EPISODE 210 IS READY TO PLAY!

The wheel has spoken… and apparently it wants to WAKE UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD!

This time around, Rock Roulette lands on Twisted Sister – Come Out and Play!

Dee Snider. Big hair. Bigger attitude. And enough 1980s metal swagger to make your parents call the cops.

Will this album have us screaming “WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!”… or begging for mercy before Side 1 is over?

Come Out and Play is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Twisted Sister, released by Atlantic Records on November 22, 1985. The album was significantly less successful than its predecessor Stay Hungry (1984), both critically and commercially, although it achieved Gold status by selling more than 500,000 copies.

Following the massive success of 1984’s Stay Hungry, which established Twisted Sister as one of the world’s top recording acts, the band was faced with the question of whether they should continue in the same MTV and radio-friendly direction that brought them so much success, or return to their heavy metal roots. Come Out and Play saw them attempt to do both, but the approach ultimately proved devastatingly unsuccessful and the album marked the beginning of the band’s commercial decline.

The 1986 world tour in support of Come Out and Play was marked by poor attendance and ticket sales so low in some cities that several shows were canceled. Longtime drummer A.J. Pero left the band following the tour in 1986, contributing to the chaos that eventually saw Twisted Sister disband in 1988.

Twisted Sister
Dee Snider – lead vocals, backing vocals
Eddie “Fingers” Ojeda – lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Jay Jay French – rhythm & lead guitars, backing vocals
Mark “The Animal” Mendoza – bass, backing vocals
A. J. Pero – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional Musicians
Alan St. Jon – keyboards
Don Dokken, Gary Holland – backing vocals
Alice Cooper – co-lead vocals on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
Brian Setzer – guitar solo on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
Billy Joel – piano on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
Clarence Clemons – saxophone solo on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
Julia Waters, Maxine Waters – backing vocals on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”

The Uptown Horns:
Crispin Cioe – baritone saxophone on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
Arno “Cool-Ray” Hecht – tenor saxophone on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
“Bad” Bob Funk – trombone on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”
“Hollywood” Paul Litteral – trumpet on “Be Chrool to Your Scuel”

Production
Dieter Dierks – producer, LP audio mastering
Eddy Delana – sound engineer
Craig Engel – assistant engineer in Los Angeles
Craig Vogel – assistant engineer in New York
Bob Ludwig – LP audio mastering
Barry Diament – CD audio mastering

Art
Mikael Kirke – art director
Mark Weiss – art director, photographer

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