Overview
- Official statements cite degenerative arthritis, multiple surgeries, and newly disclosed heart issues as the reasons for Snider’s abrupt exit.
- All 2026 dates beginning April 25 in São Paulo and running through the summer, including planned stops in Mexico, Europe, the UK and a U.S. finale in Alaska, have been canceled.
- Snider, 70, said he would rather leave than deliver a diminished performance, declaring, “I’d rather walk away than be a shadow of my former self.”
- The cancellations were announced by guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda on behalf of French Management Enterprises via the band’s official channels.
- The reunion would have been the band’s first tour since their 2016 farewell; the planned lineup excluded bassist Mark Mendoza, with Russell Pzutto and Joe Franco slated as tour replacements.