Originally Posted by
Terry
Oh, yeah, brutally honest to the point where reading some of the things he said about HIMSELF made me wince...
The stuff about Simmons and Stanley wasn't that shocking: even among entertainers, those two guys embrace naked greed in a manner that never fails to astound. Who really gives a hoot about Tommy Thayer? At least Eric Singer has played with other really good bands and acts besides KISS. Thayer played with, at best, a 3rd string 80s hair band and is now an Ace Frehley clone. I'm sure the pay is great, but he's barely even worth talking about.
He was pretty unsparing about virtually everybody else as well (who knew that Mark St. John was into kiddie porn?), but there was a level of honesty that definitely set it apart from many other rock autobios...many of which tend to be whitewashes. I mean, some of the stuff in that book made Motley Crue look like a bunch of lightweights.