Last year, Twisted Sister reunited for a one-off performance at the Metal Hall of Fame ceremony in Agoura Hills, California. Singer Dee Snider speculated at the time that the band would probably perform in some capacity again this year for political rallies, but nothing has happened so far.
Snider has been critical in the past of bands who say they’re retiring just to come back years later. However, in news that surprises no one, it seems like the band not only will appear on the political circuit, but will reunite for full-on live shows and potentially some kind of tour as well.
Snider told “The Hook Rocks” podcast: “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 bullsh*t — but at some point, you’ve gotta say, ‘Well, how can I say no to that?'”
He continued: “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. 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’s full interview can be heard here.
