KISS’ GENE SIMMONS SAID THE BIGGEST “MISTAKE” THEY MADE WAS NOT WORKING WITH VAN HALEN, PAUL STANLEY DISAGREED AND ADDED IT WAS FOR “SELF PRESERVATION”
KISS‘ Paul Stanley says that “self-preservation” was the main reason he, and manager Bill Aucoin, turned down the opportunity to work with Van Halen in 1976, reports blabbermouth.net. While KISS was in Los Angeles to tape a three-song performance for ABC Television’s The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Stanley and Gene Simmons received an invitation from DJ and club impresario Rodney Bingenheimer to watch two unsigned local acts, The Boyz and Van Halen, at […]