'We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!' The Documentary Worth Missing

Twist this

Twisted Sister is a band whose false sense of importance never failed to amaze me.  Even in their ‘hayday’ they were nothing but a joke.  Any right minded music fan found no redemption in Dee Snider he was a farce and well talent wise, he made a spectacle but that’s about it.

There were (of course) Twisted Sister fans, mullet wearing kids from the ‘burbs who found this pussy metal something to shock their parents with.  Dee grew up and became even more annoying. Trying to be a musical Howard Stearn but instead just an idiot not even funny enough to watch.  He keeps popping up too, on reality TV and other has been outlets.

This leads me to wonder who the fuck is bankrolling the new documentary ‘We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!’ , you figure their average fan is about 45 so maybe its generation ‘has been’ that thinks this is a necessary time capsule- no idea.  But theyre surely as stoked as I am disgusted and here are your details of the band who did nothing but waste air space.

Guitarist Jay Jay French says, “the history of Twisted is really those 10 years in the clubs. The years we spent clawing our way through the bar scene. It was learning how to make order out of chaos, how to confront bad situations, how to win in bad situations, and prepare us for the future. And it was unique to Twisted. I talk to hundreds of bands and nobody’s ever gone through what we went through. It’s who we are, and it’s why we are, and why we do what we do.”

Horn says, “I first met Twisted Sister when I interviewed lead singer Dee Snider and guitarist Jay Jay French while researching my previous film, The Nomi Song. Jay Jay then appeared in the film describing the wild scene that erupted when Nomi, a German operatic counter-tenor and performance artist, was booked to open for Twisted Sister in a club in suburban New Jersey. After the film was completed, Jay Jay and I spent an afternoon with him filling my head with stories about Twisted’s own wild shows in the bars. Jay Jay’s description of what he called ‘bar band shtick’ (the various ploys they used to engage their crowd in the bars) sounded to me like it’s own kind of performance art — just for a whole other type of crowd. This sounded interesting and the more I followed up on it the more I realized there was a real story there. And it became much bigger than I ever imagined.”

Here’s a clip to make you cringe.