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Report: Heavy Metal Artists Love Christmas, Too

December 11, 2007

Heath McCoy of the CanWest News Service reports: When did TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French realize he had mellowed out enough to record a Christmas album? At around the same time the makeup-wearing rocker caught himself playing the worried parent.

"Remember that artist UNCLE KRACKER who came out a few years back? Well, I got his CD for my daughter. She was five at the time," says French, 55, founder of the New York metal band who scored a massive hit in the '80s with their cartoonish take on teenage rebellion, "We're Not Gonna Take It". "She's on my knee and I'm having a cup of coffee. We're listening to the CD and (suddenly UNCLE KRACKER) launches into this whole riff about screwing girls in the most profane way. I threw my coffee up into the air and protected my daughter's ears.

"I'm thinking to myself 'I'm Jay Jay French from TWISTED SISTER. My band was the worst thing that could happen to American youth in the '80s. My lead singer was once dragged in front of Congress and grilled by (then U.S. senator) Al Gore (for supposedly promoting profanity) and here I am now, the concerned parent.' The irony was not lost on me. I thought 'God, I've really changed.' "

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