Jam packed SiriusXM live show last night. Thanks to Wendy Dio for calling in and letting me premiere a song from the new Dio tribute album called This Is Your Life. It’s out April 1 and all proceeds go to RJD Cancer Fund. Also thanks to Vince Neil who called in and talked a little Motley as well as about a charity event for our mutual friend chef Kerry Simon in Vegas this Thursday. Info in the news section on my site. And also thanks to AJ, Russ and Mike of Adrenaline Mob for coming in. New album Men Of Honor sounds slamming. Also took almost two hours of calls from listeners, mostly about Kiss and the HOF and all the different sides to it. This site has become flooded with comments about this situation. I’m glad I can provide my take through the Trunk Report and also allow you guys to have a platform to post also. For the record ALL comments regardless of their position are posted here! Only comments that resort to name calling or pointless hate and bashing are not posted. I have heard from many that Kiss and their twitter accounts have been blocking people that post thoughts not in line with what they approve of in this situation, while retweeting those that do. I assure you all opinions are welcome and reflected on my platforms if I agree or not.
In the time since this news broke with my show Friday night the coverage has been incredible. Huffington Post, Daily News, NY Post, and even the lead story on Howard Stern’s news. Howard by the way called Kiss the “most irrelevant band in music history” and compared them to the 1910 Fruitgum Company. I do NOT agree with this assessment but he has the right to say it. I see all sides of this and in the end, no matter where you stand, it just sucks as fans who fought so hard to see this day happen, we won’t at least get a song from the four guys going in. But who knows, we have about 6 weeks before this all goes down so as we learn being Kiss fans, anything can happen. Many more things to still learn here. Do all of them show up? Who inducts them (hope I can reveal soon, it is a legit Kiss fan. What does the HOF do instead of performance? All star band? Video package? More as we get closer no doubt and as I can share.
Shooting a new TMS today you will see this Saturday night. After going pure metal last week with Lamb Of God, TMS goes classic rock this week! Today we shoot with Mick Jones of Foreigner, Leslie West and Lita Ford on guitar. Plus Marty Friedman from Japan on Metal Modem! Should be a fun one! I can also confirm new guests coming in our current season include Dee Snider on set and Yngwie Malmsteen playing in our last two shows! Loving all the variety in TMS in our current season. Thanks for all the amazing response. Keep watching and let’s keep growing this thing even after 5 years and more than 100 shows. Hearing from new fans every day and I appreciate it!
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geme and paul are just wrong only original group
What a surprise…..Gene and Paul have found a way to fuck it up. Who didn’t see this coming? It is ridiculous any of the members would blow this off. This is Ace and Peter’s final chance to give a big fuck you to Gene and Paul and go up there and say their thing, and I for one, am hoping the boos rain down on Paul and Gene like a monsoon, but at this point, I can completely see Gene and Paul finding a way to do something via satellite or some other way that puts them nowhere near this ceremony or nowhere near the fray.
Boy you aint kidding Eddie, every other tweet from Gene has been a retweet of a fan saying they made the right decision, ace and peter are ungrateful assholes etc etc etc….Talk about trying to cover your ass
I’m going to campaign again for Richie Scarlet to play guitar in-studio. He’s playing with Chubby Checker at the moment–how cool is that?
I can’t believe people are missing some key points here with KISS.
-The HOF wanted the original 4 to be inducted and perform in make up. Ace confirmed this when it first came out. Nothing came from Kiss saying they weren’t haappy with this and wanted to do otherwise.
– Since then, nothing concrete came from KISS about what will go down until Ace made his statement last weekend. It seems that Paul & Gene never had any intention to perform with Ace or Peter or anyone else except only with Eric & Tommy as part of the current KISS line up. Ace confirmed this too. The ‘All or nothing’ to me is just an excuse otherwise why would they want to perform with just the current line up if they now say they won’t perform if everyone still alive is not included.
– The first indications of Kiss not wanting to perform with Peter and Ace were Paul Stanley’s ‘”no way” and “highly unlikely” tweets. Gene on the other hand has stated he had no problem performing again with the original line up, just not touring. It seems, as Eddie has indicated, that these days Paul pulls all the strings with Kiss musically (he did produce the last two albums).
– What would have happened if Ace did not make his statement recently and tickets went on sale Monday? Nothing it seems was going to come from Kiss until possibly after all the tickets were sold. Ace and Peter’s statement put them in an awkward position so they then said no performance at all with the ‘all or nothing’ as the excuse. Gene has since been on a retweeting crusade with as many positive tweets from people as he can, and if you look closely, many from the same persons too.
– Lastly, the biggest periods of the band were with the original line up, 70’s & 90’s. Sure they kept going but as their popularity was declining in the mid 90’s it was the ’96 reunion that kicked them off in a big way again. Without that, who knows what would have happened as all they had was Carnival Of Souls with their attempt at grunge (but I actually liked). I agree, the current line up musically is very good, although sadly Paul’s voice is now not what it once was (check out DRC at the Superbowl), but the current line up in make up would not have been possible without the reunion in 96.
– No bashing here, just pointing out what I think most people seem to be missing.