Kiss will be appearing on the MTV Week in Rock next Friday (July 5). It will be a live report from the opening show in Detroit.

107.5 The Buzz in Houston Texas, will be braodcasting a Kiss Tribute show on Sunday at 11PM (Central Time), Midnight (Eastern), June 30, 1996. It will feature modern rock bands that have covered or paid tribute to Kiss.

The show will be hosted by Jarod, and be broadcast over the Internet, via Real Audio real time stream!

Check The Buzz web site for full information on how to dial up their, real time stream. You can check the Buzz out by clicking their icon to the left.

Jarod recently submitted a tentative set list...

For a live 107.5 Buzz feed: http://ww2.AudioNet.com/pub/ktbz/ktbz.htm
Jarod's biography online @: http://www.thebuzz.com/brat/jarod.htm.
You can also e-mail Jarod about the show. Tell him Frehley News sent you!

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From: Kaylan Barimen
Deuce,
Please put this on your page. Gene Simmons has just been named Ethereal Online's July musician of the month! Here is the URL: http://pages.prodigy.com/WORKS/musician.htm
Love, Kaylan

It's a great tour book. Half vintage shots, half new shots. I won't go into too much detail, but if you want more info e-mail me and I'll give you a better description (yes there were ads for the Gene and Paul's guitars and KISSTORY).

"The point is, the dj said they shot footage for a video for "Shout It Out Loud", and that they'd shoot more at the show tonight. It was pretty late when I heard this. I was just getting ready to hit the sack, so who knows what will ultimately happen."

Pucker Power: for the first time in Spin's history, the rock music mag will release four seperate covers. Each features a KISS band member: greasepainted Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, or Peter Criss. The issues will be out July 16; the band's sold out tour kicks off June 28 at Detroit' Tiger Stadium.
To order all four covers ($2.95 each), call 1-800-829-9093.

The magazine had exclusive separate phone interviews each with Paul, Gene, and Peter. This is kinda interesting since they haven't been doing too many interviews. The interviews must have been relatively recent since both Gene and Paul mentioned how they were adding second shows everywhere and how they're selling more tickets now than they did in the 70's.

Some of the interesting things that were said by Gene:
- Don't have enough off days to play enough shows in every city so we'll be swinging back around and hitting the same places later on.
- We want to keep it indoors on this first leg of the tour so we can get the tour looking and sounding just the way we want it.
- 7 million bucks of electronics and machinery.
- 11 trucks, 6 busses, and 60 people to move this tour.
- When we do multiple shows, we're going to mix and match the songs and each night is going to have a different opening act.
- We're just trying to push the idea of concerts to the limit.
- When we come back in September, we're going to change the way concerts are done completely.
Interviewer: Can you elaborate?
Gene : No
Interviewer: No?!
Gene: That's like finding out what you're going to get at Christmas.

I thought all this was interesting, especially that last comment. What in the world do you think they have planned for us?

[Ed Note: This is just rumor..I am not sure if it is true or not. Take it for what it's worth.]

ED NOTE:
I checked out this KISS promo disk today. It is cool! It has a "blockbuster greeting" as the first track with Paul, Gene, Peter, and Ace. It is pretty funny! It really is a bunch of "outtakes" from this "simple little greeting." The second track is as before mentioned,"New Your Groove."
To look at what the CD sleeve front looks like -- click here.
To look at what the CD sleeve back looks like -- click here.

Please allow 6 to 8 weeks for delievery."

Now, as for the 4 unreleased tracks....I'm of the opinion that either 1 of 2 things are going on here:

They obviously overdubbed ALL of the lead vocal tracks
recently, which is a REAL let down. It sounds great, but Gene & Paul in 1996 does not sound the same as in 1975 and you can tell.
And secondly, either they triggered modern drum sounds from the original drum tracks to make them sound more modern, OR, and this is a big OR, I think the original KISS re-recorded all of these tracks in the studio recently.
The drums do NOT sount like Peter circa 1975, in fact the whole SOUND sounds very modernized to me. I think it all sounds great, but it's botherng me just what exactly is going on here. i'm very suspicious. and of course, there's the overdubbed crowd noise as usual to screw things up. I
love it, but at the same time, I'm very upset that it wasn't left "as is".
All of the remastered tracks sound alot better-crisper, more full sounding. You won't be dissapointed at all. Well, that's it-judge for yourself when you actually hear it.

107.5 The Buzz in Houston Texas, will be braodcasting a Kiss Tribute show on Sunday at 11PM (Central Time), Midnight (Eastern), June 30, 1996. It will feature modern rock bands that have covered or paid tribute to Kiss.

The show will be hosted by Jarod, and be broadcast over the Internet, via Real Audio real time stream!!

Check The Buzz web site for full information on how to dial up their, real time stream. You can check the Buzz out by clicking their icon to the left.

Jarod recently submitted a tentative set list...

For a live 107.5 Buzz feed: http://ww2.AudioNet.com/pub/ktbz/ktbz.htm
Jarod's biography online @: http://www.thebuzz.com/brat/jarod.htm.
You can also e-mail Jarod about the show. Tell him Frehley News sent you!

The buzz is Copyright © 1996 - KTBZ-FM / The Buzz 107.5. All rights reserved.