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KISS bass mogul Gene Simmons was asked on the Meltdown show on how he feels about all the people online that clearly dislike him, to which he replied (transcribed by UG):

“Well, that’s okay! I get paid well enough for this. Not everybody likes Jesus, and that’s okay too.

“You can’t please everybody. What are you gonna do? The best thing you can do is run a race, look straight forward and be the best you can be.

“Take it from our military – don’t look over your shoulder and to the side and to the peanut gallery to find out if it’s okay to be you. Just hold your head proudly and say, ‘This is me, take it or leave it!'”

Asked on what his “key to success” is, Gene replied:

“I guess having a right thing at the right place and the right time. And then there’s just plain hard work. And we’re America’s No. 1 gold record award winning group of all time in all categories. TA-DA!

“But like anything else you gotta get up every day and work at it. Ask Mike Tyson, he’s a friend. You can become a world champion and when you sort of stop training and stop looking after yourself some chunk is gonna knock you out.

“So get up every day like it’s the only day you’ll ever have in life and be a champion!”

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Earlier today (Friday, January 19) at the Atlanta KISS Expo 2018, former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent gave his first public interview in more than two decades when he spoke with SiriusXM‘s Eddie Trunk. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On why he decided to attend the KISS Expo:

Vinnie: “We have to thank [KISS Expo promoter] Derek Christopher, because he was relentless. He contacted Mark Nolan, my best friend and attorney. Derek spent eight months unrelenting — aggressiveness but nice. He was a really good guy, and I read his e-mails, I read everything that he’d sent Mark, and Mark and I talked. He said, ‘This guy seems like a really good guy.’ And he was. When we first talked with Derek, I said, ‘I really like him. If I’m going to do this, I want to do this with somebody I like, with somebody who cares.’

“My life became small. I wanted to become as small as I could be. I became very happy, very content. All I do is I play, I write, I record, I take care of my dogs. I have a really private, peaceful life now, and I haven’t had that in a long time. A lot of fans know a lot of things, but they also don’t know a lot of things.”

On whether he has any plans to dispel the biggest misconceptions about him:

Vinnie: “When it’s ready to be told, you don’t want to miss it. We’ve had two book publishers. We’re talking to them right now. It’s a hell of a book. You wouldn’t want to miss it. I read Kitty Kelley‘s unauthorized biography of Frank Sinatra, and I’m not a reader, but I couldn’t put that book down. This will top that book.”

On what he’s been doing since vanishing from the public eye:

Vinnie: “I spent 20 years in hell. The broad strokes were very… they could have been not so broad. They could have been quickly and really amicably could have eliminated 20 years of pain. I would say pertaining to KISS, these are my friends. These are guys I love. I love them to this day. I’ve got tremendous memories that are wonderful. Most of them are. Not always can you have a band and have a certain… I hate this word ‘magic,’ but it is a magic. It’s something you can’t put into words. THE BEATLES had that. THE WHO have it. [LED] ZEPPELIN had it. I always looked for that, and I never found it until I met them. It was something that, ‘This is the glue. This is the ingredients that I never found.’ It was everything you put into a mix that blows up. Good and bad.

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On this episode of Talking Metal, Mark Strigl and Ian McCurdy interview Kiss drummer Eric Singer.  The over hour long disccussion was recorded on 12/30/2017 and it starts 18 minutes into the episode.  Topics include Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen, The Eternal Idol album, Bob Daisley, Gary Moore, John Sykes, Blue Murder, Jake E. Lee, Cozy Powell, Juan Croucier, Badlands, Bill Ward, Ozzy Osbourne, Eric Carr, Doug Goldstein, the Paul Stanley 1989 solo tour, Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Kiss fans, Kiss setlists, Gene Simmons, the 2001 Kiss tour with Ace, Gene & Paul, The Ultimate Sin album, the Carnival of Souls album, Brian May, Bruce Kulick, Peter Criss, the Ronnie Montrose 10 x 10 album, Rickey Phillips, the Kiss Kruise, the Kulick brothers set on the Kruise, Iron Maiden’s setlist, the future of Kiss and much more.

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Everything in our Dollar section is priced at only $1, $2 or $3! Dozens and dozens of items.

Our last Dollar Sale was so successful, we cleaned out every corner of our warehouse and pulled out all the small, obscure bits and pieces that we have been accumulating over the past decades. Some are singles, some in quantity, but they are all between $1 and $3!

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