Chris Jericho Forms ’80s KISS Cover Band Kuarantine
By Daniel Kohn / Spin.com
Chris Jericho was sitting at home in quarantine on April 11th like everyone else. He couldn’t wrestle (he’s one of AEW’s biggest attractions), and his band Fozzy wasn’t touring either. Then his pal Kent Slucher — Luke Bryan’s drummer — sent him a text with a drum part, and from there, things came together really quickly.
“I said it sounds like KISS’ ‘No No No,'” Jericho told SPIN over the phone. “I asked him what he was doing and he said, ‘I’m just laying down some fun tracks with a friend of mine and we’re going to do a cover of the song.’ I asked him if they needed a singer and he said, ‘Absolutely.’
And that’s how it started. Calling themselves Kuarantine (get it?), Jericho and Slucher enlisted guitarist Joe McGinness and PJ Farley from hard rock band Trixter to fill out the lineup. Unlike other KISS tribute bands, Kuarantine focuses solely on ’80s KISS, which Jericho says is his favorite KISS era (“Everyone likes to bag on me because of it”).
As it turns out, McGinness was already performing in a KISS-inspired band called KLASSIK ’78 that play in the style of ’70s KISS, but record originals.
Due to the power of technology — in this case, Zoom — the band, which has been around for just five weeks, were able to record and create a video in quarantine. In fact, some of the band members have yet to meet in real life.
“They just wanted to do it probably for themselves, put it on social media and I was like ‘Fuck no dude, we can make something out of this,'” the singer explains. “Let’s see how far we can go with this.”
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