Remember the disastrous KISS album ‘Music From The Elder’?
Yes, one of the worst rock albums ever created.
Here’s what he said:
“I take full blame. It was based on a treatment, a semi-script that I wrote called ‘The Elder.’ I was staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel at that point, and I wrote it on the Beverly Hills Hotel stationery.
When Bob Ezrin came back into the fold, he said, ‘What have you got there?’ I said, ‘I’m developing this motion picture. It’s called ‘The Elder,”… A mythological fantasy, which I’ve always been drawn to.
He said, ‘OK, we’re going to do a concept record, and we’re going to write songs based on your various premises.’ The decision was Bob Ezrin.
In hindsight, it was an interesting mistake. We all were sort of thinking, ‘The Who are the threat, and they have ‘Tommy’? Why can’t we have ‘The Elder!’ The Beatles had ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ This will be ours.’ Well, it wasn’t.”