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Anthrax’s rhythm guitarist Scott Ian shared a recent photo on his Instagram page and celebrated his followers’ Easter Day.

As you can see below, he said that he’s painting eggs like this for almost 45 years.

Here’s Scott Ian’s statement:

“Painting eggs like this since 1975.

Happy Easter! @genesimmons”

You can see the photo below:

Last week, Megadeth bassist David Ellefson spoke in an interview with Rock Sverige and revealed the reason why KISS bassist Gene Simmons is one of the greatest rock stars ever.

Here’s the statement:

“Gene and Paul [Stanley] very much credit The Beatles for the whole concept of KISS. KISS was my Beatles and it’s funny, as big of a KISS fan as I was and I was the biggest, as we all claim to be, funny thing is that in my bands growing up, we never played any KISS songs because they were hard to play.”

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Vinnie Vincent says that his appearance at one of last year’s Gene Simmons Vault Experience shows almost didn’t happen because of his lengthy battles with Kiss over royalties. He ultimately did decide to go, but says he was already regretting it on the way home.

As he recalled in a new Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon interview (embedded below), Vincent was driving to the event in Nashville when, thinking about his history with Simmons and Kiss, “I almost turned around and said, ‘Go fuck yourself.’ Why in the world would I come down and greet you with a smile and try to make this work when what you did to me was reprehensible at best?”

Vincent says he filed suit in 1997, claiming that he was owed millions of dollars from his tenure in Kiss. “These are mine, the fruits of my talent, my labor,” he explains. “These are my earnings and you have no right to them. … I was not giving up. I was going to my grave making sure I sought justice, one way or another. I was going to fight this lawsuit until there were I don’t care how many justices retired.”

All of this was replaying in Vincent’s head on the car ride to the Vault appearance, particularly a moment when he says Simmons’ attorney told him, “Oh, Gene would rather pay us $2.5 million in legal fees to fight you than to give you one penny.'”

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