’s a moderate? What is a moderate?’ I tell people the middle, the vast middle, need to speak up, because right now the extreme left [and] extreme right are both,” he added. “They’re steering the ship, they’re the loudest voices in the room, they’re making the most noise, and the vast middle is sitting too silently. And they’ll say, ‘Well, what’s a moderate these days?’ I said, ‘What’s a moderate? If you’re willing to discuss something and consider a compromise, you’re a moderate.’
“Because the people on the extreme left and extreme right, they will not give one inch. They won’t talk about it. They will not compromise under any circumstance. So there’s a lot of us in the middle who may be more right leaning or left leaning. That’s fine. But you need to speak up if you’re willing to have a discussion on a subject and you’re willing to consider compromising on something, ’cause those are the voices that need to be steering the ship, not the unrelenting, unyielding extremes on both sides.”
