No Twisted Sister Reunion Ever? Dee Snider Reveals Offers Are “Getting Close”
Love ’em or hate ’em, reunions of long-dead rock and metal bands are big money. Show and festival promoters looking to sell an obscene amount of tickets will usually try to coax a band into getting back together for huge sums of money and as it turns out, nearly everyone’s got a price. Even Twisted Sister‘s outspoken frontman Dee Snider.
During his appearance on The Hook Rocks! podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), the “We’re Not Gonna Take It” singer revealed that while he’s been historically vocal about bullshit band retirements, the figures being thrown around to get Twisted Sister back on stage are getting to be too much to ignore. After all, money is money.
“As a result of all the bands retiring and dying, the offers get bigger and bigger for the holdouts to come back. 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 bullshit — 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.”
While I’m sure there are some people that have probably skewered Snider for even thinking about going back on the whole “no reunions” bit, but let’s be serious. Money’s one hell of a driving factor and realistically, would you be turning down a huge amount of cash to do what you love?
What makes this even more interesting is the fact that unlike most bands that have broken up over the years, Snider says he and his former bandmates are still buddies. This would literally be just a few friends getting back together for another run of shows and dealing with all the preparation that’s involved.
“We’re all friends, by the way. 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.”
So in the end, will Twisted Sister ever reunite? Only time will tell, but if you want to make it happen it’s gonna cost you some serious green.
