Chaz Kangas | The Village Voice

With KISS now safely enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one would assume every piece of the band’s legacy would have been properly documented. Shockingly, that wasn’t the case. That is..until now.

Record collector Chris Reisman was working his way through an extensive vinyl collection in a barn in upstate New York when, in the last bit of excavating, he found a box full of decades-old acetates and demos. Among them, KISS guitarist Ace Frehley’s earliest known major label recordings as part of shelved psychadelic/prog-rock outfit Molimo.

Recorded for RCA in 1971, KISS fans have speculated about its existence for years, but when a quest to find it in RCA’s vaults proved unfruitful, hope seemed lost. Reisman’s find is the single biggest “lost” music discovery since the Velvet Underground 1966 acetate was found by collector Warren Hill at a Portland garage sale in 2004. Reisman has had the item on eBay since yesterday, and the KISS Army are flocking to get a digital glimpse of it.

We spoke to Reisman, whom you may remember as the chap who uncovered the original full A Tribe Called Quest and DMX demos a few years back, about how this discovery was made. Afterward, exclusive audio from the demo.

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NJ KISS Mart

• Saturday, May 10, 2014
• 11am – 5 pm
• Free admission
• New location – Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Edison NJ
• Come to buy, trade or sell single items or entire collections!

What is the KISS Mart? It’s a FREE get-together for KISS collectors of the Tri-State area and Eastern PA. Come to shop, sell or trade – everyone is welcome to do so! You need not rent a table or pay admission – just come on down, hang out with your KISS friends and build your KISS collecdtion or make some money! No collection too big or too small. Single items, car loads or truck loads – the promoters of the KISS Mart will buy your entire collections – we pay cash on the spot! Interested in every kind of KISS merchandise, old and new.

KISS Museum, Ross Koondel and Eric Carr’s Family will be the main dealers at this one day selling spree. This is a free event, open to the public, that focuses on nothing but KISS merchandise. Just like a store, you can casually shop for under an hour, or stay all day and hang out with friends and fellow KISS fans. No guests, no gimmicks, just buying and selling every KISS collectible under the sun. If you’ve never been to the KISS Mart before, do come on down, we’d love to see you!

Located at the Hilton Garden Inn, a hotel at the same exit as the annual NJ KISS Expo at the Raritan Center.

Mitch Lafon

Former Frehley’s Comet/ Peter Frampton bassist, John Regan goes One On One With Mitch Lafon to discuss his new band, Four By Fate, which also includes singer Tod Howarth (Frehley’s Comet/ Cheap Trick), guitarist Sean Kelly (Crash Kelly, Helix) and drummer Stet Howland (W.A.S.P/Lita Ford). The two discuss how the band came about, plans for a new album and tour. John also went through his history with former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley and discussed his time in the band, the making of the Frehley Comet albums, the possibility of a reunion, the vault of unreleased material and much more.