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Dee Snider, center, frontman for Twisted Sister, performs with “Monster Circus” at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Monday, March 30, 2009 | 4:44 p.m.
Dee Snider: Monster Dress Rehearsal
Dee Snider leads a pack of legendary 80's rockers in a dress rehearsal for Monster Circus. The heavy metal rocker chats about the show and their new stint at Las Vegas Hilton.
While Dee Snider finished giving Vegas its first taste of the classic rock showcase known as Monster Circus last week, it was announced today that the Twisted Sister frontman is coming back for an encore.
While a different classic rock icon was expected to lead the second of three six-night Monster Circus stints at the Hilton, Snider has just agreed to come back for installment number two.
“Monster Circus is the ultimate marriage of music and Vegas,” Snider said.
He wondered why the concept hasn’t been done before.
“Eighties rock is sex, drugs, rock and roll, women, party and rebellion. … (and) Vegas is sex, drugs, rock and roll, women, party and built-in rebellion because it’s like a city that says, we don’t care what you think, we’re doing what we want,” he observed.
Monster Circus is a hard-hitting, 75-minute showcase of demented clowns, sexy dancers, aerialists, freaks and classic rock.
“Las Vegas has never seen a show like this,” Las Vegas Hilton executive vice president, Ken Ciancimino, said.
Snider will be reunited with Rudy Sarzo (former Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake; current Dio bassist) John Corabi (former Mötley Crüe, Ratt guitarist), Fred Coury (Cinderella drummer), Bruce Kulick (former KISS guitarist), and Tony Montana (former Great White guitarist) for the second installment of Monster Circus, April 16–18 and 23-25.
A different, Snider-sized rock legend, who has yet to be announced, is still expected to take over from Snider in May. The third and final six-nights of Monster Circus will be May 21-23 and 28-30.
Snider said he was excited to play with Monster Circus’ “all-star” cast of classic rockers.
“I’ve toured with a lot of these guys, I’ve played with some of these guys before on other projects, so it’s being onstage with a lot of friends,” he said. “We’re playing the greatest hits of all the members of the band and everybody who is on that stage has been in a platinum-selling band, so it’s nothing but hit after hit after hit after hit. … It’s an all-star band.”
The controversy-loving icon calls the show “a speedball of rock and roll.”
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