So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Basvarken]

super group of sorts?

Wouldn't that require all four members to be "super"?

[uwe]

Ok, 3/4 super group then, you nitpicker! 

Different (returning) topic: Based on Dave's comments on Little Willie John above, I bought a double CD ("Sleep", but the music is all very lively!) of his work between 1955 and 1961 and only now realize what I missed. Amazing range, versatile voice, whether crooning soul or rocking out, good quality recordings for the time. I had no idea he died so young (30) in prison serving a manslaughter sentence. Dying of 'pneumonia' in confinement always makes you wonder. Tragic.



https://www.kimfield.com/blog/2018/11/15/fever-and-fate

But luckily not entirely forgotten, Dave:





I also had no idea he sang the original of this.

[Basvarken]

Make that 1/2 and we have a deal 😂

[Dave W]

I don't recall posting anything else by Twisted Sister. If I did, it's just coincidence. Dee? Maybe I pointed out that nobody has ever seen him and Sarah Jessica Parker in the same room at the same time. 

[uwe]

"Make that 1/2 and we have a deal 😂"

That unabashed mercantilism in you horrifies me!

Darn holländischer Kaufmann ... I guess for a dry Maidenholic like you, Dee and Clive Burr are the "stars", right? 

How unfair to Bernie! There were technically more proficient lead guitarists around, but I liked his wild abandon on the instrument (as if Hendrix had turned punk) and the way he looked as if he had just walked out of the dressing room of Adam & The Ants!



For the record: I liked Clive Burr's drumming with Maiden too. That was lively as well  and he always looked like he was having fun doing it.

Gillan (the band) were rough around the edges, but had charm and grit.

[uwe]

I don't recall posting anything else by Twisted Sister. If I did, it's just coincidence. Dee? Maybe I pointed out that nobody has ever seen him and Sarah Jessica Parker in the same room at the same time. 

Sarah's make-up is applied more sparingly. Dee had a tendency to look a bit unnatural.

[westen44]

Sarah's make-up is applied more sparingly. Dee had a tendency to look a bit unnatural.

Very unnatural, IMO.  However, I would rather not be too harsh on him. 

[Basvarken]

I guess for a dry Maidenholic like you, Dee and Clive Burr are the "stars", right? 

I was more thinking of Tormé and Burr.
Dee Snider is not supergroup material by a stretch.

[uwe]

He's a New York loudmouth with a brain, I'll give him that. I saw Twisted Sister on the Come Out And Play tour. They were entertaining enough, Snider's stage raps are funny and never as inane as, say, Nugent's, but I wouldn't call it musical high art. One thing you could say about him was that Dee sure knew how to "work" an audience and pull them over.

With Twisted Sister there was always a disparity between the very loud image and the kind of stodgy pop hard rock they played. Bernie Tormé by himself had more unbridled ecstasy and an almost New-York-Doll'esque swagger in his playing than Snider's men put together.

[Basvarken]

I've always found Twisted Sister extremely stupid. The image, the songs, the lyrics, the artwork et cetera
But that's just me   

The finesse of Bernie Tormé and Clive Burr were like pearls to the swine.

[TBird1958]

Sarah's make-up is applied more sparingly. Dee had a tendency to look a bit unnatural.

I think he used a trowel......This Gurl knows! 

[gearHed289]

I've always found Twisted Sister extremely stupid. The image, the songs, the lyrics, the artwork et cetera
But that's just me   

No, it's not. 

[uwe]

Ok, Dave, no more Dee Snider- and Twisted f***ing Sister-related posts here then. Sorry about that.

[Dave W]

Look what I started, innocently!

[slinkp]

Never heard or heard of this 80s Seattle band before yesterday. I like this song. Most of their few other surviving recordings that I've heard are much faster punkier numbers.
Tina Bell seems like she could've been a rock star contender. Too bad they didn't get farther.
Reading about them, so far I've gleaned that whether or not they "invented grunge" as a few have gone so far as to claim, they were at least important in the history of it. Matt Cameron made his drumming debut in this band a few years before he joined Soundgarden and later Pearl Jam. Apparently they were much admired by local younger musicians who went on to be rather more famous (I've read both that Ccobain roadied for them and that the Melvins opened for them).