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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Who cares? This Phil Rudd thing will give us comments ’till 2015.
Please feel free to comment on it Richman II,
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Paul Stanley the Phyllis diller of rock and roll
Big news about AC/DC ‘s Phil Rudd….something about procure to murder…..not good.
Lee are you Paul’s lover
I am not sure why they even ask him those questions anymore. He started the article well by making some valid points but has to get that little dig in there about him not quitting the band twice. Leave it alone already. Ace and Peter had there share of personal problems but so did Paul.We just never read about it. Just be thankful about the success you have had and thank all past and present members of the band. Handle it with class or decline to answer the question. Remember he is the one that lately has been telling audiences that they are looking at a band that has recently been inducted into the Hall of Fame?????
That was typical, bash the RRHOF and then use it to get applause from the crowd to indirectly validate the current lineup, it is called hypocrisy.