Former KISS guitarist BRUCE KULICK has issued the following update:

"HAPPY NEW YEAR Everyone!

Well I hope you all had a great holiday season. December is always hectic for me, as I have my birthday on the 12th, and this year I had the pleasure to go to work in Peru and Chile, quite an exciting adventure for me. With arriving home on the 21st straight into the X-mas craziness, I had no time to relax but was pleased with all the gifts I found for my friends and family, and of course the gifts I received for my birthday and holiday.

So let me start with the amazing journey to South America. I was fortunate to take along my good friend and business associate Abba on my trip to Peru and Chile. We had different travel itineraries to Peru, and my trip started off with losing Abba in Houston due to connection problems so alone I arrived in Peru. I am the first member of the KISS family to go to Peru. The promoter Ruslan Silverman, and his lovely girl Ursula picked me up from a long day of travel. The airport is very modern in Lima, and that impressed me right away.

As we drove into the city I saw many casinos, American style food chains, and an interesting style in their buildings etc. After a good night's rest in the first class hotel, they told me Abba finally arrived that morning. He had no luggage and my CDs were in his baggage, but we finally got them the next day, just in time for the show. We had a day to set up the event, with press and rehearsal with the band that I would do 10 songs with. I asked them to learn some tunes from my two solo discs, and I was pleased with the hard work they did. After many great meals in the city of Lima, and seeing a kind of festive night life (they never stop the music and dancing it seems), I was excited that show day finally arrived.

The stage that had to be built for the club, was late in getting there, as the truck carrying it , broke down (things can get hairy in Peru). I arrived around 6pm to do a meet and greet at the venue and was given some cool gifts, drawings and artwork from my fans. I had a great security guard named Gabriel who looked like Andre the Giant. After the signings we were off to have dinner and then the jamming would be begin. We went to a local Chinese place called Hong Fag! Nice place but really bizarre being in Peru eating Chinese food of course.

We arrived at the club and the place was packed with wild KISS fans. I hit the stage, and we tore into some KISS classics from ALIVE III. We sounded tight and I was really pleased with the reaction from the fans singing along etc. I did the songs from my solo discs, and then we had two more songs to finish the show. The singer all of sudden left the stage! He kind of said goodbye to me, and I didn't know what the hell was going on! Turned out he had another gig and didn't tell anyone he had to leave at a certain time. Well I covered first by teasing the crowd with some KISS riffs they all know, and once we realized he wasn't coming back, we had the opening acts singer jump in for 'Tears Are Falling' and 'Love Gun'. Certainly I was shocked at what happened, but there I was in a packed place in Lima, Peru with my fans going crazy. What can I say... strange to me! I thanked the crowd and of course I was very excited to play for the fans that never saw anyone from KISS live in their country.

After being chased by the fans back to my hotel, it was off to pack and get ready for the trip to Santiago, Chile. We said our goodbyes but we knew we had a 12 hour layover in Lima on our way home to the US, so we were ready to see our friends again in a few days. We arrived in Chile a short 3 and half hours plane trip on LAN airlines. After a long line getting into the country we were picked up by Tony from Rock Axis, and off to dinner and the hotel. Santiago is very beautiful and we filled up on some supplies at a Simpsons themed grocery store! Simpsons rule even in South America.

We got some rest and the next day we were off to radio and press. We visited the music store called Audiomusica where I would be doing my meet and greet the day of show. I picked out an ESP guitar to jam with, and again had some great food, and all the fans that met me kept reminding me of the big Monsters of Rock show KISS did in '94 in Santiago. I will never forget that performance and I have a killer bootleg of the event. We really played great that night and what a crowd. Chile is crazy for KISS. Cote is the promoter and he kept telling Abba and I what a huge fan he was of KISS and how that concert meant so much to him!

Off to rehearsal with KISSERBLOOD and I have to say, Santiago is beautiful but the place these guys jam was like East LA! But they really were warm and welcoming to me, and the leader of the band Nacho who is a fine guitarist was very happy to have me play with the band. We went over originally 5 tunes, but I liked them enough to say, let's do some more. So the set turned into 8 songs, ending with 'God Gave Rock N Roll To You II'. After rehearsal I was invited to a fan's house, and we had an amazing meal. Thank you Gustavo for your hospitality. His home and family and friends were great to Abba, Cote, Tony and me. Nice to have a home cooked meal.

The afternoon of the show day, we had our meet and greet which was fun to me and the fans. They all told me about the '94 concert! Some had pix of me at the hotel back then. Now it was time to get ready for the big show, and the band did had some surprises for me that night, as they wanted to play 'Take It Off' and have two professional strippers come down and do their thing during the song. WOW is all I will say. This crowd was so wild and it was so hot in that club for many reasons. I was so excited with them singing the tunes, and screaming how they love me and KISS. Check out the YouTube link to see me and the band.

Next morning it was an early flight back to Lima, for our layover. Ruslan picked Abba and myself up and off to a great lunch. I was addicted to INCA KOLA, like a creme coke drink very popular in Peru. And we did some shopping at a huge mall, that was packed because of X-mas coming. We relaxed at the drummer Alphonso's home watching great Beatles bootlegs, with his lovely family and friends from the fan club KISS CARNIVAL, and then it was off in a taxi to the airport for the big trip home. (What a ride that was!)

So both events went over amazing and of course I want to thank everyone in Peru and Chile who looked after us. I really hope to return, as the reaction of the fans was quite fulfilling for me. My birthday dinner with some friends happened a few days before I left. I got some nice gifts, but what was on my mind of course was my big trip to South America which as you can tell was everything I hoped for.

I hope all your holidays went great, and now I am back into the New Year with recording more for BK 3 the new CD I have told you all about. The ESP DVD Live in Australia will be ready by the end of January... so sorry for the delays with this concert footage. You won't be disappointed. ESP will be going to Europe in March and the dates will be announced shortly. Looking forward to that trip!

Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR and visit me on My Space and of course check out my Tour Dates page or the Grand Funk site to see our dates for 2007.

All the best,

Bruce Kulick"