KISS
nzshadow
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1980, I was seven years old. A big boy at school told me that the band KISS were satanists, and that KISS stood for Kids In Satans Service. That was some scary shit. I managed to convince my Mom to by me Unmasked. That album was so fuckin cool. i put the poster on my wall next to the Darth Vader one.My room ruled.Then my stupid cousin Jackie came to stay, she slept in the bottom bunk in my room.She was scared of KISS and Darth Vader, so my mum took my posters down.Fuck you Jackie.
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kinda like the circus but heavier
but gene has devalued KISS in my eyes with his gross TV schtick
I loved KISS as a kid. I believed that not only were they superior rock musicians who made kick ass songs but that they had super powers and after the show they would fly away and engage in mystical battles with other super powered beings. I bought into the whole thing, lunch boxes, dolls, shirts, KISS everything. I used to think about KISS fighting the Beatles (my mother's favorite group) and how KISS would destroy them.
No offense to your family, but I second you -
fuck you Jackie.
MCF
When NBC started the commercials for "Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park" I was hyped...bugged the shit outta my parents about it. They knew they didnt want to watch it (we only had one TV), so my dad ended up getting some old ass TV from god knows where and put it in my room so I could watch it. However, after the movie the TV went up in the attic or something, they didnt think it was a good idea for me to have a TV in my room, but I digress....
I love Kiss...a deep cut from the "Dressed to Kill" LP, "Getaway" is one of my favorite songs...a perfect rock n roll song, apparently they never played it live..pity
I heart KISS.
His TV schtick is what has kept that band alive loooong after its sell-by date.
My life has been completely altered and music becomes the reigning distraction of my entire life.
Kissology 1 and 2 are if you grew up on Kiss. It will fill you with warm fuzzy shit.
John Lennon would have kicked Ace Frehley's frail ass!!!
then would have bought Ace a drink and a smoke and gotten shithammered with him.
Being a roadie for an all Ace Frehley cover band (Ace's High) at one time in my life, I feel obligated to stick up for Ace (even if I had to dress up as Vinnie Vincent and get verbally abused throughout the show as part of my job).
First of all, Ace would stomp on John's bare feet with his massive space boots. As John bent over to find his bloody foot hiding somewhere in his flowing bellbottoms, Ace would shove a smoking guitar up Lennon's ass, not looking back as he traveled through space leaving John wounded and thinking "fuck, maybe I shouldn't have given peace a chance this time".
MCF
1977. West Orange, NJ. Korvette's Dept. Store. "Alive" is purchased with allowance money.
My life has been completely altered and music becomes the reigning distraction of my entire life.
Kissology 1 and 2 are if you grew up on Kiss. It will fill you with warm fuzzy shit.
I still have all my KISS albums. Even "Alive", which also happens to be the first record I ever bought. I've met numerous musicians ans celebrities in my time and never really got too excited about it. I'll tell ya though, if I ever had the opportunity to meet any of the guys from KISS, I would be a star-struck little kid all over again. They were my first exposure to the power, magic and beauty of music. They helped make my childhood really fuckin cool. I would draw their album covers endlessly until I could almost do it from memory. I had the t-shirts, posters, lunchbox, make up kit, trading cards, etc. etc. To this day, my mom still likes KISS and knows the songs because of all the times KISS was blaring through the speakers in my room.
I even went to the reunion concert at Madison Square Garden and it sent chills up my spine. Yet another reason I consider myself fortunate to have come up in the era that I did.
For some reason the only part of that I believe is that Ace would shove something up John's ass.
my single mom and I are walking past Varsity Stadium here in Toronto, and the KISS show is about to start. There were thousands of completely stoned 19 year olds wandering everywhere. This one group walks up to me and my mom and holler "Hey Lady... wanna buy some KISS make up?" My mom vise grips my hand and starts to walk away as fast as she can, while I holler "Mom... can you pleeeeeease get me some make up?" in the most excited voice I could muster. the last thing I heard as she tore me away was the dudes all laughing and exclaiming "Oh shit.... the kids cool".
I have by association always loved KISS, even if for only that moment.
Flash forward to 1987 (after loosening up, and broadening my conception of rock'n'roll considerably) when I pick up the double Kiss Platinum cassette and drive my brother insane with it on a long road trip.
Flash forward to 2007, where I've come to the point that if I ever see Gene Simmons on the street I swear I'll snatch that shiedl off of his head and kick him in his crusty old butt.
Strange how things change...
haha, I thinking the same thing.
I can understand if you liked the band when you were 7 or whatever, but its the grown up fans that scare me.
Detroit Rock City was pretty good though.