On American Idol‘s May 15th show, it was announced the season 13 finalist Caleb Johnson will be performing with KISS on season finale airing next week.
Johnson, who is this year’s residential rocker, was very excited to learn that he would be performing with the band exclaiming that it is his little brother’s “favorite band.”
To see some of Johnson’s performances this season, including Whitesnake’s Still of the Night and Led Zeppelin’s Dazed and Confused, click here.
Watch him perform Rival Son’s Pressure and Time below.
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I also endorse the idea of scratching the Kiss song and instead doing See You In Hell My Friend in honor of metal and in honor of Steve.
Finally KISS with a singer who can actually sing!!! That haven’t been heard in a few now.
I have said it before, and I will say it again, that kid can sing, and he’s gonna get a long career (hopefully).
KISS on American Idol.. Isn’t that exactly where they belong these days? being a cover band etc.
Pathetic but what else do you expect from KISS? This is basically like playing a Karaoke bar.
A statement made by someone who chooses to take the name of the underside of a scrotum. Now there’s an opinion that deserves respect.
Honestly, why do people like to call Kiss a cover band? How many hard rock and metal bands today have the same original members they had when they’re band was formed. Retire?, why, there still selling albums, merch., and still packing in the concert sales, and they still love what they do and of course like anyone else they love the money. And why put down someone that’s making a life for themselves like Caleb Johnson. You don’t like American Idol, you don’t like C. Johnson, and you think Kiss are washed up,, why did you read the article? Always seems to be critics that like to say what they would do, how about putting all that knowledge toward your band. I enjoy Kiss and I hope they have many more years to go. And really, my first question, why call Kiss a cover band.
When KISS decides to put two guys in constumes that were of two *other guys* that *used* to be in the band, it’s cover (or cover-up) material. Yes, other bands have continued with different members, but you would be hard-pressed to see those other bands make the new members dress/act/play like the previous members who hand more of an identity in the band than the newer fellows. Imagine if, say, Angus Young had to leave AC/DC for some reason – would it be really cool if someone *else* came along and wore the schoolboy outfit? I think not. Would it be really cool if, say , Tony Iommi had to leave Black Sabbath and Black Sabbatth decided to use some guitar player and dressed that guitar player up like Tony? I think not. It is not cool to continue as a band that dresses up members of the band as members who are part of the past. I don’t care *who* owns the trademarks anymore and what they can legally do with the identities. It is disingenuous to carry oneself as an original band simply by disguising two of the members to look like what the *originals looked like*. There are concert goers who have gone to KISS 2.0 thinking it was original KISS reunited. That is a travesty. And KISS is better than that, or used to be. Or, we just deluded ourselves into thinking that.
There are few bands from the 70s and 80s that have all original members. Everybody else is a cover band . Metallica, megadeth, slayer, sabbath, priest, maiden, guns, Vh are all cover bands now. I guess we can only like Aerosmith and Crüe. ……..
“Honestly, why do people like to call Kiss a cover band? How many hard rock and metal bands today have the same original members they had when their band was formed?”
Gary, are you kidding? It’s because in Kiss, the new members are IMPERSONATING the original members, just like a cover band does, that’s why! None of the other classic bands with line-up changes have done that. Brian Johnson doesn’t mimic Bon Scott, Wolfgang Van Halen isn’t running around with a Jack Daniels bass, Rob Trujillo isn’t wearing bellbottoms and playing “Anesthesia” (neither did Jason), and I’ve never seen Steve Morse play a white Fender Strat while dressed all in black suede. How many more examples do you need? All these other bands are going forward, trying to add to their legacy. When Kiss went forward in the 80s with Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick (both of whom DIDN’T copy their predecessors, either in look or playing style), they were still great, but now they’re just content to keep recreating their past. That’s being a cover band, period.
I wonder if they gonna play someting off of monster? NANO NANO