The manager of KISS has confirmed the group are in talks to launch a TV talent show to find replacements for frontman Paul Stanley and guitarist Gene Simmons – when the duo eventually retire.
It has long been rumored that founding members Stanley and Simmons hope to keep the band running when they decide to quit – but both men have been evasive when asked about whether any new members have been signed up and if the takeover will happen after their current world tour.
The rock veterans are the only original members left in the band, which was marred by the departure of Ace Frehely and Peter Criss and the death of Eric Carr in 1991 – the group now includes replacements Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer.
However their longtime manager Doc McGhee insists that there are indeed plans to replace all four band members and keep KISS alive for a new generation – they are close to signing a deal to find their replacements through an American Idol-style TV show.
McGhee says in a new TV documentary about the band, “I believe that KISS can go on forever. I believe that there is a way – and we are talking to people and we’re pretty close to getting it done – about finding the four new members of KISS.”
As our own Eddie Trunk reports in his Trunk Report, despite the fact that this article is dated 2008, Eddie writes, “the plan and closer than ever to happening…maybe two years away from launching.”
source: starpulse.com
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If any band can pull it off KISS could. Not saying this will be good or bad. I bet Gene & Paul will have a say in what the new KISS writes & performs. They will work behind the curtain like the Great and Powerful Oz.
I’m not angry for this declarations, the Gene simmons and paul stanley´s attempts to continue the band, are good, but kiss without paul and gene ain’t kiss. all the members said be embarrassed to be kiss fan, because this decarations, are stupid, they never was a kiss fans!
What a bunch of shit this is…2 mediocre at best albums in the can..the band is running on fumes..and theyre gonna put this show out? Its sad its come to this…paul said that the makeup was an extension of who they were…now theyre doing nothing more than hiding behind it…
Just use holograms
OK who here thinks this is bull its not about the music aanymore its about the money gen a new house pethapse a facelift or some dumb crap back in the seventies is was about the music now its all about money