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HE’S AN ASSHOLE
Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider admits it, “I called myself an #Asshole on Twitter”
Blabbermouth — TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider has apologized to former WHITESNAKE and DIO guitarist Doug Aldrich for “singling him out” by questioning the relevance of any of the WHITESNAKE releases Aldrich appeared on.
On February 9, Snider posed the following question for his 124,000 Twitter followers: “What WHITESNAKE album of importance did Douglas Aldrich play on? I’m just sayin’.” He added in a separate tweet: “I’m tired of musicians who joined famous bands after their heyday claiming they are from those bands. They had NOTHING to do with success!”
A short time later, Aldrich responded with the following tweet: “Dee Snider, dude, I just did my best to keep the band moving forward. Was blessed to compose 30 tunes. You are a total jackass though. Haha!”
During an appearance on the March 9 edition of Eddie Trunk‘s SiriusXM satellite radio show, “Eddie Trunk Live”, Snider explained in depth his reasons for calling out Aldrich. He said: “It’s because I’m [living] in [Las] Vegas [right now] that this whole incident, for lack of a better word, was triggered.
“First and foremost, I did this already on Twitter, and I’m gonna do it again. First, I wanna say, I apologize to Doug Aldrich. I should not have singled him out in this issue that I’m gonna talk about. Singling him out was unfair and it was wrong. And I apologized on Twitter, and he acknowledged it. I’m apologizing nationally, internationally… whatever.
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Today a fan even called Dee out for this stuff and Snider already replied (see screen caps below)
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More from Blabbermouth reads as follows….
“I hope there are people listening to what I’m saying. ‘Cause I’m not… I kind of pride myself on being fair and recognizing my own… I called myself an asshole on Twitter, recognizing that… Well, Doug called me an asshole, and I hashtagged ‘asshole.’ You know what I mean? And I’m fair and I’m honest. I’m gonna say it’s not black and white.'”
Snider also weighed in on the current lineup of KISS, which features guitarist Tommy Thayer and longtime drummer Eric Singer dressing up as Peter Criss and Ace Frehley.
‘s respective “Spaceman” and “Catman” personas. He said: “I don’t understand how people could accept this. Tommy Thayer, I’m sorry, it’s insulting. Not only did he play in a [KISS] tribute band, he’s imitating Ace. His entire act is an Ace imitation.”
He continued: “My theory is, [fans] forgave KISS for ‘I Was Made For Loving You’, and anything is acceptable after that. It was disco song, people. It’s not okay. It was never okay, and they’re playing it live now. Unbelievable! They play ‘I Was Made For Loving You’ — a freakin’ disco song.”
Snider added: “When KISS replaced Ace and Peter, and they brought in guys who had their own makeup and their own thing, that was acceptable. When they got rid of the makeup and they brought in Bruce Kulick… Now [if] Bruce says, ‘I was in KISS…’ A contributing member on platinum-selling albums, songs that define a band. He was in KISS? Yeah, damn right he was in KISS. [He helped write] songs that we know, songs that we connect to, songs that moved the band forward with their careers, or helped sustain their careers.
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