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Jim Kerr | Q104.3 News

Founding member of KISS, Peter Criss talks fromMake Up to Breakup, surviving breast cancer, and responds to comments from Steven Tyler.

Peter will be signing books this week:

Tuesday October 23 at 12:30pm – Barnes And Noble 5th Avenue NYC
Wednesday October 24 at 6pm – Bookends in Ridgewood, NJ
Saturday October 27 at 7pm – Barnes And Noble in Eatontown, NJ

Amy Andrews | Irish Central

George Pimento / Scott Alan

The KISS bass player admitted he finds the hunky actor attractive at the Carousel of Hope gala in Beverly Hills, California, at which George was the guest of honor for his philanthropic work.

Gene told ETonline.com: “What do you girls say when you like another girl, but you’re straight?”

When told he was referring to a “girl crush,” he added, “George could be my ‘boy crush’,” as he raised his eyebrows and tilted his sunglasses.

Gene’s wife, Shannon Tweed, was also very complimentary about George, praising his
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Chris Epting | Noisecreep

Chaiaki Nozu

KISS recently returned with Monster, their 20th studio album and a rocking return to the thunderous hooks and classic chordal mayhem that makes them, well, KISS. Over their 40-plus year history, the band can boast 28 U.S. gold albums, the most gold records for any American rock band, along with over 100 million albums sold worldwide.

Noisecreep recently had the pleasure of talking with longtime lead guitarist Tommy Thayer about the new album, and his life in the band.

It must feel good to finally have Monster in stores.

We’re all super happy and super proud of Monster and we put a lot of time and effort into making it great. We approached it from a very organic and simple place, like a band just starting out. We were just hanging out at each other’s houses, we arranged the songs at rehearsal then we’d go in and just knock them out. We didn’t even do demos. We didn’t have a label involved when we did it so there was no manager or A&R person telling us what to do, it was just the four of us making the calls, so whatever was in our hearts made it onto the record.

How has your role in KISS evolved over the years?

It has evolved a lot. My first dealing with KISS was an opening act on the Asylum tour in 1985 while I was in my band Black ‘N Blue. We did about 24-25 shows with KISS and I got to know Paul and Gene and then the relationship with Gene evolved after that. He produced some of our records, and then I worked on some KISS albums after that. Black ‘N Blue then ran its course and I was hired to work behind the scenes with KISS, managing different sorts of things. Then ten years ago things evolved again and I came on Continue reading →