KISS News Bits

[silverfish]

GENE SIMMONS Announces 'The Vault' Box Set
Of Previously Unreleased Solo Recordings

"'The Vault' is one hundred and fifty-plus never-before-released songs I've written,
spanning fifty years, going all the way back to when I was fourteen years old, all
the way to some of the songs that became KISS classics. Tens CDs right here, all
inside 'The Vault'. It's finally ready to bring to you. Yeah, that's right, I said 'to bring
to you,' because what I'm gonna be doing is something that's never been done
before by any artist or band. I'm gonna hand-deliver 'The Vault' box set to you and
to fans like you around the world."

Simmons adds: "I also wanted you to have really cool stuff: an exclusive Gene
Simmons action figure, an 'In Gene We Trust' medallion, a beautiful full-color book
packed with photos from my personal archives, and my stories behind the songs —
and a very special surprise item from me to you. You're not gonna believe the
things we found."

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gene-simmons-to-release-the-vault-box-set-of-previously-unreleased-solo-recordings/

[silverfish]

And the price list according to UCR:

For $2,000, you can attend one of 21 “Vault Experience” events across the
world. In addition to the personalized and autographed box set — which is
“packaged in a massive 12” x 12” x 6” leather-bound commemorative book
featuring dozens of never-seen-before images of Simmons over his 50-year
career” — fans will be treated to a “songs and stories” playback and Q&A
session, and granted one-on-one photo, autograph and video time with
Simmons.

For $25,000, you can attend one of 11 “Producer Experience” events, which
include everything above plus “an intimate hour in a recording studio with
Gene listening to tracks from The Vault” and an executive producer’s credit
on the set itself.

Finally, for $50,000, Simmons will deliver all those goodies right to your
home, where you and up to 25 friends can spend two hours with the “God
of Thunder.”

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/gene-simmons-vault-box-set/

[Von Halen]

The two demo songs with Ed and Al are going to be on there. Christine Sixteen and I can't remember the name of the other.

For that kind of money he better be licking peoples assholes with that giant tongue!

[Terry]

The two demo songs with Ed and Al are going to be on there. Christine Sixteen and I can't remember the name of the other.

For that kind of money he better be licking peoples assholes with that giant tongue!

I think, if memory serves me correctly, the other tune on Love Gun Ed and Al demoed was Got Love For Sale. I think Ed and Al may have also worked with Gene demoing tunes for his 1978 solo album, specifically the tunes True Confessions and Tunnel Of Love: I could SWEAR I read that somewhere.

[DavidLeeNatra]

Ace played with Gene some nights ago. They seemed to enjoy it. Ace seems to be in his "yoga"-cure again...

[Terry]

Ace played with Gene some nights ago. They seemed to enjoy it. Ace seems to be in his "yoga"-cure again...

For some odd reason, I think if nothing else Ace and Gene playing together would be useful for just getting them talking as reasonable, grown up people. Personally, I don't care if Ace reunites with KISS or not. I just thought it was a bit of a shame, like, say, when the band was inducted in the RnRHoF...and Gene and Paul got into a tiff with Ace and Peter over performing or not performing. The same thing applied to Blackmore when Deep Purple was inducted, and on and on.

Like, I dunno why I am even bothered enough to post something about it. I don't know these guys and they don't know me. I think it's just the older I get, the lamer these celebrity feuds are. Same with Van Halen re: KISS/Deep Purple, in that these guys are in their 60s. Just put aside the childish bullshit. Regardless of any of them getting back together or not.

I think the problem is these people get money and fame at an early age, and it just arrests their emotional development.

So, frankly, I think it's cool if Ace plays some tunes with Gene onstage, or they sit around and jam, even removing the "Maybe Ace will rejoin KISS!" underlying rumors whenever something like that happens. Because, really, who gives a shit in 2017 if Ace Frehley rejoins KISS full-time again? Ace doing so won't make KISS any more lucrative than they already are now. It's not 1995.

[Von Halen]

Ace and Gene sounded great! Great to see them jam together without all the pretentiousness!

[silverfish]

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons—until this week, a favorite guest on Fox News and Fox Business Network programs, which couldn’t get enough of his supposedly outrageous rock-star antics mixed with conservative politics—has been banned for life from the right-leaning cable channels.

Fox finally had enough of Simmons after he crudely insulted female Fox staffers, taunted them and exposed his chest, and otherwise behaved like the “demon” character he plays onstage. Management was not amused, and Simmons’s photograph was promptly posted Wednesday at the security entrance of the company’s Manhattan headquarters along with a “do-not-admit” advisory.

Full story at:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-bans-kiss-frontman-gene-simmons-for-life

[DavidLeeNatra]

Read the whole story...it was funny to the update point when gene made the chickenshit move to apologise!

Gesendet von meinem SM-G850F mit Tapatalk

[silverfish]

Gene Simmons has explained why Kiss decided not to sue Bruce Springsteen
over his 2009 track “Outlaw Pete,” which bears some resemblance to their
1979 hit “I Was Made For Lovin’ You.”

“Kiss have sued lots of people and won,” Simmons told The Guardian. “But
some people we don’t sue. We didn’t sue Bruce Springsteen for ‘Outlaw Pete.’
How do we decide who to sue and who not to? We like Springsteen. We don’t
sue.”

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/kiss-bruce-springsteen-outlaw-pete/

[Nickdfresh]

And the judge in the case would have had an aneurysm from laughing so hard...

[DavidLeeNatra]

Wow...Vinnie "Howard Hughes" Vincent appears after twenty years and Ace had a gig with Gene and nothing going on here?

Gesendet von meinem SM-G955F mit Tapatalk

[Seshmeister]

Have I posted this before?

See if any of you KI$$ fans can do the whole 45 minutes....

https://soundcloud.com/christopher-armes/45-minutes-of-paul-stanley

[DavidLeeNatra]

Have I posted this before?

See if any of you KI$$ fans can do the whole 45 minutes....

https://soundcloud.com/christopher-a...f-paul-stanley

I made it 45 sec...do I get some prize though?

Gesendet von meinem SM-G955F mit Tapatalk

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Have I posted this before?

See if any of you KI$$ fans can do the whole 45 minutes....

https://soundcloud.com/christopher-a...f-paul-stanley

Excellent stuff for working your abs.