Twisted Sister Fighting for Rockers

2014, This excellent in-your-face live broadcast was transmitted from a mid-summer gig at the Detroit Club, in Port Chester, New York, in 1979. Long Island radio station WLIR was clearly right on the ball early on and recognised raw rock'n'roll talent when they heard it - at this time Twisted Sister had yet to get anywhere near signing a recording contract and wouldn't get to issue their debut album for another three years! Twisted Sister's genesis lay in a band called Silver Star. Motivated by Kiss, The New York Dolls and David Bowie's then-current Ziggy Stardust persona, John Segall (aka Jay Jay French) was looking to join a Glitter band . He ran into Mell Anderson (aka Mell Starr, Twisted Sister's first drummer) and was offered a gig with New Jersey band Silver Star. They soon graduated to larger clubs around the Tri-state area - New York, New Jersey and Connecticut - and built up a legion of fans, collectively known as S.M.F.F.O.T.S. (Sick Motherfucking Friends Of Twisted Sister).