In his new autobiography, “Shut Up And Give Me The Mic”, Dee Snider of TWISTED SISTER has nothing nice to say about KROKUS, the veteran hard rockers from Switzerland. For an entire chapter, he rages about KROKUS, calls the band “Crapus” and states: “You have no idea how close you came landing on the bottom of a lake.”
The reason for his outburst: KROKUS commissioned Snider‘s wife Suzette in 1982 to sew stage outfits for the band’s U.S. tour, but the former KROKUS manager refused to pay her for her services.
“These guys ripped off my wife and threatened her,” says Snider, who points out that his wife’s mother emigrated from Switzerland.
“I was proud of this rock band from the home country of my mother,” says Suzette. But the pride has turned into rage.
KROKUS bassist/producer Chris Von Rohr recalls: “The clothes did not match at all our expectations. Too much harlequin style. So we made a bonfire of it.”
Many years have passed and KROKUS are older and wiser. “If we have not treated his wife with due respect, we are sorry,” Von Rohr says
Von Rohr proposes to Dee and his wife to bury the hatchet and drink a beer or two together at a festival this year where both bands will perform in reconciliation of an event that happened over 30 years ago.
Swiss newspaper Blick reached Snider by phone and submitted KROKUS‘ peace offer. “If they are serious, I think it’s a nice gesture,” says Snider. “But I have to ask my wife first if she is ready to forgive KROKUS.”
Source: www.blabbermouth.net