Simmons’ son Nick posted a video of him and Evan Stanley performing the song and wrote in the caption, “He garfunkeled my simon till my hall got oates.”

Gene also shared their video on X, saying in the caption, “Nick Simmons and Evan Stanley. Check this out. Amazing.”

In the comment section, fans seemed to enjoy Nick and Evan’s cover of the track. A person wrote, “The next lineup of Kiss?” Another one added, “The next generation of Kiss.” One other fan noted, “Killer stuff!! New band a coming!”

Stanley leads Amber Wild, which opened for KISS on some of their final shows. Nick Simmons has sung with Bruce Kulick in the studio, performed with Wolfmother, and is part of the electronic duo Sym Fera.

It isn’t known whether they have plans to revive KISS. In a chat with Jeff Gaudiosi of MisplacedStraws.com earlier this year, Evan discussed rumors about him possibly taking over KISS. He explained, “No, it’s the funniest thing. People keep asking that constantly.”

He added, “It’s like, dude, you can look at like a thousand interviews where my dad says it, Gene [Simmons] says it, I say it, Nick [Simmons] says it. It’s like, no. That’s my dad’s thing. I’m busy with my thing. I appreciate it. I’m grateful for it. I love it. I’m a fan of the music. I’m a fan of the show. I’ve gotten to have a really unique and very wonderful life as a direct result of it.”

“Do I want to put the makeup on and be baby Paul? F*ck no, I got my own thing going. That’s not a knock. I think there’s someone out there who probably would want to do that, and they’ll probably do an amazing job. I’ve not spent my life trying to be that so, no, I got too much other stuff going on,” Evans then shared.

At the end of KISS’s final show at Madison Square Garden on December 2, 2023, the band announced they would continue as digital avatars. The technology, first used for ABBA’s ‘Voyage’ show in London, will let KISS stay on the road after retiring.

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In a recent interview with Meltdown, former KISS rocker Ace Frehley confirmed that he has begun working on ‘Origins Vol. 3,’ the follow-up to his 2016 and 2020 cover song collections.

“I’m working on ‘Origins Vol. 3′, ’cause that’s the next record I’m putting out next year in 2025,” he explained during the interview. “So, we’re starting to gear up for that and figuring out which songs [to include on the LP]. I have a long extensive list and we’re slowly whittling it down to which ones we’re gonna track.”

“‘Origins Vol. 3’ will probably be out before the end of 2025. I usually put out a record every year, year and a half, two years now. I have two more albums on my record deal with MNRK Music. And everything’s great,” the guitarist added.

In the second of the first two versions of the albums, the rocker featured cover versions of classic rock tracks. However, making a covers album wasn’t his idea. “To be honest with you, initially, I wasn’t that excited about the project, because I had just come off the high of the success of ‘Space Invader’, which is all originals except for a cover of ‘The Joker,’” he explained. “It was almost, like, ‘Okay, I’m going to go through the motions and get this out of the way and then jump into the studio for my next real studio album.’ But I’ve gotta tell ya, man, once I started the process and started remembering the groups that influenced me, narrowing down which songs I thought were going to be best for the record, and then started the recording process; I really started getting more excited about it.”

‘Origins Vol. 2′ was released in 2020. It features the covers of The Beatles’ ‘I’m Down,’ Deep Purple’s ‘Space Truckin’,’ Led Zeppelin’s ‘Good Times Bad Times,’ The Rolling Stones’ ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash,’ The Kinks’ ‘Lola,’ and The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s ‘Manic Depression,’ among others. A cover of KISS’s 1975 song ‘She’ was also included as a bonus track. Guests on the album included Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, Lita Ford, and former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.

‘Origins Vol. 1,’ released in April 2016, debuted at No. 23 on The Billboard 200, with 16,000 equivalent album units sold in its first week. The album featured collaborations with KISS frontman Paul Stanley on Free’s ‘Fire And Water,’ Slash on Thin Lizzy’s ‘Emerald,’ Lita Ford on The Troggs’ ‘Wild Thing,’ former Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 on KISS’s ‘Parasite,’ and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready on KISS’s ‘Cold Gin.

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