After over 15 years of waiting, KISS has FINALLY going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. This goes without saying, it's long overdue! There's plenty of other forum's out there and radio personalities (Talking to you Eddie Trunk) that have gone on for years about the crimes the Rock Hall commit's against rock music. It's not going to be easy, but I'm trying not have my argument sound just like there's, but it's honestly bound to happen.
You could literally go on for days and days about how many legendary bands are completely excluded from the rock hall nominations every single year. This year KISS and Deep Purple were both nominated. KISS was officially chosen to be inducted, but Deep Purple wasn't. Instead, it's more important to get Hall and Oates and Cat Stevens in. Not discrediting the musicianship of either talent, but that really isn't necessary for the Rock Hall. At the same time, I don't even know why I'm complaining about that. Public Enemy was inducted a year or two ago, but Judas Priest hasn't even received a nomination as far as I know, I could be wrong. But, where's Iron Maiden? Where's The Scorpions? Hell, Journey and Def Leppard aren't even in. I need to stop here before it gets out of hand. Case and point fully demonstrated.
I was listening to Chris Jericho's brand new podcast a few nights ago, and he interviewed Eddie Trunk ironically. He spilled out a lot of information about the nomination process that I had no idea about. It was very eye-opening what I learned while listening to that podcast. So basically, in a nutshell, no matter how much you think the online voting for bands matters, it doesn't. It has no effect what the so called "panels" decide on. These "panels" remain anonymous because they know more than anybody they would be vilified and hated by millions of rock fans the U.S. And now, it's widely known that these voters are just made up of a bunch of old Rolling Stone writers that think KISS was just a marketing machine, or they were just silly and couldn't be taken seriously as they weren't necessarily the absolute best musicians out there. A lot of bands out there have had the cards stacked against them over the course of history because of this.
There is a kicker though, and this is my favorite part! Members of the bands that have been inducted in the past have a pretty size-able influence on who get's inducted each year. So now, with bands like Metallica being in for a few years now, you would have to think that the reason Rush is in and that KISS is going to be now, is because you've got guys like Lars Ulrich going to great lengths to vouch for these bands to get in! I found that quite amusing. It's also worth noting that this is being held in Brooklyn. That is the hometown of Peter Criss, and it was quite the hotspot for KISS in their early days. So, the rock hall is getting exactly what they DON'T want. An entire ceremony packed to the brim with KISS fans. Even Nirvana's being inducted, but you really don't see much talk about that in the media right now. This show is really going to be all about Kiss, whether the hall likes it or not. Hell, even Dave Grohl is going to be happier to see Kiss get in than himself!
Back to Kiss finally making it, thank god. This is obviously old news now, as this came out right before Christmas, but I believe now's a good time to start talking about it since all negotiations and other things are now going to have to be worked out within the original band themselves. Now is when all the work is going to have to be done for things to come together for the ceremony in April. I listened to Eddie Trunk's Radio show on the Friday night before Christmas, and he had Ace Frehley call in, and lots of details where dished out. The rock hall DOES want the original band, Paul, Ace, Peter and Gene to play in makeup! When I heard that I freaked out like a little girl, no regrets. He said that he had already talked to Paul and Gene and everybody was on board for this. That's what really surprised me. You would think this would be a nasty few months of trying to get everything sorted out for them. So, at that time, everybody was saying the right things, and it was looking really good.
So after about a week or two after that, Paul Stanley starts taking questions via his twitter account. It should go without saying that he was absolutely just bombarded with Rock Hall questions. I really don't know if he just got frustrated with people asking about it and could possibly be trying to keep their actual plans under wraps, but he had nothing but horrible things to say about his former band-mates. Unfortunately, that is what I was kind of expecting to hear now, and in the coming months, but it's still very eye-opening. This is really an ever-changing deal that will all culminate at the Rock Hall Ceremony in April. Ultimately, I firmly believe that they will reunite for at least a couple of songs during the show, as long as Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer don't show up in Peter and Ace's makeup. (I'm not even going to get started on that argument.) After all, this is all about what Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss created in 1973. And that's what it should be!
It may get a little dramatic, but I really think 2014 is going to be one hell of a year for KISS fans!
Be sure to stay tuned to this, I will have a new post in the coming days about the newly announced WWE Network and how it's basically changing the game on how we will enjoy Television in the future. (No, you don't need to know a single thing about wrestling to understand what I will be talking about.)
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