associated_acts years_active article_title background instrument birth_date genre origin birth_name occupation
twisted mob sister , the dictators , blackfoot , adrenaline 1970s -- present mark mendoza
 non_vocal_instrumentalist bass 13 july 1955 heavy metal , punk rock , shock rock west hempstead , new york mark glickman musician , songwriter
mark mendoza

mark `` the animal '' mendoza -lrb- born mark glickman , july 13 , 1955 -rrb- is an american rock bassist and a member of the american heavy metal band , twisted sister .
he joined the band on october 31 , 1978 , after he left the dictators .
he also briefly played in blackfoot in the early 1990s .
he now plays bass for the band adrenaline mob which formed in early 2011 .
mendoza played the bass guitar on all of twisted sister 's major label releases .
he remixed `` under the blade '' when it was re-issued by atlantic records , and produced and mixed `` still hungry '' and `` a twisted christmas '' .
growing up in west hempstead , new york , mark ` mendoza ' glickman attended george washington middle school and west hempstead high school , both in west hempstead , new york and graduated in 1974 .
his picture can be found in the yearbook for west hempstead high school for 1974 .
in april 1973 , mark held a job in the camera department of s. klein in the same town .
while going to school , he had naturally curly hair and wore it in a somewhat afro style as well as black horn-rimmed glasses .
