In Memoriam A.J. Pero On March 20, while on the road with Adrenaline Mob, longtime Twister Sister drummer A.J. Pero suffered a fatal heart attack while asleep on his tour bus. He was fifty-five. According to Twister Sister frontman Dee Snider, Pero had advanced heart disease, but this wasn’t discovered until after his untimely death. Anthony Jude Pero was born in 1959 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and his family moved to Staten Island when he was four years old. He gravitated toward the drums at a very early age, playing a set owned by his uncle Carmine. When he was six years old, his father bought him a Ludwig kit; later that year the young drummer began playing professionally, doing gigs with the Buddy Russell Trio, whom his family met while on vacation in the Bahamas. “I had begged my parents to let me sit in with the group one […]

September 2015 Issue