“Dee’s blessing was important to me. I have such a reverence for him, he wrote all of these great songs”: Sebastian Bach was “like a kid on Christmas morning” when he was asked replace Dee Snider in Twisted Sister

Sebastian Bach performing live in the early 2010s and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister in the 1980s.

Jay Jay French and Sebastian Bach have spoken to Classic Rock after Twisted Sister brought in ex-Skid Row frontman Bach for this year’s 50th anniversary reunion shows following the shock resignation of long-serving Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider on health grounds.

“About a month before his public announcement, Dee gave Eddie [Ojeda, TS guitarist] and myself a hint of what might be happening,” guitarist French explains. “Dee told us both he was starting to feel his age of seventy-one.