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Senator ROCKEFELLER. All you have done to what?
Mr. SNIDER. All I have done to fight sexism. The whole Twisted
Sister thing is very ambiguous: guys wearing makeup. We do not
act like women; we act like men. We do not cater to the males or
females in the audience. It is just one audience.
So when someone says there is a song about sado-masochism and
bondage, or someone says "We're Not Gonna Take It" is violent
lyrical content, which is what it has been rated for, yes, I am
defensive. Yes, that gets me angry. I am trying to get adults to see
that heavy metal is not totally a bad thing.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. How many months in the course of a year
do you spend on the road away from home?
Mr. SNIDER. In the course of a year, it would be tough to say.
Over a 2-year period, I would spend about 11 months on the road
and 18 months at home recording albums, things like that, doing
videos.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. Eleven months on the road in a 2-year
period?
Mr. SNIDER. Yes, because you do a tour and then you go and
record albums. I have been off the road now for 10 months.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. Do you take your child with you?
Mr. SNIDER. He comes sometimes.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. Nine years from now when your child is
12 and in school, will you take your child with you?
Mr. SNIDER. Absolutely.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. When your child is in school?
Mr. SNIDER. Oh, no. Thank you for clarifying. No, I would not
take him out of school.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. Then how would it be possible for you to,
as a responsible parent, to spend the time that you suggest listening
to these records and finding out what it is that you want your
son to listen to and what you do not want him to listen to?
Mr. SNIDER. To be perfectly honest, 9 years from now I am going
to be well retired and I will be spending more time with my son
than any other parent probably ever spends. And that is one of the
beautiful things about rock and roll, is that I can retire hopefully
at a very early age.
But even now, I am very lucky that I have a wife who I have
been going with for 10 years now, we have been married for 4, who
is the most incredible mother. And while I am gone, she fills the
role, and has a very difficult job, too, of mother and father.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. Do you expect later on, then, that she will
be going through these records?
Mr. SNIDER. I think both of us will be doing that.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. Do you expect me to believe that?
Mr. SNIDER. You can. I am terminally teenage. I will be listening
to my son's records.
Senator ROCKEFELLER. What about families where both parents
have to work, which is an increasing phenomenon in this country
now, because they have to survive? And the whole notion of parents
ents sitting down and listening to record after record, tape after
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