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Eric Carr

Eric Carr's first work with Kiss was the concept album Music from "The Elder", which marked the band's departure into the mystical direction of art rock. One of Eric Carr's contributions to the album was the song, "Under the Rose", which featured a Gregorian chant-style choir. Later, he also had co-writing credits on the songs, "All Hell's Breakin' Loose", "Under the Gun", and "No, No, No". The first video featuring Eric Carr in Lisa's makeup was filmed for the song "A World Without Heroes" in 1981. Influence and style edit Early in his career, Eric Carr idolized John Bonham of Led Zeppelin and Ringo Starr of The Beatles. Then his interest shifted to the playing style of Ginger Baker of Cream. In general, Carr was omnivorous in music. Adam Mitchell, the author of lyrics, spoke of Carr as a connoisseur of folk, R&B and other styles. In addition to drums, Eric Carr also played guitar, bass guitar, and piano, and sang well. He occasionally sang "Black Diamond" at Kiss concerts. His first lead vocal in the studio was on the Kiss classic "Beth" (originally sung by Peter Criss), which was re-recorded for the Smashes, Thrashes & Hits album. Eric Carr's last concert with Kiss was on November 9, 1990, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Gene Simmons, bassist for Kiss, stated that Eric Carr's heavy drumming style pushed Kiss into a heavier "metal" band than they were when jazz-inspired Peter Criss was on drums. Rockology edit In 2000, Eric Carr's first solo album, Rockology, was released. The album Rockology was released by former Kiss guitarist and Eric Carr's friend Bruce Kulick. Unfinished Business edit In 2011, Eric Carr's second solo album, Unfinished Business, was released.

Eric Carr

Carr was born on July 12, 1950, in Brooklyn, to Albert and Connie Caravello. He grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. "It was a typical Leave It to Beaver-style home," he recalled in a 1990 interview. "It was wonderful, I guess, pretty normal. My dad worked really hard, so unfortunately I didn't see much of him. I realize it now, but he worked 24/7, six days a week… so I… never went to a baseball game or anything like that—ever. I spent my time alone. I played by myself with lots and lots of toy soldiers. I made monsters, and the soldiers fought monsters."[1] “I went to… the… the School of Art and Design. I went there to be a cartoonist. They give you a chance to try out all the different things until you decide what you want. After the first three weeks… I decided to change and be a photographer, I don’t know why. As a result of my school years, I wasted absolutely every school day, being an ordinary schoolboy. I didn’t do any work, I didn’t do anything for my future career, I wasted time and I was constantly having drinking parties in the darkroom with my friends. We never got caught because we could see the teacher coming through the one-way glass. It’s not like I got drunk every day, you see. Half a glass of vodka was enough to get drunk in those days. We didn’t drink the bottle. I had a lot of fun with my friends at school, I didn’t keep any of them, but it was a really good time.”

Eric Carr

Caravello didn't look like most kids, largely because of his love of the Beatles. "I was one of two boys at school who had long hair," he said in the same interview. "I'd put Dippity-Do in my hair to make it straight. I had a Beatle haircut, but my hair is curly, so I couldn't make it straight like the Beatles. So I'd put Dippity-Do in my hair, take my mom's nylon stocking, tie a knot in one end, and put it on my head like a criminal. I slept like that every night for about two years. The crazy thing about it is that my parents let me do it. I'd walk around the house getting ready for bed and I'd have this on my head. And they'd be like, okay, that's okay. I think about it now, they must have thought I was nuts."

Eric Carr

Before joining Kiss, Caravello played with a number of bands, mostly playing cover versions of well-known songs. The first band, The Cellarmen, was formed in 1965 with a few friends. They began playing local clubs in Brooklyn and Queens. Only a few recordings were made and released on the Jody label, a small Brooklyn record label. Caravello then joined Things That Go Bump In The Night and later Smack. The latter consisted mainly of members of The Cellarmen, which broke up in 1968. Salt & Pepper was Caravello's next cover band, playing music of various genres. He continued to play with the group for nine years. The group enjoyed some success, opening for established artists such as Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone. Changing its name to Creation in 1973, the group now played disco music. "I was in a band from '70 to '79 that changed members a few times. They were called Salt N' Pepper because they were 50% black and 50% white. It was a cool band, what a (great) band it was! We were a great band. They were like family to me for nine years, actually." {Recorded interview, 1990, KISS Alliance fanzine}. In 1974, tragedy struck when a fire broke out at Gulliver's in Port Chester, New York, during a show at a disco, killing dozens of people, including the band's keyboardist and singer. Caravello escaped and saved one person. It was determined that a thief had set the fire in an adjacent building in an attempt to cover his tracks. Years later, he still remembers that horrific night vividly. "It was a club called Gulliver's — twenty-four people died. Among the dead were two people in my band. I was one of the last people to get out. A waitress came on stage and we stopped the song. She asked us to announce that there was a fire next door and everyone should vacate the building.

Eric Carr

"Everybody started running out, and then all of a sudden the ventilation system on the roof started sucking in smoke from the fire. So this thick black smoke started filling the place. The lights went out, and it was just pure hell." {Recorded interview, 1990, KISS Alliance fanzine}. “I was lucky, I was at the top of the stairs leading out of this place. We were underground, there was a dance floor and there was a stage. We had a singer, a girl, one of our singers. I was holding her hand because she was panicking and wanted to go back to the basement. She could have died, too. I pulled her out, we were some of the last people out of there. Two of my band members were killed. Our singer, a guy named George, and this kid Damien, a keyboard player from Deer Park, Long Island - he was seventeen. It was terrible. We were devastated. A week later, Sunday morning, I was on CBS television with my guitarist - it was a show called Sunday. I had a tape of it and it was gone. I wish I had the tape, because all you see is this giant mop of hair, with my John Lennon mustache and my Lennon glasses. That’s what I looked like then.” (In fact, a still of this appearance can be seen on the Tale Of The Fox DVD, courtesy of Carr's younger sister.) {Tale of the Fox DVD.}

Paul Stanley

Stanley Bert Eisen was born on January 20, 1952, in New York City. He grew up in Uptown Manhattan, at the intersection of 211th and Broadway. Paul's family was the only Jewish family in a neighborhood populated by immigrants from Germany and Hungary, but mostly Irish people lived in this neighborhood. Paul's mother is from Germany, Paul's father was born in America, but his parents are from Poland. Sister Julia was born in 1950. In 1960, the Eisen family with their children moved to the Kew Gardens neighborhood in Queens, where William began to earn money by selling furniture. In 1970, Stanley graduated from the High School of Music and Art. In September 1970, Stanley entered Bronx Community College

Paul Stanley

Meeting Gene Simmons and creating Kiss was a turning point in Stanley's life, which allowed him to realize his creative abilities. "I didn't like Gene at first," Paul Stanley once said in an interview, "It seemed that his outlook on things meant more to him than life itself. But my opinion of him changed very quickly. Once you get past the shell that Simmons put on, you can easily see that he is all about music. I have great respect for Gene, he is talented and very, very energetic. By teaming up, these musicians understood what they saw as a group and created it that way, in its history Stanley played a dominant role, since it was he who came up with the name for the group, he was the one who came up with ideas for new songs, and, finally, he designed their shows. As the most important and prominent performer on stage during Kiss concerts, Stanley still carried quite a heavy load - he sang, played, and at the same time performed various acrobatic feats on stage in his high heels. Stanley's makeup - a star around his right eye - is simple but appropriate. In an interview with 16 magazine, he says: "I chose the star around my eye as part of my makeup because that's what I dreamed of being - a star. And I really want people to pay attention to me and my music.

Paul Stanley

Stanley rarely recorded or played outside of Kiss. ​​In 1978, he released a solo album, as did the rest of the band. The album is in the spirit of Kiss, as he and the band have always been inextricably linked. Perhaps because Stanley always realized himself while working in Kiss, but his solo album certainly showed a sophisticated perception of reality and the depth of his nature. In 1983, Stanley took off the image of a mysterious lover and showed his face. All these years, Stanley carried the band on himself, while Gene Simmons starred in films and looked for talent on the side, Stanley continued to write beautiful ballads, kept the band alive. In 1989, he began his first club tour, playing only Kiss songs (with a single cover of Led Zeppelin's Communication Breakdown). He assembled a team three weeks before the tour. His group included guitarist Bob Kulick and future Kiss drummer Eric Singer. But despite all the success of this event, Stanley returns to the band and continues to write songs. Undoubtedly, Stanley is the living embodiment of the band and with the reunion of the original lineup in 1996, he returned to the image of a cult figure in the history

Paul Stanley

In 1989, Stanley contributed vocals to the title track for the Wes Craven horror film Electroshock. The song was written by longtime Stanley collaborator Desmond Child, along with Jean Beauvoir and Guy Man-Dude. The song was performed by a group of well-known artists calling themselves the Boys of Wrath. The Boys of Wrath included Stanley and Child on vocals, Guy Man-Dude and Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard and Dio) on guitars, Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Ozbourne, Whitesnake and Dio) on bass, and Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe) on drums. Backing vocals included Desmond Child, Louis Merlino, Alice Cooper, guitarist Kane Roberts, and Michael Anthony of Van Halen. In 1999, Stanley appeared in the musical The Phantom of the Opera in Toronto, playing the role of the Phantom. He performed in the musical from May 25 to August 1, and again later that year from September 30 to October 31. Stanley debuted as an artist in 2005, exhibiting and selling his work. It was later revealed that Stanley began painting to calm his nerves during his divorce.

Paul Stanley

On July 26, 1992, Paul married Pamela Bowen, originally from Dallas. In 1989, Stanley's wife filed for divorce.

Gene Simmons

Simmons was born on August 25, 1949, in Tirat Carmel, Israel. At the age of eight, he immigrated to New York with his mother, Florence Klein.[3] Florence and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons's father, Ferry Witz, did not come to the United States with the family. After arriving in America, young Chaim Witz changed his name to Eugene Klein (later to Gene Klein), taking his mother's maiden name. In the late 1960s, he took the surname Simmons, in honor of Jumpin' Gene Simmons, the legendary rock performer of the mid-20th century.[4] He studied at the Brooklyn yeshiva (mesivta) Torah vo-Da'as. Simmons began playing in his first band as a teenager. The group was initially called Lynx, and later changed its name to The Missing Links. Simmons eventually broke up the band and formed another, The Long Island Sounds. While playing in these bands, he worked part-time, trying to earn more money by making fanzines and selling used comic books. Simmons spent some time in college, and then joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and recorded a demo with them, "Leeta," which was later included on a Kiss box set.

Gene Simmons

While calling himself a liberal on social policy issues,[7] Simmons also claimed to support the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration.[8] He supported the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, writing on his website[9]: "I am ashamed to be around people who call themselves liberals who, in my view, spit on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their lives in a foreign war... in a country they had never been to... just to liberate the people who live there." Simmons later explained his position and wrote of his support and love for the United States:[9] "I was not born here. But I have an unconditional love for this country and its people. I will always be grateful to America for selflessly entering World War II in a country so far away... and for liberating my mother from a Nazi concentration camp. She and I are alive because of America. So if you have a problem with America, then you have a problem with me." In 2006, during the Second Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah, Simmons made a televised message in English and Hebrew in support of an Israeli soldier seriously wounded in combat in Lebanon, calling him "his hero." In November 2010, Simmons said on CNN's Parker Spitzer that he regretted his vote for Barack Obama in the US presidential election. He criticized the 2009 US healthcare reform, also noting that "if you look at the past, you can't find anyone less competent than Obama" and added: "I don't want to see this government in my lifetime."[10] In May 2011, he directly accused Obama of being infantile and out of touch with reality when he called for Israel to return to its 1967 borders: "For a president sitting in Washington saying, 'Go back to your '67 borders,' I want to ask, 'How about you go and live there and try to defend an indefensible border that's nine miles wide? Going back to '67 is a nice idea.

Bruce Kulick

Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family (his grandfather emigrated to the United States from Russia)[1]. He attended Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens. His brother is guitarist and producer Bob Kulick (1950–2020), who collaborated with Kiss, Meat Loaf, W.A.S.P., among others. Kulick played in the world tour in support of Bat Out of Hell in 1977-78 as a member of Meat Loaf. Bruce played in the Good Rats for a while. He played in Blackjack with Michael Bolton and also appeared on several of Bolton's solo albums (Bolton later co-wrote "Forever" from Kiss's Hot in the Shade album). Kulick is better known to the general public as the lead guitarist for Kiss from December 1984 to August 1996. Despite playing in Kiss for almost 12 years, Bruce, unlike the other band members, never appeared on stage in makeup. He joined the band shortly after the start of the "No Makeup Period". He left the band when Peter Criss and Ace Frehley rejoined. Kulick played in the band longer than any other musician not from the "Fabulous Four of Kiss". Joining the band after guitarist Mark St. John's illness became known, Kulick appeared on five studio albums with Kiss: Asylum, Crazy Nights, Hot in the Shade, Revenge, and Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions. He also performed in the Kiss Unplugged concert. The song "I Walk Alone" from the album Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions is the only Kiss song on which Bruce performed as lead vocalist.Union edit After the original Kiss lineup reunited, Kulick formed the band UNION, which included vocalist John Corabi (the Mötley Crüe vocalist who replaced Vince Neil), drummer Brent Fitz, and bassist James Hunting. The band recorded three albums: Union, Live in the Galaxy, and The Blue Room.