During a recent appearance on the Wild Ride! With Steve-O podcast, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider continued to tease Vince Neil over his ‘intelligence,’ adding to his previous comments on the rocker.
Snider looked back on his testimony against the PMRC’s censorship efforts back in 1985, and how he surprised the politicians with his well-argued stance, saying:
“If they had done their homework and gotten past the picture and the popularity. If they’d looked at the lyrics, I used four-syllable lyrics in ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It.’ I mean, nobody uses – ‘trite and jaded, boring and confiscated.’ I mean, that’s not rock lyrics; that’s the Declaration of Independence, for God’s sake! And so they did not vet me, and they got what they deserved.”
Comparison With Vince Neil
He added, taking a jab at the Mötley Crüe vocalist:
“If they had gotten a Vince Neil, that’s who they wanted. They wanted someone to get up and go ‘Blblblblb.'”
Snider’s Earlier Comments
Snider has previously made a similar remark about Neil while discussing his new book ‘Frats’ with Fortune back in June 2023. He again referred to his testimony and explained:
“I’m not Vince Neil. I’m the guy you saw in Washington [defending heavy metal against PMRC’s allegations], a guy who can put together a sentence and express himself.”
The Vocalist’s 2016 Critique Of Neil
In 2016, the Twisted Sister frontman targeted the Mötley Crüe singer again, this time related to his infamous car accident that killed Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle in 1984, speaking to Yahoo Music in an interview. Dee said the following about Neil:
“Vince Neil could go and literally kill someone in a car accident. There were two other women who were in a van who was permanently crippled from that famous car accident that killed Razzle from Hanoi Rocks. And people are cool with that. They’re like, ‘Yeah, all right! Rock’ n’ roll!’ And the guy didn’t do any serious jail time. I’m like, really? Really?! He’s a murderer! I don’t get that at all.”
Don Dokken also talked about Neil’s car accident and why he wasn’t adequately punished in a recent interview with Chuck Shute. According to him, the singer’s fame played a role in the leniency of his sentence. He contrasted this with his own hypothetical situation, implying that if he, without the same level of fame, had committed a similar offense, he would have faced a much harsher punishment.
