In speaking with with KNPR News, KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley was asked why he declined to perform with fellow original KISS members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley at the band’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction in April. His answer has been transcribed by blabbermouth.net and can be read below.
Stanley said, It’s a tough question to answer, but there’s so much involved in it. Firstly, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame wanted nothing to do with us; they begrudgingly let us in. And my sense was that we were going to be a dog-and-pony show. They wanted to have the original guys play in the band, and all of us in makeup, and, quite honestly, I think it would have done the band a disservice. That lineup has not been together for 14 years, and physically, perhaps, wouldn’t have looked that great, and musically, undoubtedly, probably, would have sounded a bit suspect. So, to have people watch it on television and identify that as KISS because there’s four guys in makeup would not send a great signal to the people who are not following the band in its current permutation, or what it is today.”
He continued, “Look, we just did 42 shows and played to 600,000 people in America, and I would hate for those people to turn on a TV show where we were an unwanted guest in the first place and see us strong-armed into doing something that really does a disservice to something that I worked at for 40 years. I never quit the band twice, once, and to dilute what I’ve worked on all these years just to make a committee happy that really was not all that thrilled that we were there in the first place, it sent the wrong message and it endangered something that I hold very dear to me.”
KISS begins their three week Las Vegas residency, Kiss Rocks Vegas, at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino today (November 5th).
additional source: blabbermouth.net
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Laugh at us look in the mirror, get off the kool aid it rotts your brain
the permutation on paul’s head is too tight. that explains the gospel he spreads.
I agree they would have sounded like crap. Especially if Paul tried to sing. They would have been laughed out of the building.
… which the RRHOF committee might have hoped for??!
People we will begin working on our next album in 2015!! Again I will be calling all the shots because although there’s no I in team there is an I in KISS (and two s for stanley and Simmons but gene’s my birch now! ). Awww hey, people the new record will be buy fat the greatest Kiss record of all time. It’s gonna be the first three albums meets Destroyer, R&R Over & the album about my cock n’ balls, LOVE GUN!!! And don’t forget people, the LA KISS will go undefeated next season. We will win the championship. We are putting together a team that will make nfl dynasties like the steelers, cowboys and 49ers look like Pee Wee Herman’s church league! Owwww!
dear dana,
please consider putting real paul Stanley’s posts on top always a la google. they’re more original than Thayer and singer in a kinko’s. thank you.
cordially,
elliot
B’ah ha ha ha!! Still howling “the real Paul stanley”.!! Thanks!!
Stanley The Parrot has got a hell of a lot of crust. He can’t sing anymore and he’s bashing Ace and Peter’s playing? Wow. What a d-bag.
… he is a “late parrot, bereft of life, demised, …. “