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Post by DannyA on Apr 5, 2014 11:22:30 GMT -5
Finally got around to reading the Rolling Stone cover story on KISS. Wow. They make the egos in the Eagles, Stones, Kanye, etc. look like petty annoyances. I like a few songs, not really a fan of the band, but each of them truly believes they are the greatest thing that ever happened in music and the hate, ego and putdowns of each other are simply priceless. Maybe there's not a lot here that's not already known, but you put all the feuds in one spot and it makes for a great read. www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kiss-forever-40-years-of-feuds-and-fury-20140326 |
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Post by henchman on Apr 5, 2014 20:00:18 GMT -5
Most god aweful band ever. Followed by guns n roses.
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Post by DannyA on Apr 5, 2014 23:32:41 GMT -5
Most god aweful band ever. Followed by guns n roses. It's a tie in my book. But KISS had a smarter business plan. |
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Post by henchman on Apr 8, 2014 0:53:43 GMT -5
Most god aweful band ever. Followed by guns n roses. It's a tie in my book. But KISS had a smarter business plan. True. |
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Post by Merc on Apr 8, 2014 7:01:48 GMT -5
Danny, that was a really good read; thanks for the link. I was a KISS fan as a kid- and I don't mean that as a diss to anyone older into them. KISS were just fun. They were like comic-book superheroes or something. Blondie, Donna Summer, KISS - those were my LPs circa 1978. They were fun, they rocked and didn't give much of a shit about art. Or making cassic songs, they just did their thing.
I remember our teenage neighbor Sheila looking at my records (she must've been 16) and saying , "Ugh, you listen to this shit?". She was into the Stones, the defunct Beatles, Elton. What do you say to that? i put on disco records to drive her away, I was like, nine years old. Anyway, KISS were just fun.
(And, do we have to capitalize the band's name that way? We just called them Kiss. So did all the teenybopper magazines I bought featuring them. They had great visuals for my demographic at the time! And i'm suddenly feeling weird realizing Danny wrote for CREEM- not a teenybopper magazine, but didn't you write for them? That's not what i mean.
At the time, there was some article/interview with Kiss, and Gene Simmons expressed his exasperation at teenage dating rituals. "The girls i asked out always wanted to go see "Three Pennies in My Asshole" or something." And, at the time I was an altar boy at a huge church, and during a big Italian funeral where women in black were throwing themselves on the casket screaming, "Giiuseppe!!" I got the uncontrollable giggles from that Gene Simmons quote. Just, body-shaking giggles that you try to supress, and that makes it worse, as this scenario of grief and loss was playing out right there. All I could think of was, "Three Pennies In My Asshole", and was just dying there "on stage" as it were. I had to go "backstage" to control my giggles. While all these women were ailing in grief. Isn't that awful, but kind of funny? Inappropriate laughter that you try to stifle always comes out ten times more powerful.
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Post by DannyA on Apr 8, 2014 14:29:51 GMT -5
It was DylanDog who wrote for Creem, not I.
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Post by LongPlayer on Apr 8, 2014 16:37:17 GMT -5
That WAS a great read - best piece of music journalism I've read in quite some time. Sure, it's biased, but even if you shift your perspective to the center, the arrogance is still mindboggling. Please kill me if I ever get that way, I'm serious. I enjoy a good read that actually makes me contemplate "what IS happiness?".
I really had Zero time for Kiss when I was younger. Which went against the grain, because my peer group loved them. As Merc alluded to, I always thought of them as music for little kids who thought they were badass. Over the years, I've grown to..."appreciate" isn't really the right word...maybe "be fascinated by" the whole Kiss spectacle. But a lot of their music is still pretty lousy, my perspective of that hasn't changed. I'd much rather listen to Alice Cooper, when that was actually a band.
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Post by LongPlayer on Apr 8, 2014 16:42:53 GMT -5
It was DylanDog who wrote for Creem, not I. Fixed :-) |
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Post by Merc on Apr 9, 2014 11:14:11 GMT -5
It was DylanDog who wrote for Creem, not I. Ack! Apologies for the mistake, Dannybabe. Plz forgive.  |
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Post by DannyA on Apr 9, 2014 12:10:01 GMT -5
You flatter me!
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Post by DevilsAdvocate on Apr 9, 2014 18:12:01 GMT -5
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Post by ginchopolis on Apr 16, 2014 16:08:13 GMT -5
Damn, those first three records are incredible.
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