Without joy or connection between the members, musician reveals that he thought of ending the band even before the return years later
Paul Stanleydoes not keep good memories of the first farewell tour of the Kissheld between 2000 and 2001. In an interview with Podcast THE MAGNIFICENT OTERSpresented by Billy Corgan (from SMASHING PUMPKINS), the guitarist opened the game about how he felt at the time: completely unhappy.
“I thought, ‘I’m hating it, I’m really unhappy,” he recalled.
The band was maladjusted, there was night that the show was horrible, and it seemed that no one there wanted to be together. Lacking connection, joy was lacking.
Stanley He said that negative criticism usually does not affect him, but at that stage he himself agreed with what he read. “It’s different when you feel they are exaggerating or wanting to attack you. But when you read a criticism and think, ‘It’s true, I’m hating it too,’ that’s a sign that something is very wrong.”
He compared the moment to have to sacrifice a sick animal: “It was like thinking ‘better to end it soon.’ And that went against everything we always defended, that the band is larger than any of us.”
Even with classical formation, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Crissthe backstage climate was heavy, marked by egos, divergent interests and little desire to move on.
Stanley He also said that the band’s return only started to draw when, shortly after the tour, was approached by a fan in a lava. “He came to tell me how much he had enjoyed the show and asked if we were going to go back to 35 years of the band. And I was surprised: ‘Really? Do you still want us around?’
The public’s response was the missing push.
The truth is that we only got out of the scene because I wanted to. No one had asked us to stop.
Years later, in 2019, the Kiss Back with the tour End of the Roadsold as a new farewell, which had part of the agenda paused because of the pandemic. The alleged “last show” was held at the end of 2023 at Madison Square Garden in New York, but as fans already know, the retirement of Kiss It is always an open chapter.
Now the band prepares for a mini -residence of three nights in Las Vegas, scheduled for November. And it seems that the spotlight has not yet erased for the painted face icons, at least not for now.
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Source: Rollingstone
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