RockMusicStar.com's Thomas Stanley Orwat Jr. has issued Part 3 of a new interview with KISS drummer Eric Singer on the eve of their Hottest Show On Earth tour which launches tonight (July 23rd) in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The following is an excerpt:

RockMusicStar.com: For the European tour, KISS added two more songs from Sonic Boom, plus 'Crazy, Crazy Nights' and 'God Gave Rock and Roll To You'. Were the two latter songs added because they were big hits in Europe?

Singer: "Ultimately, the band does what it chooses to do, but we do listen (to people's suggestions). Doc McGhee, as the manager, is going to have a different perspective that's different than us, being in the band - playing. He said, 'I think you guys should do these songs.' We knew that 'Crazy Nights' had been a big hit in England. Gene and Paul thought it would go over well in England, but I remember one of them saying that we'll probably have to drop it after we get out of England because people won't really care about it. It turned out it went over really well in all of Europe. I think sometimes that we need to be reminded - in the band - that there's whole generations of fans that grew up on different eras of KISS. To some people, Revenge is their lineup of KISS. Or Crazy Nights or Asylum or Hot In the Shade or Lick It Up or The Elder - whatever. Each different group of fans has a different time line of 'that's the KISS I know' or 'that's the KISS I grew up with.' 'That's the first record I bought' (etc.). So it's really hard, after this many records and this many years, to try to do something off every single record. Because, some of those records are better than others, obviously. And some of that music probably holds up a little better over time, over some of the other stuff. Bottom line is - you have to play a majority of those hits that people are familiar with. The 'Detroit Rock City', the 'Love Gun', 'Lick It Up', 'Black Diamond', 'Deuce'. People expect to hear those songs, no matter what."

Read the entire interview here.