DEE SNIDER Breaks Shoulder While Playing Basketball With His Kids: 'I'm Gonna Be In A Sling For The Next Eight Weeks'

Legendary TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider says that he recently broke his right shoulder while basketball with his kids.

Earlier today, the 71-year-old shared a video message on his social media in which he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Hey, it's me, Dee Snider. I wanna bring you up to speed on some of the things that are going on here with me, in particular my broken shoulder.

"So, a bit of words to the wise. Fathers, mothers with kids, when they're young and we play with them, we tend to dominate them. It's a fun thing. We tower over them, we let them win, but they know we're letting them win because we're so much bigger, and they feel so quietly intimidated. They're laughing, they're having fun with us, but the fact is we are these larger-than-life individuals. There will come a time they are our size or bigger than we are. They will dominate us. This will be their revenge. Whether it's conscious or subconscious, they're out to get even with us and watch us laying on the floor writhing in pain. And they say, 'That's what you get for being a son of a bitch when I was a little kid.' Not saying my kids did that to me, but we were playing basketball on the basketball court, and I got checked, I got knocked over, and I went down like a ton of bricks. Slammed my whole right side. I could've sworn out of the corner of my eye I saw one of my sons doing a victory dance. Broke my shoulder, broke the bone in my shoulder.

"You may have seen my tweet," he continued. "It was posted on Facebook as well. The toughest thing about the break besides the discomfort, pain, the annoyance of wearing the sling, sleeping's a bitch if it's the hand you favor. I'm a righty, broke my right shoulder. That switchover is a bitch on every level — the good, the bad and the ugly, let your imagination run wild.

"I'm gonna be in a sling pretty much for the next eight weeks. And then there's the physical therapy and all that stuff like that. And then after that, I gotta go in for a surgery. They're gonna do a replacement. That's a bitch, and that's one of the reasons I'm doing this, is because typing on social media has become really tough. So, I decided to do some audio stuff as well.

"That's all I got on this one for you," Snider added. "Don't cry for me, Argentina. Other than that, I'm doing great, all things considered, and it's just a real pain in the ass, a.k.a. shoulder.

"All right? So talk to you soon."

This past February, Snider announced his departure from TWISTED SISTER due to health concerns. The rest of the band later announced that former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach will take Dee's place for a series of tour dates this summer and fall.

Snider said in a statement in February that he suffers from degenerative arthritis, and is only able to "perform a few songs at a time in pain." He also said that his intense rocking over the years has "taken its toll on his heart as well."

"I don't know of any other way to rock," Snider said at the time. "The idea of slowing down is unacceptable to me. I'd rather walk away than be a shadow of my former self."

TWISTED SISTER's 2026 shows will feature Bach along with guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda. Russell Pzütto, who has toured with Snider's solo projects, will replace bassist Mark "The Animal" Mendoza on bass. Joe Franco, who briefly played with the group in the mid-1980s, was supposed to sit behind the drum kit, stepping in for A.J. Pero, who passed away in 2015 at the age of 55. However, Franco is not available to play the fall 2026 shows and will be replaced by Joey Cassata, who played drums on Ace Frehley's final original solo album, "10,000 Volts".

Three and a half years ago, TWISTED SISTER staged a one-off reunion at the Metal Hall Of Fame in Agoura Hills, California. On hand to be inducted into the Metal Hall Of Fame were Snider, French, Mendoza and drummer Mike Portnoy. Ojeda was absent from the event after contracting COVID-19; filling in for him was Keith Robert War. TWISTED SISTER played a highly charged three-song set consisting of the staples "You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll" and "Under The Blade", as well as the anthem "We're Not Gonna To Take It".

TWISTED SISTER's original run ended in the late '80s. After more than a decade, the band publicly reunited in November 2001 to top the bill of New York Steel, a hard-rock benefit concert to raise money for the New York Police And Fire Widows' And Children's Benefit Fund.