{"id":28634,"date":"2023-02-01T08:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=28634"},"modified":"2023-02-01T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:33:48","slug":"kiss-legend-gene-simmons-the-idea-that-ace-left-purely-because-of-the-elder-isnt-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/kiss-legend-gene-simmons-the-idea-that-ace-left-purely-because-of-the-elder-isnt-true\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS LEGEND GENE SIMMONS: \u201cTHE IDEA THAT ACE LEFT PURELY BECAUSE OF \u2018THE ELDER\u2019 ISN\u2019T TRUE.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">KISS LEGEND GENE SIMMONS: \u201cTHE IDEA THAT ACE LEFT PURELY BECAUSE OF \u2018THE ELDER\u2019 ISN\u2019T TRUE.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28635\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1-RC36-GENE-FRONT-COVER1-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"828\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/daFo2P8xvv8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FEBRUARY 1, 2023 \u2014\u00a0To celebrate Kiss\u2019s unique contribution to the world of rock over the past 50 years, the latest issue of Rock Candy Mag brings you a massive 20-page Kiss special including major new and exclusive interviews with both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. Both founder members go deep on all aspects of Kiss\u2019s career, with Gene in particular opening up about the often-fractious relationship he and Paul had with guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn one occasion Ace said, \u2018I can\u2019t come down today guys. I\u2019ve got a card game.\u2019\u201d Simmons told Rock Candy Mag writer Andrew Daly. \u201cWhat were we supposed to do? The answer was we had to get other people. And like Ace, Peter had his demons. We all understand or at least suspect what drugs and alcohol can do to you. But you\u2019d like to think that the people around you will prevent you from going down that route. Or at least will prevent you from doing a lot of it. That just didn\u2019t happen with Peter. We held out as long as we could, but it got to the point where he was sabotaging the band. The three of us \u2013 me, Paul, and Ace \u2013 voted to remove Peter from Kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band recruited drummer Eric Carr to replace Criss for 1981\u2019s concept album \u2018Music From The Elder\u2019, but this radical musical departure backfired and was a commercial failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo Ace\u2019s credit, the entire time he said that making a record like \u2018Music From The Elder\u2019 was not a good idea,\u201d admits Simmons. \u201cHe kept saying, \u2018Look, I don\u2019t want to do this other stuff. We should stay being a rock band.\u2019 In retrospect Ace was exactly right. But Ace\u2019s biggest problem was the monkey on his back of drugs and alcohol. By that point he was gone. There were too many drugs and there was too much alcohol, and it drove Ace to the point of no return. The idea that Ace left Kiss purely because of \u2018The Elder\u2019 isn\u2019t true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read our 20-page Kiss special, together with many other fascinating stories about UFO, Loverboy, Ron \u2018Bumblefoot\u2019 Thal, and Rick Wakeman in issue 36 of Rock Candy Mag. For more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockcandymag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.rockcandymag.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT ROCK CANDY MAG<\/strong><br \/>\nRock Candy Mag is a 100-page, full-colour bi-monthly rock mag, created in the UK. It covers the sights, sounds and smells from the greatest era in hard rock music, the \u201970s and \u201980s. The brainchild of: respected UK rock journalists Derek Oliver, Howard Johnson and Malcolm Dome \u2013 all frontline writers for the legendary Kerrang! magazine in the golden era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For all inquiries, contact:<br \/>\nMICHAEL BRANDVOLD MARKETING &amp; MANAGEMENT<br \/>\nMichael Brandvold | me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online &amp; social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael\u2019s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com\u2019s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael has also managed the online efforts for Jordan Rudess, Greg Kihn, KISS, ACCEPT, SOiL, Tantric, Killer Dwarfs, Dream Theater, Little Caesar, Narada Michael Walden, Motley Cr\u00fce, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are interested in speaking with Michael about what he can do to assist with your marketing needs contact him online at\u00a0me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISS LEGEND GENE SIMMONS: \u201cTHE IDEA THAT ACE LEFT PURELY BECAUSE OF \u2018THE ELDER\u2019 ISN\u2019T TRUE.\u201d FEBRUARY 1, 2023 \u2014\u00a0To celebrate Kiss\u2019s unique contribution to the world of rock over the past 50 years, the latest issue of Rock Candy Mag brings you a massive 20-page Kiss special including major new and exclusive interviews with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":28635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3355],"tags":[98,3360,3362,3361,3363,92,41,2901,3375],"class_list":["post-28634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-marketing-2","category-press-releases","tag-ace-frehley","tag-announcements","tag-client-announcements","tag-client-news","tag-client-press-releases","tag-gene-simmons","tag-kiss","tag-press-releases","tag-rock-candy-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1-RC36-GENE-FRONT-COVER1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28637,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28634\/revisions\/28637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}