My favorite story about Twisted Sister is that Dee Snyder basically told Al Gore to his face in a Senate hearing “your wife’s a freak”
And then later in another hearing Bob Denver basically told a fangirling Gore “I’m glad you’re a fan but censoring music is bullshit. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a meeting with NASA.”
I’ve never seen Al look so dejected.
And then later in another hearing Bob Denver basically told a fangirling Gore “I’m glad you’re a fan but censoring music is bullshit. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a meeting with NASA.”
The Krebs character, portrayed by actor Bob Denver, begins the series as a beatnik, with a goatee, “hip” (slang) language, and a generally unkempt, bohemian appearance
The series inspired the creators of Scooby-Doo, whose four human characters were modeled from characters on the series, with Shaggy Rogers being inspired by Maynard.[5]
… Shaggy told Gore to get bent?
frank zappa had my favorite line, where he compared the pmrc to “treating lice with decapatation”
They’re the only Senate hearings I rewatch every couple years
ETA: I tell a lie. I also rewatch Mr. Rogers’ testimony, though a lot more than every couple years.
Watch the full thing. It’s amazing. He fully calls out Congress for judging him by his cover.
He also calls Tipper Gore an outright liar in his refutation of accusation #3. That’s just 7 minutes into a 30 minute testimony. They accidentally asked the late '70s to early '80s version of Tom Morello to testify in Congress and gave him 30 minutes to plead his case.
Edit: Around 12 minutes in, Senator Foghorn Leghorn decides to propose a hypothetical question that takes far too long… Dee Snider manages to answer succinctly and eloquently as he does for the subsequent 18 minutes of Congressional inquiry.
That song “We’re not gonna make it” by Story of the year came out nearly 18 years ago and it would seem that we are in fact not going to make it.
That song “It was acceptable in the 80s” came out 16 years ago and it seems that it is, in fact, still acceptable now
To the outside observer it looks like you guys quite enjoy taking it.
At least we won the fight for our right to party.
Relevant Peep Show: “The Beastie Boys Fought & Possibly Died For My Right To Party”
Epstein said “oh yea watch this”
Love Michael Ian Black!
Can we please blare this from speakers in front of the whitehouse 24/7?
