How do you rank the studio albums by the original four? I’d give them all 10’s!!
What got you hooked on KISS as a kid? The first time I saw the cover of KISS Alive II with the blood all over Gene.
What was your favorite live KISS concert experience? Revenge … my uncle Dennis bought us tickets, it was my first show … it was the UIC Pavillion …it was my favorite … just seeing all the adrenaline and the bombs and the pyrotechnics just made me feel like a kid again!
Who is your favorite member of the original four and why? Has to be Gene because he just tells it like it is and he holds no punches even though his mouth gets him in trouble sometimes, but he’s got to learn too.
What’s your favorite 80’s KISS record and what are your favorite 5 KISS songs of the 80’s?Asylum … “Uh All Nite”, “Let’s Put The X In Sex”, “Silver Spoon”, “Who Wants To Be Lonely” and “Heart of Chrome”.
You are a huge Elvis fan, what do you think KISS and Elvis have in common? They were all cool back in their day, he had his worst times with the movies and the Army and he had everything taken away and KISS had their day with non-make-up records and the disco era — they both had their non-cool phase.
What’s your review from the Chicago Open Air show this summer at Toyota Park? I think they need to really quit — I had to say but they need to quit or do a one year reunion tour with everyone whose alive and just call it a day.
If you met someone who wasn’t (yet) a KISS fan, what 5 songs would you play them to try and enlist them in the KISS Army? “Dr Love”, “Do You Love Me”, “Kissin’ Time”, “Love Gun” and “Deuce”.
You have a weekly feature on KISStorian in your Jason‘s Kisstoric Flashback — how do you decide each week what video to pick? It’s not very hard, I just go with how I feel that week, whatever song I feel like throwing up there.
If somebody bought you the Gene Simmons Vault and he was gonna come and hang out for a bit, what would you wanna do and what would you talk with Gene about? I would talk him about why is he letting KISS continue to play live and ask him to consider just making more studio records because that’s probably what the fans wanna see most at this point … I would just like to spend the day with him and see what he’s like.
You are asked to write Ace Frehley‘s set list for the next tour … what songs are essential for him to play live that he hasn’t been playing? “Do Ya”, “Trouble Walkin'”, “Talk To Me”, “2,000 Man”, “White Room” and “Foxy & Free”.
What is your favorite moment in KISStory? Gene’s appearance on the Mike Douglass Show or the Tom Snyder Show interview.
What would you call the next KISS studio album, please give us three working titles Jason?Maniacs, Tear It Up or Worlds Apart.
It was my first concert, KISS or otherwise — my Dad took us… It was cold as hell and February 15th, 1984 @ the UIC Pavillion, KISS’s Chicago home away from home in the 80’s it seemed. Man, I had never even smelt weed at the time and I think I must have gotten a contact high because, without telling anyone, end of show, during the encore break, I just jumped the wall to the main floor and wound up front row, in the fray with the Army! It was trippy, time slowed down a bit there ….at one point Vinnie Vincent mouthed “I love you” to me (or someone near me) and threw a pick our way and it fluttered just outta reach through a smoky haze thick with baptismal rock mayhem. I was hooked on rock & roll and the return of Kiss! The whole ride home I couldn’t shut up ….my friends, which include today a famous Historical writer and Comedian / Movie Star were less enamored with the experience. One had cotton stuck in his ears that my mom had to remove with tweezers when we got home. My Dad claimed his ears took three days to recover fully. This was the article that I believe appeared in the Chicago Tribune the week of the show.
We caught the Revenge Tour instead in Milwaukee for better / cheaper 10th row seats …the band sounded way better than the clips on KISSOLOGY, drums were way less tinny, great low-end warmth to the band I hadn’t heard on prior 80’s tours, plus they sounded seasoned, hungry and fresh and they were shaving less.
How do you rank the studio albums by the original four? I’d give them all 10’s!!
Who is your favorite member of the original four and why? Has to be Gene because he just tells it like it is and he holds no punches even though his mouth gets him in trouble sometimes, but he’s got to learn too.
You are a huge Elvis fan, what do you think KISS and Elvis have in common? They were all cool back in their day, he had his worst times with the movies and the Army and he had everything taken away and KISS had their day with non-make-up records and the disco era — they both had their non-cool phase.
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