Why Twisted Sister frontman Dee snider declared bankruptcy twice!
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Twisted sister would be synonymous with the 80’s having a triple platinum album and of course frontman Dee Snider stuck it to congress and the PMRC. Having sold millions of records during the decade, you’d think frontman Dee Snider would have been rolling in money, well he wasn’t. By the early to mid 90’s with the rise of alternative music, the frontman was broke and he had a great deal of business setbacks and just bad luck. . In today’s video, let’s explore what happened.
Twisted Sister were coming off the success of their third record Stay Hungry, which produced teh two huge hits we’re not gonna take it and i wanna rock. They were about to release their fourth album ‘Come out and play.’ There was big expectations that the album would sell well. Expecting a huge reception to their new album, the band designed an elaborate and expensive stage setup for the tour. Then release day came and the weeks came and went and the album proved to be a commercial disappointment. It went gold, selling a sixth of what its predecessor did. The tour wasn’t much better either. Despite garnering a ton of press coverage, frontman Dee Snider soon realized the press attention had more to do with the PMRC than the band’s music.. Despite playing a few sold out shows in the norhteast, once they left the region, ticket sales plummeted.
Despite touring with dokken they weren’t selling out shows, frequently playing to half sold out venues. Dee would add in his book that the setlists the band chose for the tour were equally bad choosing heavier songs and ditching pop metal songs. He would write in his book ‘they wanted to hear fun, funny songs. Twisted Sister’s core audience was gone.”
. Dee would also go on to theorize in his book that his band represented everything wrongv with rock and parents forbade there kids from attending their shows, only further hurting the band.
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A month into the tour, the band was bleeding money and had to cut their losses so they scrappe the north american leg of the tour. To shield themselves from humiliation, Dee would admit faking a throat polyp and the band soon found themselves deep in debt. Soon enough atlantic pulled the plug on promoting, despite some bigger crowds in Europe. The final straw for the label MTV banning the video for the third single due to what the network claimed was ‘horrific content.’ Dee would reveal in his book ‘to me that was the final nail in the coffin of our career.’ Dee would reveal the true reality of the band’s finances up until this point writing “when you don;t break until your third or fourth album, you are in debt to your record company for all the recording budgets, videos, tour support, and whatever other bullshit they can charge against your account. That has accumulated over the years, you are in debt baby. One big selling record, only serves to pay it back. You need to sustain your career to make money. “
Dee seems to clarify in his book he didn’t spend money on drugs, alcohol or be ripped off by management or the label. He would even ask the question why didn’t he curb his spending to adjust for his decreased income. Well he writes quite frequently in his book that his ego wouldn’t let him. He still believed that despite this setback the band was going through, it was temporary.
. While twisted sister took a break, Dee set out to record a solo record, that was more pop influenced, initially taking inspiration from bryan adams - he would also nab a spot hosting the pre-cursor to headbangers ball on mtv,- heavy metal mania. But Dee would eventually leave the show after feeling too overexposed and due to the fact that mtv was notoriously cheap and didn’t pay him.His management and label urged him to make his solo record the next Twisted Sister album, which he did.
Twisted Sister would release their fifth studio album Love is For Suckers in 1987 representing a moremade the most money in the band . He would remark in his book “if they insisted that i pay the entire million dollar debt , i would file for bankruptcy and they would get nothing. To this winterland responded , they wanted it all from me. And they didn’t care if i went bankrupt and they got nothing. They wanted t
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Twisted sister would be synonymous with the 80’s having a triple platinum album and of course frontman Dee Snider stuck it to congress and the PMRC. Having sold millions of records during the decade, you’d think frontman Dee Snider would have been rolling in money, well he wasn’t. By the early to mid 90’s with the rise of alternative music, the frontman was broke and he had a great deal of business setbacks and just bad luck. . In today’s video, let’s explore what happened.
Twisted Sister were coming off the success of their third record Stay Hungry, which produced teh two huge hits we’re not gonna take it and i wanna rock. They were about to release their fourth album ‘Come out and play.’ There was big expectations that the album would sell well. Expecting a huge reception to their new album, the band designed an elaborate and expensive stage setup for the tour. Then release day came and the weeks came and went and the album proved to be a commercial disappointment. It went gold, selling a sixth of what its predecessor did. The tour wasn’t much better either. Despite garnering a ton of press coverage, frontman Dee Snider soon realized the press attention had more to do with the PMRC than the band’s music.. Despite playing a few sold out shows in the norhteast, once they left the region, ticket sales plummeted.
Despite touring with dokken they weren’t selling out shows, frequently playing to half sold out venues. Dee would add in his book that the setlists the band chose for the tour were equally bad choosing heavier songs and ditching pop metal songs. He would write in his book ‘they wanted to hear fun, funny songs. Twisted Sister’s core audience was gone.”
. Dee would also go on to theorize in his book that his band represented everything wrongv with rock and parents forbade there kids from attending their shows, only further hurting the band.
.
A month into the tour, the band was bleeding money and had to cut their losses so they scrappe the north american leg of the tour. To shield themselves from humiliation, Dee would admit faking a throat polyp and the band soon found themselves deep in debt. Soon enough atlantic pulled the plug on promoting, despite some bigger crowds in Europe. The final straw for the label MTV banning the video for the third single due to what the network claimed was ‘horrific content.’ Dee would reveal in his book ‘to me that was the final nail in the coffin of our career.’ Dee would reveal the true reality of the band’s finances up until this point writing “when you don;t break until your third or fourth album, you are in debt to your record company for all the recording budgets, videos, tour support, and whatever other bullshit they can charge against your account. That has accumulated over the years, you are in debt baby. One big selling record, only serves to pay it back. You need to sustain your career to make money. “
Dee seems to clarify in his book he didn’t spend money on drugs, alcohol or be ripped off by management or the label. He would even ask the question why didn’t he curb his spending to adjust for his decreased income. Well he writes quite frequently in his book that his ego wouldn’t let him. He still believed that despite this setback the band was going through, it was temporary.
. While twisted sister took a break, Dee set out to record a solo record, that was more pop influenced, initially taking inspiration from bryan adams - he would also nab a spot hosting the pre-cursor to headbangers ball on mtv,- heavy metal mania. But Dee would eventually leave the show after feeling too overexposed and due to the fact that mtv was notoriously cheap and didn’t pay him.His management and label urged him to make his solo record the next Twisted Sister album, which he did.
Twisted Sister would release their fifth studio album Love is For Suckers in 1987 representing a moremade the most money in the band . He would remark in his book “if they insisted that i pay the entire million dollar debt , i would file for bankruptcy and they would get nothing. To this winterland responded , they wanted it all from me. And they didn’t care if i went bankrupt and they got nothing. They wanted t
