Ep. 75 - Jay Jay Franch: Twisted Sister - The Price One Pays for Their Life is Enormous

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🗓️ 22 December 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jay Jay French, guitarist, manager, and producer is most famous for his role as the founding member and one of the guitarists of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister Long: Jay Jay French explains Twisted Sisters long-term success like it's an...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:11.2	I'm here with JJ French founder of the Mega Rock Group Twisted Sister that I grew
0:27.0	up with.
0:28.0	How are you doing, Jay?
0:29.0	Oh, you know it's not smelling yet in New York.
0:33.0	Good.
0:34.0	Jay, I was like 16 years old when we're not going to take it, came out on MTV and that
0:41.6	like basically changed the lives of every kid watching MTV and I was from New Jersey.
0:48.0	You were like, you guys defined New Jersey metal at the time.
0:53.6	Wow.
0:54.6	Well, there wasn't really any metal out of Jersey.
0:58.8	So that's kind of, yeah, I guess we were.
1:01.2	Well, Bon Jovi, anthrax, kid row.
1:03.8	Well, I first of all, we proceeded those bands by several years.
1:08.7	We really, really did.
1:10.2	Bon Jovi used to come see us in the bars and so the guys in anthrax and we're older
1:14.4	than those guys.
1:16.0	And so we had already established ourselves as a band and the bar circuit.
1:19.4	They came in a little afterwards.
1:22.2	And I guess we're always called, we were considered a long island band, although I think we were
1:27.0	just equally a tri-state area of metal band.
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