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Blog, Music, News and More! 12 Years strong!Ace Frehley plays ‘Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?’
Posted onMay 16, 2014
from LOUDWIRE. Good stuff!
http://loudwire.com/kiss-ace-frehley-wikipedia-fact-or-fiction-part-1/
PART 1
PART 2
Preview Paul Stanley’s Memoir
Posted onApril 1, 2014
“The tour was horrible. Constant drudgery and misery. We spent all of our energy trying to coax Peter and Ace out of their hotel rooms. Ace sucker-punched Tommy at one of the shows. Peter had his usual handbook detailing how hotel staff had to treat him and which windows had to be covered with tinfoil and all that. There was no reasoning with either of them. We never knew if we’d make it to a show on time, and once we got onstage we never knew whether we’d get through the show. I mean, if a guy has trouble putting on his makeup, how is he going to play? Not surprisingly, the shows could be pretty awful.
I was angry at Peter and Ace for being disrespectful toward everything we had accomplished and everything the fans were giving us. I bought into the idea that this really was it. The end of Kiss. There was no place to go. it was unbearable.
We were stuck in a rut musically as well – basically playing the same 17 songs we’d taught them for the initial reunion. This was the third tour with the same set list. Peter and Ace just couldn’t master any more. The needle was already into the red. I had to come up with nonsensical interview responses to questions about why we were playing the same songs. I couldn’t just say, “because Peter and Ace can’t learn any others.”
KISS’s Tweet on the Hall of Fame!
Posted onDecember 17, 2013The Star child always the gentleman and Gene stepping up!
KISS 1979 Largo full show.why?
Posted onJuly 2, 2013Because it’s KISS!!
Peter Criss/Ace Frehley “Always hired hands”
Posted onApril 23, 2013According to Richie Wise, who co-produced the first two Kiss albums.
Here is an excerpt.
“There was never a doubt from moment one in Gene and Paul, in their minds, that they were going to do this, they were going to do it this way and they were going to be Kiss,” Wise tells Kiss FAQ. “Ace and Peter had no focus. They were hired hands as far as I was concerned. I knew they auditioned for the band — and the band was Gene and Paul, period.”
For the rest go here:
KISS “Time Traveler”
Posted onFebruary 19, 2013KISS Time Traveler. Check out this Youtube video and watch KISS go back in time and become a real rock band! 🙂 Love them or hate them the have made a huge difference in music and influenced a lot of other bands!
KISS “Before and After (They should have retired)
Posted onJanuary 31, 2013My friend Al sent this one to me…!
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My review of Peter Criss’s book “Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss
Posted onNovember 2, 2012
In a short sentence I would have to think Peter thought to himself and said “Everyone under the bus!”. Meaning he threw everyone under the bus. I think every bridge he could burn he burnt in this book. Is it a bad thing? I dunno, not my call or my friends that got tossed under the bus.
So far I have read all three books from the Kiss Klan that has released one. Seems to be a bit of dogging on each other in all the books but it seems Peter is the most honest and as far as I can tell, holds nothing back, including grudges.
But now it’s Paul’s turn to release one 🙂 I still think they should have released them all with the “solo” album covers!
I highly recommend this book. It’s definitely drugs,sex, drugs, sex, drugs, sex, and rock and roll.
Here are some of the Highlights according to Peter.
Tommy Thayer made $25,000 a night during the reunion tour and Peter was paid $10,000. (page 193)
It’s implied several times in the book that Paul Stanley bats for both teams if you know what I mean. (page 50 for one)
Gene Simmons has Herpes and had a serious outbreak and Doc Mcgee had to buy Shannon Tweed a big stone to help her get over it. (page 169)
Peter had a lot of orgies with Ace. Sweet sweet Connie and Ace both uh “sung into Peter’s mic” at the same time. (page 76)
About the only complaint I have about the book is it’s a little slow taking off and the photographs at the end are lame. Other than that it’s a must read for rock fans. It shows the unglamorous life of a rock star. From their humble beginnings to the top of the world and the fall back down and the eventual leveling out of everything if they live long enough.
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To order the book head here:
To order Ace Frehley’s book go here
To order Gene Simmon’s book go here.
My review of Kiss’s new album “MONSTER”
Posted onOctober 5, 2012So there is a leaked copy of it floating around the net, so I checked it out…
First off. I am a huge KISS fan from way back when they ruled the world. I stuck with them from ALIVE 1and through the disco era “Dynasty” which I thought was a great album by the way. I even forgave them for the “Unmasked” album which did have a couple of good songs on it. One being “A world without Heroes”. I even stuck by them and watched them “unmask” on MTV like millions of other people did. I was in there when Peter quit/got canned and I continued going to see them despite Eric Carr (GOD rest his soul) playing wayyyy to fast on the drums. I was at the show in Evansville Indiana when Vinnie ( plays too fast too) Vincent pushed his amps over and KISS left his ass in parking lot and moved on after the show. I hung in there. I was still there when Grudge took over and songs like “Unholy” was blasting on the radio. Great stuff. Then came the farewell tour. I was still there. I remember Julio Wallace and me driving all night back from a gig in Michigan just to get to Evansville the next day to catch the show.
Then came the extended farewell tour. And another tour. Hell, I even bought the new KISS comics. Then came Psycho Circus”. I even got that. Then Peter and Ace quit/got canned. I get all that. That’s business. I didn’t like it but its not my business. And then my hope and loyalty started waning…But I still went and saw the show.
Then came KISS “Boom”. more like a fizzle…. Not the band I grew up basically worshiping. More tours, more merchandise, etc. I get it but I no longer subscribe to it. Maybe I am growing up. I wish I wasn’t. I mean this is the band I would have, like most kids my age back in the late 70’s. would have helped KISS invade a small Country if they asked us to.
And now “MONSTER”. The hype machine is in full swing. “It’s a classic KISS album”. “Just four guys writing together”. etc, etc, etc…
So I checked out the leaked copy. You know what? MONSTER should have been called MONSTER LAME”. The song “Hell or Hallelujah”. That’s a great song. Reminds me of the KISS I grew up with. But after that the album just loses steam, tanks and falls over dead. I hear a bunch of fillers and songs they will never play again.
Maybe its time bands just released powerful singles one at time. The old album way of doing things is over. I am sad about it. But the songs just don’t hold up. No hits…
I don’t expect KISS to reinvent the wheel. I know they are no longer starving and it shows. A band that is starving has the “Us against the world attitude”. KISS doesn’t has that. They haven’t had it for a long time. It’s not their fault. They have been mega successful. But I think its time to hand the baton off to someone else as bad as I hate to say that. I will go ahead and say Motley Crue needs to do the same thing but that’s another story.
So to finish off my review. KISS meant everything music to me. This album doesn’t cut it. Save your money or do something good with it. Maybe send it to “Wounded Warriors” in honor of KISS. KISS Supports that group and I commend them on that.
tears are falling…
I miss my KISS…
sincerely,
chuck
chuck@kickacts.com
