ORIGINAL KISS DRUMMER PETER CRISS DENIES FORMER BANDMATE PAUL STANLEY’S CHARGES THAT HE’S AN ANTI-SEMITE
The New York Daily News reports:
Ex-KISS drummer Peter Criss is shouting it out loud: He’s doesn’t hate Jews.
Two days before the band is set to be inducted in the Hall of Fame, the 68-year-old musician vehemently denied allegations made in Paul Stanley’s tell-all memoir that he and original guitarist Ace Frehley were vocal anti-Semites.
Criss told TMZ that he supports all religions and that his favorite aunt was Jewish.
That’s a far cry from the portrait painted by Stanley — who like fellow founder Gene Simmons is Jewish — in his new book, Face the Music: A Life Exposed.
The feud is the latest blemish behind the face-painted facade of the band to be made public.
Relations are so strained between Stanley and Simmons and their former bandmates that the original lineup refuses to perform together at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center for Thursday’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert.
Read more at the New York Daily News.
source: nydailynews.com
I wonder why Paul doesn’t mention the time he dressed in a nazi uniform??? Theres a picture of it in Lydia Criss’ book if nobody believes me.
Just found out aces fiancée is Jewish. Also paul (as Dana mentioned above) was photographed wearing a nazi uniform doing the nazi salute. To me it seems like a sad destructive ploy to sell books. Also how will peter react? Ace said he will take the high road (no pun intended) but we all know how vocal peter is. I think we all have seen what type of person paul is. Paul is a major hypocrite and although ace dressed as a nazi (which is wrong) I highly doubt he is truly an anti Semite. Otherwise why would he have a Jewish fiancée? It makes no sense and leads me to believe that paul is off base with this one.
Like Ace, Peter is coming off real well in the midst of the HoF drama. This is mainly about Paul not getting the attention that Gene, Ace, and Peter have gotten over the years.
All a matter of personal opinion; I think he (and Ace) are coming off like whiny desperate babies. The last couple of paragraphs in the Rolling Stone article are pathetic. So anytime anyone plays Beth without Peter it’s a personal slap in the face? Please. If your entire career and entire self-worth is tied to two minutes of music that you didn’t even write, that is lame.
The record industry from executives to lawyers is almost totally jewish as Ace has said. They’d complain if he was a hater. Probaly some old school Catskills jew jokes Buddy Hackett threw up in ’61 that Paul didn’t like Ace throwin’ up. I like his polish jokes. Jackie Martling has killer ones.
I’m still dizzy about this Paul Stanley being Jewish news! I thought he was a Rock and Rollin’ Gypsy.