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Mike Piazza. New York Steel , held less than three months after 9/11, raised close to a hundred thousand dollars for
New York Police And Fire Widows And Children s Benefit Fund.
Snider recalls: We were the bands nobody wanted when the big concerts were held. Nobody wanted heavy metal bands. I remember we called and said, Everybody in the world is singing We re Not Gonna Take It .
MTV was, like, It s a little too angry. It was a no-brainer to join New York Steel .
Dee remembers thinking, This is a reason to get back together. It wasn t about the money. After that, we went to North Korea and played for the troops.
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of that day, Snider spoke with Q104.3 New York s
After the attacks the morning of 9/11, Snider received a rare call from his old Twisted Sister bandmate, bassist
Mark Mendoza, who at that time was working for the New York State Police. The two had barely spoken for a decade; there were hard feelings between them, but on one of the scariest, most uncertain days of their lives, they were speaking again.
As Snider tells it, in those terrifying hours following the attacks, Mendoza called to make sure his old friend had his family with him. He urged Snider to take his kids out of school, believing they would be safer at home than in a public place. Flaws had been exposed in America s homeland defense, and no one knew if there would be more attacks that day.
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