KISS News Bits

[Nitro Express]

I’m kinda enjoying Ace doing the I will show you! With his 10,000 volts album and tour. Not getting invited to the final show pissed him off and motivated him to get out and sell his own shit. Ace clearly has a beef with Paul. He seems to respect Gene. I guess the dirt Ace had on Paul is Paul was fucking his sister. That’s the rumor anyways.

[DLR Bridge]

So did Ace and Peter just make 75 mil? They came up with the characters...or did Gene and Paul fuck em years ago?

I’m fairly certain it’s the latter. Utterly ridiculous.

[silverfish]

Original KISS Drummer PETER CRISS To Appear At Next Month's FAMOUS MONSTERS FESTIVAL

Valley Forge Casino Resort in King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania
Friday, September 13, 2024
6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Saturday, September 14, 2024
12:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

* No tableside selfies allowed
* Maximum of five items signed per guest/family
* No outside drumheads or drum parts

Drumheads will be available at the event at Peter's table, with proceeds going to charity.


Full story at:
blabbermouth.net/news/original-kiss-drummer-peter-criss-to-appear-at-next-months-famous-monsters-festival

[silverfish]

'Kiss' band member receives 'Key to the City' of Niagara Falls, boulevard named in his honor

wgrz.com/article/news/local/band-member-receives-key-to-city-of-niagara-falls/71-a32dd229-44ed-43c5-993b-086b4bf1b54a

wkbw.com/news/local-news/niagara-orleans/i-couldnt-believe-it-gene-simmons-surprises-kiss-fans-at-tops-in-niagara-falls

[Terry]

I?m fairly certain it?s the latter. Utterly ridiculous.

I think whoever Peter's then-manager was had signed away Peter's rights to the licensing of the Catman character likeness even before the 1996 reunion took place...I wanna say it was part of a buy-out of Peter's 25% continued interest in the band, that being the upshot of Peter's departure in 1980, where even though after 1980 Peter wasn't playing on any albums or performing, he was still drawing a share equal to what Gene and Paul were (publishing excepted). At some point in the mid-1980's, a few years after Peter left, the band offered Peter a lump sum buy-out of whatever remaining financial interest he had in the band and the makeup rights reverting back to KISS were part of that. Peter claims he was unaware of the makeup rights at the time they were signed away. There's another story that Criss signed away the rights not in the 1980's but in 2004 when he left the group for good.

With Ace, there are stories and claims by Ace that he owns the rights and KISS pays him a fee to license the rights (along with a piece of the merchandising from the group) which are counterbalanced by stories and claims by Paul Stanley that the KISS organization owns all the likeness rights and Ace gets nothing from the band.

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[Kristy]

This "fucking" band. "Fuck." "Fuck." "Fuck" The "fag" makeup

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Paul Stanley's Folger's commercial that was never released (thank God):

[silverfish]

KISS Celebrates 50 Years Of 'Strutter' With Ultra-Rare 'Pure Gold Edition' And Limited 'Gold-Plated Edition'
Available at https://shopkissonline.com/

The world's first-ever Pure Gold Edition playable disc will be limited to only five copies worldwide pressed
from eight ounces of pure .999 24-karat gold. These five-inch records are specifically remastered for gold
playback on any manual turntable system. The A-side boasts the playable grooves, a rim engraving with
each record's unique edition number as well as the KISS logo adorned with Swarovski crystals and the B-side
celebrates the original Casablanca single label etched into the gold with proof-quality finish.
Limited to 5 copies at $50,000. each




The 5-inch Gold-plated copper-core records with .999 pure gold. Limited edition of 500 at $2500. each

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[vieo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB1ctFzWgIo[/video]
Old cuck Gene wants YOU to PAY to work for his fat azz....

[FORD]

Chaim cancels solo tour because of poor ticket sales?

https://metaladdicts.com/gene-simmons-quietly-cancels-solo-tour-dates-suggesting-poor-ticket-sales/

[silverfish]

[vieo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB1ctFzWgIo[/video]
Old cuck Gene wants YOU to PAY to work for his fat azz....

Gene Simmons defends his $12K Roadie Experience

"“This is not for everybody and it ain’t cheap,” Simmons said. “It’s also a different world
than what I grew up in. Nowadays, if you get a papercut… everybody gets sued.”"

"He also recalled a humorous story of when George Lucas “stole” the nanny he had hired..."

Full story at:
wivb.com/entertainment-news/gene-simmons-reflects-on-retiring-kiss-a-diy-tour-working-with-george-lucas-more-ahead-of-niagara-falls-show/

[silverfish]

Somewhat KISS related:

Peter Criss Finally Finds His ‘Dream Team’ Band With Billy Sheehan And John 5

“I got Billy Sheehan, Paul Shaffer, John 5, Michael, my guitarist, and I got Piggy from Rob Zombie,”
he continued. “So it’s like a dream team band.”

Full story at:
rockcelebrities.net/peter-criss-finally-finds-his-dream-team-band-with-billy-sheehan-and-john-5/

[FORD]

Di$ney Bubblegum "singer" Nick Jonas Set As KISS Singer Paul Stanley In STX Movie ‘Shout It Out Loud’

By Mike Fleming Jr Mike Fleming Jr




(L-R) Nick Jonas, and Paul Stanley of KISSPamela Littky/Getty

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Jonas is near closed on a deal to star as KISS lead singer Paul Stanley in Shout It Out Loud, the McG-directed film about the formation of the venerable hard rock band in the 1970s. The film will go into production at the end of the year or in early 2026, with STX fully financing. The most recent draft is by Darren Lemke. Previous drafts were done by Ole Sanders and the first writer of the script was William Herron.

I’m told that Jonas will do his own singing, and he’ll need time to train to replicate the jet-engine vocals of Stanley. Besides headlining in the sibling band The Jonas Brothers, Jonas has also proven his chops onscreen. His rise began with the 2016 toxic masculinity hazing drama Goat. He shone in the MMA series Kingdom, as a young gay man who grows up in a family of fighters and has to hide his sexuality from a domineering father.

Jonas grew up on the Broadway stage in numerous musicals, including starring turns in Les Miserables, Hairspray and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and he played singer Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys Live. His screen credits also include Jumanji and The Good Half, and he will co-star opposite Paul Rudd in the John Carney-directed Power Ballad for Lionsgate.

Shout it Out Loud focuses on the formation of the ‘70s glitter rock band. Stanley hardly fit the persona of a sex symbol front man as he was growing up. “I was deaf in one ear and had a slight deformity that made me look different,” Stanley once said. “I was this short, fat kid, and music became my salvation, a place to hide and dream. And when I played music, there were always girls around.”

McG is zeroing in on a star to play Gene Simmons, the fire-breathing, blood-dripping, growly voiced bass player who formed the band with Stanley. His compulsion to take a rock and roll path also had a lot to do with girls
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(L-R) Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS in 2019Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Simmons was a Hasidic Orthodox Jew from Israel who found a new faith one fateful day while exiting the yeshiva. “I remember walking out onto the street, seeing this Spanish girl jumping rope across the street, and staring at her long black hair slapping against this great butt,” he once said. “It occurred to me this was better than religion. How could I get near that?”

They teamed with lead guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss, and then made themselves stand out by playing in face makeup with each adopting different personalities. Their enduring success was fueled by a steady array of power rock anthems including “Rock and Roll All Nite.” They beat the odds to become one of the most commercially successful bands in rock history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

The project has been percolating for years, developed by Mark Canton, Simmons, Stanley and Doc McGhee alongside Jody Gerson for Universal Music Publishing Group and Polygram Entertainment, and Bruce Resnikoff of Universal Music Group/Ume, who control and rep the band’s song publishing and recorded music rights globally, and Polygram’s David Blackman. Canton, Simmons, Stanley, McGhee, Gerson and Blackman will be producers or executive producers, joined by Leigh Ann Burton. Also producing are McG and his Wonderland producing partner Mary Viola, as well as David Hopwood, Courtney Solomon and Dorothy Canton, and Swedish-based Pophouse, which acquired global rights to the KISS brand. Christa Campbell and Annie Herndon are overseeing for STX.


McG and KISSGetty Images; Everett Collection

McG most recently wrapped Way of the Warrior Kid, an adaptation of the Jocko Willink novel that stars Chris Pratt and Linda Cardellini for Apple TV+.

Jonas is repped by UTA and Schreck Rose.