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Dee Snider

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Hard Rock
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13 мар 2025 :	Watch: DEE SNIDER And LITA FORD Perform TWISTED SISTER, AC/DC Classics In Johnson City
13 фев 2024 :	DEE SNIDER Says 'Something Is Lost' When Bands Rely Too Heavily On Backing Tracks During Live Shows
10 фев 2024 :	Watch More Clips Of TWISTED SISTER's DEE SNIDER As Decapitated Skull In 'Here For Blood' Horror-Comedy
24 янв 2024 :	Watch: DEE SNIDER Performs AC/DC, TWISTED SISTER Classics At 2024 ROKISLAND FEST
29 дек 2023 :	DEE SNIDER: Wrestler MICK FOLEY Inspired Me To Be A Charitable Human Being
24 дек 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Blasts SPOTIFY CEO DANIEL EK, Says He Is 'Not Getting Anything' From The Music Streaming Service
7 дек 2023 :	DEE SNIDER: 'Free Speech Is A Right. It Is Also A Privilege.'
26 ноя 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Doesn't Believe DONALD TRUMP Is Racist: 'He's A Salesman Looking For Someone To Buy His Product'
11 ноя 2023 :	Former TWISTED SISTER Producer TOM WERMAN Has 'No Idea' Why DEE SNIDER 'Trash-Talked' Him So Much
31 окт 2023 :	DEE SNIDER On 'The Greatest Enemy Of Free Speech'
24 окт 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Is Totally Fine With Israel Defense Forces Using 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
21 окт 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Is 'Done' Making Solo Albums: 'I'm Not Feeling This Urge'
16 окт 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Has No Interest In Going Into Politics
21 сен 2023 :	DEE SNIDER's Original Graphic Novel 'He's Not Gonna Take It' To Finally Arrive In November
8 сен 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Says METALLICA's 'No Repeat Weekend' Concept Is 'Self-Serving': 'It Only Appeals To A Small Percentage Of The Crowd'
13 авг 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Blasts Bands Who Wait Too Long To Retire: 'I See People Singing 'Crazy Nights' And They're Not So Crazy Anymore'
13 июл 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Insists He Is 'A Moderate': 'We Are The Majority' And 'We Decide, Not The Crazies On The Extremes'
11 июл 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Once Again Blasts ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: 'They're Elitist Mothereffers'
21 июн 2023 :	DEE SNIDER On 'Cancel Culture': 'You Don't Have To Cave, You Don't Have To Apologize If You Did Nothing Wrong'
18 июн 2023 :	DEE SNIDER On Why He Sold His Catalog: 'It's Math'
10 июн 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Remains Defiant: 'You're Not Canceling Me' And 'You're Not Shutting Me Up'
7 май 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Responds To Cancelation Of His Performance At SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE
5 май 2023 :	DEE SNIDER's Performance At SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE Canceled After His Support Of PAUL STANLEY's 'Transphobic Statement'
11 апр 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Unveiled As Doll On Singing Competition 'The Masked Singer'
1 мар 2023 :	DEE SNIDER's First Fictional Novel, 'Frats', To Arrive This Spring
20 фев 2023 :	DEE SNIDER Believes His Comments About ROBERT PLANT And RONNIE JAMES DIO Were Misinterpreted

11 ноя 2023

Former TWISTED SISTER Producer TOM WERMAN Has 'No Idea' Why DEE SNIDER 'Trash-Talked' Him So Much

Veteran hard rock producer Tom Werman has once again fired back at Dee Snider over the TWISTED SISTER singer's comments regarding their collaboration on the triple-platinum "Stay Hungry" album.

Werman, who is promoting his new book "Turn It Up! My Time Making Hit Records In The Glory Days Of Rock Music", discussed his fractured relationship with Snider in a new interview with Barry Robinson of Classic Album Review. Asked what he did to upset Dee, Tom responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I existed. He was one person for the entire project. He approved the mix. I had every band approve mixes in order to safeguard, to protect my reputation and to avoid exactly what happened years later. But with Dee Snider, it was a day later. I mean, he walked out of the studio and started trash-talking me in a way that nobody ever has. And I had no idea what was going on. Eventually I kind of assumed that because he had put so much work into his band for so many years, and they hadn't really done anything significant in the American market that he did not want to share credit for this big hit record. And this made their lives; this made the band's life. He eviscerated me for suggesting that they do a SAXON song, that they cover a song. And he was outraged at that: 'We toured with SAXON. We don't wanna cover a song. We know that song.' He was very angry that I thought more of a SAXON song than I did of 'We're Not Gonna Take It'. And then what did he do? The next record, they used Dieter Dierks to produce it, and their first single was 'Leader Of The Pack' — it's kind of a decent pop song from the early '60s, I guess. It was a cover [of the American girl group THE SHANGRI-LAS]. And the hypocrisy was pretty outstanding."

Tom continued: "I don't know. At this point, I don't care very much what he says. He's said it all. He said in a book of his, I think that the exact quote is, 'I think that Tom Werman personally destroyed our album.' And he went on… In the book, I quote him as saying in several interviews how great the album was. [Laughs] I don't get it."

During a 2020 appearance on "The Jasta Show", the Internet program hosted by HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta, Snider said he had "begged" Werman to put the songs "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" on the "Stay Hungry" LP. "[Tom] didn't want those two tracks on the record," Dee said. "I was on my knees in front of him… I wasn't begging on my knees, but because he was sitting and there was noise going on… And he's going, 'Eh, 'We're Not Gonna Take It', it's a little [hums melody mockingly]' I go, 'Trust me. It's gonna be edgier when we do it. That's the thing. It's catchy.' And his answer was, 'All right, if you really want it.' Okay, that was 'We're Not Gonna Take It'. And 'I Wanna Rock', he goes, 'Eh, I've done that thing already with MOLLY HATCHET. [hums galloping rhythm]' He was mocking my song. He actually presented me with SAXON songs to put on the 'Stay Hungry' album from [SAXON's] 'Strong Arm of The Law'. He goes, 'Check this out.' I go, 'Yeah, it's SAXON.' He goes, 'It's really good.' I said, 'Yeah, it's SAXON.' He goes, 'Nobody really knows them.' I said, 'We've toured with them. It's SAXON.' … He wanted us to cover SAXON songs. And I love SAXON, but in my community, it was current. It was their album that came out last. And he had this attitude, like, they were European, they weren't really big."

After Snider's comments were published on BLABBERMOUTH.NET, Werman spoke to Full In Bloom about Dee's criticism, accusing the singer of "embellishing" the facts and denying that he had the power to singlehandedly pick the songs that were going to be include on the album.

Tom said: "It's kind of a mystery [as to why Dee is complaining about it now]. Here it is 36 years since we made that record. There are several things he's ignoring or avoiding [or] omitting. One is that no producer — maybe Quincy Jones — could have that kind of influence, that kind of power.

"When an independent producer is hired by a label or a band, he is not given the authority to decide which songs are recorded," he continued. "It's a cooperative venture, Now, there's probably a very good chance that when they played me the demos of 'We're Not Gonna Take It', I said, 'Well, it sounds a little bit like a nursery rhyme.' Definitely catchy. But I probably needed a little bit of convincing. Getting down on his knees and begging? No. No.

"It's the dramatization and the embroidering and the embellishment of the actual facts — that's really sleazy, and it's very Trumpian. That's the way he operates.

"Dee Snider was there for the mixes. Dee Snider approved every single mix. So, really, if he doesn't like the album, it's just as much his fault as it might be fine. So, he blames somebody else…

"Who else blames somebody else for everything that's happening? Dee seems like a Trump disciple. He does everything that Donald Trump does that's despicable. Well, not everything, but there you go.

"There's no question that my approach to recording music was more pop, but that's what worked," Werman explained. "That's what got people on the radio. That's why [CHEAP TRICK's] 'Surrender' was a hit. That's why [Ted Nugent's] 'Cat Scratch Fever' was a hit. That's why I made hit singles. That was the only way to sell millions of albums, which would have been confined or restriced to FM play only.

"He's got one of the most licensed songs in the history of recorded music probably, and he's bitching and bitching and bitching… It is mysterious to me."

Tom also addressed Dee's claim that Werman suggested having TWISTED SISTER cover a SAXON song on the LP.

"I committed the terrible crime of saying, 'Hey, I like this song. Maybe you could do it,'" Tom said. "[Dee] said, 'Woah, it's SAXON.' 'That's right. That's right. It's SAXON. I really like this.' And I think it was 'Strong Arm Of The Law' or something like that. SAXON was a good band. He said, 'We've toured with them. We know them.' But the way he put it, it was, like, 'What, in God's name, is a producer doing, suggesting to me, Dee Snider, who writes songs, that I should do a song that somebody else wrote?' We do it all the time. I've done cover songs with everybody. MÖTLEY CRÜE did 'Smokin' In The Boys Room'. POISON did 'Your Mama Don't Dance' — a Top 10 single. So I said it, I recommended it. And he goes nuts: 'He wanted me to do a SAXON song, for God's sake.' That's right, Dee. I wanted you to do that. And he said no. Did I force you to do it? No. Because I can't.

"If I had the power to keep one of Dee's songs off the album, then I would have had the power — the same power — to force him to put another song on the album. Obviously, I don't have that power as a producer, and I never did, nor do many other producers. The producer is a hired gun; you fire him if you don't like him. In their case, [Dee] was pissed because he was forced to work with me by Doug Morris, who was a fairly successful record guy, songwriter, number two or three guy in the recorded music history, behind Clive [Davis] and Ahmet [Ertegun]. And he called me up and he said, 'Tom, you are the only producer I can think of who I think can make a hit with this band. And I really want this band to break a million in the United States.' So, of course, I said yes, and, of course, I knew that my job was to make them a commercial success.

"I really don't know what I could have done different to satisfy this guy," he added, referring to Dee. "I mean, the record that he made with the band, the re-record [of 'Stay Hungry'], that he said, 'That's the way we should have sounded,' I don't know who marketed it, but I understood that in the beginning, after it was released, it sold about 25 thousand records. CHEAP TRICK did the same thing.

"Years later, you're not so good. But at the time, you're great. They're selling millions of records — we love you. We love you, Tom. You're the best. And then, 20 years later, nah, he didn't get our sound right. He wasn't focused. He barely gave a damn about us. He tried to keep our best songs off the record. Whatever you like. It's just, like, I think I'll revise history here a little bit."

In a 2004 press release announcing the release of the re-recorded and expanded version of the classic 1984 album — under the new title "Still Hungry" — guitarist Jay Jay French said, "'Still Hungry' is 'Stay Hungry - The Way It Ought to Be'. It has an ultra-heavy sound, which is the way we wanted 'Stay Hungry' in the first place. But at that time rock records had a thin, very midrange kind of sound and so 'Stay Hungry' was recorded very lightly. We battled Atlantic Records and producer Tom Werman about it, but we lost. These re-recordings are faithful to the original arrangements but they sound much heavier."

"Turn It Up! My Time Making Hit Records In The Glory Days Of Rock Music" will arrive on November 21 via Jawbone Press.

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11 ноя 2023

Nord61

Вот клоун. Сам (по указке лейбла) за спиной группы засрал звучание альбома - а теперь он, типа, "без понятия".
Да любой слышавший живой звук Твистед Систер начала 80-х человек - даже если он глухой на одно ухо - поймёт, что Верман просто кастрировал и превратил в лужу жидкой дрысни мощное и агрессивное звучание группы. От оригинальной версии "Stay Hungry" просто уши кровоточат.

11 ноя 2023

Exceptional

Nord61, согласен. Именно поэтому в коллекцию поставил "Still Hungry".

При чём тут кавер на Saxon, если все, буквально все знают, что проблема альбома была в звуке?

11 ноя 2023

Nihel

А на "Still Hungry" Прям реально классный утяжеленный звук? Он просто мимо меня прошёл, я думал это что то типа юбилейного издания.

12 ноя 2023

Nord61

Nihel, да, вполне себе жирный звук там (правда, все песни сыграны на полтона ниже). Это полноценная перезапись альбома,TS в нулевых решили сделать это именно потому, что были жутко недовольны рукожопым Томом Верманом.

А если послушать демки с бонус-диска, который прилагался к ремастеру "Stay Hungry" 2009-го, то станет ясно, что альбом вывезли и сделали мегауспешным именно крутейшие песни, а этот человек попросту уничтожил изначальное видение того, как должен был звучать "Stay Hungry" по замыслу самих музыкантов. Но теперь пытается выставить козлом Снайдера.