TWISTED SISTER Guitarist: 'The '80s Were Very Entertaining'

Bring Back Glam! recently conducted an interview with TWISTED SISTER guitarist Eddie Ojeda. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Bring Back Glam!: Rocklahoma is your only U.S. date this year?

Eddie: Yep, just Rocklahoma.

Bring Back Glam!: What about the U.K.?

Eddie: We have one U.K. date. This year, like last year, we've done a lot of festivals, or a lot of one off shows. It was pretty brutal. We almost wanted to take this whole year off, just give it a break from ourselves, and then come back in 2008. We decided to do this show, and one other one in England. I myself am doing this thing called VAMPIRE'S ROCK, starting in September. I'll be doing 39 shows with that.

Bring Back Glam!: Does the success of the Christmas album surprise you?

Eddie: Yes, I was pleasantly surprised. When we did it, it was for fun. We hoped people would "get it." Some people would ask "Why are you doing a Christmas album?" It was fun. The attitude was that no one has ever really done a hard rock/heavy metal Christmas album. We did it with a lot of different songs in mind, and we rearranged everything. It was cool and very fun. We recorded it in August.

Bring Back Glam!: Dee Snider really pushed Rocklahoma hard on his "House of Hair" radio show. Do you think Dee is instrumental in bringing back glam?

Eddie: I think so. I think there are a lot of people responsible, and not just Dee. There's bands like POISON and QUEENSRŸCHE, guys that have faith, kept playing and kept us all alive. I think it's cool, with a lot of the '80s music, a lot of kids that were too young…You know, they saw the videos or whatever, this festival is giving people a chance, that could never see the bands at one time. Or bands like us, the '80s were very entertaining. The whole thing about '80s bands — hair bands — they were all very entertaining. You've got to say that.

Read the entire interview at Bring Back Glam!