TWISTED SISTER‘s Dee Snider joined JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE on stage this previous Friday (November 10) at The Sands.Rocks pageant at Planet Hollywood in Cancún, Mexico to carry out a couple of songs, together with a canopy of the AC/DC basic “Freeway To Hell”. Fan-filmed video of his look may be seen beneath.

In a latest interview with Greece’s RockPages.gr, Dee was requested if he thinks he’ll ever launch one other solo album. The 68-year-old singer responded: “Do not maintain your breath, as a result of I am feeling like I am completed. I am feeling like I am completed. Now I mentioned that after ‘For The Love Of Steel’ [2018], after which COVID hit and I referred to as Jamey [Jasta, Dee‘s collaborator and producer] up and Jamey Jasta mentioned, ‘I wanna do one other report.’ However proper now I am feeling very comfy in who I’m, what I’m, what I am doing and the way I am spending my life. I am not feeling this urge. And it helps that these final two albums, ‘For The Love Of Steel’ and ‘Depart A Scar’ [2021], after which the dwell report ‘For The Love Of Steel Stay!’ [2020], actually, I really feel, put an exclamation level on the tip of my profession. I feel, because of Jamey Jasta encouraging me to get again to true metallic, actual metallic and what I am actually about. My final two data are very highly effective, the performances are there, the whole lot’s there and as a legacy, I like seeing these albums on the finish of my recording profession.”

Elaborating on his causes for not eager to make one other solo album, Dee mentioned: “I am at all times very trustworthy, even to the purpose the place I get in bother with different bands for being too trustworthy, however I’ve additionally listened to individuals being trustworthy about me.

“The top of TWISTED SISTER, as a lot enjoyable because it was and no matter, however our final report is a Christmas report. And it was enjoyable, and I am not ashamed of it — I beloved it. However then I went and left TWISTED and I did a solo album. Somebody challenged me to do a mainstream rock report, ‘We Are The Ones’ [2016], and it is a good report, nevertheless it wasn’t actually Dee Snider. It was an try to do one thing extra mainstream. So, it might have ended with these data and I’d have felt that that was actually not the way in which I would prefer to exit. It is due to ‘For The Love Of Steel’ and ‘Depart A Scar’ that I be ok with strolling away and saying, ‘Yeah. Take that. That is Dee Snider. Do not forget that. I used to be 65 years outdated or no matter. That is Dee Snider. And good night time.’ So these data are crucial to me.”

A yr and a half in the past, Dee instructed a fan that his performing days are seemingly behind him and that he plans to focus on non-music-related tasks. After the fan, who lately moved to Springfield, Illinois, requested the getting old rocker whether or not he ever excursions within the space, Snider mentioned: “No, I do not tour anymore. I do not even assume I am going to do any extra reveals. I am specializing in writing, directing, and producing. Sorry man.”

In 2016, TWISTED SISTER launched into one ultimate trek, titled “Forty And Fuck It”, in celebration of its fortieth anniversary. These reveals featured the band’s “core lineup” of Snider, guitarist Jay Jay French, guitarist Eddie Ojeda and bassist Mark Mendoza, together with drummer Mike Portnoy. The band’s last-ever live performance came about in November of that yr — 20 months after the passing of TWISTED‘s longtime drummer A.J. Pero.

Throughout an August 2017 look on the “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” present on SiriusXM, Snider acknowledged about TWISTED SISTER‘s resolution to name it quits: “Mainly, the extent of depth that I carried out at with TWISTED SISTER, I needed to cease whereas I might nonetheless ship that earlier than I might not ship that. The headbanging, the beating, all that power… The place Alice [Cooper] at all times appeared like a crotchety outdated dude, and he is crawling across the stage, that works nice for a 72-year-old dude now. However what I did doesn’t work for [someone in his 60s]. I imply, it is simply too fucking onerous to remain within the form. Simply to maintain that going simply received more durable and more durable. I mentioned, ‘I wanna cease whereas individuals are nonetheless smiling and never taking a look at me saying, ‘Oh, keep in mind when he was good?'”

TWISTED SISTER‘s authentic run ended within the late ’80s. After greater than a decade, the band publicly reunited in November 2001 to prime the invoice of New York Metal, a hard-rock profit live performance to lift cash for the New York Police And Fireplace Widows’ And Kids’s Profit Fund.

Snider‘s final two solo albums, 2018’s “For The Love Of Steel” and 2021’s “Depart A Scar”, have been each launched by way of Napalm Data.

In 2021, Dee instructed Final Basic Rock that producer Jamey Jasta helped him discover his place within the fashionable heavy metallic scene.

“As I mentioned to Jamey, ‘I really like up to date metallic. I simply do not know the place I slot in,'” Snider recalled. “He mentioned, ‘Properly, I do know the place you slot in.’ He helped me discover the candy spot. Then I discovered the group, after which I discovered the band, after which I discovered my spot. We come to [‘Leave A Scar’], and now I am, like, ‘Okay. Now, I do know what we’re doing and I can be a part of this social gathering and take part in it totally and never be alongside for the experience,’ so to talk.”

Snider revealed his first fictional novel, “Frats” earlier this yr. He has described the e book as “a interval piece/coming of age story set on Lengthy Island, NY in 1972/73 impressed by true occasion.” However he shortly clarified: “No it isn’t my story.”