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Live At The Astoria (CD + DVD)

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Love hearing these guys live again. I can only pray for a new album. Dee's voice is as awesome as ever, the guitar hooks sound great and this was an overall flawless, epic LIVE preformance by Twisted Sister.

Twisted Sister has been quite active of late, with Christmas albums, rerecorded albums, festival appearances, and now a live CD/DVD set filmed at the famed Astoria Theater in London. Anyone who has seen Twisted Sister (or their non-costumed alter-egos Bent Brother) knows they put on a hell of a show, and their performance here is no exception.

Dee Snider, one of the most charismatic (not to mention underrated) frontmen in rock, seems to be having the time of his life, gleefully leading this costumed and made-up crew through roughly 80 minutes of sheer rock & roll mayhem. You'd never guess from this performance that the band has been kicking around for more than three decades. Any other band might have been tempted to phone it in, but Twisted Sister thoroughly and completely rocks the place.

Of course any live Twisted Sister performance, especially one recorded for an official CD/DVD release, is going to include the band's biggest hits. You get your "I Wanna Rock" and "We're Not Gonna Take It" as well as minor hits "You Can't Stop Rock n' Roll" and "The Price". The band also serves up a nice amount of lesser-known tracks like "Under the Blade", "The Fire Still Burns" and "Destroyer". The set list is a great romp through the band's much loved back catalog, and the band makes you believe they're absolutely thrilled to be playing that song, whether it's a massive hit or a deep cut, that night, for that particular crowd.

DVD Notes - The video quality is as good as the sound quality, there are multiple camera angles, and the whole thing is very professionally shot and edited. It's a bit of a drag that the concert was in a relatively small setting. Sure, the Astoria is an important venue, but a performance this energetic would have been much more powerful against the backdrop of a large outdoor festival. Oh, and if you're planning on watching this on a large screen TV, be warned: Dee and company look older, sweatier and way uglier in HD.

Live at the Astoria an impressive performance overall, and it's great to see the band doing so many live appearances in recent years. Still, it's been more than twenty years since their last studio album (1987's Love Is for Suckers). The band obviously hasn't lost a step in a live setting. It's past time for them to see what they can come up with in the studio.

I purchased this not really knowing what to think. I have always been a pretty big fan, but I have never got to see TS live,(they have never played within 500 miles of me!) but I have Big Hits and Nasty Cuts, and I love the energy in the live recordings on that disc. All I can say is WOW!! They put on an amazing show!! I have had this disc for one week, and I have watched the DVD five times already! If you even remotely like Twisted Sister, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of this live performance.
Now if they would just put together a decent American tour!!

Live at the Astoria shows what Smf's around the world have known all along. Twisted Sister is, and has always been, an amazing live band. There energy as a group is second to none. Dee is just extra icing on the cake. Studio versions pale in comparison to the live versions.
Here the set is awsome. There are songs from most of their albums. Many of the "we're not gonna take it" bandwagon fans have never even heard.
Great Band
great Album!

This is sold as a CD with a bonus DVD. I like to think of it as a DVD with a bonus CD. The CD is okay, but the DVD is so motherf**ken cool. The additude is vicious rock n' roll. Dee, Jay Jay, and Eddie seem to have retained their youthful physiques. However poor Eddie "fingers" Ojeda the former babyface now looks like the oldest member, but that doesn't stop him from churning out the high speed licks. Drummer A J Pero's weight gain is only revealed at the end of the show, but you would never guess by the way he attacks those skins. And finally Mark (the animal) Mendoza who in the past sported the look of a huge scary Italian woman, is the only one not wearing twisted garb, instead he wears a goatie, shades, pony tail, S.W.A.T. like attire, and an extra 40 pounds of body weight. But man can he dominate that huge four stringer. If you even remotely like Twisted Sister this DVD will definitely notch up your fandom. But a warning to people offended by bad language, Dee Snider and Jay Jay French pull no punches about how they feel about the music industry and their promoters. THE concert dvd that should be in every serious rock fans collection. And when I say serious rock fan, that excludes fans of American Idol. Because if you like that stuff, you simply can't be serious. Even the classic line-up of The Wiggles with Greg Page rocks harder than American Idol.

This product just Rocks! Good quality, excellent material, great band, what else can I say?

What could be better than a great DVD-CD package from an awesome visual live band like Twisted Sister? Not much. This is a great document of the band at it's professional zenith.

Now if only they'd release a package like this from their early club days!
These guys are unstoppable live. Always have been.