KISS Frontman Paul Stanley - "HUMBLE PIE, LED ZEPPELIN, JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, THE WHO; Those Were The Bands That Inspired Me"
August 18, 2014, 10 years ago
Matt Wardlaw at Clevescene.com recently caught up with legendary KISS frontman Paul Stanley. An excerpt from the interview is available below:
From the band’s earliest days, Stanley says that they always knew what they wanted to do as a group and although they certainly made a big statement with their makeup, they wanted to make an even bigger statement with their music.
“It was never about the makeup,” he says. “It was always about the kind of band we wanted to be. I was fortunate enough as a teen to have seen Humble Pie, Led Zeppelin — and I’m not talking about in arenas and stadiums, I’m talking about small places. So Humble Pie, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who — the list goes on and on. Those were the bands that inspired me. So how we chose to dress it up came secondly. It was always part of the big picture, but it was never ‘Let’s wear makeup and play music.’ It was, ‘Let’s play music and wear makeup.’ So the priority was always how much horsepower is our engine going to have and then what color are we going to paint the car?”Go to this location for the complete story.
Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons recently made an impromptu visit to Mount Sinai’s baby unit in Toronto, snuggling infants and offering sleep-deprived moms and dads some parenting advice reports Jane Gerster of The Toronto Star.
Simmons and Stanley were at the hospital briefly in support of Rock N’ Stroll, a walk launching this September to fundraise for high-risk births, Mount Sinai’s international specialty.
It’s an issue Stanley, a father of four, cares deeply about.
“My first-born went directly from delivery room to ICU,” he said. “Had it not been for the kind of care that can only be given in very specific cities, one of them being Toronto, we probably would have lost my first.”Although absent while the duo posed with four newborns and their parents, Stanley and Simmons’ full-face makeup styles adorn the babies on Rock N’ Stroll posters across the city.
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