In a brand new interview with Rock Cellar Magazine, TWISTER SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French spoke about the band’s status as an ongoing entity in 2016. He said: “This year is our 40th anniversary of me, Dee [Snider, vocals] and Eddie [Ojeda, guitar] together and this is it; this is the end. We’re playing some shows and that’s it. It’s the ’40 And Fuck It’ tour. [Laughs]”
Asked if it’s bittersweet for him to see TWISTED SISTER finally come to an end, French said: “Well, I don’t know. We already ended it once before and ended it for twelve years and got back together again. The reunion lasted a lot longer than I thought it was gonna last. The reunion has gone on thirteen years. I thought the reunion would last two years, so it’s really gone on a long time. We’ve accomplished an awful lot and released a lot of product. I mean, the movie [about TWISTED SISTER‘s early days, ‘We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!’] is coming out this year and we have a CD coming up with some live shows from back in the bar days. There’s a lot that is going on.”
He continued: “It’s kind of like the last five minutes of a fireworks display as far as the history of TWISTED SISTER is concerned. When people doubt that this is the end, I tell them they shouldn’t doubt it. It is the end. I don’t foresee us playing ever again. These dates are it, but there’ll be plenty of product out there. But I think that the shelf life of the band live has reached [its] end, [and] that’s why the tour is aptly titled.”
Snider recently told The Washington Times about TWISTED SISTER‘s decision to call it quits: “It’s not that I don’t love the guys. It’s not that I’m not proud of my past. I just want to leave with a certain degree of dignity. Leave people with a smile on their face. As opposed to them leaving, shaking their heads, saying, ‘I remember when they were really good.'”
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