Watch Kiss Perform as Trio After Paul Stanley Tears Bicep
Kiss performed at the annual Race to Erase MS benefit in Los Angeles Friday under highly unusual circumstances: The band played as a trio for only the second time in their history as guitarist Paul Stanley was a last-minute cancellation after tearing a bicep tendon.
"Tore my bicep tendon. Surgery reattached it with a screw and stitches to anchor in place. Not much I can do now," Stanley posted on Facebook just hours before Kiss' benefit gig, which helped raise $250,000 toward multiple sclerosis research.
Gene Simmons, guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer played the four-song set at the Beverly Hilton without Stanley, who previously only missed a 2007 Kiss concert in San Jacinto, California after he was sidelined by a heart issue, Blabbermouth reports. With the Starchild recuperating, Kiss' short set focused entirely on Simmons-sung tracks like "Cold Gin, "Deuce," "Rock and Roll All Nite" and "Calling Dr. Love."
Fortunately, Stanley's surgery isn't expected to interfere with or postpone any of the dates on Kiss' recently announced Freedom to Rock tour, which kicks off July 7th in Boise, Idaho. "Thanks to my AMAZING doctor I WILL be great & ready to rock WAAAAYYYY before the tour! CAN'T WAIT," Stanley promised.
Paul Stanley Rules Out Ace Frehley Returning to Kiss
Those who were hoping that Paul Stanley‘s appearance on Ace Frehley‘s most recent solo album, Origins Vol. 1, might have opened the door to the Spaceman’s return to Kiss will likely be disappointed. Stanley says that, while he’s glad to have renewed his friendship with Frehley, he doesn’t believe another reunion will happen.
“I don’t see it,” he said on former UFC champion Frank Mir’s podcast, Phone Booth Fighting. “And, to me, that makes it even better. The fact that you can have people in your life, and maybe who they are and what they are in your life changes over time. Because I’m happy to see Ace and would love to see him. … We text. He was on the radio last week, and I texted him, ‘I’m listening.’ It doesn’t need to go further than that, but the fact that it’s there is a terrific thing. Reading into it, and where’s it gonna lead, and maybe…? There is none of that. There is just the joy and satisfaction in reconnecting.”
Stanley’s cameo on Origins Vol. 1 was to sing on a cover of Free‘s “Fire and Water.” And as with Sammy Hagar publicly reaching out to Eddie Van Halen over Twitter a few months ago, Stanley, who added that it was “great to see [Ace] focused and clean [and] sober,” acknowledged that recording with Ace was part of a simple desire to tie up some loose ends.
“To reconnect, it’s not even about closure,” he continued. “It’s about just opening the door again. And I’m the one who benefits from it. And I wouldn’t know unless I did it. If it turned out to be horrible, okay. But I’m not one who wants to live with ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda.’ I don’t wanna go through life going, ‘What if I had done this? Maybe I should…’ I’ve got none of those. I have no regrets in my life. Everything got me here, and everything I do will get me into the future. So the idea of being gnawed at by, ‘Gee, I wish… What would happen if I did this?’ I don’t want that. I don’t want that. I wanna face everything and see where it takes me.”
The Scooby-Doo quote (taken largely out of context) is getting most of the hype on social media, but overall this is a decent current-state-of-affairs interview with guitarist Tommy Thayer.
I did get a little extra chuckle at Tommy's quote about ignoring the negative, given that just today, Paul tweeted about a reviewer who gave them a negative review - and Paul called him an asshole.
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Kiss singer Gene Simmons has made further controversial comments about Prince’s death, implying that Prince chose to die.
Shortly after Prince’s death in May, Simmons said Prince had died of a drug overdose, several weeks before the official cause of death was confirmed.
Now, Simmons has told US radio station WNOR: “I knew Prince and I knew Bowie. Bowie died from disease. Prince died from drugs, as did Michael Jackson. Drugs killed them, but it was a choice.”
Simmons went on: “It’s so sad they went that way, because you have every reason to live. You hurt your fans and you hurt everybody.”
After his comments in May, Simmons had apologised, saying: “I have a long history of getting very angry at what drugs do to the families and friends of addicts. I didn’t express myself properly.”
But, in his new interview, Simmons said: “I’d stated it for a fact: he died because of drugs use. People got very upset, but that’s why he died. Drugs are a selfish thing. This generation, and previous ones, believe that drugs use are a part of life, but I reject that. You play with fire, you’re going to get burnt.”
Neither Simmons or fellow Kiss singer Paul Stanley have ever drunk or taken drugs.
(Classic Rock) Ace Frehley says there's a "possibility" he could return to Kiss for a farewell tour - but adds that everything will be "fine" if it doesn't happen.
Speculation has increased in recent months that the guitarist might commence a third stint with the band after frontman Paul Stanley guested on his solo album.
And Frehley insists his relationship with his former colleagues has never been as poor as it was perceived to be in public. He co-founded Kiss in 1973 and first left in 1982, returning in 1996 and bowing out again four years later.
Frehley tells Trunk Nation on SiriusXM: "However the press colors the fact that we don't get on, in reality we do. We have disagreements and things are said sometimes, but I've always been friends with those guys and they've been friends with me.
"We may not have agreed about certain things over the years, and there were times we didn't talk. I mean, we created something amazing that withstood the test of time."
Asked about the rumor that he could return for a final tour, Frehley says: "Rumors are rumors. I haven't been contacted. I'm not ruling it out. It's a possibility. If that's something they would like to do to end the career of Kiss, if it was handled correctly, it could be great.
"Those guys run the show these days. I'm doing my thing and they're doing their thing. If it happens it would be great. If it doesn't I'll be fine and they'll be fine."
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