Never Say Never: Club Daze, Vol. 2

Performer: Twisted Sister
Engineer: Denny McNerney; Mark Mendoza
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Twisted Sister: Dee Snider (vocals); Jay Jay French, Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda (guitar, background vocals); Mark "The Animal" Mendoza (bass, background vocals); Tony Petri (drums, percussion); A.J. Pero (drums). Compilation producers: Jay Jay French, Mark Mendoza. Includes liner notes by Ben Liemer & Jay Jay French. Digitally remastered by Mark Mendoza & Denny McNerney (Pie Studios, Glen Cove, New Jersey). Personnel: Jay Jay French, Eddie Ojeda (vocals, guitar); Dee Snider, Mark Mendoza (vocals); Tony Petri (drums, percussion); A.J. Pero (drums). Liner Note Author: Jay Jay French. Twisted Sister's second album of live performances and demos from their pre-fame days shows a band torn between two sounds. On one hand, the band can play sloppy, Dictators-inspired hard rock that has aged, but still retains an undeniable quality about it. On the other hand, they can sound like a generic '70s metal band, which is a sound that is not only dated, but rather boring when not in the hands of a better-known act. Of course, both sounds would eventually combine into their glammy style of heavy metal, but they still had not figured that out quite yet. So songs like "You Know I Cry" are rather pedestrian, sounding more like a watered-down Iron Maiden then Twisted Sister. But then there are songs like "Lady's Boy," a swaggering rocker with a winding bassline and clever lyrics. Fans of the band will want this for the obvious reasons, but the casual listener will probably not find anything here worth the purchase of the album; there are better albums by the band. ~ Bradley Torreano

Twisted Sister, fronted by charismatic Long Islander Dee Snider, occupied a unique place in rock-&-roll history. A band of populists with a regular-guy attitude toward fun, the band also set out to shock with blatantly sexual lyrics and outrageous gender-bending costumes. They formed in 1976--partly in response to the disco phenomenon--and opted for more straightforward hard-rock riffs rather than the new punk sounds being created by their local peers. After relentless gigging and recording, they finally hit the charts in 1984 with the all-purpose us-against-the-world anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It." After a few more albums with no further hits, the band disassembled and Snider went on to a varied solo career.

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