Gene Simmons has once again ruled out the possibility of a KISS reunion featuring the band’s entire original lineup.
Rumors about guitarist Ace Frehley‘s return to KISS gained strength last year after he teamed up with KISS lead singer Paul Stanley on a cover of FREE‘s “Fire And Water”, marking their first collaboration since 1998’s “Psycho Circus”.
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More recently, Ace collaborated with Gene on two songs for the former KISS guitarist’s next solo album. And then last month the Space Ace and and the Demon shared a stage for the first time in sixteen years at a benefit concert in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Asked about the chances of KISS ever playing one special show, or even just one song, again with Frehley and other former KISS members Peter Criss (drums) and Bruce Kulick (guitar), Simmons told “Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon”: “Oh, I mean, if you’re gonna do a one-off, anything is possible. In fact, Bruce Kulick and Bob Kulick [who auditioned for KISS in 1973 and was the ghost guitarist for Frehley back in the late ’70s and early ’80s] are gonna be on the Kiss Kruise. We have a wonderful lineup and we have an awful lot of fun. So there are no rules. It’s just that if you’re on a team, you want consistency; you wanna be able to have a guy you can count on when you pass the ball, because the whole team depends on that, right? And so if the guy you pass the ball to is on drugs or alcohol, the whole team goes down. You’re depending on each other — all for one, one for all.”
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He continued: “Our original members, Ace and Peter, the best things that ever happened to us, it couldn’t have happened without them. But if you succumb even to the cliché of clichés, the bus leaves without you. That’s life. You don’t get to determine who and what everybody does based on your timeline. Or, ‘You know what? I wanna take a year off and do nothing.’ ‘Ehhh… No!’ Or, ‘I’m not healthy enough to be onstage.'”
“I think both Peter and Ace are in a great frame of mind, finally cleaned up, and that’s great, ’cause we love ’em and support ’em,” Simmons added. “But three times in and out of the band, that’s enough.”
Via Blabbermouth.com