3/23: PETER CRISS RECAP FROM THAT METAL SHOW PREMIERE
Amazing response to last nights premiere of the Peter Criss episode of That Metal Show. I was live tweeting last night with many while it was on. The end was real emotional it seemed not only for Peter but also for many fans. Peter is a guy that wears his emotions on his sleeve, and I always respected him for that. He always just lays it out there as he feels and that is so rare in today’s world. I love giving people that you don’t usually hear from on TV and radio a voice and platform. It is so great to get differing views and stories. Mick Mars this season also comes to mind as falling in this category and also had tremendous response. The episode with Peter ran very long, so due to time constraints of TV we cut some things, but they are now available online. Links in the News section of this site. The episode replays all week on VH1 Classic and online as well. Just check your grids for days and times. Look forward to seeing all your comments to the episode here. Many have posted here and on Twitter already. Thanks to Peter and also drummer Richard Christy for doing a great job in our latest episode. Was a great one!
PS: Be sure to watch all the way through the credits. There is a shot of me and Peter when we first met from around ’82 at the very end of the show. Great memories!
Looking for the link with extra footage where they weighed the first few studio albums. Somebody shoot me a link! Original 4 in the HOF!
hey eddie, I disagree with peter criss on only 1 issue, when he said rock and roll over was when kiss started getting “poppy”, to me they didn’t really start getting “poppy” until dynasty, and that’s not a knock on dynasty because I happen to think dynasty is a good album, yes even with I was made for lovin’ you on it! it’s NOT a disco song! y.m.c.a., staying alive, now those are disco songs, anyway when you have kick-ass rockers like I want you, dr. love, makin’ love & so on on the album, that’s not poppy at all. one more thing, coming off “the wall”, wasn’t the wall from 1979? r & r over from 1976.
To, I Was Made for Lovin’ You WAS a disco inspired song.
how many rock songs from the 70’s were inspired by R&B or disco? as long as they didn’t turn out that way, who cares? inspirations come from everywhere, everybody in the late 70’s was “experimenting”, even the hardest of rockers, the main reason kiss got shit for the song I was made for lovin’ you was because it became a BIG hit! if you take that song off of dynasty then basically all you have is just another kiss album right? whatever you want to call it, it still is & always will be a really good song!
I don’t think anyone said it wasn’t a good song…
Best episode of TMS ever. Peter has a tremendous heart. As a fan since ’76, I have finally reached the point where I am completely sick to death of gene and Paul’s elitist crapola. I understand that you want to be happy and make music with people you enjoy being around, but the majority of fans really want the original four. I think the reunion tour showed that in a big way. Nobody sounds and plays like Peter, and his onstage personality is infectious. Ace? What can you say about a person, when all you have to do is say “Ace” and people instantly know who you are talking about. It’s like saying “Ringo”. People get it. This goes well beyond music. This goes well beyond image, costumes. When Ace and Peter are onstage with Gene and Paul, this “brand” called Kiss suddenly becomes a living, breathing, iconic entity all unto itself. The only other band I can think of that has that unmanufactured magic is The Fab Four. To treat Kiss and the fans that love this entity like it’s no big deal that Ace and Peter aren’t in the band is not just simply disappointing, it’s wrong. Just…wrong. Kiss should not be treated like any other band. That’s because they aren’t. Gene and Paul have forgotten about that. It’s shameful and a waste. To go out the way they are now, say, in 2 or 3 more tours from now as Gene said, is like watching a dying Vegas show. I’m truly sad over it. It disgusts me to no end. Shame, shame…SHAME.
1996 reunion tour press conference, Gene Simmons: “You’ll have to drag me kicking and screaming off the stage”.
2014 Rolling Stone, Gene Simmons: “I’m 64. 3 more tours. Maybe 2.”
Sounds like somebody is getting sick of his own band and what it has become.
1983 USA Network interview, Paul Stanley: “If you can’t give 100% every night, you shouldn’t go out on tour”.
2008 to 2014, Paul’s voice in concert is terrible. Songs tuned down, Kiss now sounds like Black Sabbath with a dying goat trying to sing.
What was that again, Stanley…?
At 64, if Simmons is planning ‘more tours’ does he really think him and Paul in their mid sixties are going to look good in Kabuki makeup? They’re on the edge now….
I think the episode with Peter Criss was one of the best! Such a nice, humble guy who makes no apologies for who is he is. People do change and I think that Peter is living proof of this.
It was sad to watch his pain and disappointment over the Hall of Fame deal. He was such a gentleman about it, unlike Gene and Paul who have used this whole situation as a pulpit to keep spreading discord about Peter and Ace.
Gene and Paul are trying so hard to discredit Ace and Peter’s contributions to KISS and it’s shameful and embarrassing. I feel bad that Peter has to endure this crap on the eve of what should be a happy and celebratory time.
Gene and Paul are so worried about damaging their current brand that they can’t put aside for a few hours their animosity and give the fans what they want.
Peter is a class act, Gene and Paul could take lessons from him. I wish him the all the best.