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KISS ex-drummer Peter Criss interviewed in 2011 about growing up on jazz | Raw & Uncut
BRUCE KULICK – “I’m in a position where I can choose what I want to do, and I want to do it with some level of comfort”
Bruce Kulick is a New York-born guitarist best known for his tenure with the iconic rock band KISS from 1984 to 1996. During this period, he contributed to several albums and tours in the band’s non-makeup era. Following his time with KISS, Kulick formed the band Union, released several solo albums, and joined Grand Funk Railroad in 2000, serving as their lead guitarist until his departure in December 2023. As of January 2025, Kulick remains active in the music industry. He maintains a strong presence on social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, where he shares updates on his musical endeavors and personal projects.
Recently, Kulick has been working on his autobiography, aiming to provide an in-depth look into his life and career. In this interview, Kulick reflects on the events of 2024 and speculates about what might happen in 2025. He also revisits 1995, when the band embarked on a successful KISS Convention -tour that ultimately led to the recording of the classic Unplugged, and recalls the studio sessions for Kulick’s last KISS album, Carnival of Souls, held before KISS reunited with the original lineup in 1996.
KISS Frontman Paul Stanley on his Rock & Roll Stardom
Gene Simmons Kept Names And Photos Of 5,000 Sexual Partners, Then Burned The Evidence With His Wife
Gene Simmons recently opened up about his past during an interview on Howie Mandel Does Stuff on YouTube. Simmons addressed long-standing rumors about his relationships and revealed a surprising story about how he and his wife, Shannon Tweed, decided to destroy records of his past.
GENE SIMMONS Adds More Shows To Spring 2025 Tour With His Solo Band
KISS bassist Gene Simmons and his solo band, the GENE SIMMONS BAND, have announced more shows as part of their spring 2025 tour.
Confirmed dates so far:
April 03 – House Of Blues – Anaheim, CA
April 04 – Pechanga Resort Casino – Temecula, CA
April 05 – The Event at Graton Resort & Casino – Rohnert Park, CA
April 08 – Muckleshoot Casino Resort – Auburn, WA
April 10 – The Great Saltair – Magna, UT
April 11 – Paramount Theatre – Denver, CO
April 25 – Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, FL
April 26 – Miami Beach, FL – Fillmore
April 28 – The Moon – Tallahassee, FL
April 29 – Florida Theater – Jacksonville, FL
April 30 – Hard Rock Live – Orlando, FL
May 03 – Beaver Dam Amphitheater – Beaver Dam, KY
May 05 – Basie – Red Bank, NJ
May 06 – Wellmont – Montclair, NJ
May 08 – Wind Creek Casino – Bethlehem, PA
May 09 – The Paramount – Huntington, NY
May 11 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
May 14 – MGM – Northfield, OH
May 15 – Fallsview Casino – Niagara Falls, ON
May 17 – The Horseshoe – Hammond, IN
May 18 – Hard Rock – Rockford, IL
May 20 – Brown County Music Center – Nashville, IN
May 22 – House Of Blues – Dallas, TX
May 23 – Tobin Center – San Antonio, TX
May 24 – House Of Blues – Houston, TX
Salem man accused of stealing Kiss memorabilia, jewelry and 80,000 baseball cards
Salem police on Tuesday arrested a man accused of stealing 80,000 baseball cards and a guitar signed by Kiss band members from an estate and retail company in northeast Salem.
The man, Johnathan D. Korrell, 36, of Salem, is accused of stealing from four northeast Salem businesses and breaking into a fifth in less than a month, a police statement said.
Those include multiple burglaries from 4 Season Estates. On Dec. 20, a Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by all four original Kiss band members was stolen and $1,000 of Kiss memorabilia was stolen on Christmas Eve.
Salem police arrested Korrell on Tuesday for stealing from four northeast Salem businesses and breaking into a fifth in less than a month, a police statement said.
Korrell faces three charges of first degree burglary, three of second degree burglary and seven other charges including attempted burglary, theft and criminal mischief. According to the arrest affidavit, the stolen items were worth almost $150,000.
The first burglary happened on Dec. 9, when three suspects stole $60,000 to $70,000 in jewelry from M&S Sales Flea Market, located on Northeast Fairgrounds Road.
Korrell was identified as a suspect by security camera footage and the clothes he was wearing when he was later arrested.
KISS – Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley on R&R with Roger Rose – 1994
KISS – Paul Stanley interviewed on MTV by Martha Quinn – 1985
Ace Frehley’s wild Kiss moments: “A smoke bomb ignited too early inside the cavity of the guitar, and it melted my asbestos costume to my thigh”
If rock ‘n’ roll had a safety manual, Ace Frehley clearly never read it.
From rocket-firing guitars that nearly roasted Gene Simmons to electrocution incidents that came dangerously close to disaster, the former Kiss guitarist’s onstage antics often felt more like scenes from an action movie than moments from a rock concert.
Speaking to MusicRadar, Frehley begins by sharing a more grounded (literally) hazard of the job: performing in platform boots.
“I used to fall a lot in those boots,” says the guitarist. “A lot of times. Paul [Stanley] would cover for me by walking over to me like it was part of the show. He made it look like it was choreography or something.”
“If nobody realised I’d fallen, I play on my knees and get back up. It was just part of the show!”
In the ’70s – and again when Kiss’s original lineup reunited in the ’90s – Frehley would intentionally drop to his knees during the outro solo of Black Diamond. While planned, it was no less painful: “I screwed my knees up doing that,” he says. “I would drop to my knees, and the weight of the Les Paul really killed them.”
“During the Reunion Tour, I ended up chipping a bone in my knee, and the doctor said, ‘Listen, you gotta stop doing that, or you’ll end up in a wheelchair.’”
Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley – COMPLETE Miami Vault Q&A and Jam
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“I should have been dead that night!”: Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley recalls the moment he almost died on stage
.And he nearly took out Gene Simmons with his rocket-firing guitar!
Former Kiss star Ace Frehley has told MusicRadar that he was lucky to survive an onstage accident in the ’70s – and says that his brush with death inspired him to write one of the band’s classic songs.
Ace had two periods in Kiss – from 1973 to 1982, and then from 1996 to 2002. He was a founding member of the band alongside guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley, bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons and drummer Peter Criss.
Speaking to MusicRadar, Ace begins by admitting that wearing platform boots on stage was always problematic for him.
“I used to fall a lot in those boots,” he says. “A lot of times. Paul would cover for me by walking over to me like it was part of the show. He made it look like it was choreography or something.
“If nobody realised I’d fallen, I play on my knees and get back up. It was just part of the show!”
In the ’70s and also after the band’s original line-up reunited in the ’90s, Ace would drop to his knees during the outro solo of the song Black Diamond. This was planned… and painful.
“I screwed my knees up doing that,” he says. “I would drop to my knees, and the weight of the Les Paul really killed them.
“During the Reunion Tour, I ended up chipping a bone in my knee, and the doctor said, ‘Listen, you gotta stop doing that, or you’ll end up in a wheelchair.’
“We ended up putting a pad under the carpet where I’d fall. I tried to hit it—and if you look at old videos, you can see that I’d go down one knee at a time.”
Ace’s famous stage prop was his rocket-firing guitar, which almost led to disaster.
“I fired one of those rockets at Gene and it almost f**king hit him,” he laughs. “It flew right by his head. It would have burned him pretty bad.”
Ace himself wasn’t always so lucky. The rocket-firing guitar was also fitted with smoke bombs, of which Ace says: “I burned my leg real bad once back in the ‘70s, man. A smoke bomb ignited too early inside the cavity of the guitar, and it melted the asbestos—which our f**king costumes were made from—to my thigh.”
But the closest shave for Ace came during a show in Lakeland, Florida in 1976, when he was electrocuted due to a grounding issue, which left a staircase rail electrically charged. It nearly killed him.
“I should have been dead that night,” he says. “The fact that I got electrocuted and didn’t fall forward was a godsend. There must have been angels pushing me back.
“I was standing on top of four Marshall cabinets on a staircase when I got shocked. I had a heavy Les Paul around my neck, and my body should have fallen forward—but I didn’t.”
Remarkably, Ace not only survived to tell the tale, but he finished the show.
“If I fell forward, I would have broken my f**king neck,” he says. “But I fell back, and the road crew dragged me back off of the staircase. I had no feeling in my hands for five to ten minutes.
“I went on to finish the show,” he says proudly. “But I maybe had feeling in half of my fingers by the time it was done. It was crazy shit, man, but I did get Shock Me out of it. So, I guess it wasn’t all for nothing.”
The song Shock Me was included on the band’s 1977 album Love Gun, and was the first Kiss track to feature Ace on lead vocals.
Ace Frehley of KISS, classic 1978 radio interview for his solo album
KISS – Millennium – Behind the scenes
Rock icon and Hall of Famer Gene Simmons coming to MGM Northfield
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Gene Simmons — bassist-singer-songwriter for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Kiss — is coming to the MGM Northfield Park on Wednesday, May 14.
Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, January 17, at ticketmaster.com. Presale tickets will be available at 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 17 via the code “OCTAVE.”
Simmons was inducted into the Rock Hall alongside his Kiss bandmates, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in 2014. The band spent more than two years on its farewell “End of the Road Tour” which included two stops at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in 2019 and finally in October of 2023.
Ace Frehley – Rip It Out 1987
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