KISS’ PAUL STANLEY SAYS THAT FRONTMAN DEE SNIDER, AND HIS TWISTED SISTER BANDMATES, ARE ALL “BUFFOONS”
Blabbermouth.net reports:
During a recent appearance on Eddie Trunk’s show, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider criticized KISS frontman Paul Stanley and bassist Gene Simmons for having current KISS members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer dress up as Peter Criss’s and Ace Frehley’s respective “Spaceman” and “Catman” personas. Dee told Trunk, “I don’t see how people could accept this. Tommy Thayer? I’m sorry. It’s insulting. Not only did he play in a tribute band of KISS, he’s imitating Ace in his entire act!” Snider went on to bash Thayer for allegedly copying Ace’s stage moves. He said, “Oh my God — that’s disgraceful. When KISS replaced Ace and Peter, and they brought in guys [Eric Carr and Vinnie Vincent] who had their own makeup and their own thing, that was acceptable. That was awesome. They were their own characters.”
Stanley got an opportunity to respond to Snider during an interview for Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast. He said, “Well, let me put it in the simplest terms. In this case, this guy is a wannabe, has always been a wannabe and desperately wants attention and to be taken seriously, and that will never happen because he’s obviously clueless that he and his whole band are a bunch of buffoons.”
A few months ago, Stanley told Rolling Stone magazine that part of the reason the new characters in KISS didn’t work is simply that “people didn’t buy it. It lost its believability.” He added, “We saw a decline that started gradually, but quickly we fell off the edge of the cliff. To go from doing multiple nights in an arena to, next tour, not being able to sell out a theater, is stark.”
During an interview on Eddie Trunk’s podcast, Frehley was asked what his “evaluation” is of Tommy “dressed as [Ace]” and “doing [Ace’s] thing.” He responded, “[Tommy is] not Ace Frehley by any stretch of the imagination, number one. Number two, what bothers me the most is that I know the new fans that KISS are getting don’t know it. A lot of people that see Tommy up there think he’s the original guy that created the makeup, that wrote great songs and wrote all those solos that he’s performing, but he’s not. He’s just a guy up there copying me and trying to move like me and trying to sing like me and trying to play like me. And that’s what bothers me the most. I mean, the real hardcore fans know. But the new fans, a lot of them don’t know.”
source: blabbermouth.net
Both these guys are Steel Panther fans, so doesn’t that mean that their opinions don’t matter?
I will assume that comment was meant for me, so in answer to your question, yes…LOL!
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Read Paul’s book. The dude has the biggest inferiority complex on planet Earth. NOTHING is ever his fault,it’s always someone else’s. It opened my eyes to just how petty and out there he actually is.
Paul Stanley on Chris Jericho ‘s podcast did Paul know that Chris is a friend of Eddie? Or is he as clueless about that too. Gotta teach Chris ask the tough ?s
I have been a Kiss fan since 1976. I casually enjoy TS’s music, and think they put on a great show. What Paul needs to see is how idiotic his comments are here. To me and many, many others, putting Tommy and Eric in Ace and Peter’s getups is like Paul and Ringo getting the 2 guys from the 1964 Beatles tribute act and calling it The Beatles. (1964 are hands down the greatest tribute band I have ever seen). Ace IS the Spaceman. Peter IS the Catman. It is that iconic. Stanley refuses to admit that. All he yammers on about is “oh we play stadiums blah blah blah”, when his homeland doesn’t care about this Kiss lineup. NOT TO MENTION (but I will anyway), Paul must have some kind of mental problem, because if he honestly cannot truly see how effing awful he has sounded vocally in concert for YEARS now, he’s so gone and more gone than I thought. It’s PAINFUL to watch him and more painful to listen to him. Kiss were to stop in 2001, but since then have dug up the proverbial Kiss Korpse, and Stanley is dressing it up, dancing it around, pretending it’s just normal and fine, and people like me are looking at him and shaking our heads in pity and disgust. It’s like Tim Curry in Rocky Horror, when he’s singing “Going Home”, he really saw a full audience cheering, when there was nobody there. And that feeling you got when you saw his reaction to the fact that he was delusional and nobody was in the venue? That feeling is called discomfort, embarrassment for him and pity. Paul is the buffoon for dragging OUR band into the mud, taking his since 1985 bitch Gene Simmons with him and charging full price for the delusion of a modern day Dorien Gray.
Paul is right.