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Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley check in from home with a message for fans to take the pandemic seriously, adding, “We’ll get through this”

By KORY GROW / RollingStone.com

KISS were a year into their End of the Road tour — which will supposedly be their last-ever big outing — when the coronavirus forced them to change their modus operandi. Last Monday, they decided to cancel their nightly meet-and-greets, where they shook hands and posed for pictures with a hundred or more fans a night. Toward the end of the week, they decided to postpone the last three dates of the North American leg of their tour “out of an abundance of caution” until October.

The trek is set to resume in El Salvador late next month (another North American run begins in August) and until then, the band members are enjoying some time at home. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley checked in with Rolling Stone via email to report on how they’re spending their time off and just how seriously they want their fans to take the coronavirus.

What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?

Gene Simmons: Staying at home with [my wife] Shannon [Tweed]. Sometimes my children, Nick and Sophie, come by with food. Otherwise, we go hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains, where there are few other people. And, of course, it’s an opportunity to binge-watch all sorts of shows we would normally not get a chance to watch.

Paul Stanley: I’m watching news updates, playing the guitar, tweaking Soul Station album mixes, checking in on friends, and trying to keep things as normal and fun for my family.

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By Tim Peacock / www.udiscovermusic.com

With their ambitious ‘Destroyer’ album, KISS went “beyond rock, into the world of pop”, and became one of the biggest bands in the world.

After their first three albums yielded relatively modest returns, KISS achieved a well-deserved breakthrough with 1975’s concert album Alive! However, the New York rockers knew that their next studio album, Destroyer, needed to be their strongest yet if they were to continue their upward trajectory.

“We were going beyond rock, into the world of pop”
“Finally, we’d had a hit”, guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley told Rolling Stone in 2016, adding, “[Our manager] said, ‘You could easily go back to where you were if we don’t come up with something that really ups the ante.’ He suggested we work with Bob Ezrin.”

One of the 70s’ most in-demand producers, Canadian-born Ezrin was hot property by the time he appeared on KISS’ radar. He’d helmed critically acclaimed titles such as Lou Reed’s Berlin, but he was especially renowned for having produced Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies: a transatlantic smash that established Cooper as one of the biggest rock stars in the world in 1973.

Paul Stanley sat down with Tidal to discuss the process by which his formative influences found their way into the music of Kiss - including Mahler, Motown, Metal, and Makeup.

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Two iconic classics come together in the KISS x Marvel collection! 

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Thanks to Eduardo Mario Guerrero for sharing his End Of The Road "tribute tattoo to the hottest band in the world" with us!

Thanks to Roger Columbo for sharing his KISS ticket stub collection with us! His first show was the Lick It Up Tour in 1984.

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The final three shows of the spring leg of the KISS End Of The Road Tour are being rescheduled out of an abundance of caution. Tulsa, OK will now be Sunday, October 4th at BOK Center; Biloxi, MS will now be Tuesday, October 6th at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum; and Lafayette, LA will now be Wednesday, October 7th at Cajundome. Tickets will be honoured on the new date. The Fall leg of the tour remains unchanged. The band looks forward to seeing the fans very soon.