HOF.joe_lmr wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:16 pm Half this thread is actually C/NC: Peter Criss so I'll repeat what FM Dovey once said about his playing: that he plays like he's afraid the drums will hit back.
Re: Band: KISS
42I probably think about this two or three times a week. It'll never stop being funny. That and Faiz's Paul Stanley chicken story mentioned upthread!joe_lmr wrote: Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:16 pm Half this thread is actually C/NC: Peter Criss so I'll repeat what FM Dovey once said about his playing: that he plays like he's afraid the drums will hit back.
He / him / his
"Let's play this one for laughs / Let's make it never stop"
The Family Ghost (band) | Revenge Body (solo)
"Let's play this one for laughs / Let's make it never stop"
The Family Ghost (band) | Revenge Body (solo)
Re: Band: KISS
43I love you buds, but you are straight up squares sometimes...
If the only thing KISS ever did was get me Alison Robertsom kicking out the last note of this solo dressed up like Space Ace?
That would put them way over in "Easily Not Crap..." territory.
I'm gonna come back to this, but that was the "You Don't Have To Show Your Work..." version.
If the only thing KISS ever did was get me Alison Robertsom kicking out the last note of this solo dressed up like Space Ace?
That would put them way over in "Easily Not Crap..." territory.
I'm gonna come back to this, but that was the "You Don't Have To Show Your Work..." version.
Re: Band: KISS
44Seriously...
The "You're Kidding Me, Right?..." value of Space Ace taking a verse in this tune?
Massive...
The "You're Kidding Me, Right?..." value of Space Ace taking a verse in this tune?
Massive...
Re: Band: KISS
46I remember that the Devil is gonna have to play without an Ace in his deck...MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 10:52 am As a little kid in the 70s, I loved them. I played the shit out of Alive I and II, staring at the gatefolds and imagining a World of Rock. I was Ace two halloweens in a row.
And then they put out whatever record had "I was made for loving you" on it and young me was like yep, done with these guys.
Once a month or so we go over to my sister in law's and play cards. We listen to some satellite radio something or other, and literally every damn time some song comes on that no one knows, but it sounds like a particularly inept bar band from northern Montana recording in a closet....that song turns out to be a KISS song. Every damn time.
Peter Criss is by far the wussiest rock drummer ever. I would say his arms looked like a grandmother's, even in his "prime", but that would be insulting to grandmas worldwide. My massage therapist is a grandma and she could kick his ass.
Who remembers Frehley's Comet? Circa 1987, some high school buds and I went to see them. They trudge through a set of plod rock clunkers. It's time for Ace's big guitar solo. He meanders through a bunch of cliche boomer pentatonic licks, some smoke bombs go off, then for the big finale, he waddles up to the mic, starts doing some super rudimentary, not very fast two hand tapping and croaks "I STILL GOT IT!". High school buds and I look at each other and without a word we all turn and head for the exit.
CRAP but I bet the shows in 1977 were pretty fun.
Re: Band: KISS
47Bob Ezrin's sons guesting on "God Of Thunder"?
(On their walkie talkies, no less...)
That is some of the most "Not Crap" stuff on any record, ever.
(On their walkie talkies, no less...)
That is some of the most "Not Crap" stuff on any record, ever.
Re: Band: KISS
48I'm voting Crap, but it is 100% in honor of one the best series of posts ever made:
In my life, I have used "Man, fuck [enter name]. For real." and "Fuck [enter name] in makeup. Fuck [enter name] out of makeup." Changed my life for the best.Marsupialized wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:14 pm Man, fuck Kiss. Fuck early Kiss, fuck late Kiss. Fuck mid period Kiss. Fuck Kiss in makeup. Fuck Kiss out of makeup. Fuck Kiss.
The song 'God of thunder' is ok, I guess but fuck Kiss nonetheless.
Re: Band: KISS
49Like I mentioned in my recent Elton John post, you kind of had to be there. A song called God Of Thunder sung by a man in spiky armor with a demon's face and a long pointy tongue who spit up blood and breathed fire while playing a bass guitar shaped like a bloody axe was absolutely MINDBLOWINGLY cool to a nine year old boy in the late 1970s.
Now I look back and sure, the cheese factor was high but those first few albums are still chock full of killer riffs and catchy tunes. Even the much maligned Dynasty has Ace's badass take on the Rolling Stones' 2000 Man. I never saw them live but I was in the KISS Army and drew their logo on my school folders and had the comic books (still do) and bought every record and hung their posters on my bedroom wall. And yes, I started playing guitar because I wanted to be like Ace Frehley.
All the shameless greed and douchebaggery and shitty music that followed isn't enough to tarnish that legacy. For me, anyway. And Ace WROTE Cold Gin so you're goddamn right he can sing a verse.
Here's the classic Tom Snyder appearance from 1979 where Ace (loaded on booze and coke) completely undermines any seriousness Gene and Paul try to project:
Now I look back and sure, the cheese factor was high but those first few albums are still chock full of killer riffs and catchy tunes. Even the much maligned Dynasty has Ace's badass take on the Rolling Stones' 2000 Man. I never saw them live but I was in the KISS Army and drew their logo on my school folders and had the comic books (still do) and bought every record and hung their posters on my bedroom wall. And yes, I started playing guitar because I wanted to be like Ace Frehley.
All the shameless greed and douchebaggery and shitty music that followed isn't enough to tarnish that legacy. For me, anyway. And Ace WROTE Cold Gin so you're goddamn right he can sing a verse.
Here's the classic Tom Snyder appearance from 1979 where Ace (loaded on booze and coke) completely undermines any seriousness Gene and Paul try to project:
Re: Band: KISS
50I was there. Bought the comic, saw them on TV specials (Phantom , Paul Lynde), listened to their tunes on the radio, friends had Kiss records and dolls. Back then I didn't care for them. Still don't.
Crap.
Crap.