trainarollin Wrote:
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> The book "KISS & SELL - THE MAKING OF A
> SUPERGROUP" is an interesting read. It was written
> by one of their former business managers who was
> with them from the mid 70's to approx 1988. The
> bands manager during the 70's made bad business
> and investment decisions. Even if not in the music
> field, it's an interesting read from someone who
> was in the inner circle and does not reley on
> sensationalism.


I would recommend this book to anyone the least bit interested in the business side of a major rock n roll band (or corporation pretending to be a band).

Dan Wrote:
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>
> The audience and the concert experience in general
> has changed a lot in that time too, even from when
> I first started going in the '80's. Gene and Paul
> saw the Stones Budokan show so perhaps he has even
> more perspective there.


and i can assume they were bored to tears and utterly miserable because of all the rarities they played that evening?

*everybody need a little help sometime!*

It was a great set:

Jumping Jack Flash
You Got Me Rocking
Live With Me
Let It Bleed
No Expectations
Rocks Off
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Worried About You
Midnight Rambler
Slipping Away
Before They Make Me Run
Start Me Up
It's Only Rock'n Roll
Rock Me Baby
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Honky Tonk Women
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Satisfaction (encore)

yes, but how could Paul have endured

Live With Me
Let It Bleed
No Expectations
Rocks Off
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Worried About You
Midnight Rambler
Slipping Away
Before They Make Me Run

when all he (and, according to his own idiotic mind, everyone else) wanted to hear was honky tonk women!

*everybody need a little help sometime!*

The Biggest Bong Wrote:
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> yes, but how could Paul have endured
>
> Live With Me
> Let It Bleed
> No Expectations
> Rocks Off
> Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
> Worried About You
> Midnight Rambler
> Slipping Away
> Before They Make Me Run
>
> when all he (and, according to his own idiotic
> mind, everyone else) wanted to hear was honky tonk
> women!


I think Paul was making a generalization about the casual fan when he made the statement about wanting to hear "Honky Tonk Women" instead of the new stuff. But interpret it however you like.

CrazyDadda Wrote:
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> KNAC.COM: Will KISS record again?
>
> Stanley: It's possible. You know the problem with
> KISS recording is that the songs that everybody
> thinks of as the classics are much more than music
> at this point, they are really, I guess like
> snapshots of a point in somebody's life.

He's absolutely right. The problem only is always when I heard a Kiss song I just wanted to turn it off. This reflex works to this day. It would be nice if there was a similar reflex for Paul Stanleys mouthhole - just close when trying to open. "It's possible."