{"id":19358,"date":"2021-09-16T13:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=19358"},"modified":"2021-09-16T13:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:39:54","slug":"rare-video-footage-of-twisted-sisters-1987-love-is-for-suckers-tour-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=19358","title":{"rendered":"Rare Video Footage of Twisted Sister&#8217;s 1987 Love is For Suckers Tour Surfaces!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted Sister live footage is a rare thing to find post Stay Hungry tour.\u00a0 There is only one known bootleg video from the Come Out and Play tour shot by a fan at the Fox Theater in Detroit on January 30th, 1986.\u00a0 The grainy video is the only glimpse of one of the biggest touring productions at the time.\u00a0 While it was an amazing spectacle and an incredible live performance, the tour didn&#8217;t do well with attendance and ended up had Twisted Sister losing money.\u00a0 In 1987, Twisted Sister released their fifth and final original studio album, Love is For Suckers.\u00a0 Originally planned to be a Dee Snider solo album, the label (Atlantic Records) pushed for it to be released under the Twisted Sister name instead.<\/p>\n<p>The tour for the Love is For Suckers album lasted just over one month and ended in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 10, 1987. There was no professional video footage from this tour but for years there has been a soundboard audio recording from their tour stop in Merrillville, Indiana on October 8, 1987 at the Holiday Star Music Theater.\u00a0 Just recently, video footage from this performance surfaced on YouTube.\u00a0 The video appears to have been recording from a tripod at the soundboard featuring soundboard sourced audio.\u00a0 The show itself appears to be bigger than the venue could actually contain.\u00a0 A double tiered stage with ramps and stairs and a huge set of lights that seemed to be no more than six feet over the head of drummer Joey Franco.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bummer that Twisted Sister was on the decline at this point because honestly, this is one of the best performances I&#8217;ve seen from Twisted Sister.\u00a0 The band sounded amazing and the energy of the performance was off the charts.\u00a0 It&#8217;s too bad we couldn&#8217;t have seen more from Twisted Sister on this tour but at least the band can say they went out on top of their game before reuniting in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twisted Sister Setlist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tonight<br \/>\nWake Up The Sleeping Giant<br \/>\nYou Can&#8217;t Stop Rock n&#8217; Roll<br \/>\nI Believe in Rock N&#8217; Roll<br \/>\nStay Hungry<br \/>\nI&#8217;m So Hot For You<br \/>\nUnder the Blade<br \/>\nHot Love<br \/>\nThe Price<br \/>\nLove Is for Suckers<br \/>\nJoe Franco Drum Solo<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re Not Gonna Take It<br \/>\nI Wanna Rock<br \/>\nOne Bad Habit<br \/>\nS.M.F<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Twisted Sister  October 8, 1987 - Merrillville, IN\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4DhMEYWVeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twisted Sister live footage is a rare thing to find post Stay Hungry tour.\u00a0 There is only one known bootleg video from the Come Out and Play tour shot by a fan at the Fox Theater in Detroit on January 30th, 1986.\u00a0 The grainy video is the only glimpse of one of the biggest touring productions at the time.\u00a0 While it was an amazing spectacle and an incredible live performance, the tour didn&#8217;t do well with attendance and ended up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2087,2080,2312,2230,2229,2085,2077,180,2078,2090,2399,2084,2086,2079,2076,2196,2088,2089,1844,2081,2082,712,2083],"class_list":["post-19358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-blog","tag-death-metal","tag-folk-music-blog","tag-folk-rock-blog","tag-hard-rock","tag-hard-rock-blog","tag-heavy-metal","tag-heavy-metal-blog","tag-instrumental-bands","tag-love-is-for-suckers","tag-mailchimp","tag-metal","tag-metal-blog","tag-music-blog","tag-occult-rock-blog","tag-prog-rock","tag-progressive-rock","tag-psych-rock","tag-psych-rock-blog","tag-psychedelic-rock-blog","tag-twisted-sister","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-is-for-Suckers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19360,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions\/19360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}