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From: Newsweek How does one identify a great rock band? If it rocks, duh! So says KISS's "Army" of fans, who earlier this month invaded Cleveland to protest the costumed megagroup's exclusion from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since becoming eligible in the late '90s. With more than 70 million records sold, the band isn't losing sleep. "I don't need to hand out my résumé," KISS cofounder PAUL STANLEY told NEWSWEEK. But were the face-painted rockers great, or just gimmicky? With the hall's nominating committee set to meet next month, fans, experts and the metal "gods" themselves weighed in. YES GENE SIMMONS (COFOUNDER OF KISS) "I'm too rich to care. Eventually we'll get in, and that's when I'll care. Our fans number in the millions, and we've survived the test of time. I support the fans because they feel robbed ... That's why the people should decide." YES Paul Carpenter (ULTRA-FAN WHO HELPED ORGANIZE THE PROTEST) "We could spend a week listing all the bands they've influenced. They went against all the written rules and did it their way, and they made it. We want an induction, not just a nomination." NO Leslie Gold (NEW YORK RADIO TALK-SHOW HOST FOR WFNY) "If I was gonna give KISS credit for being innovative, it would be for the stage show and the makeup, which, to me, is more of a gimmick than anything else ... I don't think they should be in." YES Prof. Glenn Gass (ROCK HISTORIAN AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY) "Along with P-Funk and Bowie and Alice Cooper, they were the guys that took rock theater to the extreme ... [and] they were a good rock-and-roll band under all that ... They have got to get in." |
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