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Our comeback KISStravaganza kicks off with the first in a four-part series on Gene Simmons‘ 2001 memoir, KISS and Make-Up. KISS‘ founding “Demon” tends to be perceived as one of the villains of rock and roll: a reputation he’s earned by, let’s face it, pretty much everything he says and does. But after basically inhabiting his brain for the past month, we were surprised to find ourselves feeling a twinge of affection for him — or at least, a sense of empathy for the mountains of unexamined trauma that made him That Way. So join us as we delve into the formative years that transformed a precocious immigrant boy into the glowering golem we know and (mostly) tolerate today.
00:00:46 Our original podcasts on the autobiographies of Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, and Paul Stanley
00:01:27 The next phase of KISSvolution (Video: Jeff Browder (Clip Lover))
00:01:41 The funniest thing to happen in the Oval Office in at least two years (Video: KISS’ Sonic Brew)
00:07:35 You’ll have to take our word on the Branson Reese quote; the original tweet is no longer online, and we’re the top source on Google’s AI Overview:
00:08:32 For more Van Halen drama, check out our almost 10-year-old podcast on David Lee Roth’s Crazy from the Heat
00:31:38 (Remy is Zach’s son)
00:31:54 It was a mildly controversial comment about autism rates:
00:43:54 KISS (1974, cover photo by Joel Brodsky) and Meet the Beatles! (1964, cover photo by Robert Freeman)
00:48:37 For more statutory rape discussions, check out our episode on Led Zeppelin
01:02:19 Can definitely imagine Gene recording a video like this
01:04:28 Was not expecting this for Stephen Coronel’s third act
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