“I called Gene Simmons. He said: ‘How the hell did you get this number?!’ That was when I got the idea that we weren’t going to be best buddies”: Dee Snider’s wild tales of Robert Plant, Frank Zappa, Freddy Krueger and Kiss

Twisted SIster’s Dee Snider in full make-up in the mid-80s.

You could never accuse former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider of being a shrinking violet. Violet, maybe (have you seen the colour of the eye shadow he once sported?!), but certainly not shrinking. He was in full force in 2009, when Classic Rock cornered him for our regular Ever Met Hendrix? feature, in which rock’s great and good look back on some of the people they’ve crossed paths – and occasionally swords - with. In Dee’s case, that meant Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gene Simmons, Michael Jackson and Freddy Krueger.