re: KISS--A Look Back

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Getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Yea they suck.

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Hope you're being sarcastic. It means something, but like say an Jethro Tull 'Hard Rock' Grammy..it's not Gospel!

Speaking of RRHOF and Black Diamond, and a 2013 nominated band that didn't make the cut..check out The Replacements superior ramshackle version of The Mats - Black Diamond

Excerpt: "The familiar ‘Mats playfulness had its day, too; the band paid tribute to KISS with a psychotically sloppy cover of “Black Diamond.” The song’s author, fire-breathing bassist Gene Simmons, apparently thought otherwise(suspecting directed mockery), while at a Replacements show in New York City, where he walked out as soon as the band began playing it, Manager Peter Jesperson recalls."

Even as a kid catching KISS at BR's Centroplex in 1977 and 1979, being a fabulous spectacle of a show, and me liking their music at the time. I wasn't disillusioned, I knew my Led Zep, Queen, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Aerosmith 'Rocks' 'Toys In The Attic', Boston & Van Halen debut 8-Tracks, to contain superior music and artistry..

But, damn if as a kid, the Kabuki Theatre that a KISS concert was with the pyrotechnic flames & rising stages had..were mindblowing!