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FOR YEARS GENE SIMMONS HAS BEEN SAYING THAT KISS ARE GOLD RECORD CHAMPS

BY AN AMERICAN BAND...

Since their formation in 1972, KISS have blown down the barriers that define the parameters of rock and roll, igniting a seismic musical and visual powder-keg that captivated millions of fans around the world. America's #1 gold record champions, KISS's incendiary anthems, wild kabuki makeup, outrageous costumes, fiery showmanship, and spectaclar stage spectacles, have revolutionized the face of rock music and continue to set the standard. PERIOD (Taken from the World Domination tour book)

THIS IS NOT TRUE, AEROSMITH HAVE BEEN THE AMERICAN GOLD RECORD CHAMPS

FOR ATLEAST 10 YEARS, I THINK ONCE KISS ACHIEVES SOMETHING, GENE HOLDS ONTO

IT AND QUOTES IT EVEN WHEN IT IS NO LONGER FACT...

DON'T GET ME WRONG, IT WAS COOL THAT KISS WAS THE #1 AMERICAN BAND WITH

THE MOST GOLD RECORDS, AEROSMITH TOOK THAT CROWN IN THE LATE 90'S

IF MEMORY SERVES...

KISS IS ALSO NOT BEHIND THE BEATLES IN ALL TIME GOLD RECORDS, NOT EVEN CLOSE...

 

KISS

GOLD 24

PLATINUM 10

MULTI PLATINUM 2

 

AEROSMITH

GOLD 25

PLATINUM 20

MULTI PLATINUM 12

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When is the show?
And you have to give us a report on the show, also.
Who is the opening act?
July 23rd

Alana Grace is the opener, I have never heard of her.
Thanks! \m/
WAYNE
I AM HAPPY TO READ YOUR OPINIONS ON KISS, PAST & PRESENT MEMBERS, ALBUMS, THE GENE & PAUL SHOW, THE IMPOSTERS, ERIC CARR, ACE & PETER, TOURS, COSTUMES, INTEWRESTING FACTS THAT HAPPENED AT SHOWS OR ON THE ROAD, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY, PLEASE DON'T HOLD BACK, SAY WHATEVER IS ON YOUR MIND, AND I WILL RESPECT EVERY WORD YOU SAY, HOWEVER I WILL ALSO PICK APART WHAT YOU HAVE SAID IF I DISAGREE OR HAVE ANOTHER VIEW ON IT AND I WILL FORM MY OPINION OR THOUGHT...
WHAT I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU DO IS SAY, "IF YOU BASH KISS, GENE, PAUL, FRANKENFREHLEY, CATCLONE, 80'S ALBUMS, OR IF YOU DON'T LOVE EVERYTHING KISS, THEN YOU'RE NOT A FAN, AND ARE NOT A MEMBER OF THE REAL KISS ARMY...
THOSE COMMENTS ARE UNACCEPTABLE, YOU'RE TAKING OPINIONS OF MYSELF AND OTHERS MAKING MAKING THEM NOT VALID AND SAYING WE DON'T HAVE A RIGHT...
KEEP THE PERSONAL ATTACKS TO YOURSELF, AND WE WILL ALL HAVE FUN AND ENJOY EVERYONE'S COMPANY, IF YOU ATTACK SOMEONE BY SAYING THEY ARE NOT A FAN BECAUSE OF THEIR OPINION THEN YOU HAVE UPSET THE WHOLE COMMUNITY...
HOW BORNING WOULD THIS WORLD BE OR THIS KISS WORLD FOR THAT MATTER, IF EVERYONE LOOKED ALIKE, DRESSED ALIKE, AND NEVER HAD A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION??? PRETTY DAMN BORING...
YOU MAY LIKE EVERYTHING KISS HAS EVER DONE, YOUR FAVORITE SONGS MIGHT BE
LET'S PUT THE X IN SEX AND YOU MAKE ME ROCK HARD, GREAT!!! I THINK THOSE SONGS SUCK DONKEY BALLS, PAUL STANLEY IS NOT A FAN OF EITHER OF THOSE SONGS, HE SAID, HE WROTE LETS PUT THE X IN SEX IN 5 MINUTES...
IF YOU LOVED THE FACT THAT KISS REMOVED BLACK DIAMOND FROM THE ASYLUM SET LIST, COOL, I WAS PISSED AS HELL, THAT'S LIKE LED ZEP NOT PLAYING STAIRWAY...
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE OVER SEAS KISS PRODUCTS AVAILABLE IN AMERICA, THE POSTERS THAT WERE PUT OUT DURING ALIVE!, DESTROYER, ROCK AND ROLL OVER AND LOVE GUN ARE SIMPLY AMAZING...
THE PROBLEM IS OVERSEAS KISS MERCH IS EXPENSIVE, THEIR IS SO MUCH GOOD MERCH FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND IN MOST CASES FAR BETTER THAN THE AMERICAN RELEASES...
WHO CARES??? MAYBE THE PERSON WHO STARTED THE THREAD CARES, MAYBE OTHERS WHO READ IT CARE, MAYBE IT WAS SOMETHING THEY WANTED TO KNOW, SO TO SPEAK AS IF YOU'RE SPEAKING FOR EVERYONE, NOT COOL, TO SAY WHO CARES ABOUT THE TOPIC OF A SPECIFIC THREAD IN MY OPINION IS WRONG, THEIR IS NO WRONG TOPIC, EVEN THE LITTLEST UNINTERESTING PIECE OF KISSTORY IS GREAT, I HAVE SO MANY LITTLE TID BITS, AND I DON'T KNOW WHO KNOW'S WHAT, SO YOU MAKE A THREAD ABOUT IT...
SUCH AS THE GENE SIMMONS ALIVE II PHOTO, HOW MANY PEOPLE KNEW WHY GENE WAS SOAKING WET AND WHERE THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN BEFORE I STARTED THE THREAD???
HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT GENE'S TECH HAD GREEN BLOOD MADE FOR 1 SHOW IN THE 70'S??? HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT TOUR MANAGER FRITZ POSTLETHWAITE WAS DRESSED IN A SPARE GENE COSTUME & MAKEUP ON THE LOVE GUN TOUR, AND REPLACED PETER ON DRUMS DURING BLACK DIAMOND TO FUCK WITH GENE???
GENE THOUGHT HE WAS LOSING IT WHEN HE SAW HIMSELF BEHIND THE DRUM KIT...
ALL THESE LITTLE THINGS MAKE GREAT CONVERSATION, WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE, JUST DON'T SAY WE AREN'T FANS BECAUSE WE ONLY FOLLOW THE ORIGINAL LINE UP, AND REFUSE TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT GENE & PAUL SHOW, I MAY NOT LISTEN TO 80'S KISS ANYMORE, BUT I LOVED IT AT THE TIME, AND WENT TO EVERY SHOW, AND WOUND UP IN 2 KISS MTV VIDEOS, AND I WAS INTERVIEWED BY RICKI RATCHMAN FOR HEADBANGERS BALL WITH MY LICENSE PLATE, I HAVE SO MANY GREAT MEMORIES OF THOSE DAYS, I JUST CHOOSE NOT TO LISTEN TO THAT MUSIC ANYMORE, IT WAS NOTHING THEY DID, JUST SOMETHING I DECIDED... THE ONLY LINEUP I HATE, IS THE CURRENT LINEUP... THESE DIFFERENCES IS WHAT MAKES THIS DISCUSSION BOARD SO GREAT!!!
OH YEAH, AND I HAVE SAID THIS LATELY???
KISS IS, ACE FREHLEY, PETER CRISS, PAUL STANLEY, GENE SIMMONS, PERIOD...
TIFF
HIGHJACK ALL YOU WANT!!!
YOU'RE RIGHT GENE WAS PISSED AT FRITZ AND DID NOT SPEAK TO HIM FOR ATLEAST 2 WEEKS... ONCE KISS BECAME SUPERSTARS THEY WERE UNDER NEW MGMNT WITH GLICKMAN/MARKS, AND THE STAGE BECAME A SACRED PLACE TO GENE, WHERE THEIR IS NO ROOM FOR FUN AND GAMES, THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS...
IN THE EARLY DAYS UNTIL GLICKMAN/MARKS RELEASED THE ORIGINAL CREW IN 76/77 THE BAND AND CREW PLAYED PRANKS ON EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME, AND KISS MEMBERS EVEN PLAYED PRANKS ON THE OPENING ACT DURING THEIR SET ON THE LAST NIGHT THE BAND OPENED FOR KISS (KIND OF A FAREWELL, THANKS FOR OPENING FOR US), THE BEST REVENGE COMING FROM RUSH IN 1976 WHEN KISS WAS ONSTAGE...
NOW KISS ARE SUPERSTARS AND NO MORE PRANKS, GENE IS SERIOUS ABOUT THE STAGE BEING A SACRED PLACE...
GENE HAS A TERRIBLE TEMPER WHEN THINGS DON'T GO RIGHT OR HIS WAY...
ON THE FAREWELL TOUR, ANAHEIM, CA, MARCH 18, 2000 FLYING BY FOY DID NOT COMPENSATE FROM THE PREVIOUS NITE, MANDALAY BAY IN VEGAS HAS A LOWER TRIM HEIGHT, SO WHEN THEY CAME TO ANAHEIM THE FOLLOWING NIGHT (HIGHER TRIM HEIGHT), THE CABLES THAT ATTACH TO GENE'S HARNESS WAS 6 FEET TOO SHORT, SO WHEN THEY BROUGHT GENE BACK IN TO STAGE LEVEL, GENE WAS HANGING 6 FEET ABOVE THE STAGE, AND THEY COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT, MIKE RUSH (GENE'S TECH) FROM 1996 - PRESENT, WAS TRYING TO GET HIM DOWN, AND COULDN'T, THE CABLES ATTACH RIGHT ABOUT GENE'S SHOULDER LEVEL...
MEANWHILE GOD OF THUNDER IS WITHOUT LEAD VOCALS, SO PAUL TAKES OVER...
FINALLY MIKE GETS THE BOX THAT GENE THROW'S HIS FLAME SWORD INTO, IT WAS JUST ENOUGH TO GET GENE'S FEET CLOSE, THEN THEY PULLED ON GENE IN ORDER TO GET HIM CLOSER TO THE BOX, THEY BARELY GOT HIS FEET ON THE BOX, JUST ENOUGH TO RELEASE SOME SLACK IN THE CABLE, AND UNHOOKED HIM...
GENE BEING THE TRUE PROFESSIONAL HE IS, YEAH RIGHT!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GOD OF THUNDER HAS A MINUTE OR LESS TO FINISH, GENE GOES INTO BASS WORLD WHICH IS LOCATED "OFF STAGE RIGHT" AND RIPS INTO MIKE, COMES BACK FINISHES THE LAST CHORDS OF THE SONG... THE BAND GOES INTO THE NEXT SONG, AND GENE WALKS BACK DOWN THE STEPS INTO BASS WORLD AGAIN, AND RIPS INTO MIKE AGAIN, THIS WAS A FOY ISSUE, WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MIKE AT ALL, MIKE'S RESPONSIBILITIES ARE GENE'S BASSES, TUNING, THE BLOOD, AND THE SWORD FOR FIRE BREATHING AND A FEW OTHER GENE DEMANDS...
ANYWAY, FOY FAILED TO COMPENSATE FOR THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE ON THE TRIM HEIGHT AND DID NOT TEST THE FOY SYSTEM BEFORE THE SHOW, BUT GENE BEING THE KNOW ALL BE ALL OF THE STAGE INSTANTLY BLAMES MIKE FOR THE PROBLEM...
SO WE GET TO SEE THE NEXT SONG, MINUS GENE, WHILE HE THROWS A
TEMPER TAMTRUM...
GENE COMES BACK ON STAGE, FOR A BRIEF MOMENT, THEN GOES BACK TO YELL SOME MORE, AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH HE YELLED MORE AFTER THE SONG WAS OVER...
NOT A GOOD NITE FOR THE FOY CREW, BECAUSE PAUL'S FOY SYSTEM FAILED TOO ABOVE THE 8TH ROW AS HE WAS GOING OUT TO SING LOVE GUN, SEVERAL MINUTES GOES BY AND PAUL IS STILL HANGING ABOVE THE AUDIENCE, THE BAND IS STILL PLAYING LOVE GUN (MINUS LYRICS) GENE FINALLY STARTS SINGING LOVE GUN, THEY HAD TO PULL HIM BY HIS FEET BACK TO THE MAIN STAGE... PAUL BEING FAR MORE PROFESSIONAL SAY'S, "I'M SORRY PEOPLE, I REALLY WANTED TO COME OUT THERE AND SING FOR YOU"!!! TO MAKE THIS UP, WE'RE GONNA START THIS OVER FROM THE BEGINNING!!!
I WAS THERE IN ANAHEIM ABOUT 10TH ROW ON GENE'S SIDE AND WATCHED ALL THIS HAPPEN, AND JUST THE NITE BEFORE I WAS ON THE KISS CREW, WHAT A NIGHT THAT WAS...
AND IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, THE ANNOUNCER STARTED TO SAY "ALL RIGHT LOS ANGELES", CAUGHT HIS MISTAKE AND CHANGED IT TO ANAHEIM!!! NOT A GOOD NITE, BUT THE BAND STILL KICKED ASS...
FUN FUN FUN
KISSFAN.
That was totally wrong and off the wall of you.
And for starters, the songs that you state that I like, I could care less about.

I have not told no one on this board that they are NOT a real KISS fan for their opinion.
I have stated that complaining about someone over and over and over again is BORING!
Plain and simple.

You do not like me, 1/2 of the people on this board does not like me.
That is not my problem, nor is it my concern.

I am glad that you have so many memories.
Enjoy them and have fun telling people about them.

Oh, and to my opinion.
KISS is: Paul, Gene, Peter, Ace and "Eric Carr" PERIOD.

Everyone has their own opinions on life, love and entertainment.
And I am not about to listen to everyone in the worlds opinion if all they have to do is
Complain about it.

This is a forum, this is a place where people can speak their mind right?
So, according to what you wrote, I am not allowed to speak my mind.

Sorry, that does not cut it.

By the way.
The Internet term of YELLING is using capital letters in all of your words.
This was stated in a 1996 article. This is talking, THIS IS YELLING.
"I have not told no one on this board that they are NOT a real KISS fan for their opinion"

Maybe you didn't intend to do that Wayne, but you did. You really insulted me for simply giving my opinions.Remember the way you jumped my case about my letters to Gene? I was highly insulted, and you didn't even have the decency to offer me any sort of an apology!

Last time I checked Robbo was the HA of MFA

Tiff & I are the moderators of this group.

NOT YOU

The caps on that is for emphasis, I'm not yelling but I want to be perfectly clear on something here. I welcome your opinions, I welcome your enthusiasm about the band
but please do not tell me or anyone else how to speak on this board, or that any of us are less of a fan than you for giving opinions

KISSFAN has always typed in caps....and I personally have no problem with it.

It doesn't really matter to me if you (or anyone else) on MFA like me or not, I really don't care, I'm not here for a popularity contest. But I will not tolerate you telling me or anyone else how to act in this group, you do not have that right.

So be respectful of others opinions please, and don't tell us we are less of a fan than you....that is immature, childish, and just flat out lame. As such it will not be tolerated.

This is a discussion forum. All opinions are welcome, but telling others they are less of a fan than you just because they do not agree with you is silly, and yes Wayne, you have done just that.

I'm asking you nicely to end doing so. If you wish to remain a welcome and active member of this group I really suggest strongly that you do so.

I am not posting this to piss you (or anyone else) off. but I will not stand by and let you insult other fans for their opinions and then say "I never did that".

So lets try to keep it cool and get along. We are all here because we love KISS, in one form or another so we all have that in common. Lets keep that in mind and be respectful of each other.

If you (or anyone else) can not do that then may I respectfully suggest you leave this group.

Thank you

Rock on.

If you have a problem with anything I have said here please feel free to take the matter up with Robbo.
Not my problem.
The yelling CAPS was towards KISSFAN NOT you.

Enjoy your opinion
Not your problem?

You are the problem Wayne. You have been since the day you joined this group.

Stay or go, up to you, but cut the crap, and I think you know exactly what I mean.

thank you
I have been a part of KISS groups for years.
And this one is the only one that has a lot of whining and complaining.

Give it a break and grow up.
allrighty then

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