Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with 102.3 WBAB, Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French revealed that the band are thinking about tracking a new single. According to him, singer Dee Snider “wrote a song and he presented it to [the band] and [they are] considering recording it.”

French said the following when asked about new music:

“We played [our latest single ’30’ live]. I love the track. We made a video. It’s a great song. And Dee predicted that nobody would care. We played it several times on the tour following the release, and Dee said, ‘This is the bathroom song coming up, everybody.’ People were looking around going, ‘What’s that bathroom song?’ You know the point in the show where someone says, ‘This is a new track,’ and you all get up and go to the bathroom? He goes, ‘We have a bathroom song that’s coming up. I’ll give you plenty of warning.’ And so he made such a point of saying it that nobody would get up and go to the bathroom, ’cause now they were completely humiliated. So he’d say, ‘Coming up in two songs is the bathroom song.’ And we would play it, [and] everyone was there, everybody clapped.

But I guess here’s the important point. If you’re gonna play 15 songs or 16 songs, whatever the amount songs are, and you laid them out on a grid and you said to a fan, a real fan, ‘Okay, we’re gonna play this, this, this, but we’re gonna put this new track in and we’re gonna take this track out.’ How do you think the vote would go? You know the answer to that question would be 95-5 against or maybe 99-1 against. And that’s the truth. That is simply the truth. I don’t care how you wanna cut it, but when you’re a classic band like us who’s had a ton of product out there and we have five albums and everybody knows who they are, and with [returning TWISTED SISTER drummer] Joe Franco on drums, we’re gonna play songs from the album that he played drums on, ’cause he was a bonafide member of the band, it becomes a situation where if we did, what are we taking out to put that in? And that becomes a Dee issue. I trust his vibe as a frontman to control the audience, ’cause he’s great at it, have control of the ebb and flow of the night. Now, having said that, he wrote a song and he presented it to us and we’re considering recording it. We’re considering it, and if we do, then we may play it. But we haven’t done it yet. It could happen. However, like I said, if you asked a hundred fans what they wanna hear, you would get a response of almost zero on a song they didn’t know.”

[via Blabbermouth]