Four guys from New York decided the problem with rock and roll was it needed more fire breathing and blood spitting, and in 1973 when everyone was listening to Led Zeppelin chase the blues into the cosmos or the Beatles dismantle themselves beautifully, Kiss showed up painted like demons and decided the music was only half the point. They were outside everything that mattered and laughed out of every room that counted and were never supposed to last and then they sold out Madison Square Garden and wrote songs so simple they felt inevitable and built a merchandising empire before anyone understood what that meant and put on a show so fully committed it pulled in people who had never cared about rock and roll before and suddenly did. Critics dismissed them and audiences could not stop buying tickets, which is usually how you know someone figured something out. Fifty years later they are still a going concern which is not something most of their contemporaries can say, and the reason is the same as it was in 1973, they understood that spectacle and song are not opposites, they are the same thing delivered in different keys.
>>131685087You were born in 1955 weren't you OP?
>>131685087No one gave a shit about the Beatles in 1973
>>131687068Gay bars did
>>131685087Literally the original trust fund band.
>>131687094you would know you're their biggest customer
>>131686645i traveled there from 1985
The weirdest thing was how kiss tried ti stay relevant in the 90s by trying to rip off ICP
>>131687128Wasn't every member broke as shit before they took off and even then that didn't happen to the mid 70s?
>>131685087This was a bad idea and the people that liked it are gay and retarded.
>>131690294Nah. You are.
>>131690370>getting butthurt about your favorite hebraic glam band and resorting to NO UGrim state of this shit board
>>131690402Ya seethe?
>>131685087I know way more about the history of Kiss based on listening to the audiobook parts on youtube than I know about the music
>>131690240Do you honestly believe any jews' interpretation of being broke?
Alice Cooper was doing shock rock before Kiss
>>131690240Until Alive broke them they were subsisting on one sandwich a day and living off Bill Aucoin's credit card. On the Dressed To Kill cover they borrowed his suits because only Peter Criss owned a suit.
>>131690405>watching a jewish faggot in tight leather sing about the devil and rock and rollNo thanks I'm straight
>>131690501So you are seething then
>>131690240When jews say broke they mean "not a millionaire"
>>131690517>calling something gay is seethingAre you legitimately retarded?Don't bother answering
Oh yeah. He seethed.
