Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider said in a new interview with Classic Album Review that “something is lost” when artists enhance their show by relying too heavily on backing tracks during their concerts.
Here’s what Dee Snider said:
“Ronnie Radke and Sebastian Bach had a dust-up a few months ago over the fact that Falling In Reverse uses tracks like so many bands are using tracks now. And the old guys are screaming, ‘That’s not rock and roll,’ and Ronnie Radke was making fun of Sebastian’s age. ‘Listen, Grandpa…’ But the fact of the matter is something is lost when it isn’t the guys, or girls on that stage making all that noise.
”When it’s used to embellish, especially with newer music, the stuff is so much more layered and thicker, I mean, we can go back to Queen; when I saw Queen and they got to ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and they got to the middle, just throw on the tape because there’s no way we’re gonna do that live. I was a huge Queen fan.
”So, that was an embellishment. But when it’s used to replace because the person can’t do it anymore. And we’re seeing more and more of that singers who can’t sing their own songs.”