KISS/Trivia

• Creator Backlash: The film KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, the Concept Album / Rock Opera Music from "The Elder", and (albeit nowhere near the levels of the other previous examples) their Glam Rock album Asylum.
• Old Shame: Their album when the band was still called "Wicked Lester".
• One of Us: As stated before, Gene Simmons is a lifelong comic book geek and amateur magician who loves Stuff Blowing Up.
• The Pete Best: Ron Leejack, lead guitarist when the band was still called "Wicked Lester"
• What Could Have Been: The Keep, the only band that had two former KISS members, Peter Criss and Mark St. John, as official members. Recorded a couple of demos which were poorly received, and the band promptly imploded.
  • Couple of songs were eventually re-recorded and released on different solo projects by both members, however.
  • During the Dynasty Tour, Stanley wanted to have a headgear that fires a laser out of his right eye during the show (likely to mock the oh-so mediocre special effect from their movie), but found out he and/or the audience could be permanently blinded if he tried it once.
    • What about the amusement park project at the same year ?
  • Eric Carr initially used to take the persona of an hawk. Needless to say, it didn't looks great. Paul even noticed the resemblance with Big Bird !
  • Also, after the failure of Unmasked, the band started to work on an album called "Rockin With The Boys", which was supposed to be a return back to their Hard Rock roots and included the songs "Partners In Crime", "Nowhere To Run" and the original "Love's a Deadly Weapon". However, they ended up with Bob Ezrin and produced instead one of the less liked albums overall, Music from "The Elder", who sold even worse than Unmasked.