CROWBAR’S KIRK WINDSTEIN SAYS “I WISH KISS WOULD QUIT MAKING NEW RECORDS”
Echo Asylum‘s Insanity spoke with Crowbar frontman Kirk Windstein. Blabbermouth.net has transcribed the part of the discussion where he discussed KISS and why they should quit making new albums.
Windstein said, “You hate to say it, but some bands, as they get older, they put out a record as an excuse to go on tour.”
He continues, “As big a fan as I am of KISS, and, actually, after reading Paul Stanley’s book, I have a whole new insight on why they have Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer in KISS, and I do agree with Gene and Paul that at this point they probably do belong in KISS, even though Ace [Frehley] is my favorite character and member. But with a band like KISS, honestly, I wish that they would quit making records, because I haven’t liked the last couple of records that they’ve done. I understand they wanna make new music, but Jesus, the guys are getting close to their mid-60s now, and it’s, like, let’s be honest… For the most part, the people [buy KISS concert tickets] to see… they wanna hear Detroit Rock City, Rock And Roll All Nite, She, God Of Thunder, Shout It Out Loud… I mean, they’re not buying the tickets to hear the songs off the new record, and it’s kind of like an excuse, like I was saying to just… It’s just my opinion, [and] it doesn’t mean shit, but, to me, I think they should just continue to do the classic KISS stuff.”
The singer adds, “The thing is there are a lot of bands that have been around a long time that are putting out amazing records, like Exodus and Testament, a lot of bands that were very popular and kind of died down and are popular [again]… You know why? Because, I mean, it is nostalgia, to a degree, but they’re also putting out records that are fucking amazing. So we wanna be one of those bands. We don’t wanna live off anything we’ve done in the past, we want to continue to build our audience with Crowbar and look forward. We don’t have rearview mirrors on our fucking mirror. [We] just look forward and roll.”
Crowbar’s latest album, Symmetry In Black, was realeased in North America on May 27th through Entertainment One Music.
additional source: blabbermouth.net
I couldn’t disagree more…….
I agree with your disagreement.
Another record that got stuck on my turntable: W.O.W., the Gene Simmons produced Wendy O. Williams record. Gene plays bass on it, and it’s a really fun record. Wendy, she had that industrial scream 10 years before Korn, or N.I.N., or any of them, that’s what’s so cool about it, Wendy was doing something completely different than the 80s metal, i.e. Blackie, DuBrow, Bang Tangoesque metal vocals. Gene, he did a hell of a job on this record, you have to give him credit. Some really cool bridges are his, “Legends Never Die,” “Priestess,” I love this record.
The Plasmatics, also, were way ahead of their time. Love me some Plasmatics. “New Hope For The Wretched” is absolutely killer.
Monster is a strong release, and Sonic Boom has a few good songs on it. But let’s face it, when you go over to your cd rack and have the urge to hear Kiss, you just don’t reach for Sonic Boom. Nobody ever says, “I’m in a Sonic Boom mood today”. That’s just silly. You reach for Rock N Roll Over. You reach for Alive!. That’s just the way it is. Now, having said that, if both these last records sounded more in style to the song “Nobody’s perfect”, which to me really does sound like old Kiss, then maybe things would be different.
With all due respect, I couldn’t agree more! Sonic was ok, Monster was HORRIBLE! KISS needs to go away and manage their mini golf courses. Was a life long KISS fan until all the bs over the RORHOF, then I rediscovered Iron Maiden. Maiden is soooo much better musically, lyrically and have just as good of a stage show. Merry Maiden Christmas all, KISS shut put on their cur chefs and caps, clean out their depends and hang it up. Rock and roll ain’t dead, but KISS sure is!
Who the hell is Crowbar?? Who cares what this dude thinks?? Maybe he should stop making records…does he make records???