KISS Confirmed For Germany's Rock Am Ring/Rock Im Park; New Tommy Thayer Interview Available
December 4, 2009, 14 years ago
According to KISS Related Recordings, KISS are confirmed as one of the headliners for both of Germany's Rock am Ring (Nürburg/Eifel) and Rock im Park (Nürnberg) festival shows, which will take place June 4th - 6th, 2010. The headliners of the other two days are RAMMSTEIN and MUSE.
Other hard rock / metal acts confirmed so far include: AIRBOURNE, AS I LAY DYING, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, MOTÖRHEAD, RISE AGAINST and VOLBEAT.
Tickets are available at this location.
In other news, KISS Online has posted an interview with guitarist Tommy Thayer, conducted by Premier Guitar's Elianne Halbersberg. The following is an excerpt:
Q: What is your role as lead guitarist in a two-guitar band, and how does it change from studio to stage?
A: "They turn me up and turn Paul (Stanley) down, and that works! Two-guitar bands are my favorite because of the interplay, especially in KISS. When we're writing, we try to have that counterpart and interplay between the guitars and voicings so that we're not doing exactly the same thing. That's a big part in the way the songs were written. The other thing that makes the sound of our two guitars distinctive is that we use different approaches and settings to set the two off, and the more we do that, the better we are. The familiarity we have, the years of playing together, including Gene (Simmons), have solidified that sense of rhythm and feel. We're all locked in together. It gives us a lot of power and we're all good at that. It just works."
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