Paul Stanley Still Proud Of KISS Costumes
December 3, 2009, 14 years ago
Therockradio.com is reporting:
Paul Stanley says that even after all these years of KISS dressing up in costumes and applying makeup before each show -- he still relishes the experience. Stanley, who's out on the road with the band, told The Las Vegas Sun, "I liken it to putting on my war paint. When you go to fight, you want to be in your best possible form. . . It would be like going into the Super Bowl without the right equipment or the World Series. . . This is a big part of what makes us who we are. The idea of it being an inconvenience doesn't play into this. At the very least I would say, if you win the lottery, you don't complain about the taxes. When you've been as lucky as we are, there's not much to complain about."
Aside from the band's musical legacy, one of the things that both Stanley and Gene Simmons are most proud of is that unlike cofounders Peter Criss and Ace Frehley, they never succumbed to the pitfalls of drugs and alcohol: "When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity. You're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway."
