“Being rich and famous is hard,but being poor and famous is hell.”

So says Dee Snider.  He's quoted in a NY Times article.  His career has come full circle. He's now appearing until Dec 24th in the Broadway musical Rock of Ages.   It's a role he lobbied for after seeing the show.  During my high school years, his band Twisted Sister were ubiquitous on Long Island.  They played Speaks, Hammerheads, etc.  You name the club, they would have played it. Then they had their biggest hit, "We're Not Gonna Take It". As he says, you have to live a life if you're not Billy Joel or Elton John.  In the 1990's when offers were not forthcoming, he worked in businesses with his brother and his wife.  Dee keeps it going.  He had a short-lived reality show.  The band has been touring. Now he's on Broadway. 

A Twisted Reality

Dee Snider and his family are following in the footsteps of the Osbournes and Simmons with their own reality show, Growing Up Twisted which debuts on July 27 at 10pm on A&E. Dee is most famously known as the front man for the band Twisted Sister. He's a great guest on Howard Stern, has a radio show, House of Hair and is the national spokesperson for the March of Dimes Bikers for Babies. The show takes place at the Long Island Snider home. When I was in high school, I used to see Twisted Sister live at a club called Speaks in Island Park. Along with Twisted Sister, Zebra, The Good Rats and Blue Angel, (which was Cyndi Lauper's first act) seemed to be performing there at any given night. Dee is staying close to his roots with this show.