Tommy and Eric are just "YES" men.
Eat Us And Smile - The Originals
"I have a very belligerent enthusiasm or an enthusiastic belligerence. I’m an intellectual slut." - David Lee Roth
"We are part of the, not just the culture, but the geography. Van Halen music goes along with like fries with the burger." - David Lee Roth
Well, at least Singer was a semi-legitimate band member before the actual reunion tour. Thayer was a roadie, for fucks sake. But if they're going to be in makeup, they should have their own characters, just like Eric Carr and Vinnie Vincent did.
Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992
Amen to that!
This space for rent.
There aren't any KISS shows in Germany. Instead they have KIZZ shows.
Apparently somebody thought the SS looked a little too "old school". As in, 1930s old school. Which is ironic considering the band was founded by two guys named Chaim Witz and Stanley Eisen.
He was doing it in 2010 when i last saw them.To be honest as has already been said Tommy and Eric are just yes men so I don't really blame them for wearing Ace and Peter's makeup.If they refused I don't imagine they would be with the band anymore.That and the fact Paul has made it clear recently that to him Kiss are the characters and not the musicians,They are just doing as they are told so I don't really have a problem with them.I liked the stuff Eric did on Revenge and he was good on Paul's solo tours.If it was not Tommy and Eric it would be some other guitarist and drummer being told to pretend to be Ace and Peter.I just wish Paul and more so Gene would stop trying to minimize Ace and Peter's contributions
Well, to the real world it's a symbol of the Nazi Holocaust...
Probably the heaviest version of I Was Made For Lovin You' they ever did. Sounds much less like a disco song and more like hard rock.
Paul Stanley is still an awesome singer, even though they're playing songs in a lower pitch. I'd rather hear them play songs at a lower pitch than to hear Paul's voice give out during a concert. The same way that I'd rather see Tommy and Eric do a good job preforming than Ace and Peter go through the motions and not even want to be on stage.
I know people will hate me, but Gene and Paul are Kiss.
The nazis don't own good luck or lightning bolts. Fuck em! I just see it as a band founded by two jews one of whom's mom is a holocaust survivor taking them lighting bolts back.
Gene may come off as a total asshole in this video, but he is 10,000,000,000,000% right about the music business. Unless you are a talentless boy band like One Direction or a talentless rapper like Lil' Wayne, Good fuckin' luck trying to make it in life, there is no more record label for classic rock, touring in dive bars can barely put bread on the table and to quote him "how the fuck are you gonna make a new record?" if you can't even pay your bills?
I love it when Gene says "who cares." He always got the big picture when the others probably didn't. No way would KISS still be around and doing well without Gene still in the band.
These people that think they are above marketing themselves, usually shoot themselves in the foot. Especially today. I wish Van Halen got it.
Last edited by Nitro Express; 11-15-2012 at 09:15 PM.
I like what Gene Simmons had to say and I totally agree. Rock stars aren't rock stars anymore!!! Even if the music has changed, why can't they bring back the fast cars, hot women etc etc etc.... this is exactly why kids today listen to rap... HE HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!!!!
I think the current hard times we are in is going to be the catalyst for the end of political correctness. I think people are going to get a big reality punch in the face. This will spark a massive FUCK YOU! movement and out of the abyss will come forth some new great music. We first need to go through the don't tell me what to do and go shove it faze which were are starting to lead into now.
I think there are two kinds of kids today. One group is totally worthless and the other group is brilliant. This new group coming up is so polarized. I mean it's going to be sink or swim and out of that is going to come some real great talent in everything.
Last edited by Nitro Express; 11-15-2012 at 09:36 PM.
I'm not much of a Kiss fan. But my girlfriend loves them and played me the new album. I thought it was good. I don't have much interest without Ace.
Interesting. It's usually the guy that is the KISS fan. I hear you on Ace but Ace has his thing. His autobiography is a good read. I need to read Peter Criss'.
I hate to say this but I like KISS more without the makeup! Yes there was alot of great shit in the 70's LOVE GUN ETC ETC....
I love LICK IT UP AND ASYLUM!!!!
Seriously, this is gonna sound crazy but I think Asylum might be my favorite KISS album!
A lot of people said that Kiss was at it's worst musically without makeup on. I disagree too. I mean, check this out.
This is Gene's blood spitting bass solo in 1977 and It's not even considered a "bass solo". It's just him hammering the E-String then spitting blood. The growling effect is cool, but it's not a real bass solo.
In these videos, Kiss is without makeup and Gene is playing the bass solo without blood. And here he is playing an actual melody and funky riffs which actually don't sound too bad considering he plays with a pick (Chris Squire does too and he's fucking amazing.)
You see the difference, when Kiss took off the makeup they did focus more on musical quality than theatrics.
Yes VA!!!! I am watching the whole show!!!
Lick it up, animalize and Asylum are my 3 favorite kiss albums!!!!!!
THIS IS EPIC!!!!!!! KULICK RULES!!!!!!
This is hands down my favorite song on dynasty!!!!
I loved "Lick It Up" and "Asylum" but I thought (and still think) "Animalize" sucks ass.
Whenever I read retrospectives of 80's Ki$$ they always say how great it is/was.
What?
One killer song in "Heaven's On Fire" and maybe one or two others past muster, but Gene's songs are ALL shit on that LP and "Thrill In The Night" is plain boring.
And Mark St. John (God rest his soul) totally had no ear for melody, his solos are all over the place.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Sitting on a park bench!
I think maybe "Animalize" capitalized on the quality of "Creatures..." and "Lick It Up", whereas "Asylum" suffered because "Animalize" was so poor.
"Animalize Live Uncensored" was a great concert, though.
Good Call Mr. Bad guy... I am not a big fan of Animalize either.
Mark St. John is very mediocre.
I love the Kulick material way better awesome riffs, great solos.... REVENGE is another classic!!!!
Here's my favorite KISS albums in order.....
1) Asylum
2) Destroyer
3) Lick It Up
4) Love Gun
5) Hotter Than Hell
6) Revenge
7) Creature of the night
8) Kiss (1st)
9)Dressed To Kill
10)Psycho Circus
11)Crazy Nights
12) Hot In The Shade
13) Rock N' Roll Over
14)The Elder soundtrack
15)Dynasty
16)Sonic Boom
17) Monster
18)Carnival of souls
19) unmasked
20) animalize
When you work all day you gotta Uh! All Night
There are currently 27 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 27 guests)