In a recent conversation on Kiss Kruise Q&A, Kiss’s Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons talked about the band, possible new music and others.
Here’re are few parts of the interview:
Do you think there’ll ever be a new KISS album?
Stanley: “Why? Why would we need a new Kiss album? I understand but with any big classic band with a history, you go, ‘Oh, put out a new album!’
“And If The Stones put out a new album, you’d go, ‘Oh, that’s great… Play ‘Brown Sugar’!’ And the same is true for us.
“You can have great songs from the more recent albums but people then go, ‘Great… Play ‘Love Gun’!’ So, it’s beyond a little frustrating.
“The reality is, you [fans] really love the old songs, and nobody is going to embrace new material – no matter how good it is – like you do the past.
“Because those songs are like snapshots from your past, and you’re connected to them in a way new material never could be. We’re happy going out and playing, that’s where we live, our turf is the stage.”
For the 28 people that actually bought [1981’s] ‘The Elder,’ I was one of those, the production value for the movie – when is it finally being released, ‘The Elder,’ when is it actually coming out?
Simmons: “Probably never. The idea of it started with a treatment I was writing at the Beverly Hills Hotel, I remember because it was on that stationary – ‘The Elder’ and everything.
“And when the Earth was young, they were already old and all that stuff… And then [producer] Bob Ezrin became our producer on that and he decided we’re going to make a concept record based on this story.
“And he literally had a chalkboard and kind of chalked out – there’s a boy who’s special, OK, we need a song about this, and we need a song about that…
“And we all separated and tried to write songs about that. And we actually got Christopher Makepeace, he was kind of a big deal at the time, and a few others.”
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Gene and Paul are cowards because they are scared about what people would think about new KISS music.
This garbage is simply not true. Need proof ask an Iron Maiden fan. Iron Maiden still releases new material then tours with it. They play mostly the new material at their live shows so the fans don’t get bored hearing the same live show every time they tour. Iron Maiden still sell millions of copies of their new material and sell out gigs world wide. My take on why Kiss doesn’t is because they have nothing more to contribute to the music scene, they feel they have already written everything they can and as such should retire.
Nope. Iron Maiden have been playing the same show for years. They change the name of some of the songs, but you get the same riffs, the same dumbed down cod-historical themes, and gradually less movement on stage the older they get – rather relying on bigger and bigger stage shows. They are now a parody of their younger selves, and very obviously intent on fleecing their fans for every penny. Maiden shows nowadays are a pantomime, a sad imitation of the days when they really were at the top of their game.
I agree. I wish they would put out new music.
You nerd to go to a Iron Maiden show… Jeez!!
Same with Alice Cooper. He always plays his new music, and he always plays School’s Out.
Kiss isn’t Iron Maiden. I’m a fan of both. Yes you seen one Kiss show you’ve seen them all. new material won’t fix that, although the Psycho Circus did freshen up the show a bit, but not enough
I really hope that this is the End of the Road for Kiss. I saw them in 77. Where I love the show, it is sad seeing them doing the same thing (playing the same songs) 50 years later.
I wish they would put out new music. I would buy it so would the fans. They talk about playing the same old music, hell they don’t even play any 80’s Kiss anymore let alone anything from Revenge album. at lease put out one more album for god’s sake before calling it quits. You don’t even have to tour for it if you don’t want to.
Gene and Paul both wear 2 wigs. The wig they play with on stage and the every day “going to Walmart” wig. Truth.
They have a point. Fans hack on Metallica’s later stuff but Death Magnetic was a thrash album like their earlier stuff and hardwired to Self destruct was even better.