That Metal Show season 13 is wrapped! We filmed two shows yesterday in NYC. The first will premiere this Saturday night and feature all three members of The Winery Dogs, Vinnie Paul, and Michael from Volbeat from Denmark via Skype. The season finale that premieres a week from Saturday will feature Joe Satriami and then some laughs with Artie Lange and Jim Breuer. This was a fun show and a hell of a way to wrap our 13th season and longest with 12 total new shows. Yngwie SHREDS on both shows as our guest player. What an honor to have him play for us, still a total beast as you will see. Yngwie is a huge TMS fan and we were grateful he flew up from FL to blow away the crowd. It was great doing our latest season back home in the NYC area. Loved doing a show a week format (only did two this week because I am away next week) and we had a huge variety of guests from Nugent, to Mick Mars, to Peter Criss, to Lamb Of God, to Mick Jones. SO many great artists in a wide variety of rock and metal, many appearing for the first time on TMS. No small feat when you consider we have now done over 110 shows! Want to thank all the guests and all the fans for the support and hope you enjoy these last two weeks of new episodes. Where and when we do more new ones 100% up to VH1 Classic. Hearing likely in the Fall. More news when I know. But enjoy these final two new ones coming of Season 13!
Never thought I’d see the day Kiss would be on the cover of RS. Cool classic photo too! Haven’t read the story yet but have heard all about the quotes from various members. I have said my part about how I feel countless times. No need to keep rehashing here. Enjoying seeing all of your comments posted on this site.The complete story is now online and linked in the news section here on this site. ALL are welcome as long as it is respectfully done. In a matter of a couple weeks this event will be over and likely quickly forgotten. Kiss will go on with what they are doing, Ace and Peter will do what they do. Us as fans will decide what we do and don’t want to support and what we do and don’t like. This has been a crazy process for sure, and it sucks we won’t get one last original performance for a song or two, but at least as fans we will know that one of the HOF’s MANY injustices will be corrected and Kiss will be in the Hall after 15 years of snubs!
Speaking of the HOF, I was interviewed by the NY Post yesterday about it. Apparently there are about 4000 tickets still available for sale. Apparently there are larger issues to deal with than just no Kiss performance. Remember this event is NOT just about Kiss. Several bands are being honored. I suspect since Kiss isn’t playing they may just do their induction early on, but not sure yet on the schedule. I do plan on being there as a guest of Ace and Peter so will let you know more when I do.
Headed to Tampa FL tomorrow. Will be in Largo Friday night hosting the Jake E Lee show, then hosting the MOR Cruise Saturday thru Wednesday next week. Look forward to seeing everyone and please keep an eye on my twitter and the appearances page on this sites home page for info and updates. More dates and cities to come in what will be a busy Spring / Summer on the road!
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It happened! The aging hippies at Rolling Stone finally acknowledged KISS and put them on the cover of their “music” periodical. Somewhere, right now, Gene’s tongue is wagging all over that mag. As far as the major disappointment of the boys not performing at the HOF goes, I think Peter is right. Gene and Paul are worried that playing with Ace and Peter might just bring about that “magic” that happens when all four original members plug in and become the real/original KISS. I often think back to Gene’s statement during the Intrepid press conference announcing the reunion tour. He stated that EVERYTHING else (meaning all other formations and non original members) pales in comparison when you put Ace, Peter, Paul, and Gene in full bombastic makeup and costume on stage being KISS. The original Kiss is a unstoppable force that can’t be denied. Gene and Paul know this fact, yet for some unknown and insane reason they fear it. Go Figure. But hey, like you said Eddie, at least they are finally IN there!!!
I hope this all ends soon. Reading and seeing gene and Paul’s interviews Im so ready for this band to go bye bye. Im actually disappointed in myself for supporting this piece of shit band all these years. Ace and Peter are the real deal. They should of snubbed Paul and Gene to do the reunion. Kiss would of been retired years ago. Only thing that saved that sinking ship was Ace and Peter. Listen to Carnival Of Souls!! Lol. They were a lost band. The reunion saved THIER asses!!!
Eddie,
The Peter Criss TMS was outstanding, as was Mick Mars and Nugent; congrats on a fun season. Peter’s final few minutes on the show were really emotional and sincere. I feel for the guy. He’s not young and this is a moment that’s being taken away from him in many respects; as he said, “it’s like you’re getting a big cake and can’t have a piece of it.”
At the risk of sounding redundant, I don’t get Gene’s attitude toward Ace and Peter. Maybe they did make life miserable during their drugging days, but people change and deserve to redeem themselves. If Ace and Peter truly are sober and have been for a while as they say, what more are they supposed to do? The induction is about much more than the guys who own the band name, merchandising rights and currently run the show. Gene and Paul see Kiss as an entity, as a commodity, and honestly, 364 days out of the year that should be their prerogative. But in 2014, there is one day out of the year that doesn’t just belong to Kiss. Is there a band more fan-driven than this one? I challenge you to find one. I saw the current lineup perform in the Boston Garden in 2009 and honestly, it was a blast. The place was filled with guys in their 40s like me with their kids; my son was 12 at the time. Entire families wore makeup and the show was worth every dime from an entertainment standpoint.
How does a man (yes, you Gene Simmons) understand that experience happens in arenas all over the world without a doubt, and still not give back one night and one relatively short performance? It’s more than greed. It’s arrogance.
That night is going to be awkward. Here’s hoping that arena in Brooklyn stands and chants endlessly for Peter and Ace and turns its back on Gene and Paul when it’s their time to talk. Ace and Peter are the best two musicians in the band; Ace’s guitar defines the early Kiss sound and like it or not, Peter sang the band’s biggest hit in Beth and is the voice behind its best song, Black Diamond.
It’s not just your night Gene Simmons–and this is something Axl Rose and the Van Halen brothers couldn’t comprehend either–put your massive ego away for one night and do the right thing. Try it. Just once.
I havent read the rs piece yet but I will but Im sure it will be stuff that I dont know already meaning gene and paul having egos the size of the state of new york get your heads out of your asses and do the right thing for the fans that have been supporting your carcasses for 4 decades plus!..
Eddie–did Joe talk about what is happening with Chickenfoot at all?
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hey ed do you think Michael Anthony will ever be back in van halen where he belongs? I mean wolfie is really good and I love chickenfoot, but I like many others would still love to see the original VH one more time! did we ever find out why ed & al were so pissed (maybe still are) at Michael about? I mean as far as we know all he did was play with Sammy for a while when VH was on a break, what was so bad about that?
Michael Anthony needs to write a book about his life in VH.
I’d buy it.
Michael Anthony is right where he belongs, playing in a great band with people he can trust and truly collaborate with, and has the freedom to do what he wants with his own time. He was pushed out of VH by Eddie because he played some shows with Sammy while Ed and Al were sitting on their asses, period. They didn’t even have the decency to let him know that they would tour with Roth but take Wolf on the road, he found out like the rest of us did.
EVH is a hypocrite, making all kinds of loopholes and excuses for anyone with the last name to do whatever they want. I’m glad the fans got some “new” music from VH, but quit wishing for anything to do with VH including Mike. He has no reason to go back, no desire to go back, and for good reason. Mike is a class act, and to say he “belongs” in VH after the way he was treated is an insult to say he belongs in their company.
Gene calls Ace and Peter a “Cancer”,
That last line got cut off, I was starting to say that Gene calls Ace and Peter a “Cancer”, and EVH at one point replaced Mike’s face with Wolfie’s on the album art on the VH website, as if he didn’t even exist. I’m glad Sammy and Mike were the only ones who showed up at the HOF induction, they’re the only two with any class who care about the fans anyhow.