Hope you guys are all doing well. Been busy on several fronts. We tape the two final episodes of the current TMS season this Tuesday in NYC. The guests will include The Winery Dogs, Vinnie Paul, Joe Satriani, Artie Lange and Jim Breuer. Plus on guitar in both shows will be Yngwie Malmsteen! And of course don’t forget this Saturday at 11P ET the latest new episode premiers featuring an hour with Peter Criss and Richard Christy on drums.
Peter talks about the first 6 Kiss studio albums and gives us his Rank of them, does our Put It On The Table segment, and of course talks about the RRHOF. For those expecting some sort of slam fest from him you will be disappointed. Obviously he wishes he would have been allowed to play one song with the original band, but now that nobody is playing he seems real happy to go up and accept the award and just thank the fans.
I’ll be in Largo this Friday hosting the Jake E Lee show. Meet & Greet and signing in the lobby before the show and books for sale. Then to MOR Cruise the next day. Honored to host MOR every year, can’t wait to see you if going!
Thanks to M Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold for rocking a TMS shirt on stage at festivals in Brazil and Australia! Saw the photos and tweeted one. I have a brand new That Eddie Trunk / Stump This T Shirt just released! Check it out in the merch store on this site (please note I can not sell TMS shirts in my store, but check out the other designs).
Live on Q104.3 NYC tomorrow 11P-2A ET. Listen via free stream at www.q1043.com or use the free iheartradio app. Live also Monday 6-10P ET on SiriusXM 39 TRUNKNation. Vinnie Paul and Joe Satriani will be in studio!
There has been SO much debate and discussion on Kiss on this site, and as usual all respectful opinions are welcome. As it stands now the original 4 will go up, each say a few words, and that’s it. Doubtful anything will change as it is now too late likely with production of the show and so many other acts involved. I also heard from everyone that Paul Stanley called TMS Wayne’s World on his Twitter. I myself have called it that jokingly in interviews. That was a super popular movie, and TMS a very popular show, so all good by me. But what Paul doesn’t realize is he is only insulting his fans trying to take a shot at a show THEY watch and most of them love. Maybe more Kiss shirts in our audience on a regular basis than anything else! So if we are Wayne’s World, or whatever else he thinks is a knock at the show, we are certainly proud to be good enough for most Kiss fans, not to mention legendary acts like Sabbath, AC/DC, Rush, Axl Rose, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and many more who all appear and appreciate what we do. Paul can continue to be very comfortable going on channels like CNN where maybe 2% of the viewers care about rock and his band and he can get the usual cookie cutter liners from the anchor that just read the one sheet. Or maybe go on Howard Stern again, who just called Kiss the most irrelevant band ever on his radio show? We have plenty of artists that get and appreciate what we do, have a sense of humor, enjoy the debate, and acknowledge as fans we have opinions. Unfortunate that in Kiss land many times the decades of positives are never acknowledged and the few things you don’t like are blown up. But it’s all good by me. I thank all the amazing artists we have and will have on and most of all the fans around the world that support TMS and have made it VH1’s longest running show. Guess we are doing something right…Party on!
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Paul Stanley……………get over yourself. I am an original Kiss Army soldier. You can knock Peter and Ace all you want but it changes nothing. They are why you two are still around and why you still NEED to have The Cat and The Spaceman on stage. How you were able to hijack the characters from their creators is despicable. The 4 of you that are on stage for the Hall of Fame are the ones that made this a 40 years career for you and Gene and you need to acknowledge that you egotistical morons. Knock off the negativity and acknowledge the contribution of Ace and Peter to keeping your coffers full all these years because I don’t see a Wicked Lester induction in your future. Be real. Show respect to the fans at least by acknowledging what made KISS great.
That was great Eddie. As a 52 year old KISS fan (since ’74) I don’t care how many drugs ACE has done, there is something very strange going on in Paul’s brain as of late. It’s sad actually. Looking forward to the show tonight and whatever you have planned for ACE in the future. P.S. The classy rock legend Alice Cooper didn’t seem to have a problem associating with Wayne’s world. The three of you should do “schwing” when Jennifer comes out on the last episode this season. Lol. That would be hilarious.
No reason for Paul or anybody to knock something unless there is some underlying jealousy, insecurity , arrogance or fear, else you wouldn’t do it. Eddie is spot on about Paul. He doesn’t have any kind of filter or realize that he’s inadvertently (at best) knocking his own fan base that do watch TMS. If you (reading this) had a Twitter account, were in a band and a fan went on your account to express an opinion that was different than yours, would you respond and call him an “idiot” or a “moron”. That is just what Paul has been doing on his live Twitter account. That is what you do if you are in grade school, right? I personally wouldn’t want that kind of comment from myself to be out there for the world to read. That is what I mean by no filter. Again, for all the people who like to skewer Ace and Peter, these 2 guys have only been doing 2 things of late: either defending the thinly veiled insults from Gene or Paul in public of late or taking the high road and setting an example of how to be civil. Paul is setting an example only of how you shouldn’t act at the age of 62. Your supposed to be a little more wise or diplomatic at that age. He’s going backwards. Ace and Peter and moving forward as adult guys who do have a filter and are always mindful of their choice of words and respecting Kiss fans around the world. I want to like Paul Stanley but there isn’t much to like these days. It’s fine for him to express disappointment in the HOF selection process but the way he goes about it is not very constructive and mostly inflammatory.
KISS fans, if you are upset by the way Paul and Gene are only concerned with money, and don’t like the disrespect toward Ace, Peter or even Eddie, PLEASE put your money where your mouth is. PLEASE Don’t go to any KISS related concerts, even if you are a diehard Def Leppard fan (DL will be back later this year or next yr once they have a new album out). Don’t buy Paul’s book new either. Buy it used maybe and show up to a book signing with a TMS or Ace or Peter shirt.
After awhile, maybe just MAYBE they’ll get a hint.
I guess Paul and definitely Gene likes it their way and only their way. If anyone challenges them they are the enemy. Even if the questions are being asked by a KISS fan, who they say they work for. They only want “Yes people” (both fans and business associates alike) to surround them.
And again you always ask why is it Paul won’t just talk to you, or why you get blocked from their Twitter accounts by Gene…Eddie yes you for your career always played Kiss on radio and you always do a beloved Kissmass show for all of us.. but when you say you support all eras you don’t because you don’t support THIS era of Kiss. You take such a sensitive issue to the fact that makeup designs that were willingly sold by their originators are used by wonderful musicians and men that contribute greatly to Kiss in the form of 11 yrs of touring,two albums, and being team players as well as having built a current chemistry many also 70s fans like myself love and appreciate. Yes you say nothin against them as players and being in Kiss but go on to not want to support them live or respect two albums that while some don’t like many critics and fans have acclaimed and enjoyed.I never hear you any longer support the other founding two members that have always kept kiss going.whth all respect you talk of us that love old and current Kiss as kool aid drinkers in “Kiss Land” and never find complements for Gene and Paul and plenty of love to Ace and Peter. I love ace and Peter too but I love Kiss and their hard work and efforts now as well. I started with Kiss since 76 and honestly Eric Singer is my favorite drummer. And Ace is my favorite guitarist. Gene and Paul are still good musicians and I acceptPaul’s voice live and the shows excite me and inspire the children in my family like the originals first inspired us Eddie. I apologize for xming harshly at you the other day. But Eddie I know how u feel about the make-up isn’t only you but many. But you are highly influential Eddie and folks are swayed your way alot. I’m just seeing how sometimes a neutral stance could be so nice. It’s always so negative about Paul and Gene and heaps of praise for ace and Peter. Eddie you read Peters book. It’s Peter’s story but doesn’t make all the pop shots he took at gene and Paul 100% accurate. It’s his side and I can respect that but do you think paul would not be hurt or upset by many of Peter’s words? I’m sure it stings. And Paul and Gene never wanted to play only with the originals at Hall but they wanted to do a lil with everyone. And when Paul says the guys that played on Multiplatinum albums he was referring to Carr and Kulick. And the Hall is the real reason no one like ace or Peter are playing because the Hall can let Grateful Dead send all they want but Kiss is told one way. I find admirable respect that Paul and Gene didn’t give in to that place. Deep down o believe this four are brothers to what they started and no real hate just very different. Anyways please accept my apology for hitting so hard but understand I only would like to see you try to be a lil more neutral and realize we
Actually a lot of what you write isn’t true, When Paul first made those comments he WAS speaking of Tommy and Eric. When album sales figures and ticket sales (North American) were brought out, then he changed his tune. Those last two cds didn’t sell, the last Kiss cd to go Platinum was Psycho Circus and now Kiss is reduced to teaming up to do co-headlining tours with bands that blow them off the stage. Look here is another point no one wants to talk about, I don’t want to hear about the records don’t sell. AC/DC had a similar deal with Walmart like Kiss did for Sonic Boom and AC/DC went on to sell over 3 million copies. People, like me, hard core fans for over 30 years are just tired of all the sniping, especially when you have men pretending to be Ace and Peter, and please don’t tell me they aren’t pretending, Tommy still sings Shock Me for Christ sake. Aerosmith doesn’t need to co-headline, neither does Metallica, Bon Jovi, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath or the Rolling Stones. Kiss, as much as it pains me to say is dying a slow death because of the egos of the two men running the ship.