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Thanks @FredPaulie for sharing your new Gene Simmons tongue calendar from KISS EXPO JAPAN 2016!

By David West / Music Radar.com

Eric Singer has been up late watching basketball but there�s no sign of fatigue when we sit down to talk to KISS�s Catman about his life in music.

Over a 30-plus-year career, the fast-talking, heavy-hitting singer has played with guitar legends Gary Moore, Brian May and Lita Ford, joined Black Sabbath for three years and worked extensively with Alice Cooper. But there are few bigger gigs in rock than KISS.

�Life works in funny ways and I don�t regret the choices I�ve made or didn�t make,� says Singer. �I have a lot of stories when I was asked to be in bands and said no and those bands were successful, but sometimes by staying the course, some connection I made manifested later down the line. Things happen for a reason.�

Singer�s drum heroes include Buddy Rich and Vinnie Colaiuta, but the Kiss gig is all about power, energy and showmanship.

�Gary Moore said to me years ago, �If I�m doing rock, I want a rock drummer. There is nothing I hate worse than a rock drummer trying to be a fusion drummer.� And that stuck with me,� says Singer, who showed he can lay down the groove when backing Kiss�s Paul Stanley on his Soul Station project. �

Everybody doesn�t have to be Vinnie Colaiuta or Gregg Bissonette where you�re a chameleon. If you go, �I�m a rock drummer, that�s what I do,� that�s cool too, because you can make a living and be successful. So what works for you.�Eric Singer has been up late watching basketball but there�s no sign of fatigue when we sit down to talk to Kiss�s Catman about his life in music.

Over a 30-plus-year career, the fast-talking, heavy-hitting singer has played with guitar legends Gary Moore, Brian May and Lita Ford, joined Black Sabbath for three years and worked extensively with Alice Cooper. But there are few bigger gigs in rock than Kiss.

�Life works in funny ways and I don�t regret the choices I�ve made or didn�t make,� says Singer. �I have a lot of stories when I was asked to be in bands and said no and those bands were successful, but sometimes by staying the course, some connection I made manifested later down the line. Things happen for a reason.�

Singer�s drum heroes include Buddy Rich and Vinnie Colaiuta, but the Kiss gig is all about power, energy and showmanship.

�Gary Moore said to me years ago, �If I�m doing rock, I want a rock drummer. There is nothing I hate worse than a rock drummer trying to be a fusion drummer.� And that stuck with me,� says Singer, who showed he can lay down the groove when backing Kiss�s Paul Stanley on his Soul Station project. �

Everybody doesn�t have to be Vinnie Colaiuta or Gregg Bissonette where you�re a chameleon. If you go, �I�m a rock drummer, that�s what I do,� that�s cool too, because you can make a living and be successful. So what works for you.�

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Here's the Gene Simmons Demon toilet paper holder from KISS Expo Japan 2016.

KISS fans celebrate middle school reunion at KISS EXPO Japan 2016. So Cool! Thanks to Hiromi Hendrix for sharing with us!

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Thanks to Teacher Lori Georgevich for sharing her 4th grade classroom KISS Oct. bulletin board with us.

Here's Gene Simmons and KISS ARMYJAPAN at a special VIP party in Tokyo earlier this week.

by Lyndsey Parker / Yahoo Music

On Friday, the first annual Visual Japan Summit kicked off at the Makuhari Messe convention center outside of Tokyo, celebrating new and veteran bands of �visual-kei� � a thriving Japanese musical subculture with its own fashionable, flamboyant take on the Western glam rock genre. Headlining the event were the recently reunited, widely recognized pioneers of the movement, symphonic prog legends X Japan � whose founder, Yoshiki, has frequently credited KISS for changing his life and turning him on to rock �n� roll. So, when Gene Simmons happened to be in town for the 2016 KISS Expo, he dropped by the Visual Japan Summit for a rollicking rendition of a KISS classic.

KISS�s notorious, tongue-wagging bassist joined X Japan and a gaggle of other wildly costumed visual-kei all-stars, including pop-rockers Glay (whose own 1999 Glay Expo gig at Makuhari Messe still holds the Guinness World Record for the largest concert ever held by a single act in Japan) and operatic heavy metal quintet Luna Sea, for a free-for-all singalong of �Rock �n� Roll All Nite� that lived up to its title. Earlier that evening, backstage at the Summit, Simmons told Yahoo Music that he hadn�t even rehearsed with X Japan and had no idea what was going to happen. So this group performance was, admittedly, very loose � but it was also the very definition of rock �n� roll.

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