Alexx Michael
PRC LIVE Ace, Bruce and Vinnie will play together? PLUS we talk KISS Lead Guitar Players!
We have a LIVE DISCUSSION about all the KISS LEAD GUITAR PLAYERS! And we want you to get in on the conversation! PLUS HUGE NEWS coming out of the Creatures Fest camp involving VINNIE, ACE and BRUCE!
PRC LIVE- Gene Re-Invites ACE to the stage and KISS DRUMMERS
Gene wished Ace Frehley a HAPPY BIRTHDAY and it also camw with an invitation to join KISS on stage! Plus we talk KISS DRUMMERS in our TOPIC OF THE WEEK!
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KISS ROOM May Super Special w/ LEON DELANEY and KAT MARRA!
KISS ARMY – check out this BONUS issue of THE KISS ROOM, as I am joined by LEON DELANEY and KAT MARRA!
This is a free-wheeling, long form conversation, focusing on Leon’s life and career and, of course, the connections to KISS. This is a really fun conversation. I smiled the entire time and I hope that you will too. Sit back, get comfortable, and meet me in THE KISS ROOM.
This is a PodKISSt Network exclusive.
Three Sides of the Coin, episode 475 Two Listeners Join Us This Week, The Show is About Them
Michael Brandvold
PRC LIVE Paul Stanley’s LIST OF GREATEST SINGERS?
Paul put out his list of greatest singers and we will review and give you our TOP 5 Non-KISS Singers!
5 KISS Records to Influence Non-KISS Fans
If you had a friend that was not a KISS fan what 5 records would you use to influence them?
The KISS Room April 2022
On the APRIL issue of THE KISS ROOM, Bobby Dreher and I start the show talking with Joe D’Angelo about Kruise Fest! You’ll hear new music from the Quinn Vincent Invasion!
Of course, THE KISS ROOM HOUSE BAND rocks the room!
We’ve got KISS talk and KISS tunes and all of the fun that you expect every month in THE KISS ROOM!
It’s a party and YOU are invited!
Originally broadcast via Montco Radio on Friday, April 8, 2022.
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Three Sides of the Coin, episode 473 – Larry Mazer Talks Cheap Trick, KISS, Union, Cinderella, Nelson, Whitesnake and More!
Michael Brandvold
PRC LIVE What if KISS had broke up after the COTN Tour?
This week the boys talk about what they think might have happened if KISS had called it a day after the CREATURES OF THE NIGHT TOUR??
Paul Stanley Blasts Hollywood For Reaction To Will Smith Slap At The Oscars
KISS frontman Paul Stanley has little sympathy for Will Smith after his outburst at Sunday night’s Academy Awards presentation.
But what troubled Stanley most about the debacle was that less than an hour after slapping Chris Rock and cursing at him for a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, Will was given a standing ovation accepting his award for Best Actor.
Will later issued a formal apology, but that didn’t satisfy Stanley. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer echoed Wednesday what many live performers found so objectionable about the situation (and the copycats in might encourage).
“‘Unacceptable Behavior’?” Stanley began, paraphrasing Will’s apology. “What personal issues would embolden someone enough to walk onstage and ASSAULT another person? THEN how could an audience of people who believe themselves morally and socially conscious watch & spend the rest of the night cheering him? Sad and scary.”
Rock has yet to speak out on the issue in detail, but he did address it Wednesday when his stand-up tour with Kevin Hart played Boston.
“So how was your weekend?” Rock reportedly asked the audience after taking the stage.
GENE SIMMONS Says TOMMY THAYER And ERIC SINGER Are ‘Appreciative’ And ‘Professional’ When It Comes To Playing In KISS
During a brand new appearance on “The Adam Carolla Show”, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons discussed some of his fellow popular musicians who are not appreciative of their success and position. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It’s not fair to point a finger, because everybody’s got their own dynamics with life and living experiences. But anybody who is lucky enough, on the face of a planet of seven and a half billion people, to have more money than you could ever spend in your life, have more chicks run after you that you don’t deserve ’cause you’re not that good looking. I’m talking about myself. Glory, fame — all that stuff. I don’t have to do a goddamn thing and people will give me free stuff. Where were they when I couldn’t afford to get on a bus? That you wouldn’t see how blessed you are is delusional; it’s criminal. Because there are millions of people who would kiss the ground you walk on just to be given the chance. So, for instance, we have Tommy Thayer [KISS guitarist] and Eric Singer [KISS drummer] who’ve been with us 20 years; we’ve been around almost half a century. And we are quitting very soon. But Tommy and Eric show up on time; they’re appreciative, professional — no drugs, no booze; nothing. And I can’t say the same thing about — I always wanna shut my mouth — Ace [Frehley, original KISS guitarist], who I love to this day, and Peter [Criss, original KISS drummer]. They were every bit as important as Paul [Stanley, KISS frontman] and I in forming the band, but not everybody has the DNA to run a marathon. Some people are shooting stars; they look great for a short time, and then bye-bye.”
Three Sides of the Coin, episode 472 – Does KISS Care About Their Fans? Find Out Why We Ask This Question
Michael Brandvold
PRC LIVE-Unmasked Albums Ranked Worst to First
This week we take the 10 KISS releases that were the non-makeup era and we rank them worst to 1st!
KISS Reels of Rock Slot Machine Game
Here’s something you really need to play – The KISS Reels of Rock slot machine is an amazing high-quality, high-tech KISS-themed game. Just check it out if you have not already, it’s amazing:
Gene Simmons Said Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse Could Have Been Rock Stars but Selena Gomez Couldn’t
Kiss’ Gene Simmons isn’t afraid to share his opinions on artists from other generations. For example, he said Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse could have been rock stars even if he isn’t a fan of everything Gaga has done. In the same vein, he said Selena Gomez couldn’t have been a rock star if she tried.
During a 2021 interview with Us Weekly, Simmons revealed he respects Gaga even if he isn’t the biggest fan of dance music. “The new artists have that thing. When she first started, I said ‘Gaga is the next rock star.’ I’m not a fan of the disco boys on the poles and the sort of disco stuff of it.”
Simmons praised Gaga’s projects outside of the world of dance music. “She’s got the depth to sing with Tony Bennett which she did a chanteuse,” he said. “She’s got the depth. Listen to her sing ‘Shallow.’ She also did Edith Piaf, the classic French actress. I want to see Gaga with a rock band in the back of her rocking out because she’s got the goods.”
Simmons continued to say Gaga and Winehouse could have been rock stars but Gomez didn’t have the same capability. “I love all the Selena Gomezes and all that kind of stuff. [She] wouldn’t be able to hold up a rock band,” he opined. “Gaga’s got the goods and her versatility, you know who else had, Amy Winehouse.”
Three Sides of the Coin, episode 471 – Chris Lendt Returns to Talk Japan 1977, Dynasty, The Elder, Creatures and More!
Michael Brandvold
Episode 471, March 22, 2022 Chris Lendt, former KISS Business Manager, returns this week to continue last week’s discussion about Japan 1977. He shares his thoughts on Bill Aucoin’s quote about the band ending. We continue talking about when Chris first saw cracks within the band. What one mistake did the band make that he thought they shouldn’t have done. Chris’s insights into KISS are always so enlightening.
Paul Stanley Names His Top 11 Lead Vocalists Of All Time
KISS legend Paul Stanley took to Twitter to share a list of who he considers to be the top 11 lead singers of all time.
The majority of the singer’s on the list are rock icons from the ‘60s and ‘70s including The Temptation’s David Ruffin, who ranked in at number four on the list.
The 11th spot of Stanley’s list went to Heart’s Ann Wilson, who was recently named Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson’s favorite female singer of all time in a recent interview.
A shock entry on the list was Steve Marriott of Small Faces and Humble Pie fame, who took the second place slot, beating out Queen’s late-frontman Freddie Mercury.
Stanley named Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant as his all time favorite lead singer.
The full list curated by Stanley is as follows:
01. Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
02. Steve Marriott (Small Faces, Humble Pie)
03. Freddie Mercury (Queen)
04. David Ruffin (The Temptations)
05. Rod Stewart
06. Paul Rodgers (Bad Company, Free)
07. Janis Joplin
08. Steve Perry (Journey)
09. Brad Delp (Boston)
10. Brian Johnson (AC/DC)
10. Lou Gramm (Foreigner)
11. Ann Wilson (Heart)
Gene Simmons – The Most Famous Hungarian in Rock & Roll
Has it ever occurred to you while I was Made for Lovin’ You was bursting out of the radio or when you went crazy with the crowd at the first notes of Rock and Roll All Nite as Kiss took over the stage back on that magical summer night in ‘79 that the bassist/ leader co-founder of your favorite American rock band might be of Hungarian descent? No wonder you were immediately drawn to their music and religiously collected every album in your teens! But even if you have discovered this cult rock band just fairly recently (talking of the younger generation), we can all agree that it is no surprise it has a Hungarian member as we are known all over the world for creating extraordinary things, pulling out iconic tunes and, in general, writing history! Well, ok here we have exaggerated a little.. Anyway, let’s look at the fascinating story of Gene Simmons and the explanation behind his signature tongue-out antics.
It is fair to say that The Demon, as Gene Simmons calls himself on stage, had to travel a long, rugged road to success and fame. It took him a fair amount of courage and persistence to be able to leave behind his threadbare beginnings and become one of the most celebrated figures of rock and roll. Born in 1949 under Virgo ascendant, the ‘80s music icon first saw the day of light under the name Chaim Witz in an Israelian hospital in Haifa, a picturesque northern seaside town. His mother, Flóra Klein (née Flóra Kovács) came from a tiny Hungarian village called Jánd tucked in the Northern Great Plain region of Eastern Hungary. She was barely 18 when she was captured in a Budapest ghetto and dragged into a Nazi concentration camp along with her entire family. After years of great ordeal and unimaginable scenes of horror, the young woman was liberated by American troops at the Austrian Mauthausen camp. She married a fellow Jewish-Hungarian called Ferenc “Feri” Yehiel Witz, a skilled carpenter, and they changed their base to Izrael to leave behind the haunting memories of their dreadful past. However, the new land did not deliver its promises. It was hard to make ends meet in a then underdeveloped country (it was around the time of the Israeli Declaration of Independence), besides there were also constant raging arguments at home. Simmons was still very young when his father walked out on his family for good. After his departure, the family plunged into poverty.
Gene Simmons rallies against racism in America: “it has got to stop”
Louder Sound
The Kiss legend used an anecdote involving ex-flame Diana Ross to ram home his point
Kiss legend Gene Simmons has commented on the racism epidemic that continues to affect America, using an anecdote involving one-time flame Diana Ross to emphasise how deeply the issue has run over the years.
“Yes, [America is] racist,” Gene notes in a new interview with Metal Hammer. “Yes, it’s anti-semitic. And yet, here in America, there are no limits. You can have an African American president, you can also have the alternate – a semi-racist, semi-extremist president – but anything’s possible. Which is why I still worship the idea of America: it can get better and it will get better.
“People think of Martin Luther King, making great advancements for African Americans and just kind of smashing the door open to deal with it,” he continues. “And you’ve got to deal with this thing. We’ve got to get along and stop treating African Americans, especially, so horribly in America. Racism has got to stop.”
Gene goes on to use an anecdote courtesy of Diana Ross to illustrate his point. The rocker dated the MoTown icon in the 80s, and says she would tell him stories of her experiences as a young black artist in America in the 1960s