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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Hey eddie why dont they put the whole band in and have all the members play since members like carr and kulick helped the band survive in the 80s?
Aaron, you’re a bit behind the curve, aren’t you? That ship sailed a long time ago. The RRHOF only is inducting the Original 4 of KISS. That’s it. Can’t be changed as of right now.
I know that…if they wouldve done it in the first place couldve possibly avoided the big problem.
I just wish the guys in KISS would just sit down and hash everything on the past that’s not right or just grow up and remember who put you on the map and made you super stars and millionaires! If it wasn’t for the KISS Army and other fans you would be nothing!!! I love you guys but remember who this is for the fans not you!!
I like what Peter said about Bill Aucoin did when they were fighting. He would lock the guys in a room and wouldn’t let them out i until they solved it.
Here’s my biggest problem with the way Gene and Paul are treating Ace and Peter over the RRHOF issue:
Forget about the fact that Peter and Ace were founding members and at least half the reason KISS even exists. Looking past the obvious success of the 70s, it seems to me that Gene and Paul continually ignore the fact that they are both currently multi-millionaires and are able to wear the makeup and perform with stand-in replacements and open restaurants and buy into Football teams almost exclusively based on the hard work and success of Ace and Peter reuniting with KISS and putting the makeup back on in 1996. KISS as a band was dead and gone in the early 90s. The band was in their death throes putting on KISS Konventions for $100 a ticket in order to stay alive and pay some bills. In the early 90s, people just assumed that most of the members in KISS were dead and that the band had broken up in the 70s (the 80s non makeup era doesn’t even register with most people). It took Ace and Peter rejoining the band and putting the makeup back on and busting their asses to perform over 200 shows during the Reunion Tour in damn near every continent and country on the planet. Many cities in many countries were revisited two or three times just during the Reunion Tour. Gene and Paul made like 40 million dollars each for the Reunion Tour, and Ace and Peter: 2 million each. Then, there was the hard work of Ace and Peter during the short lived but still important Psycho Circus Tour. Then they went out for the Farewell Tour which was almost as big and almost as many shows as the Reunion Tour where once again, Ace and Peter showed up, did the work and busted their asses. Again, Gene and Paul made multi-millions and Ace and Peter: 2 million each. Paul and Gene were broke before the 1996-1997 Reunion Tour, so it goes to stand that every single thing that Gene and Paul have and enjoy right now in their lives in 2014 is almost 100% due to Ace and Peter rejoining this band in 1996. That’s not fiction…that’s reality. Paul and Gene constantly belittle and berate Ace and Peter for their supposed lack of talent and work ethic, but how can that be true when Ace and Peter showed up and performed over 400 shows from 1996 thru 2002? Also, Ace intelligently pointed out in the current and only KISS Rolling Stone interview, “Paul’s voice is shot”. He’s absolutely right. Over the last three or four tours, Paul’s voice has deteriorated to the point it sounds like he just shouting the lyrics….it doesn’t even resemble singing. And Gene’s voice has been shot since the 80s. It’s hardly justified for Paul at this point to criticize Ace and Peter’s talents and abilities, when he’s ripping off fans with his shitty singing during concerts, which cost damn near a mortgage payment on a house to attend. Paul and Gene overstayed their welcome and truly should have hung it up like they promised after the Farewell Tour with Ace and Peter. It is a complete crime for Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer to be wearing Catman and Spaceman makeup and costumes. Gene and Paul can take their “brand not a band” and shove it. You two idiots will never get another hard earned cent from me for a concert ticket.
Sean, I have to respectfully disagree with you. Clearly Kiss achieved the height of their success from about 75-78, but to say that Paul Gene were broke before the reunion tour is ridiculous. Yes, the band was far from it’s heyday and needed a shot in the arm by around 95, but they were in better shape at that point then when Ace and Peter left the band the first time (the Unmasked-Elder era). You make it seem like if Ace and Peter had been in the band the whole time then Kiss would’ve ruled the music world the entire time, but every band, outside of maybe the Beatles, has gone through peaks and valleys and one of the lowest points was the end of the 70’s when the band still had the original lineup. Eric Carr and Vinnie Vincent, in particular gave Kiss the shot it needed early in the 80’s, and eventhough in hindsight that era is often overlooked, the sales figures show that the 80’s were a successful period for the band. They had 4 platinum records in the 80’s (vs 5 in the 70’s, not counting the solo records). As I said earlier, by 1995 the band was in need of a shot in the arm, but Paul and Gene were far from poor.
I agree with the point that it’s a shame how Ace and Peter are being treated now by Paul and Gene, but let’s not get carried away here….Paul and Gene are still, by far, what made Kiss great.
Actually let me rephrase my last sentence- Gene and Paul were the driving force behind Kiss’ success….not necessarily what made them great (since that comes down to one’s opinion).
Valid points Chris, but inaccurate. They did have a good run in the 80’s and Lick It Up, Animalize, Asylum, and Crazy Nights all sold millions, but they were still not the household names of the 70’s and most of the general public just didn’t care about Kiss after 1979. Also, you’re wrong about the early 90’s. Kiss after Alive 3 was dead and gone and poverty ridden. Kiss sold off their publishing rights to their entire back catalog in 1989. They got police to raid a Kiss convention in 1994 to take back memorabilia that others legitimately owned claiming it was stolen, in an attempt to create their own Kiss Konventions which the band ran 1995 thru the beginning of 1996 and they charged $100.00 a ticket to fans to get in. In 1994/95, Kiss was “rock bottom” and once they did the Unplugged (which only happened due to the hard work and persistence of Alex Coletti and Danny Goldberg…through a lot of strong arming and calling in favors at MTV), it became clear to Gene and Paul that it was extremely necessary to reunite with Ace and Peter in full makeup and costumes to save themselves financially and revive the band. Again, Gene and Paul can tour now with imposters, buy arena football teams, buy resteraunt franchises, and enjoy all the benefits of being multi millionaires based on the huge success and notereity the band gained from the massively successful Reunion and Farewell Tours with Ace and Peter.
Chris,
Ok, I agree the 80’s was fairly successful for Kiss. But by 1994, Kiss had to sell the publishing on their entire back catalog and they had to resort to doing conventions. Kiss had a major cash crunch leading up to Unplugged. The Reunion Tour with Ace and Peter saved Gene and Paul’s asses. Gene owed over a million dollars to the IRS before the Reunion Tour. Kiss would be playing clubs right now with no makeup had it not been for the massive success of the Farewell and Reunion Tours with Ace and Peter. They would have never attempted to put the makeup back on initially without Ace and Peter. Eric Singer and Bruce Kulick would have never attempted wearing the makeup. Eric Singer is only now able to wear the makeup with Tommy Thayer in the band because Ace and Peter made the makeup popular again. Think about…you know I’m right.
Well said. It’s something I have pointed out several times as well. And, to the people who parrot the line about how all of the Grateful Dead members were inducted, etc… the original Alice Cooper group was inducted, not all of the various bandmembers over the years – and Alice had the class to hook up with the surviving members, and Dick Wagner, who played on several of Coopers records after the original band broke up, to perform at the Induction. After that run, the current band came back, and all was well. That’s the better example to emulate.
Totally agree.
By the way, it is funny to see Mr Trunk all excited for going to the RRHF induction after all the crap he has talked over the years. Maybe the real reason for him going there is to try to kiss Gene´s ass for the tenth time.
You can erase this post as well Dana… but it is the ugly truth!
I only erase posts when I feel they are unnecessarily cruel. Also, Eddie moderates comments as well.
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I know Eddie can take all the nasty stuff some of you throw out there, but I just don’t get it. He is always a class act with everyone, period. Famous; not famous; he is a nice man to everyone. Because of that fact more than even his knowledge of the metal world, many countless performers clearly have deeply held feelings for him and want to appear on TMS. The minute any of you who indulge in hatred can show us the long list of respected people who want to call you friend, or show all of us the band you’ve been making great music with for 20 or 30 years, we might have to pay you attention, but you can’t so just stop taking up our time.
Yes, that’s quite hypocritical. For all these years, the HOF has been a “joke” and a “sham”. Then why are you going, Trunk? Way to take a stand for what you believe in.
I find it Interesting that the people that Fall for Gene and Paul’s “Brand not Band” come on this site and complain about Eddie! If Eddie wasn’t a KISS fan he’d have said two or three words about KISS and went on to another Musical Act. Then the Gene and Paul worshipers would have No other place to talk about their Idols. If it’s a Brand then Why are Gene and Paul using make up from the 70’s and playing a song List with more 70’s songs on it. I saw them on the Hot in the Shade tour and they played less 70’s songs on that tour than they do now. Face it with out the make up on again they’d be playing to half the audience the are now.
Trunk is a disingenuous hack who should be called out on his BS. Let’s be clear, he’s a fan of only certain line-ups of Kiss, and the current line up isnt one of them.
Yes, we get it, you hate Eddie. The act is getting tiresome, old and boring.
You are here everyday posting under different names and e-mails. Why don’t you find something more constructive to do with your time?
You describe others on the site as losers, mock their grammar, say they live in their parent’s basement and do you honestly think you come off any better posting on the site of someone you obviously do not like? What a colossal waste of time, yet you claim that Eddie is a hypocrite? LOL!!!
Go ahead and tell me to shut my pie hole again, you big brave man-LOL!
Dana from EddieTrunk.com
Dana….there are a few people that post here that are seriously jealous of Eddie. And this isn’t kissing ass either. I played college & pro football & have been through the same b.s. Eddie’s job/ TMS/website etc: is JUST AS IMPORTANT as music. The rock stars need people like Eddie & we need Eddie to interact with them & so forth. So let idiots act like idiots on here. I laugh when I read their garbage, remember….”you can’t teach stupid”…….P.S. I’m curious (probably won’t get a answer) but I’m curious after that little quake if Ace should really re-think about coming back to New York. I was living there in 1989 (member of the Chargers practice squad) and was planning on not coming back home but after that I will take snow, cold etc over A EARTHQUAKE any day because it us just a matter of a few years & that state will be in total chaos. Believe that—–Joe in The Cuse