On a separate note - I am enjoying Psycho circus a lot!!

Im enjoying this band quite a bit lately

I got hooked up with a bunch of CDRs of Early KISS and Its nice to get excited bout something new to you

Watching the Rush documentary the other night, there was a cool clip of Gene talking about first hearing Rush. Someone played the debut album for Gene and he insisted they get Rush to open their Canadian tour dates...which went over so well they completed the tour.

Alex said they opened over 50 shows for Kiss over the next couple years. Gene said if he could describe Rush in one word it would be "fearless".

I gotta chuckle at the King with AC/DC thats funny Exact heh

I haven't been in the mood to listen to Kiss lately.

I love the song Forever

If KISS were really smart They would preform the complete "(Music From)The Elder" album live. That would attract some heads to a show and perhaps make em some good money ? Just a thought.

Walmart completely dropped the ball on promoting KISS. Not sure what their problem was but they didn't even put half the effort into what they did for AC/DC. No huge set up for t-shirts, no TV commercials, no signs or banners in the store. If you weren't already tapped into the world of KISS, you wouldn't know it was coming out. All there was at my local Walmart was a pathetic little side display in the electronics section. The cashier that rang me up was probably in his late 30s and after scanning the CD he stared at it for a second and said "Is this new? When they did this come out?"

Still, at least they didn't do as poor of a job as Best Buy did with GNR. What's the point in signing these bands to exclusive deals if you're not going to promote them?

They don't want to do that stuff though. It's been addressed. They say they appreciate that people want to hear the obscure stuff but the majority of folks want the hits and classics so that's what they play. Basically their stance is that those songs and albums weren't popular for a reason so why play them now?

I can understand that but I think at this point *most* people who are going to KISS shows have been KISS fans for decades and probably would be willing to go without the virtually unchanged set list they've been playing since '96, at least for a little while. It's called the KISS Army for a reason, if you come, they will buy.

Speaking as a long-time KISS fan ,I would love to see them perform the Elder in it's entirety. I've missed KISS the last 2 times they've been in my area (would have gone but can't find anyone to go and I'm not going alone) but for that I'd do it. That show would be awesome!

The Elder is like the Holy Grail for KISS fans.

"C'mon, just play ONE SONG from it, puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeez????"

I'm so surprised, that a "pretend Kiss", with stand-ins for Ace & Peter didn't light the charts on fire. They should have stopped after that reunion tour in 2000.

I think they should be jumping up and down for joy that they sold 450,000 copies, that's about double what I guessed they would sell.

I was a proud member of the Kiss Army (when I was 7), a begrudging fan from 1979 until around 1985, then basically embarrassed to admit I ever listened to them since.

I still admire their business model, damn impressive. But they hit their musical peak in 1975.

Nah, they'll never top Rock And Roll Over but they've had some good ones since.