Daily Archives: March 11, 2014

Sneak Peek – Rocker Gene Simmons Guests on Next CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

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Broadway World

Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 12.22.38 PMOn the next episode of CBS‘s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation titled ‘Long Road Home,’ the CSIs investigate the murder of a rock and roll groupie and the disappearance of a prostitute that both have ties to a mysterious band.

The episode airs Wednesday, March 12 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. KISS lead singer and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gene Simmons guest stars as himself. Get a sneak peek below!

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a fast-paced drama about a team of forensic investigators trained to solve crimes by examining the evidence. They are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery. D.B. Russell, the CSI supervisor for the grave shift, is a family man and scientist, but not a nerd. Son of hippie parents, he’s a left-coast Sherlock Holmes who devours crime novels and looks at every crime scene as if it were a story waiting to be told.

The team’s other members include CSI Julie Finlay, a blood spatter expert who always speaks her mind, regardless of the consequences; Nick Stokes, the conscience of the team, often driven by his emotional connection to the victim to always get the job done; Sara Sidle, aka “Mrs. Grissom,” relentless in her pursuit of criminals and the moral compass of the team; Greg Sanders, once an off-beat tech analyst and now an experienced and intuitive crime solver; and Morgan Brody, an exile from the Los Angeles Crime Lab and the daughter of Undersheriff Ecklie. She’s a natural-born investigator who still has a lot to learn about politics and family.

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AFL’s LA KISS unveils helmets that are football’s version of the reverse mullet (photos)

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The Oregonian

-300d7fdecfc90c27The LA KISS of the AFL has unveiled their helmets and they are unlike anything we’ve seen before.

Call them football headgear’s version of the reverse mullet: Party in the front (full-frontal flames, visors and facemasks included) and business in the back (sleek chrome).

Hydro Graphics Inc. of Newberg, a company that’s made a niche for itself with the Oregon Ducks’ liquid metal helmets and branched out from there, did the work.
The KISS play in the same league as the Portland Thunder, and they meet in Los Angeles on April 5 and June 14. They play in Portland on July 12.
What do you think of the KISS’ look? Let us know in the comments.
Any bets on whether this song by KISS — the team is owned by band members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons — figures prominently in the team’s game day productions?
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Paul Stanley Q&A: Kiss Frontman On ‘Destructive’ Childhood, New Book and Why the Rock Hall Is Like a ‘Distorted Bar Mitzvah’

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Gary Graff | Billboard

In April, Stanley embarks on a book tour for his memoir “Face the Music: A Life Exposed”… The rocker talks why he finally put his life on paper, the inaccuracies of Gene Simmons’ own book, and what actually went down with the Rock Hall of Fame

Few bands know how to celebrate better than Kiss; it coined the concept “rock and roll all night and party every day,” after all. And this is a time of celebration for the group, with this year marking the 40th anniversary of its first two albums, the launch of the Arena Football League’s L.A. Kiss  and its upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (though not without drama; read on) on April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Best of all for frontman Paul Stanley is the April 8 publication of his autobiography “Face the Music: A Life Exposed,” a revealing memoir in which he writes frankly about the travails of his youth and the triumphs and tribulations of both Kiss and his personal life.

Stanley lights out on a six-city book tour that begins April 7 at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble in New York with subsequent stops at the Barnes & Noble in Staten Island (April 8); Bookends in Ridgewood, N.J. (April 9); Barnes & Noble at The Grove in Los Angeles (April 16); Warwick’s in La Jolla, Calif. (April 17); and the San Francisco Jewish Community Center on April 25.

With all that going on, it’s not surprising our conversation with the Starman was wide-ranging and characteristically forthright.

You’re the last of the original Kiss members with a book of your own. Just a slacker?
It really had nothing to do with the band as far as being first, last, middle. It wasn’t with any of that in mind. The truth of the matter is I had sworn for, literally, decades not to write an autobiography. I always go back to George Orwell, who said the autobiography is the most outrageous form of fiction. And I would say 90-plus, 95 percent of the autobiographies by any of my contemporaries would be better suited on a roll of soft paper, so at least you could use it for something, ’cause they’re nothing more than self-serving fantasies or delusions or love letters to themselves. They serve no purpose. What I finally came to grips with was the idea that my life could be inspiring to other people… and almost more importantly I wanted something that my children could read when they got older to understand what it took for me to succeed and a better understanding of who I am and perhaps what they need in their lives to move forward. So there was a real purpose to this as opposed to just some sort of bragging rights.