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News Archive February 2010
KISS Goes To High School
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 28, 2010
ESPN's segment "KISS Goes to High School" aired today on SportsCenter. It chronicles the story of KISS' historic 1974 visit to Cadillac High school in central Michigan. Here's a clip!
Bruce Kulick On Sirus/XM
From: Rick's Headbangers Ball
Posted: February 28, 2010
Former KISS and current GRAND FUNK RAILROAD guitarist Bruce Kulick will guest on "Eddie Trunk Live" on Monday, March 1 on Sirius (channel 19) / XM Radio (channel 53). The program airs from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. EST.
KISS On Wetten Dass
From: YouTube.com
Posted: February 27, 2010
KISS on German TV Show Wetten Dass with Thomas Gottschalk in Erfurt Saturday February 27, 2010
ESPN To Air KISS Piece Sunday
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 27, 2010
KISS-TORY IN THE MAKING
ESPN will air a KISS piece during SportsCenter on Sunday at 10 a.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.
It was 1974 at Cadillac High School in Central Michigan, and you could hear a pin drop in the way-too-tight locker room before football games. That's when an enterprising assistant coach named Jim Neff had an idea -- why not rev up the defense by playing a little pregame rock 'n' roll? Like, for example, KISS? When the bold plan led to a big winning streak and a conference title, Neff and the band he loved hatched a daring plan to bring KISS to Cadillac's 1975 Homecoming. Chris Connelly looks back at two outrageous days in the history of high school football.
Eric Singer Interview: Part Two
From: KISSfaq.com
Posted: February 24, 2010
KF: That segues us into "Unplugged."
ES: To me, it was kind of bittersweet at the end of it. Once we got to do "MTV Unplugged," I knew it was cool. We played with the original guys. It was cool getting to play double drums onstage with the original band and to be part of that.
But it was also kind of awkward because I knew all the rumors were flying around. And look, it was very obvious that Peter and Ace and their managers were definitely jockeying position to try to get Gene and Paul to do a reunion tour. Look, it wasn't just Gene and Paul trying to MacGyver the whole thing. Absolutely not. That was something that was going on from Ace and Peter's camp. There's no doubt about it.
What's New In KISS Collecting
KISS T-Shirts For 2010
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 22, 2010
Just in this week - A set of three brand-new KISS T-shirts for 2010! We have an adult, youth and Toddler size. Youth sizes, the ones that fit the 7-16 year old KISS fans, have always been hard to come by so it's always welcome news to hear a new one has been released. All shirts are 100% pre-shrunk cotton and of course are 100% official as well! We have all sizes.
New 2010 KISS T-shirts available at KISSmuseum.com
KISS To Classic Rock London Club Show
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 23, 2010
CLASSIC ROCK, ROADRUNNER RECORDS, LOUD & PROUD AND KISS Announce:
Intimate UK Club Show in March 2010 in advance of the "Sonic Boom Over Europe: From The Beginning To The Boom" European Tour May / June 2010 Rock legends KISS are set to bring their new "Sonic Boom Over Europe: From the Beginning To the Boom" tour to Europe in Summer 2010.
In advance of the full European tour, KISS will play a special one-off club show at London's O2 Academy Islington on 2nd March 2010. With just 500 tickets available to the public, this show is a rare chance for fans to see one of the world's biggest bands in an intimate venue.
What's New In KISS Collecting
KISS Gel Pen
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 22, 2010
Just released today - The KISS Ikons Gel Pen. The gel tip gives you smooth, even writing from start to finish. This finely balanced writing instrument is always a pleasure to use and looks incredible on your desk.
$3.95 at KISSmuseum.com
Eric Singer Interview: Part One
From: KISSfaq.com
Posted: February 22, 2010
KISS fans know Eric Singer is a talented drummer. But perhaps more notably, Eric Singer is full of passion. And, as he is apt to point out, he can sometimes go on tangents.
"I will try to speak slowly, clearly and concisely because I tend to talk a hundred miles an hour," he prefaces. "But when you catch me early in the day like this, I am usually more mellow."
Over the course of two and a half hours with Eric, we span many topics over coffee for him and energy drinks for me. At times it feels like more of a conversation than an interview. During our discussion he is interrupted by business calls as KISS is getting ready to head for Europe, starting with a promotional tour next week. When asked about future band plans, Eric jokes, "I look at KISS Online -- that's where I usually find out what we're doing and where I'm going."
What's New In KISS Collecting
KISS Legend Trading Card Set
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 19, 2010
NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS. RELEASE DATE WILL BE LATE APRIL 2010. If you pre-order now, we will guarantee to ship your order on the release date to receive it as soon as it is possible.
This totally new re-working of KISS Trading Cards is set up to be a storybook-style telling of the Legend of KISS. The back of this 100 card set can be arranged to make the story come together to form a time-line of the band's history all the way up to the present.
KISS Legends Trading Cards Hobby Box. 24 packs per box and 5 cards per pack.
Features:
- 100 card base set
- Autographed and costume relic cards merged into one
- Guitar pick cards
- 4 different color Proof Parallel set cards
- 6 different Pop-up cards
And as always, there will be unannounced special surprises as well.
$59.95 at KISSmuseum.com
Gene Simmons' Production Turns 25
From: Uberrock.co.uk
Posted: February 19, 2010
There's a question that is bound to be asked during the course of this review so let me get it out there straight away - why didn't Keel make the step up to the big league?
They certainly had a lot of things going for them in the 1980's - Gene Simmons in the producer's chair, support slots on major tours, an ass-kicker of a music video - yet they got left treading water while a slew of sequined suckers rode the log flume all the way to platinum success. Was it that they just weren't good looking enough? C'mon, Marc Ferrari was a cute fella. Maybe that, in public at least, the band just weren't controversial enough - no cheesy headlines for these guys. So, while lesser bands had crutches, licence plates and real retro titties flashed at them in formulaic performance videos, Keel found their level and stuck to it.
The video to title track 'The Right To Rock' hasn't aged particularly well but, if you grew up with this music or in this age, I dare you to watch it and not have a big ass grin on your face and happy thoughts of a simpler time in your mind by the end of it. And it was for this reason exactly that I couldn't wait to get this 25th Anniversary Edition released by the cool cats at Frontiers Records into my stereo.
Getting Gene Simmons to produce your record back in 1985 was a licence to print money, right? Even though Gene clearly struggled with a number of troublesome changes in the 80's - the transition from demon to day-glo, top knot to toupee couldn't have been easy - his cultured business mind that spotted a disastrous venture at fifty paces had yet to be universally accepted. Before we all chuckled at pathetic projects like Gene Simmons' Tongue magazine - which flew off no shelves apart from the ones at the pulping plant - the recruitment of the soon-to-be-huge-movie-star as producer was a massive deal, and his influence on the record is hardly well hidden.
If the trademark KISS backing vocals that are all over the cover of 'Let's Spend The Night Together' don't do it for the KISS Kompletists, then the Simmons tune 'Easier Said Than Done' will for sure. The fact that the song is arguably better than 75% of the songs he wrote and recorded for KISS in the same decade probably says everything you need to know about where his head was in those days. The two other songs that he contributed to the album - 'Get Down' and 'So Many Girls, So Little Time' - were, to be fair, probably deemed not good enough for inclusion on the day job albums for Gene but are, as Keel songs, pretty friggin' decent.
Read the rest of the review at http://www.uberrock.co.uk/cd-reviews/22-february-cd/519-keel-the-right-t
Paul Adds Two Florida Art Shows
From: PaulStanley.com
Posted: February 18, 2010
Wentworth Gallery is pleased to present two art exhibitions by artist, rock icon and legendary KISS frontman Paul Stanley. Paul will make two special appearances at Wentworth Gallery in March.
Friday - March 19, 2010 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wentworth Gallery - Town Center Mall
6000 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL
For additional details or to RSVP - please call 561-338-0804 or 800-732-6140
Saturday - March 20, 2010 - Noon - 2:00 PM
Wentworth Gallery - Las Olas
819 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
For additional details or to RSVP - please call 954-468-0685 or 800-732-6140
An Interview With Ace Frehley
From: BoostTV
Posted: February 17, 2010
Ace Frehley, former guitarist of KISS, performed a concert in Hamburg, Germany on 08/12/2009 and before that show, Boost TV's Sven interviewed the music legend.
Eric Singer Interview
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 17, 2010
Here's a great Eric Singer interview with Musician's Friend. The interview took place during Eric's photo shoot for the March cover of the Musician's Friend Catalog.
What's New In KISS Collecting
KISS Sonic Boom Framed Gold Record
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 16, 2010
To comemorate the first KISS studio album in over a decade, this framed gold record artwork has been produced - a brilliant presentation of the Sonic Boom album and tour.
Professionally framed with screened lithograph artwork and a record album plated in real 24kt gold. 20" x 24"
Now available for $198.95 at KISSmuseum.com
BK3 Digipak Promo Video
From: DeuceNews.com
Posted: February 16, 2010
Bruce Kulick's BK3 CD digipack is now available for sale not only at all online music stores, including iTunes, Frontiers Records and local records stores but also on Kulick.net. Watch this promotional video for Deucenews.com.
Bruce Kulick's long-awaited third and best solo album, BK3, has sold around 1,700 copies in the United States in its first week run and the CD landed at No. 12 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers). BK3 was released in Europe on January 29 via Frontiers Records and in North America on February 2 through Twenty 4 Records/Rocket Science Ventures.Enjoy Bruce's great music and his fantastic guests like Gene and Nick Simmons, Eric Singer, John Corabi, Steve Lukather and many more!!!
Interview With Bruce Kulick
From: RockMusicStar.com
Posted: February 16, 2010
On Feb 2, ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick released his third solo CD, "BK3." This Cd showcases Kulick's awesome guitar work and great songwriting. The Cd features guest artist Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, John Corabi, Eric Singer, Steve Lukather and the late Doug Fieger of the Knack. We caught up with Bruce to discuss his new Cd and his history with KISS.
First of all, I want to congratulate you on the new CD. It's a pretty solid release.
Thank you.
You recently had a big, sold out CD release party at the Cat Club in LA. I heard that it was a pretty amazing event. Tell us a little about it.
Seven Ways To Breathe Life Into 'Idol'
From: LA Times
Posted: February 15, 2010
As we near the semifinals and, soon after, the Top 12, the sensation that most "American Idol" diehards experience right around now -- equal parts anticipation and dread -- is starting to creep up on us. Sure, we love this show, but even with the addition of Ellen DeGeneres and the future exit of Simon Cowell, the "Idol" formula sometimes feels, for lack of a more subtle word, stale (though Monday's announcement to reveal part of the Top 24 earlier than usual is a good start).
With that in mind, we gave some serious thought -- but mostly not serious -- to a few simple changes that Fox and the "Idol" producers could institute pretty much immediately (well, all except No. 3) that might breathe new life into the franchise.
1) Secret alumni duet partner.
Ace Frehley's Rocket Ride Into Sydney
From: Inside Out Webzine
Posted: February 13, 2010
Just like the thousands of other KISS / Ace Frehley fans that attended Ace's first ever Australian solo tour last week this show was twenty five years in the making! Never in a million years did I ever think I would get to witness Ace Frehley live in Australia doing a solo tour. Last year when it was first announced that Ace would be touring, no sooner than tickets went on sale, the shows were postponed. It would only be a matter of weeks before the tour would be finalised and confirmed and new dates were announced with extra shows added which delighted Kiss fans that thought they would have to travel interstate to see their hero live. Finally the wait was over, the night that Space Ace invaded Sydney was now upon us and the countdown was on! Arriving early at the infamous Enmore Theatre on Sydney's outskirts we were greeted with massive line's of fans that got there early to secure the best seats in the house. Just as I suspected the age of the fans attending the show were limitless! There were children as young and seven in the crowd and rockers now in their sixties all out to salute one of the most influential and greatest guitarists of all time! For me this show was extra exciting, it's not every day that you get to photograph one of your heroes and waiting anxiously in the photo pit was something I will never be able to put into words.
As the energized sold-out crowd entered, the lights dimmed and the already rowdy crowd started chanting "Ace, Ace, Ace," it was amazing, the energy in the room was electric. A large screen behind the band lit up showcasing Ace's new 'Anomaly' album cover, and the 1978 instrumental 'Fractured Mirror' came over the P.A. System. The crowd went crazy as Ace's amazing band took to the stage, then the moment we had all been waiting for the one and only Space Ace Frehley walked onstage signature Gibson guitar in hand and broke into 'Rocket Ride' the roar of the crowd was deafening!
Ace Frehley may have walked onto that stage without the big extravagant costumes, without the massive lighting and stage production and without make-up but one thing is for sure... Ace put on the show fans of all ages wanted to see! It was fantastic to see a rock and roll legend walk out onstage and deliver outstanding performances one after the other without the aid of flash-bombs and lasers! This show was all about the MUSIC and the music had each and every person in the venue captivated. With a blistering set-list Ace shredded his way through KISS classics such as 'Strange Ways', 'Love Her All I Can' and 'Love Gun' whilst vocal duties were handed over to both Bassist Anthony Esposito and Ex-Brides of Destruction drummer Scott Coogan and there is no doubt that both guys did an amazing job and did those tunes justice! Newest member to the Ace Frehley band guitarist Todd Youth (ex-Danzig) is fitting right in and looks at home onstage with this amazing line-up!
Meeting Ace backstage in Sydney
From: Andrew Allin
Posted: February 13, 2010
This is a photo of my friend, Tom Giakoumelos, meeting with Ace Frehley on February 7, 2010 at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney Australia right after the soundcheck.
Tom said the show was incredible, Ace opened with Rocket Ride, and did other rarely performed KISS songs like Parasite, Strange Ways, Love Her All I Can, and Hard Times, as well as four songs off his 1978 solo -- Rip It Out, Speedin' Back To My Baby, Snow Blind, and New York Groove. (Fractured Mirror serve as his introduction). From Anomaly Ace played Sister and Outer Space. Unfortunately, there was no Dark Light.
Tom took his two sons to the show, and said his youngest is now Ace's newest fan. Hopefully, KISS will soon follow.
KISS Appears On Russian Magazine This Week
From: Vladimir Ilyin
Posted: February 13, 2010
Our friend Vladimir from Moscow sent us the artwork for the new Rockcor magazine that just came out this week in Russia featuring KISS on the cover as well as on the inside poster. We're not sure how to get ahold of one yet, but we'll keep you posted.
Message From Bruce
From: Kulick.net
Posted: February 10, 2010
I had an amazing time at the KISS CoffeeHouse in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina this past Saturday. The weather finally behaved after storms in the area the night before. The turnout packed the place, and both radio and television news crews showed up to capture the fans and interview me for their network news programs.
There was not one, but three BK3 themed cakes, and that was crazy cool. I posed with the cakes, and of course shared the sugary desserts with my fans. The people who run the KISS CoffeeHouse treated me like gold, and of course I took many photos with the fans there to pick up their VIP package of the new CD, poster, laminate and BK3 guitar pick.
A big KISS fan who is an artist who draws caricatures of the KISS members did a hilarious BK3 themed one of me with my thumb up and holding my trusty ESP guitar. Funny, when I showed it to my 90 year old Dad last night he asked me why is my nose SO big and what am I holding in my hand! (My nose is large, and my thumb is NOT a water bottle, but God bless my Dad for being alive so many years no matter how badly he sees these days!)
Read Bruce's entire recap at kulick.net
Bruce Kulick Pro-shot Footage Of Sydney Performance
From: Blabbermouth.net
Posted: February 9, 2010
Professionally filmed video footage of former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick performing the KISS songs "Crazy Nights" and "Turn On The Night" on December 13, 2009 at The Gaelic Club in Sydney, Australia can be viewed below.
Mini KISS On Good Day LA
From: SCnow.com/RocketScience.com
Posted: February 8, 2010
This weekend, Bruce Kulick dropped by the KISS Coffeehouse in Myrtle Beach, SC for a meet and greet with fans. The event was an unofficial East Coast CD release party for BK3 and we wanted to share with you a clip from CBS's coverage of the event:
New KISS Dr. Pepper Commercial
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 7, 2010
Here's KISS' Dr. Pepper commercial that just aired during the 2nd quarter of the Big Game!
Record Your Own Version Of Dr. Love Now
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 7, 2010
Dr Pepper.com invites KISS fans to be a part of an endless version of "Calling Dr. Love" too! Visit Dr Pepper.com to record your own performance, then become a part of the Never-Ending Song!
New KISS Dr Pepper Commercial Debuts Today
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 6, 2010
Dr Pepper's new Dr. Love ad featuring KISS will air during the 2nd quarter of the Big Game today! The game starts at 6 PM EST on CBS TV.
Here's a sneak peek of the commercial to get you ready!!
KISS To Rock Huge French Festival
From: KISSonline.com
Posted: February 6, 2010
KISS will headline Hellfest, the huge open air summer festival in Clisson, France. The band will close the three-day event on June 20 with the bombastic KISS spectacle!
Thanks to Fred Vehert for sending the show art to KISSonline!
Click here for the HELLFEST web site.
Ace On Drive With Richard Glover
From: ABC Sydney
Posted: February 5, 2010
Ace Frehley, formerly of KISS, has a solo album and tour and joined Richard in the Drive studio.
He admitted that he's not handy at guitar computer games even if he is pretty fine at the real thing and describes the sensation of playing on stage in front of a big audience as "euphoric."
"Sometimes I'll play and I'll feel like lightning shots through my arms," he adds, "I don't know where its coming from but I guess there's energy from somewhere I'm picking up."
He shared some of that energy in his conversation with us, that you can hear here.
What's New In KISS Collecting
Klown Alive II - KISS Tribute CD
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 5, 2010
Klown Alive II is by far the best packaged KISS Tribute CD ever released. The CD cover is a miniature cardboard recreation of a gate-fold 12" LP and the actual CD has artwork that recreates the Casablanca LP label. And like the KISS albums of the '70's, the Klown CD includs many bonus items. You get a Klown sticker, temporary tattoo, trading card and guitar pick. This is a great package at a great price!
The recording is top-quality and very professional, made to sound like the Alive albums KISS released decades ago.
$11.95 at KISSmuseum.com
Sell Your KISS Collection
From: KISSmuseum.com
Posted: February 5, 2010
ATTENTION KISS FANS in the NY NJ PA area: KISS MUSEUM is now buying collections large and small.
Ebay is annoying --- too much work ---- We will pay you cash right now
It does not matter if you have 3 items to sell or 3,000 items to sell....
We purchase Kiss Items from 1973-2009.....
Any type of item ---- posters, toys, magazines, shirts, photos, guitars, tourbooks, spencers items, records....We BUY EVERYTHING !!!!
Over the years, we have noticed around this time of year a large number of people offer their collections for sale. Recognizing this trend, we have put aside time and money NOW to concentrate on buying. We will be able to respond, evaluate and pay you in the least amount of time, much quicker than usual, guaranteed! We are interested in buying ENTIRE collections.
Email us at sellmykissstuff@yahoo.com with your name and phone number or Call ROSS toll-free at 1-800-370-3315 ....We need your contact information so we can respond to you.....we can't buy your stuff if you don't contact us so call today; we are here to help. You will be called back within 24 hours, 7 days a week
Preview Of KISS Superbowl Commercial
From: FastCompany.com
Posted: February 3, 2010
This exclusive peek of Dr. Pepper's first-ever Super Bowl spot features the painted faces of rock band KISS as well as their diminutive doppelgangers, MiniKISS. Agency Deutsch wanted to emphasize Dr. Pepper's "little KISS" of cherry. According to Dr. Pepper, the bands have met before, but this was their first offical performance.
Look for the full spot at the two-minute warning, just before halftime.
BK3 - Bruce Kulick Releases New CD
From: ShopInRI.com
Posted: February 3, 2010
Grand Funk Railroad guitarist Bruce Kulick has released BK3, a new solo CD (www.kulick.net). The first single, "Hand of the King," features guest vocalist Nick Simmons, from A&E's "Family Jewels" reality show. This is Kulick's third solo disc this decade, hence the title. Full of straight ahead rock and roll, BK3 also makes shameless use of heavy industry contacts, (read - his personal friends); and while the guest vocalists vary from song to song, Kulick's strong, tasteful guitar work keeps BK3 very much his own musical statement. Classic Rock Magazine named BK3 on it's list of "Six To Look Out For In 2010", saying the disc "truly rocks...but is very creative".
Bruce Kulick, 56, was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. His brother Robert is a well known, and well respected session guitarist and Grammy winning producer. Being older by four years, Bob brought home all the exciting new music of the British Invasion, seminal bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Led Zeppelin. Bruce was an eager sponge, learning to play guitar partly from Bob, and also tapping into a natural talent. A self described book worm in high school, Kulick knew music was definitely in his future, as it was something he was very good at.
In 1977 at age twenty three Bruce, along with Bob, leaped into big time rock and roll by joining The Neverland Express -- Meat Loaf's band for the huge "Bat Out Hell" tour, taking the Kulick brothers all over the globe, including an appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in 1978. After that high profile gig ended, Bob resumed his session playing, including both credited and uncredited appearances on KISS records, while Bruce moved on to work with Billy Squire, The Good Rats, and Michael Bolton among others (they formed a band together called Black Jack in the early 80s, long before Bolton became every housewife's heartthrob).
The First KISS
From: SonicBommers.com
Posted: February 2, 2010
Way back during the last years of the '60s and start of the '70s, I went to the famous High School of Music & Art in Harlem, USA. It was way the heck uptown in the middle of CCNY's campus. On my third day there, the no-kidding-around Black Panthers, looking fabulous in their black leather "car coat" jackets, berets and Ray-Bans, took over the entire CCNY campus and held it hostage for two weeks.
We M&A pee wee middle-class Jewish, Italian, Polish, Irish, baby-Che Guevara wannabes were thrilled and would throw them our little white-bread power-fists every morning and afternoon as we came and went. For awhile, they power-fisted us back from behind the barricades they'd throw together of desks, chairs, garbage cans, etc. behind the gates of the campus and we'd yell slogans of encouragement. But, by the end of the first week, the Black Panthers, hungry, dirty, fed up, on the verge of being arrested, were in no mood for our play-acting.
This event was immediately followed by a teachers' strike that was perceived by progressives to be an outright act of racism. My dad, a long-time staunch union man, came into Music & Art and taught English for a week, he was so disgusted. "The only picket line I ever crossed, Binky. I want you to know that." Interesting times for a "gifted underachiever" sophomore.
Gene Simmons Cow Tongue Rumors Put To Rest
From: KISSasylum.com
Posted: February 2, 2010
If you were alive or at least cognizant back in the '70's, you might remember one of the many KISS rumors of the time was how Gene Simmons got those extra tongue inches by grafting that of a cows to his own.
The fact that some '70's photos, particularly the one of KISS looking through the cut-out of the U.S.A., (we looked but couldn't find the image, sorry), showed what looked like a lateral scar across the famous appendage. Snopes.com addresses this odd bovine story and gives us the truth once and for all.
Click to read the entire detailed story here.
KISS On Extreme Makeover Home Edition February 21st
From: ABC/KISSonline.com
Posted: February 2, 2010
The KISS episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" is scheduled to air Sunday, February 21 at 8 pm (EST) .
In the spirit of the KISS Army, when the ABC hit show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" told legendary rockers KISS about a family of needy KISS fans in Gainesville, Florida, who started a home-based, non-profit music school while their own home is falling down around them, the band heeded the call and launched the offense during their Tulsa stop on their North American KISS/Alive 35 tour.
Tobin and Jill Wagstaff, a couple with four children, operate Studio Percussion, Inc., a school that currently serves about 200 people, half of which receive financial aid or a full scholarship. The non-profit school can only afford to pay Tobin, 29, a salary, so Jill, 32, must also work as a pre-school teacher to help pay the bills. Their utter devotion to their family, school, and community leaves little time and resources to tend to their home that is in dire need of repair. The floors and rooftops are completely rotting away and the electrical system throughout the house is faulty.
Calling Dr. Love: KISS Invades Superbowl
From: EntertainmentTonight
Posted: February 2, 2010
Only ET is behind the scenes with legendary rockers KISS on their first-ever Dr. Pepper Super Bowl commercial -- featuring Mini KISS!
"The basic premise of this is I'm Dr. Love -- you're not," Gene Simmons tells ET. "Dr. Love is here to make you all feel better, girls."
Airing during the second quarter of the big game this Sunday, the ad features the return of Gene as Dr. Love along with lead singer Paul Stanley and the rest of the KISS line-up rocking onstage with Mini KISS, extolling the virtues of Dr. Pepper Cherry's uniquely smooth taste.
"It's a little hint of KISS with a little hint of cherry," says Paul in pitchman mode.
Paul and Evan Stanley Live
From: YouTube
Posted: February 2, 2010
Paul Stanley of KISS fame rocks live with his equally kickass son Evan.
Bruce Kulick Interview
From: WKEQ
Posted: February 1, 2010
Rod "The Z Man" Zimmerman, the afternoon drive guy on WKEQ Classic Rock Q97.1FM in Somerset, KY, recently interviewed Bruce Kulick about BK3. Here are the 3 parts to that interview.
Ace Frehley On Chris Smith Show
From: 2GB.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Chris Smith talks to rock legend Ace Frehley about his astonishing career and his current Australian tour.
Ace Frehley Happier Without KISS Egos
From: TheWest.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley says he's happier touring as a solo artist than with his ex-bandmates because the only ego he has to deal with is his own.
Frehley will begin his It's Ace Downunder Australian tour in Perth on Monday.
He rose to fame wearing the black, white and silver Spaceman face paint with one of the world's biggest bands, and the last time he was in the country was in 2001 for the KISS reunion tour.
But Frehley, 58, said he was enjoying himself much more on his first solo Australian tour.
"It's great - I don't have to deal with three other egos," Frehley told AAP, laughing.
Ace Frehley on The Grill Team Podcast
From: triplem.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Here's the recent Podcast by The Grill Team featuring an interview with guitarist Ace Frehley.
Ace Frehley Returns To Australia
From: RaveMagazine.com.au
Posted: February 1, 2010
Guitar shop types will tell you (perhaps correctly) that former KISS axeman ACE FREHLEY is a technically limited guitar player. But he's unquestionably the definitive guitar player for KISS. MATT THROWER discovers why.
This is awkward. KISS and Ace Frehley have new studio albums out at roughly the same time. Although the brand name ensures KISS' Sonic Boom is the higher-profile release (not to mention a cleaner, more disciplined record), it can't hold a candle to Ace Frehley's Anomaly, a messy headrush of leather-clad hard rock and psychedelia. Dedicated to Dimebag Darrell and late Kiss drummer Eric Carr (that performer's make-up persona hinted at in the killer rock & roll of Foxy & Free and a cover of Sweet's Fox On The Run), Anomaly may even be making KISS nervous.
On the eve of his Australian tour, Ace has just one comment to make relating to his former colleagues.
"Where did Paul Stanley play on his last tour?" Ace asks in his unmistakeable Bronx accent, a speaking voice unchanged since the 1970s. Despite his 58 years of age, he still sounds like a teenage New York punk - he's the one member of KISS you could imagine playing in other quintessential Noo Yawk institutions like The Ramones.
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