Something Else!

Paul Stanley says fans shouldn’t expect another unmasked tour from Kiss any time soon. The band went without makeup from 1983-1996, and has never looked back, he says.

“What we do is so unique,” Stanley said, during a Q&A on this month’s Kiss Kruise. “Once we put the makeup back on, and we reclaimed what we started as — and what we always believed in — there was no reason to go back.”

Kiss debuted with its unique set of costumed characters in March 1973, appearing for the first time without makeup on September 18, 1983 on MTV to promote their new album Like It Up. All four original members then reemerged back in costume on February 28, 1996 during the Grammy Awards.

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Etan Viessing | Hollywood Reporter

TORONTO – Gene Simmons is sitting this one out. But the KISS rocker’s wife Shannon Tweed-Simmons and daughter Sophie Tweed-Simmons are starring in their own Canadian reality TV series for the W network.

The eight-episode, half-hour series from Force Four Entertainment will start shooting in Los Angeles, Vancouver and Whistler, B.C. in December, with a 2014 debut.

As Shannon is a former playmate and her daughter is a straight-A student running a children’s charity in Vancouver, the series will play up the mother and daughter’s differences as they remain best friends. And Gene Simmons, who starred along with his family for seven seasons in A&E Gene Simmons’ Family Jewels, will make cameo appearances on the Canadian reality show.

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