Twisted Sister Release 25th Anniversary Edition of Stay Hungry/CD Signing at J&R Music World on June 30th

STREAM: Twisted Sister - "30" (first new recording in over 10 years)

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Stay Hungry comes out on June 30th and the band is doing an in-store signings at J&R Music World on Tuesday afternoon and Looney Tunes on Tuesday night. This new 2-CD set contains a remastered version of Stay Hungry, 17 unreleased demos and outtakes from the Stay Hungry era and one newly recorded song ("30").

Here is the track list for the disc of outtakes and demos:
1. Death From Above
2. Prime Motivator
3. We're Not Gonna Take It (Early Demo)
4. Death Run
5. This One's For You
6. S.M.F. (Early Demo)
7. We're Coming On
8. Call My Name
9. Burn In Hell (Early Demo)
10. Pay The Price
11. What's Love Without You
12. Our Voice Will Be Heard
13. You Got To Fight
14. The Price (Early Demo)
15. Stay Hungry (Early Demo)
16. Kmet Radio Spot
17. 30 (New Recording)
18. Lollipop Guild (Hidden Track)

Vintage Vinyl is advertising that if you pre-order the set, you will also get a limited edition DVD of Twisted Sister's 1984 concert in San Bernadino (which originally aired on MTV in the 80's).



The signing at J&R takes place at 12:30PM and the signing at Looney Tunes starts at 7:30PM.

Twisted Sister are playing some of the summer festivals but nothing in the local area. Outside of this CD signing, the only other local appearance is going to be on Live! With Regis and Kelly on July 16th. It is probably too late to get studio tickets for the taping but...for anyone who wants to give it a try:

TO REQUEST TICKETS VIA MAIL
Please send a postcard or regular sized envelope with your name, address, phone number, email address and the date(s) you would be able to attend to the following address. Be sure to include additional back-up dates so we can work to accommodate your request.

"Live with Regis and Kelly" Tickets
Ansonia Station
P.O. Box 230-777
New York, NY 10023-0777

Twisted Sister A Twisted Christmas CD Review

Until this CD came out, I was under the impression that only country artists and lame "adult pop" (hello Jewel) acts released Christmas albums. This CD blows away all of these past Xmas albums and shows that a real band can rock out anywhere, even on a Christmas album. On this CD, the classic line-up of Twisted Sister (Dee, Eddie, Jay Jay, Mark and A.J.) play rock versions of nine Christmas classics and have included a new song Heavy Metal Christmas, which is the band's update on 12 Days of Christmas.

One of the things that I have always enjoyed about Twisted Sister is their wicked sense of humor. The band obviously had a lot of fun making this album and it shows in their stellar playing and Dee's vocals never sounded better. Right now, the band's version of Oh Come All Ye Faithful is getting a lot of airplay. The song is set to the tune of We're Not Gonna Take It and the melody is a dead-on match. There is a thirty minute music special currently airing on VH1 entitled Hangin' with Twisted Sister where the band discusses the recording of the album and how We're Not Gonna Take It was inspired by the Christmas classic. The video for this song is hilarious as it is brings the We're Not Gonna Take It "Needermeyer" video into the present day. There is a link to the YouTube video below.

Other standout tracks are I'll Be Home for Christmas (where Dee duets with the long-lost Lita Ford) and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (which closes with a Ramones-like Ho, Ho, Ho, Let's Go chorus). The band makes their first appearance on the Tonight show tomorrow night to perform Oh Come All Ye Faithful. The only show in the NY area is December 22nd at the Starland Ballroom. (Unfortunately, since L'Amour closed, the band doesn't seem to make any closer appearances)

Twisted Sister Twisted Christmas Tour Getting Excellent Reviews

Brave Words has posted a photo gallery and Metal Sludge has a review from the Toronto show. BraveWords also has a review of the Toronto show entitled "Jesus and Satan Would be Equally Proud".

The tour looks like a lot of fun. Unfortunately, no shows are currently scheduled in NYC but there are two NJ shows:
Dec 22, 2006 7:00P Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, New Jersey
Dec 23, 2006 8:00P The House of Blues, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Twisted Sister Making First Appearance on Leno

Twisted Sister is making a number of promo appearances to support their new CD A Twisted Christmas which include making their first appearance on the Tonight Show. Here is the current schedule for promo appearances:

• Halftime @ the New York Jets game on 12/10
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 12/13
• Late Late Show on 12/22

In a recent interview with Illinois Entertainment, Dee say that this CD may not be the band's final chapter. You can read the full text of the interview here. The interview quotes Dee as saying:

I was saying it was the final chapter and the last nail in the coffins of our career, but as it turned out it might have actually revived us! Dude, we’ve shipped more units of this CD to all the major chains than anything we’ve done since the ’80s.

Dec. 17th Update:

As expected, Twisted Sister's performance of Oh Come All Ye Faithful has been uploaded to YouTube.