KISS FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Hottest Band in the Land

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THThese subjects and more appear in EKISS FAQE a showcasing the good bad and the weird that has made KISS the legendary ultimate rock-and-roll party band still going strong after 40 years. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, without written permission, except by a newspaper or magazine reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review.

Concert tickets were cheap, and bands would often tour even through small Midwest cites like Terre Haute, Indiana. As a more musical niche publication, the expanded scope and space allowed for the creative process to be explored in more depth. As the sole interview subject, it was new territory for Peter, with no Gene or Paul to dominate the conversation.

Any deviation would have made the ending impossible and diluted the resulting press coverage for the avatars. Everything that happened to KISS is due to what these men were beforehand, and to wave it off—as sometimes the band itself has done over the years, by dismissing their earlier bands and ignoring the work of the subsequent band members from the 1980s onward—is to diminish the history of KISS itself. On the final day of September, Peter participated in interviews with the Japanese publication Music Life, TV Week, and Modern Drummer. His new take does justice to the original, but the lack of a grand acoustic intro seems a texture-shifting opportunity missed for me. On the one hand it’s been enjoyed in its original form as an unreleased gem from the early era of Frehley’s Comet.

I agreed, and we piled into a pickup truck on a cold December night to see KISS share the stage with ZZ Top at Evansville’s Roberts Stadium. It actually is endearing when he says certain words or phrases, but he clearly doesn’t sound like he did in 2009, 1998, 1989, or 1984. And talk about the drums wasn’t ignored, with Peter emphasizing that he was downsizing his kit to fit more with his new requirements: “I won’t be using 16 drums anymore. No doubt, some topics listed within are more serious than others, but all are things that ultimately get very little coverage in the various bios and reference guides released about the band because they are exactly the types of topics that only fans bother to discuss.Peter would never be allowed the moment of subbing in for an emotional final rendition of “Beth” in a venue with equal meaning as that of his former partners. Leeta is best-known due to it popping up on the KISS five-disc box set collection from 2001, while fans commonly have heard of songs such as Stanley the Parrot (which transformed into Strutter for KISS) and Eskimo Sun (which morphed into Only You" on the Music from The Elderalbum). An accumulation of sleep deprivation, social overload, and the shock and awe of the buffeting of sonic waves and concussive blasts at two Kiss concerts found me in quite a state. There has been some suggestion, in the run up to the release of 10,000 Volts, that Ace Frehley is essentially a guest on his own album.