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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The RS article was insightful and was cool to see Ace echoing what Eddie has been saying here. Peter is spot on. Paul is the real power in Kiss right now. Gene has become his parrot. If it were up to Gene I bet they’d play with Ace and Peter at the HOF. That was what he was saying on the day the induction was announced. Then pompous Paul shot it down pretty quick and Gene changed his tune. And Ace is spot on, as Eddie is. 3 songs by the originals on the night of the HOF would make anything that follows pale in comparison. And for Paul to question how Ace and Peter would look in their costumes is laughable. Gene looks like he ate the original Gene. Pete looks great. And just like what happened on the reunion tours, if Ace would play a guitar solo the crowd would go nuts at the HOF. As opposed to the grimacing they do now at how bad Paul’s voice sounds. Such a shame. “You wanted the best. You got it”. What a farce.
I really enjoyed the RS article, but to me the saddest part was that the front page alludes to Kiss’ “40 years”, and yet Kulick, Vincent and Mark St. John’s names do not appear once in the entire article (they mention “several replacement guitarists” at one point only), and Eric Carr, who played a huge, huge role in Kiss, was mentioned once. It’s a tragedy how overlooked those guys are…
With the Gene & Paul egos at an all time high, I have tried to remain a KISS fan for years. The truth is their music has had no bite to it for decades now. Even today after watching TMS with Peter on it I went back and played some of their stuff. For me the end of anything worthy that has come out of that band musically ended after “Creatures of the Night”. I remember listening to every release before then thinking “WOW” this is great. Since then it’s kind of surf through the music looking for something to grab me. It just hasn’t happened and it’s not going to. It makes you think about the members of KISS now and the actual input that goes into the music with them as a group. It WAS the original 4 that always created the best music from that band, since then there isn’t one album that’s had that fire to it. Eric Carr was a true Monster on the drums during his time in the band and at that time he was the only one fitted to replace Peter. Still that didn’t help create anything musically that had the guts to it that jumped at you like their early original 4 guys created. For me if they hung it up no big deal. I have had the pleasure of taking my kids to see them play and told them how great it was seeing them when I grew up. Just like everything, it’s run it’s course. I will never in my life be able to figure out how a band can have the love for playing music, make killer music when they started out. Then let egos take over creativity and now make music nobody cares about. As for substance abuse, is it really any different than one member thinking he’s truly a god ? As for the 2 remaining members of the KISS cover band, you got big because of the 4 of you all wanting the same thing. The additions you made after the other 2 were out came in after the fame was set. Since then what have you done ? As for the RRHOF, Madonna got there first Gene. That’s gotta burn your ass.
Eddie- was just listening to Pat Benatar’s early 80’s stuff, and a lot of it really rocked. I know her husband Neil Giraldo is also the lead guitarist for her band. Was there ever an invite offered to her? I think a lot of TMS fans would love to know if she’s still rocking!!
Thanks, and enjoy Largo. Take my word, go to OZ in Clearwater. Really fun time!!
Eddie, congrats on perhaps your best season of TMS yet! Now, if you get a chance, please tell Peter that NOW is the time to release that long-awaited “Rock” record he has in the can, while the whole KISS Kontroversy is generating so much press and buzz on the web. Ace is smart for taking advantage of this moment by putting out his record in June, but he STILL hasn’t updated his official website or most of his social media, except Facebook. For a tech-savvy guy, that should not be happening. Peter at least has occasional posts on his site, although he should take control of the Facebook and Twitter pages out there with his name on them.