Al and Tipper Gore: 25 Years Later, Dee Snider Gets the Last Word
by Hollywoodland
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“Let’s cut to twenty-five years later, I’m still married – none of my kids have been busted for drug possession. Can Al and Tipper Gore say the same thing? I don’t think so – oh, snap!” — Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider
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But Mr.Snider you made Strangeland…. and have to answer for inflicting that on the American public.
We're not gonna take it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1LXhgXPWs
Dee Snider?!?
Twisted Sister?!?!
Quote those cultural icons!!!
Hail the simple minded!
simple minded or not, Dee Snider pops up every couple of years (usually on I love the 80's) and I always say to myself, I kind of like that guy.
That is exactly what I want from a celebrity, show up every so often and give me something i can enjoy. Is that so wrong?
AM –
That was the first thought I had before I even saw your comment. That was seriously messed-up. Good for him and all, but he owes my psyche.
No!
It is sssoooo right!
Hell, yeah Dee!
the sister may be twisted but he's no "deranged sex poodle".
You're all worthless and weak!
Irony is a bitch ain't it, Mr. Gore?*
What's simple minded about standing up against censorship?
We're Right!
We're Free!
We'll Fight!
You'll See!
I saw a documentary on Heavy Metal called "Headbanger's Journey" and in it was the footage of Dee Snyder testifying. Wild hair, torn shirt, ripped jeans. He looked like a complete nutbag. He pulls out a folded piece of notebook paper and proceeds to read a most eloquent and thoughtful statement that had everyone's jaw hanging open like, "How can this maniac be so intelligent??".
Long Live Dee Snider!!!!!!!!!
Nope, Dee Snider is one of the good guys…..
And to think that I almost chose 'Capt. Howdy' as a handle. ; )
Yup, I saw that too.
So it seems that Tipper must be a Republican, I mean a Democrat would never want government censorship, amiright? You know freedom of speech and expression are supposed to be exclusive to the left.
Oh the ironing!
(amiright and ironing, should be enough to indicate sarcasm, but one can never be too careful)
We'd all have to stay away from you then….When I was 12, that whole montage was the bomb.
Al Gore made "An Inconvenient Truth". Compared to this I'd say "Strangeland" is a delightful watch.
Damn Right……………………………………
Snider spoke to a stunned crowd that day………..all the panty-waist liberal thought police democrats figured they where going to tear up the "idiot musician"…………..not likely……..
then there was Zappa………
I was very young-
But I can still remember Dee standing up to big Government censorship,
shoulder to sholder with…..John Denver.
If it were not for Al Gore all the polar bears would be dead now.
Please people, send Al Gore a ty, he has done so much for so many people. He has saved the planet, what have you done lately.
Women should allow Al Gore to do what ever he wants to them. Get with the program, Al works so hard for the planet and climate change!!!!!!!!!!
We need more Al Gores around.
People can be so cruel. Al is going through some though times, pray for him!!!
Had to show this one to my wife, she's an metal head from back in the 1980's. She loved it.
Success is the sweetest revenge.
If you ask me, Al Gore is experiencing his own inconvenient truth at the moment.
Snider was just the tip of the spear, Zappa was the army behind it….
Strange bed fellows.
God I love America!
Did you see that Norwegian goof that thought he was Satan?
Ask the same about Vincent "Alice Cooper" Furnier (recovered alcoholic, born again Christian, married for 34 years).
The simple answer is that they are performers, and the people you see on stage are characters that they play.
They just happen to be really good performers.
Not that I remember.. It might have been on a different program when I saw the Snider clip. I think it was on VH1 two or three years ago, and the bit with him testifying was the only thing that stuck in my memory, that, and him talking about the clip, wearing his sleeveless Levi jacket with the iron cross patch above the breast pocket.
AlGore is a lose in every way, except for bilking people out of their money with his scams.
Electric Twanger would be a great name for a band
If Dee Snider would play this at some Tea Parties and let it be the unofficial theme song, the Dude would make a mint.
Hey does anyone know who owns the rights?
I remember watching Dee Snider testifying before Congress at the time. I knew since then that he was a Conservative. I've always liked him and Twisted Sister's songs and videos. It was a shame that the Congress had to go after the Metal bands, but not the Rappers/ Rap groups who were far worse than the Metal Bands.
thank you, Dee. For standing up against Al and Tipper Gore.
Sounds like the same show I saw. Dee Snider was laughing about how he totally submarined the suits that were expecting him to just grunt his testimony….
If you get a chance to see that show, it's really interesting. The guy interviews just about everybody and for the most part they are all normal people. Dio's kitchen looked like something Martha Stewart would've designed. Alice Cooper came off like a professor.
But the Norwegians were out of control. Burning down churches and killing each other. One guy blew his brains out with a shotgun, his bandmate found him, propped him up, and took a picture of it. They used it as an album cover…..Can you say freaks??
And people I'd love to have a beer with, or in Cooper's case a club soda…..
I vividly remember Tipper Gore's witch hunt. My parents (Conservatives, both of them) are vehemently against censorship. This was a topic of conversation in our home because all of us kids listened to the dreaded rock 'n' roll. My father railed against the Nanny state and Democrats trying to tell us what music is appropriate. He always finished with a sneer and "of course, it's for the children!"
"Now drop and give me twenty"………
Elton John, Dee Snider… what a week!
We have a winner!
Post of the day!!!111
You gotta love Dee Snider.
Interestingly he's so right. I can't think of one kid of rock star get in trouble with the law. It's usually the politicians' kids.
He's the loser king, scamming his loser followers out of their money.
Here's the vid of him addressing the senate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7C5kj1VRIU&fe...
Irony of ironies Dee Snider actually voted for Al Gore because, as he said, he "requires his candidates to have more than a 2.0 grade point average". Sadly he voted for Obama as well.
Uhhhh… they did go after rappers. Specifically '2 Live Crew' in the late 80's spearheaded by their album 'As Nasty as They Want To Be' and their Billboard top 30 hit 'Me So Horny". Even went to the Supreme Court i believe.( Think it was a Carter appointed judge that deemed it "Obscene" (It was later over turned thank god) While alot of rapper lyrics may be more extreme, they are still protected under our laws. Don;t like it, change the channel.
I'm sure he does.
He played it for Ahnold when he was replacing Gray Davis.
Yeah, I would have remembered something like that. I also would have remembered Alice Cooper and Dio because I'm a fan of both. I musta just caught that one bit while channel surfing. Thanx, and I'll check the program guide and try to catch a rebroadcast.
Actually, if you watch the congressional hearing from the 80s, its the Congressional investigators that come off sounding stupid; Dee comes off sounding erudite and well educated. Despite being dressed like a hair metal rocker.
Dio was an interesting guy, he wasn't a fan of Gene Simmons though…..
Yes, yes you do….
Since the topic is Dee Snider, has anyone watched his new reality show? I saw it was on the other night but didn't watch it. Just wondered what people thought about it.
Yes, but check why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Wl80EQy68
He felt McCain betrayed the ideals he once stood for, that a vote for Nader was a waste, and that he simply did not believe in not voting.
Plenty of people are not overly thrilled with Bush, and someone would have to ask him now if he regrets voting for Obama.
As a counter irony, it was Dee Snider standing up to Tipper that made it impossible for me to vote for Al Gore. Cheney's wife wasn't pure on that account, but I refused to vote for Al and his censorship program after seeing how active Hilary had tried being for Bill.
Well, you can always try to find him at his restaurant, Alice Cooperstown, in Phoenix.
Oh, he's not a conservative. At least, not entirely. He voted for Obama in the last election.
The Long Haired Rockers win out, yes, glad I never cut my hair, screw conformity.
Zing!
Yeah, talk about not judging a book by its cover. Every time I've seen Dee interviewed, he sounds pretty down-to-earth. Considering some of his 80s contemporaries (what's up, Axl?) that's a great accomplishment.
Why's that? The 'evil eye' hand sign controversy is the only thing I've heard involving those two, but then someone was saying that their Rumanian (?) grandmother used to make that sign all the time years earlier.
I saw Dio with Black Sabbath in Seattle in '82. Saw Ozzy that same year, when he had the guitarist from Nightranger touring with him. I really wanted to see Sabbath with Ozzy but my only real opportunity was in '78 or '79 when they played in Frankfurt. I was stationed in Berlin and couldn't get the three nights off that it would have taken to go to Frankfurt, see the concert, and make it back. The Soviets only let the duty train between the two cities run at night. As if I didn't need another reason to hate communism.
Do you remember the Alice Cooper movie that came out in the mid '70s?
For a "simple minded" individual, he has quite a business going. He still writes and sells songs, did a movie. If he is simple minded, we need more of them than fake intellectuals with no real life experience.
I hit 18 and started letting mine grow.
I've cut it 3 times since then, once on a whim, once as a symbol, and once for a promise.
It's back down to my shoulder blades where it belongs.
I like Dee but wish he'd take off the sunglasses in the studio.
I'd let mine grow but figure'd no one would buy the comb-over
curse you and your genes
New Tea Party Anthem: 'WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT' !!!!!!!!!
What no one knew at the time [thanks to the corrupt lib media] is that – it was Gore who'd been the D & F student who only got into school through Daddy's influence – not Bush. Bush was a C student, whose Father at the time, was a small fry compared to Gore's Daddy.
The PMRC went after Ice T in a big way (and he returned the favor by taking shots at them in a couple songs).
I wrote my high school thesis on the PMRC.
Even then I knew that Tipper's arguments that a sticker would save the children was bullsh*t. If you want to know what kind of music your kids are listening to, then why wouldn't you bother to listen to it yoruself? Well you see the results of that kind of upbringing now don't you?
This was just another ploy to have the gov take over raising kids.
I listen to his radio show every Saturday… "Just remember, if it ain't metal, it's CRAP!" Still love him!
I was/am a fan of Twisted Sister (I had a huge hair band addiction in the 80's) and I too remember Dee testifying before congress and how smart and undrugaddled he sounded..and as for this clip, someone should email to Al…just for sh*ts and giggles.
"If he is simple minded, we need more of them than fake intellectuals with no real life experience." – especially those fake intellectuals in government and "education".
Dee is the man. I remember back in college during the Gore/Bush election all these folks were going gaga over Al Gore. I kept saying "Don't you remember the PMRC and Tipper Gore? You want to vote for them?"
"You're all worthless and weak!" said the "Goreacle" to the AGW skeptics.
Tipper told AL Bore 'I'm not going to take it any more"… . the midnight massages, the release of the second 'chakra', the abductors- inner thigh massage request. ….the constant complaining about it being 'hot', …
All the "idiot musicians" (Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, "Fall-out Boy", etc.) speak for the Democrats.
"…oh, the huge manatee!"
…Al's gotten so big, the polar bears are gonna prey on him…
It was said that "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"; now it's "for the children!" (using kids for extortion – how low can one go?)
I saw in one of those "Hitler rant from Downfall" parodies on "You Tube": "Bush was a 'C' student – Obama probably failed 'Lunch'!"
Pandering to 14 year old boys everywhere, Twisted Sister.
Funny you say that, I made a mix cd of various songs recently and I was specifically looking for Conservative anthems. We're Not Gonna Take It was the first one I came up with. Then I heard Nikki Six as a guest DJ on a local radio show and he played this one song that was just epic. It's by a band called Hellyeah and the song is Good 'Ol Boy [it might be called Hell Of A Time]. I know the title may put some people off but this song just rocks.
HellYeah!…………. .http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/06/01/hellyeah-hell-of-a-time-song-premiere/
If parents are concerned about the lyrics in the music their kids are listening to, then they need to actually start parenting. Complaining about it and putting advisory stickers on cds doesn't do much when the kids are the ones buying the music. For the life of me, I can't understand the mentality of letting the government raise your child for you.
Yeah, that's Sam Dunn's first movie. He does good work.
I don't care for the stuff that's just screaming but I do find that I like the harder rock stuff, what was probably called metal when I was a kid but I don't know now. Some of it is sort of rude but for the most part I think that the pop music is worse. I really do think that many of the songs that are about love and aimed at young girls are worse for the messages that they contain.
I'm somewhat in favor of labels though, just for the information so I know what I'm buying when I buy stuff for myself.
Can you get anything you want at Alice's restaurant?
And somewhere, Frank Zappa is smiling.
Alice Cooper is an extremely bright guy. Same with Rob Zombie. You expect them to sound ridiculous, but they are just as articulate as you or me. Plus they know a few $10 words.
That would be awesome, because since the libs have boycotted Arizona, no idiots to contend with, just a long line of folks headed south.
Its amazing what causes can unite all sorts of people. Sort of like the TEA party.
Well, it certainly looks like Al snookered Tipper! Maybe DiCaprio will give some thought, if he has a shred of intellect, to getting his nose out of big Al's backside!
Thats right, white stains on pant legs for all!!!!
A pledge-pin…on your UNIFORM!?!?!?!?!?!?
"I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope at the bottom of that trash pile….."
He did a bunch of movies in the 70s, which one?
I loved it, it was extremely well done.
Zombie is a bright guy, but I'll never forgive him for ruining a horror franchise….
Wow. Look how times have changed. Except now the Dems want to nudge you into the right car, take away your salt, take your kids BMI's in school and monitor their vegetable and fruit intake and monitor your BMI to receive Obamacare. Dessert is not a "right" according to Michelle. No, but I sure have the right to eat it whenever or how much ever I fricken want to.
I can't remember the name, I thought it was like " How are you, Alice Cooper?", or something like that. It would have been about '73 or '74, it was in theaters, there was a plot that I can't remember the point of, and most of it was concert footage.
I tried googling it but haven't found the one I'm looking for yet.
Just found it. "Good to see you again, Alice Cooper", 1973.
I'm with you on that….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_See_You_Agai...
Now Uncle Ted leads the army……………..
Agreed. That "Halloween" remake was horrific, just not in the way Zombie intended.
When you look at hard rock musicians it's stunning how many of them are actually extremely intelligent…………….
The one that suprised me is Bruce Dickenson from Iron Maiden. He still tours with Maiden, but is also a commercial airline pilot………….that's not a gig they give to anyone…
Some movies shouldn't be remade, that's one of them….
G-D right he is. If ever there was a person (besides The Duke) that personified American exceptionalism, is Uncle Ted.
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