During an appearance on a recent episode of Billboard‘s “Behind The Setlist” podcast, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons spoke about how he now tours and performs with his solo band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I thought I could stay away from the stage [after the completion of KISS‘s ‘End Of The Road’ farewell tour]. It bears noting that there’s a magic that happens up there that words don’t really sort of describe. It’s a feeling, and it’s tough to talk about feelings. It’s probably closer to… There used to be a guy named Dr. [Arthur] Janov and he had a kind of a strange hippie point of view about people having their stuff pent up. So you put people in a padded room. And it was called scream therapy. You go in there and you just let loose and reportedly — I was never part of that, but reportedly — people would come out drenched in sweat and relieved and tired and you expel all this stuff. And going through life, there are rules. You can’t compliment women too much. There’s no more hugging. There’s all these rules. You can’t do trans jokes, gay jokes, Jew jokes, black — you can’t do any of that stuff because we’re very sort of… There are subtle rules that we all have to be aware of. Not on stage. You are free. You just expel all this energy, and it’s this celebration of life with the fans and you, and you get to this kind of joyous place. So the GENE SIMMONS BAND is a chance for me, with some friends who are monsters on their instruments, to go out there and just have a great time. It bears noting we don’t have managers, road crew, nothing. No trucks, nothing. The local promoters provide the backline, and we just get up there and play. And there are no set-in-stone setlists. Fans can yell, ‘Hey, why don’t you do ‘Almost Human’ from 1804?’ You betcha. And you break into it. Or, ‘Do you guys know ‘Whole Lotta Love’?’ ‘Yeah, I think so.’ And you break into it. Or you jam. And at every show we bring fans up on stage. ‘Can you sing?’ ‘Can you play? Let’s have a party.'”