In a new interview with Paul Salfen of AMFM Magazine, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick revealed that he is planning on working on his autobiography in 2025. He explained (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I amassed a lot of materials from [my] era [of KISS]. When I first started a book with a guy in the industry back in ’99, there were a lot of interviews done, and I was able to get all those tapes digitized because that’s important, to spark my memories and stuff. I have notes of subjects.
“It’s certainly gonna be a really in-depth discussion of my life as a musician with, of course, hefty amounts on my KISS years, ’cause I know that the fans are gonna wanna get my thoughts on how it felt and what I did,” he continued. “It’s certainly not gonna be some salacious slam book. It’s not me. But I do have a lot of stories that I never really discussed that I think are gonna be really fun for people to read about and fascinating for them to see.
“Everything was, in many ways, a very interesting journey, and there were many [instances] of where you fall in the ditch, but you’ve gotta pull yourself out — that kind of thing.”
In a separate interview with Loaded Radio, Kulick was asked why he wasn’t ever approached to rejoin KISS after Ace Frehley left for good back in 2001. He responded: “That’s a great question. And not everyone’s aware of some of the backstory. I would hear things about them having problems with Ace and Ace was getting erratic or difficult. And [later KISS guitarist] Tommy Thayer was actually tour managing with them; he was on the road with them. Because even during my era, he was involved with the band, helping with ‘Kisstory’ and doing things for the group. He wrote some songs with Gene [Simmons, KISS bassist/vocalist] and was always part of the inner circle, shall I say. So from what I understood, there was one or two things that KISS did — not a concert, even though once Ace was almost not gonna make it and they made Tommy get the outfit on. [He had a] similar build — tall and thin — and Ace made it to the show. But there were a couple of other things they needed to do. I believe ‘That ’70s Show’, when they were taping, Ace didn’t show up. ‘Tommy, get the outfit on.’ And then I think there was a private gig, too, that no one would really know about — one of those things where you go to an island and play for some rich people. And Ace wouldn’t go. And KISS wasn’t gonna say, ‘All right, we’re not gonna take the gig.’ So if they ever had a thought of me, I think they would have known that that probably would have been a lot harder. Tommy was younger, there already, if you know what I mean, working with them. And Tommy, not everybody knows that he was in a tribute band for fun at times called COLD GIN as Ace Frehley.”