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MUS I C
Twisted Sister
lives
WHICH heavy metal artist shredded a
live chicken on stage? You'll find out as
VHl delves into some of the most outra
geous, shocking, and hilarious antics of
the genre's notorious artists on Monday's
"100 Most Metal Moments."
The cable channel chose the perfect
narrator for this freak-out show: Dee
Snider of Twisted Sister. Snider main
tained his sanity and stayed away from
chemically altering his perspective -he's
one of the few people left from that era
who can actually remember what really
happened.
"Being clean and sober and healthy and
intelligent in the '80s, I was essentially an
alien," laughs Snider, taking a break from
recording "House of Hair," his nationally
syndicated radio show heard on 165 sta
tions that celebrates metal.
"I've been married to the same woman
for 28 years! Now they're all coming
[over] to my side and cleaning up. I'm thinking of doing smack because I want to
be an individual," Snider jokes.
Meatloaf taunting a crowd into throwing
mountains of refuse; Motley Crue getting
girls to squat in kitty litter boxes -the 49-
year-old Long Island native saw it all.
"My favorite was the face-off between
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue," Snider
says of Metal Moment No.7. "They were
trying to one-up each other and Ozzy end
ed up snorting a line of red ants. One of the
Motleys, I can't remember which one, peed
on the floor and then Ozzy got on all fours
and licked it up. You can't beat Ozzy."
Metal moment No.5: "This is Spinal Tap."
Snider's own key metal moment may
have come when he testified in front of
Congress and proved himself a passionate
and intelligent defender of free speech.
Now he breeds dogs and rereads the sweet
ly nostalgic work ofJean Shepherd. Snider's
also working on a sequel to his cult film,
"Strangeland" (the most stolen video in
America, he claims), and doing occasional
gigs with Twisted Sister, clad in full mid
'80s regalia.
"The bad news is we look like a bunch of
aging drag queens," Snider says. "The good
news is we always looked like a bunch of
aging drag queens." -Michael Giltz
100 MOST METAL MOMENTS
Monday, 10 p.m., VHl
MUS I C
Twisted Sister
lives
WHICH heavy metal artist shredded a
live chicken on stage? You'll find out as
VHl delves into some of the most outra
geous, shocking, and hilarious antics of
the genre's notorious artists on Monday's
"100 Most Metal Moments."
The cable channel chose the perfect
narrator for this freak-out show: Dee
Snider of Twisted Sister. Snider main
tained his sanity and stayed away from
chemically altering his perspective -he's
one of the few people left from that era
who can actually remember what really
happened.
"Being clean and sober and healthy and
intelligent in the '80s, I was essentially an
alien," laughs Snider, taking a break from
recording "House of Hair," his nationally
syndicated radio show heard on 165 sta
tions that celebrates metal.
"I've been married to the same woman
for 28 years! Now they're all coming
[over] to my side and cleaning up. I'm thinking of doing smack because I want to
be an individual," Snider jokes.
Meatloaf taunting a crowd into throwing
mountains of refuse; Motley Crue getting
girls to squat in kitty litter boxes -the 49-
year-old Long Island native saw it all.
"My favorite was the face-off between
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue," Snider
says of Metal Moment No.7. "They were
trying to one-up each other and Ozzy end
ed up snorting a line of red ants. One of the
Motleys, I can't remember which one, peed
on the floor and then Ozzy got on all fours
and licked it up. You can't beat Ozzy."
Metal moment No.5: "This is Spinal Tap."
Snider's own key metal moment may
have come when he testified in front of
Congress and proved himself a passionate
and intelligent defender of free speech.
Now he breeds dogs and rereads the sweet
ly nostalgic work ofJean Shepherd. Snider's
also working on a sequel to his cult film,
"Strangeland" (the most stolen video in
America, he claims), and doing occasional
gigs with Twisted Sister, clad in full mid
'80s regalia.
"The bad news is we look like a bunch of
aging drag queens," Snider says. "The good
news is we always looked like a bunch of
aging drag queens." -Michael Giltz
100 MOST METAL MOMENTS
Monday, 10 p.m., VHl