NEW YORK (AP) — When his young daughter developed Uveitis, an eye disease that's the leading cause of blindness among American girls, Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French decided he wasn't gonna take it. The band is playing a benefit concert... French got most of the world's leading guitar and amplifier manufacturers to make versions of their classic instruments — all in nuclear hot pink like his own guitar — to be sold to the highest bidders May 1 in Boston. "After one of the umpteenth doctor visits, where you're walking out the door and punching the air in frustration, I started asking myself, 'What can I do. '" French said. I said I would give everything I own if she could not have this disease anymore. It's an inflammation of the middle layer of the eye that can lead to blindness if left untreated. His daughter, Samantha, 17, has had the disease since she was 6 years old.

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