Former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick was recently interviewed by Marko Syrjala for Metal-Rules. Kulick spoke at length about KISS‘ Conventions in 1995, the group’s MTV Unplugged appearance back in 1995 that led to him losing his position in the band, and the Carnival of Souls recording sessions.

Kulick is credited with playing bass on five of the ten songs on KISS‘ “reunion” album Psycho Circus that featured the band’s original line-up of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. Kulick also has a co-writing credit on the track “Dreamin’” with Simmons on Psycho Circus.

With respect to playing bass on the title track “Psycho Circus” which was co-written by Stanley and Curt Cuomo (the latter who went on to work with Kulick on his solo projects and Union),  the former KISS guitarist indicated:

“Yes, and that goes back to Curt Cuomo because Paul went to Curt’s place after the Carnival of Souls sessions and said to him, ‘I have this song idea,’ the two of them wrote it. I wasn’t a writer on the song, but they wanted me to play bass on it. So, we demoed it at Curt’s place, and I played the bass. Paul always liked how I played bass, so I put my Gene Simmons hat on, and I knew how to approach it. I didn’t know I’d be on the record—I knew I’d do the demo and a few others with Paul. Then Bruce Fairbairn, who produced that record, was very clear about my bass tracks. ‘I like this bass playing. Who is that?’ ‘Oh, it’s Bruce.’ ‘All right, well, let’s bring him in.’ You see? There are some really interesting stories about Psycho Circus that I’ll share in my book, too. It’s kind of interesting. Just to give you a quick overview: as much as I knew Paul and Gene slightly before I started to work with them, I started as a ghost guitarist with KISS, and then at some point, I became a ghost bass player for them when I wasn’t in the band again, so it’s an interesting connection there.”

You can read the rest of the interview with Bruce Kulick via Metal-Rules‘ website.