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That desire led seven years ago to the band’s one great departure from its blunt, bump-and-grind music and its coarse lyrical appeal to adolescent libido and rebellion against adult authority. It matters more what fans think, but ultimately you want to be liked (by the press),” he said.
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“It matters, and anyone who says it doesn’t is fooling himself. Unlike many rockers who regularly get panned in the press, Simmons doesn’t downplay what he reads about his band, nor does he pretend to ignore it. Most of those sales have been racked up with music built on a single-minded heavy thump, and a single-minded thumping is what Kiss has received from most rock critics. But before long, Kiss was established as a headlining draw in its own right, launching a career that, according to the band’s own figures, has topped the 50-million mark in worldwide record sales. It was the first of many times in the early days that headlining bands would refuse to share the bill with Kiss and its spectacle of makeup, props and pyrotechnics, Simmons said. Kiss was booted off the tour on the spot. As it turned out, Simmons said, the Kiss road crew had prevented Blue Oyster Cult’s road manager from pulling the plug by locking him in an equipment trunk. But one night in Detroit, Kiss was able to go back on stage and answer the crowd’s cries for more-a demand that the new band, having already exhausted its meager song list, satisfied by repeating three numbers it already had played. Usually our plugs were pulled,” Simmons said. The show won Kiss its first substantial press notices, Simmons said, and soon afterward the band went off on its first national tour, opening theater dates in the Midwest-for Blue Oyster Cult. Blue Oyster Cult was headlining the show at Manhattan’s Academy of Music, and Kiss, with its Kabuki-style makeup and super-hero stage outfits, had bottom billing in a lineup that also included Iggy Pop. It was New Year’s Eve, 1973, Simmons said. The two groups will be putting out most of the musical decibels in Orange County over the next few days: Blue Oyster Cult tonight and Friday at the Coach House, and Kiss on Saturday at the Pacific Amphitheatre.Īs Gene Simmons, the co-founder and resident fire-breathing hedonist of Kiss, told the story this week from a tour stop in Denver, the two bands go way back together-back to Kiss’ first evening of notoriety. Where heavy-rock bands are concerned, they are also among the longest-lived. Kiss and Blue Oyster Cult are the loudest New Yorkers of them all.