TWISTED SISTER Frontman's High-School Performance To Be Re-Created For MTV Special

August 9, 2005

The Associated Press has issued the following report:

Months after a talent show performance by four student musicians and 1980s rock star Dee Snider put the Hamburg School District in the national spotlight, the music television station MTV is returning to videotape a re-creation.

Snider, the TWISTED SISTER frontman who [until recently was] a disc jockey on Philadelphia rock station WMMR-FM, traveled to rural eastern Pennsylvania to perform "We're Not Gonna Take It" with the band.

He had campaigned on the air for the band after he heard administrators planned to bar student rock bands from performing, fearing injuries from moshing, a form of dancing in which participants slam into each other.

Greg A. Miller Jr., a recent Hamburg graduate, said MTV's "High School Stories: Scandals, Pranks and Controversies" will conduct interviews about the battle with school officials over his band's right to play rock.

The talent show ended up raising about $1,500 for charity. "This started out with a bit of a negative part, and that all turned around," said Dr. William N. Kiefer, superintendent. "It ended up being a very positive experience."

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