Metal-Rules.com spoke top KISS legend PAUL STANLEY recently while on the road on the KISS Alive 35 tour. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Metal-Rules.com: Since there's no new album to promote, could you tell a little about the theme for this new KISS Alive 35 tour?

Stanley: "Well, I mean, obviously KISS Alive 35 is the 35th anniversary of the band and that's really all it is, you know. We're not at a point where every time we go on tour we need an album. Especially since it's really kind of a croc of shit, the idea that when you get down to it people talk about wanting a new album, but at the end of the day they don't really wanna hear a new album. Nobody does, nobody wants to hear THE ROLLING STONES' new album, nobody wants to hear THE WHO's new album. You don't go to a concert to hear new music, you want the band to go and do it, but then you don't wanna listen to it. I understand it, but why go in the studio and do an album when understandably people wanna hear the classics; those are the songs that mean something because they are connected to a time in somebody's life. A new song is fresh but it has no connection, so you listen to it five times and then you say 'That's really nice, now play 'Love Gun'."

Metal-Rules.com: So this tour is basically a celebration of your 35 year career?

Stanley: "Yes, plus when we're in Europe, we'll be doing all of Kiss Alive. So, you know, here we do it a little different because Australia we have a different kind of relationship with, we try to include a broader spectrum of music."

Metal-Rules.com: Like you mentioned, you've decided to perform the Alive album in its entirety in Europe. How come, since you're not even wearing the Alive costumes on this tour but the ones from the Destroyer era?

Stanley: "Well because we're not recreating the past, we're celebrating it. It's not about putting on the KISS Alive show, it's not about dressing, it's not about making a statement by recreating that moment, the costumes or what we wanted to wear because we've worn the other, you know. And we don't wanna come up with new costumes. Again, new costumes are almost like a new album. Somebody maybe saying 'When are you gonna have new costumes?', but if we showed up in new costumes they'd say 'Why aren't you dressed like KISS?' So at some point we have to do what we think makes the most sense."

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