Guitarist would have asked Gene Simmons to join Kiss, however, Paul Stanley denies episode
Eddie Van Halen tried to enter the kiss, according to Gene Simmons, bassist of the group. The statement came in an interview with the journalist Paul Brannigan while writing the biography of the book Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story (via Whiplash).
simmons said that the desire to eddie arose while the kiss recorded the disc Creatures of the Night of 1982 and that eddie asked to meet him because he couldn’t bear to live with David LeeRoth.
“[David Lee] Roth is driving me crazy, I can’t take it anymore! I want out of that band… can I join the Kiss?‘, he said eddie The Simmons.
And I said, ‘You have to stay in that band, eddie. Her heart and soul is her guitar, if you leave it’s gone Van Halen. Besides, there just isn’t enough oxygen in the room for you at the kissbecause you would have a million ideas,” says Simmons.
According to the bassist, he was responsible for convincing eddie to put up with roth and stay in Van Halen, however, for Paul Stanley, guitarist of kiss, such a request never happened. When asked by the journalist, Stanley explained that simmons never touched on the subject with the group and that the band was even looking for a solo guitarist and it didn’t make sense to refuse Eddie.
Source: Rollingstone
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