If you happen to have been holding out hope for a full-on Twisted Sister reunion with tour dates and the like, you possibly can let it go. In a brand new interview, singer Dee Snider stated that whereas a couple of one-off charity occasions haven’t been dominated out, the touring a part of his life is certainly over.

“Nicely, I’m a person of my phrase, and I stated that we have been retiring in 2016. And that’s it. Folks reacted very positively once I stated I might see Twisted getting collectively for a charity occasion for a couple of songs. We received collectively for the Heavy Steel Corridor Of Fame induction [in January]. I can see one thing like that. We’re all pals, and it’s enjoyable. However going out, hitting the street…

“I used to be provided a job… They’re doing a brand new Broadway manufacturing of ‘Peter Pan’, and so they need me to play Captain Hook. And so they needed me to exit on tour for 2 years, enjoying Captain Hook, after which deliver it to Broadway. And I used to be going, ‘I’m flattered. I’d be a tremendous Captain Hook, now that I give it some thought. However on the similar time, that a part of my life is completed. That residing out of a suitcase — I’m achieved.’”

Final week, Snider was within the information after his look at San Francisco Homosexual Pleasure Parade was canceled due to feedback made surrounding childhood gender points.

“They tried to cancel me as a result of I didn’t see a hundred percent eye-to-eye with the group that needed me to be the grand marshal of their parade, with the group that I’ve stood with and fought for for many years.

“As a dad or mum, I disagreed with youngsters’s means to make cognizant choices on the age of 5, six and 7. I’ve 4 youngsters, and I quickly could have — any minute, by the way in which — my fifth grandchild, and in my discovered opinion, they aren’t succesful. And so they have been, like, ‘canceled’ — not simply the present, however they went after me and referred to as me transphobic.”