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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Well Eddie. I just got one thing to say about Paul Stanley’s,! Weather be like to show weather heats the show weather is making fun of the show! Paul Stanleys paying attention! The shows on his radar! And eventually he’ll have to give in!
Good Job ED, keep it up. Sounds like a lot of sour grapes with Paul, that’s his choice I guess but only adds to the divide, pity he doesn’t take the high road. IMO Twitter is going to be hindrance for Gene and Paul they can’t resist the urge to take shots at people or respond to criticism better off just using it as a promotional tool and not responding to fans or negative postings only hurts there brand. But again Gene loves the attention and keeps him in spot light in some fashion. Paul seems too insecure for this type of stuff and will put him back in therapy….LOL!
Eddie I couldn’t agree with you more. Paul is free to promote the band however he sees fit. If you look at the sales figures of the last couple of albums, and the fact he has to package the band with other bands that routinely blow them off the stage (ex Motley Crue, and now Def Leppard) instead of acting like a child and knocking detractors, he may want to start acting like the grown man he is and stop being so petty. I understand that he doesn’t want to do TMS and that’s his right, but as time drags on the legacy of the band is being tarnished and it is a shame that he can’t see through his own ego to see how he is alienating a large segment of the fan base. Oh well I guess, just sad is all. I guess wealth changes people in bad ways sometimes. Keep doing what you do. I will support you.
thanks
John
From a promotional prospective I would think Paul would love the idea of using TMS as launching point for there ventures when possible. Just bad business to cut off the only show on TV that is directed at your audience. oh well I guess that is right up there with his idea of hiring his therapist as manager of the band.
Given the “larger than life” egos involved, would it be entirely delusional to expect to see all four original members of KISS on stage performing in the annual all-star jam at the end of the HoF ceremonies? While they might be jamming to an E Street Band song (instead of Rock & Roll All Nite) along with 96 other musicians, I can’t imagine that the egos of Gene, Paul, Peter, and Ace would allow themselves to sit on their hands in the audience…guess we’ll have to wait and see….