postscript to an email from a gal i sorta know in canada:_________
P.S. [non sequitur: when i was a kid i thought that kiss rock and roll-ed all night and PART OF every day. i was really impressed that they displayed such moderation and good judgement. seriously.]
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The first album (vinyl) I ever bought with my "own" money was Kiss' Dynasty in 1979.
The Mel Gibson thing was supposed to be a joke. He hasn't said anything, except for that "all wars are started by the Jews" crack...
One of the urban legends regarding Kiss was that Gene "The Demon" Simmons had part of a beef tongue grafted onto his own tongue, yielding his famous, serpentine attraction.
The rumor is, of course, not true.
It's clearly a pork tongue.
And, didn't Ace Frehley get the short end of the stick, when it came to the nicknames?
He just got his regular nickname, "Ace," but preceded by the adjective "Space."
And, "Ace" was even foisted upon Paul Frehley when he joined the band, in order to preserve the unique identity of Paul "Starchild" Stanley, whose real name is Stanley Eisen.
But, if you really want a laugh, go rent the film "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park." In it, the band refer to each other by the nicknames in the poster - "Demon, Starchild..."
Ace has the zaniest laugh I've ever heard, and he later admitted to having been quite drunk throughout the shooting of the film.
Peter "Catman" Criss was even more drunk than Ace, such that he was unable to say his lines, which were subsequently overdubbed by a low-voiced black man, who sounded nothing like Peter.
It's really funny, and has unmistakable camp value.
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