The KISS Army Finland is putting on their 4th Helsinki KISS Expo June 3, 2013 to coincide with the KISS concert that day in the same city. Lydia Criss will be the special guest and it is looking to be one hell of a show!
Visit the website HERE for more info.
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Hosted by: Frankie Dee,Henry K,Krissy “The Car Girl” Celebrity Co-Host: Mark Mendoza (Twisted Sister) Celebrity Guest: Evan Stanley (Son of Paul Stanley from Kiss) Perfourms with Mark Mendoza (Twisted Sister). This will be Evans first LIVE! appearance on RADIO! Plus! The Band SUMMERS Rock, Based out of the UK. Indie Recording Artist: Kidd Concept Port Jefferson Station, NY Hip Hop / Rap, Xander Demos Pittsburgh, PA Metal / Rock / Shred, Drigo Singer & R&B Artist from New York and so much more!….
Evan Stanley with Mark Mendoza
The Texas lottery has a new KISS Scratch-off game with some amazing prizes:
One (1) winner per drawing.
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Hey KISS Asylum, I was on ebay today and saw the funniest thing. Some guy drew the KISS makup on a piece of cheesecloth and is trying to pass it off as a towel that the band used to remove their makeup. Oh man, either the guy is a comedian or a con artist, I don’t know which but i can vouch for comedian as I almost wet my pants laughing when I saw this! You’ve gotta read his description, it’s a hoot!
The website Bandjob.com is sponsoring a KISS T-Shirt design contest with prizes in cash, tickets and meet and greet events! Check out the rules and see the current entries a Bandjob.com!
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Nick Green | Daily Breeze
Solidly middle-class Torrance isn’t exactly a rock star sort of town.
And that’s just fine with KISS icon Gene Simmons, who along with band co-founder Paul Stanley owns the rock ‘n’ roll-themed restaurant Rock & Brews opening on Thursday.
“It’s less about the celebrity and more about the experience,” Simmons said of the burgeoning chain of craft beer-centric restaurants that got its start in El Segundo.
“It’s not about us,” he added. “It’s about you. We just work here. We want you to be a rock star. You may not be a rock star, but we’ll make you feel like one. ”
Torrance becomes the third location for Rock & Brews, which first opened in 2010 in downtown El Segundo as a modest outdoor beer garden to test the concept before a revamped, refined version reopened in early 2012. The 5,400-square-foot Torrance restaurant sits in a sliver of the city adjacent to Redondo Beach’s Riviera Village at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Palos Verdes Boulevard. The building once housed a Tony Roma’s and, most recently, Oliver’s Cafe.
A second Rock & Brews was unveiled in March in Los Cabos, Mexico. Another opens this summer in the renovated Delta Air Lines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, while
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Chris Czynszak | Decibel Geek
John Regan is commonly known amongst KISS fans as the bassist for Frehley’s Comet but his resume tells a much bigger story. John was nice enough to talk to Chris & Aaron this week about his 30+ year career in the music industry, working with artists such as Ace Frehley, the Rolling Stones, and Peter Frampton
Other topics touched on in this hour plus interview include Regan’s work with artists such as Michael Monroe and David Lee Roth. We also ask John some listener questions that were sent in.
The Decibel Geek Podcast was launched in June of 2011 by Chris Czynszak, a former rock journalist and webmaster. With co-host Aaron Camaro, the Decibel Geek Podcast is quickly earning a reputation as one of the go-to music commentary podcasts on the internet. All episodes are available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, as well as the official Decibel Geek Podcast website.
Direct Link to Interview: http://dbgeekshow.blogspot.ca/2013/04/episode-82-john-regan.html
To access the Decibel Geek Podcast visit www.decibelgeek.com.
Russ Maheras | The Hooded Utilitarian
In 1958, an estranged Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor named Flóra “Florence” Klein brought her eight-year-old son, Chaim Witz, to New York City from Israel to seek out a new and better life. Chaim Witz’s name was soon Americanized to Gene Klein, and would eventually become the infinitely more famous double-alter ego Gene Simmons.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
After a year in an Orthodox Jewish school, the young Klein made his transition to America complete by entering the New York City public school system. Unable to speak or write English at first, Klein quickly turned to the new and fascinating world of American popular culture to learn his adopted language. While other kids were outside playing baseball or kick-the-can, Klein immersed himself in almost all of the mass entertainment arts: movies, television, science fiction, cartoons, pulps, and especially comic books. Reflecting later about those
early years, he said once he saw Superman and Batman, “he was hooked.”
Then, in 1964, at the age of 14, he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, and a new world opened up for him: pop music. As he said decades later in his book Kiss and Make-Up, “My first thoughts about pop music were born that night, and they were simple thoughts: If I go and start a band, maybe the girls will scream for me.”
Klein’s first band was Lynx, announced incorrectly as The Missing Links – the name which ended up sticking – and it consisted of Klein, Danny Haber and Seth Dogramajian. Like Klein, both band-mates were obsessed with comic books. Klein elaborated about their four-color passion: “Seth and I used to publish amateur fanzines about comic books and science fiction. We would write articles, review movies, and talk about characters from
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Ten-year-old Alexey Poblete is a drum virtuoso. She is not only talented in hitting the drum boards, but is also the overall champion in this year’s “Hit Like A Girl” 2013 finals.
She started playing the drums at the age of six. Her dad who posted videos of her playing on YouTube, which attracted the attention of Eric Singer, the current drummer of the classic heavy metal band Kiss.
“I feel very passionate about it. I just feel so happy that I am actually doing what I love to do,” Poblete said.
“Bilang magulang, natutuwa dahil nakikita mong yung ang gusto niya, yun ang passion niya, so sinusuportahan na lang namin bilang magulang,” her parents said.
Singer is her mentor, as well as a source of inspiration and encouragement. He wants to make sure her studies come first and she gets good grades.
Poblete is a straight “A” student and is a consistent member of the gifted and talented education program.
“Alexey made a lot of friends in the music community and everybody enjoys watching her play. I think we are more impressed because she is over all a great kid. She is a good student, a good daughter to her parents. She is a good sister to her brother and a good friend to all of us. She is all around. She has great thing going on and I think it’s fantastic that’s why we all support her and encourage her. I wanna see her be a big star,” said Singer.
Chris Czynszak | Decibel Geek
This week the Decibel Geek Podcast has a special guest on board. Chris and AAron sit down with Tom Harper, Tom is most commonly known among KISS fans as a guitar tech (Paul Stanley’s on the Dynasty tour) that was tasked with playing the bass track on the track Shandi from 1980’s Unmasked album.
He shares many great stories with the guys including a chainsaw named “Arthur”, the ill-fated laser effect on the Dynasty Tour and a hilarious story about a mishap with Gene’s flying rig.
The Decibel Geek Podcast was launched in June of 2011 by Chris Czynszak, a former rock journalist and webmaster. With co-host Aaron Camaro, the Decibel Geek Podcast is quickly earning a reputation as one of the go-to music commentary podcasts on the internet. All episodes are available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, as well as the official Decibel Geek Podcast website.
Direct Link to Interview: http://dbgeekshow.blogspot.ca/2013/04/episode-81-tom-harper-road-warriors-tale.html
To access the Decibel Geek Podcast visit www.decibelgeek.com.
I couldn’t really say anything until it was out, but I suppose I can now…WHAT A COOL DAY THIS WAS!!! My name is Jason, I’m the drummer in KISSED ALIVE-A Tribute to KISS, & I’m the guy who answers the phone at the beginning of the new BETH video. This was filmed 
at the world-famous Sunset Gower studios…It was recorded & filmed at the world-famous SUNSET GOWER STUDIOS…in the same studio the RAT PACK used to record!!!!
Wow, what a far out day…At the start of the day, I was carrying gear down the hallway & I knocked a gold record off the wall and broke the frame!! Greeeeat…. It wasn’t some ‘never heard of’ song either, oh no…..it was “Beat It” by Michael Jasckson..one of the biggest singles of all time!
Well, they were nice enough not to throw me out on my ass & offered me some coffee instead! Class acts, those folks at Sunset Gower….
I was original reading for the starrring role of The Catman,
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Bill Baker | AceFrehleyScrapbook.com
“It was 20 years ago today” April 25, 1993……the world’s only ACE FREHLEY tribute band played their first KISS Convention at the Rothman Center in Hackensack, NJ.
Fronted by Bill Baker, who had met and befriended Ace in 1990, began amassing one of the worlds largest Ace Frehley collections, mostly obtained from Ace himself. Bill became Ace’s home – base guitar tech and was the one that did the work on the now famous “Budokan” Les Paul.
In 1992 Bill got together with some friends and formed “Fractured Mirror”, playing KISS and Ace tunes at some small clubs around the area. Bill being friends with Richie Ranno, who ran the Convention, asked Bill if he would want to open for “Strutter” the Kiss tribute band and bring back his Ace Frehley museum that he had first set up the year before. It was the first Con at the Rothman, which was a very large place and there had to be over 1500 people through the doors that day. The band played for a big crowd and went over well. They played every year up until their last time in 1998. It’s hard to believe 20 years have gone by and those were great and memorable times. Bill put out a book on Ace in 2008 that’s available through www.kissmuseum.com and signed copies and more about Bill and his band is at www.acefrehleyscrapbook.com and there are videos of Fractured Mirror on youtube as well. Check them out if you have never heard…….
Andrew McMains | Adweek
A classic rock ballad, “Beth” by KISS, that inspired a thought balloon—”Wouldn’t it be funny to hear Beth’s side of the story?”—is now a short film. The four-and-a-half-minute piece from Bob Winter, executive creative director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Miami, centers around a 1970s-era phone call between Beth and an actor portraying Peter Criss, the band’s original drummer and co-writer of the song.
Beth is home, cooking meatloaf and wondering when Peter will get home. Peter is in the studio, unable to commit to a time (he keeps repeating a refrain in the song, “What can I do?”) and anxious to get back to recording. He and his bandmates are inexplicably dressed in full costume and face paint, despite being nowhere near a concert hall. Ah, but hey, what says KISS more than makeup and platform boots?
The back and forth turns hostile when Peter, who said he’d be home in a few hours, shifts to another line in the song: “I hope you’ll be all right ’cause me and the boys will be playing
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Russell Dannecker | KISSonline
The President of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Jann Wenner finally explains why KISS is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Russell Dannecker:
“We spotted the President of The Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame Jann Wenner walking back to his Hotel after the Induction Ceremony last Thursday in LA. So I went up to him and asked him why KISS is not inducted yet.”
As you can see his reply says it all!
The Indianapolis KISS Fan Expo is excited to celebrate its 15th anniversary AND the 40th anniversary of KISS at this year’s Expo! We are ecstatic to announce a two-day event on May 11th & 12th with numerous guests spanning all eras of KISStory…the highlight of which is a pre-expo kickoff event with the Demon himself, Gene Simmons!
On early Saturday afternoon, May 11th, the legendary Gene Simmons will host a spirited question-and-answer session with the fans! You won’t want to miss this special appearance! The Gene Simmons pre-expo event is a separate ticketed event with additional ticket options including a photo opportunity for you with Gene! Tickets are limited. This will be Gene’s only appearance this weekend.
Saturday night’s Expo features former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick and guitarist Bob Kulick! Both Bruce and Bob have rich histories with KISS and will be available for autographs and photos throughout the evening. They will also jam a few KISS classics onstage for your enjoyment!
Sunday’s Expo will feature KISS drummer Eric Singer, and in his first-ever Expo appearance – drummer Kevin Valentine. Kevin was the drummer on KISS’ Psycho Circus album. He also recorded demos for Hot in the Shade and a track on the Revenge album. (Kevin went to high school with Eric Singer!). Fan-favorite KISS tribute band MR. SPEED will also perform.
