The KISS Thread

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I know you think very highly of me, but I'm no mind reader.

[AxlsMainMan]

and fix your msn already

Yeah Larry, do your part for the economy and get a new computer already

[D]

Seriously Kiss' first album had

Strutter
Nothing to Lose
Firehouse
Cold Gin
Deuce
100,000 years
Black Diamond

7 of their all time greatest songs on the first album. It an Destroyer are definitely the two definitive albums

Lick it up and Revenge are the post makeup best

[FunkyMonkey]

Below are 30 second samples of the forthcoming KISS album 'Sonic Boom'.

http://kissarmynews.blogspot.com/2009/09/sonic-boom-audio-samples-available.html

[IzzyDutch]

Sound awesome! Really looking forward to the full thing now

[D]

Just joined the Kiss Army

Gonna get big time tickets to Atlanta if the fucking things ever go onsale

[Malcolm]

KISS: Oshawa Concert Sold Out

According to the Toronto Sun, all the tickets to KISS' October 7 concert at the GM Centre in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada have sold out.

"Every single, solitary, last one is gone," Oshawa city councillor Robert Lutczyk told the Sun today. "Everything, not one is left."

Tickets went on sale to the general public this morning at 10 a.m. The centre was expected to hold around 5,600 people for the concert.

Members of the KISS Army and GM Centre's Backstage Pass were able to take advantage of pre-sales earlier this week but Lutczyk said he's heard every batch of tickets went like hot cakes.

"They all went in minutes," he said. "There was a huge demand for these things."

At least 100 fans spent two days lined up outside the GM Centre waiting for tickets. Early this morning, the line had grown to a few hundred.

"I doubt that the 10th person in line got tickets," Lutczyk said.

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Below are 30 second samples of the forthcoming KISS album 'Sonic Boom'.

http://kissarmynews.blogspot.com/2009/09/sonic-boom-audio-samples-available.html

They sound good, methinks I shall pick this album up.

[Malcolm]

Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe conducted an interview last week with KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

The Boston Globe: Congratulations on the nomination [for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame]. How are you feeling about it?

Stanley: There's a long way between a nomination and induction. That being said, this is really something that I think is exciting. There is a very vocal segment of KISS fans and rock fans who have wanted us in. And so for them I'm very, very pleased.

The Boston Globe: What was the impetus for the new album, since you probably could've carried on successfully as you have until you retired?

Stanley: I think this lineup [with drummer Eric Singer and lead guitarist Tommy Thayer] is so terrific and being in the midst of our most successful, biggest tour ever . . . it was so obvious, not only to me, but to the fans, how great the band is and how quintessentially we are KISS. For me it was just a matter of one stumbling block, and that would be me producing the album. It really was about, at this point, making sure that I didn't have to make apologies for something that came out.

The Boston Globe: Why have Eric and Tommy wear Ace and Peter's makeup? Were the characters they came up with just really lame, like sunflower man or something?

Stanley: We've built those characters over 35 years and the idea that anybody owns those is ridiculous. We were there when they were created and we've worked our butts off for 35 years, so the idea that we should have "snail man" in the band is ridiculous. We did that at one point and realized that it really was a disservice to the fans because the fans know those four iconic figures. That's KISS to everybody, and whether someday somebody wears my makeup, I'd consider it an honor, quite honestly. It would mean that the band is continuing with the same philosophy and thriving without me.

[FunkyMonkey]

^^There are a lot of comments already on that one...

PAUL STANLEY Defends KISS' Right To Continue Using 'Catman' And 'Spaceman' Makeup - Sep. 29, 2009

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=127851

[Malcolm]

According to Interbridge.com's The Late Night TV Page, KISS will guest on CBS-TV's "Late Show With David Letterman" on Tuesday, October 6.

KISS filmed footage for the "Modern Day Delilah" video during the band's private warm-up show at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on September 24. Over 1,500 lucky fans attended the event, where the group also previewed its new stage and taped two songs for an upcoming episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

KISS' appearance on ABC-TV's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will be broadcast on the Wednesday, October 7 episode (which will actually air the morning of Thursday, October .

[D]

New album is fantastic

Standouts are

Modern Day Delilah
Russian Roulette
Never Enough
Stand *kinda corny but still good
Danger Us
Hot and Cold

Im not a fan of Tommy and Eric wearing the makeup but oh well, I am too big of a Kiss fan to let that be a deal breaker cause basically Ace and Peter choose to not be in the band.

[FunkyMonkey]

Part 2 has been posted, and here is part 1 also...

ROADRUNNER RECORDS UK EXCLUSIVE: KISS Track by Track Part 1 & 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju2NUGjKaOM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUXaZKtpbXM

[CheapJon]

are semi-listening to the album (have it on while doing other stuff) and it's better then expected, never been a fan of kiss more then the hits

[D]

quick review

Modern Day Delilah  9/10
Russian Roulette 9/10
Never Enough 9/10
Nobody's Perfect 8/10
Stand  9/10
Hot and cold 8/10
All For The Glory 7/10
Danger Us 8.5/10
I'm An Animal 7/10
When Lightning Strikes 6.5/10
Say Yeah 9.5/10

Overall great Kiss album I rank it right with Revenge

overall bout an 8.5/10

[Bodhi]

Im not a fan of Tommy and Eric wearing the makeup but oh well, I am too big of a Kiss fan to let that be a deal breaker cause basically Ace and Peter choose to not be in the band.

yeah but I am a fan of the fact that they are not hiding who they are whatsoever with their names printed huge under their pics...it is not like Kiss is trying to pull a fast one...plus these guys have been in and out of Kiss for the last 20 something years...

[IzzyDutch]

D I agree with the standouts you mentioned.. only Never Enough trades places with When Lightning Strikes. It's not Ace but it's a good track, my favorite along with Russian Roulette. My least favorite track is All For The Glory.

[FunkyMonkey]

Interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss: Creating A Sonic Boom

October 9, 2009

Now, how are the KISS fans receiving Eric Singer as Peter Criss and Tommy Thayer as Ace Frehley?

It?s not ?as? anything. In football teams there?s a number. If one of the players gets kicked out of the band three times for not being a team player and for using drugs and alcohol, ?your ass is grass,? as they say in New York! You may have been worthy of the team once. Why the hell would you continue to keep somebody on the team if they?re not carrying their load?

The reason why I ask is because the first time you replaced Peter Criss and Ace Frehley with the late Eric Carr and Vinnie Vincent, Eric Carr wore the face paint of a fox and Vinnie Vincent wore an ankh on his face?

We tried different personas and it was okay, but we said why do we have to? This is iconic. When I go to see Batman at the movies, there have been different people as Batman, but it?s still Batman. Why would we change it?

Continue reading: http://www.theaquarian.com/2009/10/09/interview-gene-simmons-kiss-creating-a-sonic-boom/2/

[D]

All For The GLory is my least favorite also

I fucking love "I am an Animal" now

So that goes up to a 9/10

[Bodhi]

anyone seeing them live on this tour? Im going to the show at Madison Square Garden tomorrow night!! cant wait...It will also be my 4th Buckcherry show of the year..haha