Dee Snider
Dee Snider is an American musician, screenwriter, radio personality and actor best known for being the lead singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister.
How Heavy Metal Helped Me Break The Chains
“Don’t feel you’ve got to hide” From “Stay Hungry” by Twisted Sister I grew up fearing metalheads. Metalheads can be defined broadly as anyone who is either a fan or performer of heavy metal music. I would see metalheads at school and think that they looked … different. They had...
Read MoreWhat I Learned From Heavy Metal Champion Dee Snider
“We’ve got the right to choose it There ain’t no way we’ll lose it This is our life, this is our song” From “We’re Not Gonna Take It” by Twisted Sister Twisted Sister’s 1984 album Stay Hungry was certainly the band’s defining musical statement. Decades later, on the strength of hit songs like “We’re...
Read More#003 Dee Snider
Talked with heavy metal legend and Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider this week and, in retrospect, Twisted Sister’s 1984 album Stay Hungry was sort of a blue print for Hardcore Humanism: Songs like “We’re Not Gonna Take it” were letting people know that the metal community rejects the stereotypes...
Read MoreThe Middle Finger Factor of Dee Snider
“I gave you yesterday Tomorrow’s no concern” – From “Tomorrow’s No Concern” by Dee Snider For Dee Snider, heavy metal was always a form of self-protection–a way to define himself rather than succumb to how others saw him. “I’d come home from school, wasn’t popular, didn’t fit in, was bullied. As...
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