six nights a week, with five 40-minute sets each night, including costume changes. Gradually, the band's glam image and music changed into a heavier direction, with influences by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Slade and Alice Cooper. French, in addition to being one of the band's guitar players, took over as manager from 1975 to 1979, and from 1988 to today. 1980s Twisted Sister's first album release was the EP Ruff Cutts in 1982 by Secret Records. Twisted Sister released five studio albums between 1982 and 1987, including Under The Blade (1982), You Can't Stop Rock’n’Roll (1983), Stay Hungry (1984), Come Out And Play (1985) and Love Is For Suckers (1987). Fashion critic Richard Blackwell named Twisted Sister to Mr. Blackwell's Worst-dressed List of 1984, ranking them No. 11 and calling them "a car crash in a whorehouse." Following the departure of singer Dee Snider and guitarist Eddie Ojeda, French along with bass player Mark Mendoza made a move in 1987 to cease performing live. French French Management Enterprises and the production company Rebellion Music Inc. From 1988, he took over the management of Twisted Sister again, dealing with the music catalog. He also signed R&B singer George Taylor, blues legend Johnny Gale, David Forman, Thom Jack, Ean Evans' Cupid's Arrow and Tina Sugandh for her debut record. In 1988, French became a Grammy voting member. 1990s As owner of the Twisted Sister trademark and manager of its affairs, French began producing new Twisted Sister album releases, including the compilation album Big Hits and Nasty Cuts: The Best of Twisted Sister. In partnership with Dennis Berardi, president of Kramer Guitars, French signed the Atlanta-based hard rock band Redd Threat. Over the next seven years, Redd Threat changed its name and personnel multiple times, and by 1995, the band was called Snake Nation. French later renamed the band Crawlspace. French signed the band to Rebellion Music, and within a year, French signed a production deal with TVT Records. Due to trademark issues, Crawlspace changed its name to Sevendust. French and Mark Mendoza produced the self-titled debut album, and executive produced the following three Sevendust-albums. Sevendust became one of the biggest new breed of metal bands, called nu metal, and sold over 1 million albums. 2000s Sevendust and French parted ways in 2000. French then partnered with friend and former Sony Records executive Sean Sullivan, and founded a new management company called