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Five KISS Things We Are Each Thankful For. What Are You Thankful For?
Episode 599. This week is our Thanksgiving episode… Five things (KISS) we are each most thankful for.
1) Song (again, thankful for not favorite)
2) Album
3) Tour
4) Era
5) Memory
Play along and share what you are most thankful for.
Gene Simmons Band will perform at Count Basie Center in Red Bank
While another comeback tour is always possible, Kiss performed for allegedly the last time on its End of the Road World Tour, which came to an end in late 2023, at Madison Square Garden. But singer-songwriter-bassist Gene Simmons is continuing, sans makeup and elaborate costumes, with his own Gene Simmons Band, and they will perform at The Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank, May 5.
Tickets will go on sale Dec. 6 at 10 a.m., with pre-sales beginning Dec. 4 at 10 a.m.; visit ticketmaster.com.
Simmons is joined in the band by guitarists Brent Woods (who has previously played with Sebastian Bach and Vince Neil) and Zach Throne (Jerry Cantrell, Corey Taylor), and drummer Brian Tichy (Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Ozzy Osbourne).
For those wondering … yes, Simmons will undoubtedly perform a lot of Kiss material. I don’t know, though, if he or other band members will handle the lead vocals on the Kiss songs he didn’t originally sing.
Mötley Crüe lead singer, KISS guitarist team up for ‘a concert like no other’ at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun
Lead vocalist of Mötley Crüe, Vince Neil, is teaming up with “The Spaceman,” Ace Frehley for what Mohegan Sun is calling “a concert like no other.” The two will share the stage of Mohegan Sun Arena on Jan. 31.
Neil recently rocked out at Mohegan Sun Arena with Mötley Crüe this August — the first time the group performed in Connecticut in nearly a decade. Before the group returns to the stage with its Las Vegas residency in March, Neil will be performing as a solo act for this performance. With Mötley Crüe, Neil has been the voice behind the group’s lengthy list of chart-topping songs including “Home Sweet Home,” “Dr. Feelgood,” “Kickstart My Heart” and “Girls, Girls, Girls.”
Frehley is also no stranger to the Mohegan Sun Arena stage, performing at the venue in May on his 10,000 Volts tour, according to concert tracking website setlist.fm. Before touring as a solo act in mid-1980’s, Frehley was the lead guitarist of the classic rock band KISS. Adopting “The Spaceman” persona, Frehley could be seen on stage with in a silver and black bodysuit with a Gibson Les Paul guitar that would produce smoke from the pickups. Frehley was responsible for penning KISS songs such as “Cold Gin,” “Shock Me” and “Parasite.”
Dimebag Darrell and Snake Sabo on their love of Ace Frehley, and how the Kiss legend shaped their playing
Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was never shy about his love of Kiss, and how Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley in particular inspired him to pick up the instrument.
Dimebag even went as far as getting a tattoo of Frehley, in his “Spaceman” makeup, on his chest, and was buried, after his tragic murder in 2004, in a “Kiss Kasket,” donated to his family by Gene Simmons.
Though not quiite as devoted a fan as Dimebag Darrell, Skid Row axeman Snake Sabo was also hugely influenced by Frehley, incorporating the latter’s showmanship and swaggering riffing and soloing style into his fretwork with the band.
Both guitarists were recruited by Guitar World in 1993 for a roundtable of sorts with Frehley – before which Dimebag and Sabo even went to the trouble of donning Spaceman makeup themselves.