Gene Simmons informed Michael Franzese about KISS touring in a brand new interview, “Inside a 12 months and a half of the band forming, finish of 1973, we have been headlining Anaheim Stadium, earlier than MTV, earlier than digital. We didn’t even have hit data. One thing occurred. It simply pervaded tradition. Swiftly, younger children began speaking about this. And in these days, you might make a profession from magazines as a result of that’s how issues unfold earlier than.”
“In a really unusual approach, Kiss grew to become a really massive band with out hit songs. It was concerning the reside exhibits. And if persons are curious, should you go to YouTube, we might actually blow away any act that dared put us on stage. We’d simply blow them off the stage.”
“A few of it was good. We had a Kiss brand that was about six or seven toes tall; these vivid lights that spelled out Kiss. And no person hung their title above them like a Las Vegas present.”
“That was not thought of cool, however we thought it was cool. In order that when the following band got here on after we have been off, a half hour later, should you closed your eyes, you might nonetheless see Kiss in your eyelids, if you already know what I imply.”
“They didn’t have sufficient time to clear the stage. So whereas they have been on, the Kiss brand was nonetheless on stage. And really shortly, we ran out of bands to open up for.”