Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider has weighed in on artists that return from retirement after undertaking a farewell tour.
In a recent interview with Ultimate Guitar, Snider was asked about the ‘current trend” of bands who return from retirement, such as Mötley Crüe and Rage Against The Machine, and he had a few choice words to share.
“I think it’s bullshit,” he said. “When you say farewell… Rage Against The Machine breaks up — that’s not retirement. They broke up, and they reformed, and that’s great. But when you do a farewell tour, and you announce this, and you sell tickets, and you have a t-shirt that says ‘No More Tours’ — thank you very much, Ozzy [Osbourne], I bought one of those — and then you come back, that’s bullshit.
“So when you say, ‘We’re retiring,’ people now don’t take it seriously. So, you know, it’s like a joke, and I think that a part of it is that these artists have nothing else going on. And I realize that — without playing, they have no career.”
The stalwart rocker continued to rattle off all the proverbial pies he has his fingers in “I have done so many things — I mentioned Broadway, I’ve been doing radio for 30 years now, voiceover work, I act, I write screenplays, I’m gonna be directing my first two movies, I was supposed to be directing in May but COVID stopped that; I just finished my first novel,” he continued.
“And now, in the late stage of my life, I’ve found my voice, my place in the metal community. After a lot of attempts over the last couple of decades, I’ve finally found my place. So, if I do anything musically, I’m not gonna go backward; I’m going to continue forwards with Dee Snider for the new millennium, musically.”
Earlier this month Dee Snider took to Twitter to lambast president Donald Trump. The musician shared a meme of the president in a BDSM embrace with Russian leader Vladmir Putin.
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“Look who you suppprt if you stand with Trump,” he wrote. “This picture And others like it or being sold on posters and T-shirts all over Europe. This is how they view our president!”
The comments incited a backlash from fans, but that didn’t phase Snider, who emphasised that it’s not just him who believes Trump to be a clown, noting that many countries find him to be “a fucking joke.”
“Honestly, I travel all over the globe and it’s embarrassing how they view the president of our country,” he noted. “To see pictures like this in papers, online, on t-shirts, posters, coffee mugs all over the world is humiliating to me as an American. #MAKEAMERICAAMERICAAGAIN”
