Tuesday 25 February 2014

kiss and don't make up

So this is how it went. That empire of malfunction 'The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' invite the original members of Kiss to reform for a one off performance on the awards night. Old fans like this, old band members like this, so what can go wrong.
Well when the bands as long in the tooth as Kiss are still around it's naturally expected that all the original members are not going to make it through the decades for various reasons.. you can invent your own here there's a good chance of being right. And that it seems is the real axe in the back because when it's heard that two of the later replaced original members are to receive the induction and not any one of 4 others who replaced them over the years, then Kiss fur does fly. Lengthy statements are issued from the original existing Kissites (you'll probably guess who they are) about not wanting to belittle the efforts put in by those who followed the original line up so they have no alternative but to cancel the live appearance on the popspacular award farce because they who run the event are not too happy about stand-ins for the original band no matter how much wad they've earned the group over the years. It seems the RARHOF have high standards when it comes to original group lineups. Blimey.. who new.
Anyway since then everyone of these Kisslodites have been fraught with hand wringing, and rising above it all, and being professional, and feeling frustrated and disheartened, and feeling sorry for the fans and.. well you can imagine the upset.
This coming from a group of ageing men who still like to put on make-up this is to say the very least.. just lame.
The lot of them are all Rock and Roll handbags.

"Everything's changed save the way we think."