Sgt. Pepper

Calling Dr. Love or or Christine 16 didn't move you? Yeah looking back at it when I was a Kiss nut from 10 to about 14, what was I thinking, Oh right I was 10.

Once again the voice of reason on the Gibson Forum. Its just that easy. Don't sell.

He may own the label, but does he own the rights to his music? Many musicians don't. Remember when Paul and MJ when at it over the Beatles Catalog ,and MJ had more $ at the time and bought the rights to The Fab 4's music.

No like what Jimi Hendrix , Rory Gallagher, and SRV played. None of those guys are any good, or know squat about a guitar, but they used 'em for some reason.

Demo's are in store models. That guitar was mailed to him cause he purchased it new.

I saw it many times it was so funny. It’s on the one Gene, Carol would keep saying and Gene had this puzzled look “The One”. James Brown’s band knew where that one is. Here is Dee Snider of TS calling out Kiss. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/dee_snider_calls_out_bands_that_are_on_fake_farewell_tours_compares_kiss_to_a_fart_in_a_paper_bag.html

I have a question about guitar returns. Obviously if there is a QA issue a guitar can be returned. Now you are just not feeling it. Ok, so what happens to that guitar. There is nothing wrong with it other than your stated preference about the neck. So when that guitar goes back is it now in my eyes used, and can it be sold as new or does it have to be sold as used?

I would think the internet?

That must have been a big baby.

Get him the CD of The Grateful Dead at Cornell in '77. Its a killer show. Man I miss seeing the real Dead. Red Rocks '78 is killer to. People think the guys in The Dead were just guys who noodled around on their gear. Nope Bob Weir is an inversion chord master.

Your exactly right. I don't hate Gene, but when he opens his mouth all he is looking for is $, attention, or p-ussy. As s-hitty as a bassist as I am I could probably learn any of Gene's parts in any Kiss song. How f-ing hard is ridding open E. What is Gene's big bass moment that little ditty on Detroit Rock City? Here is what has been replace with Carol schooling Gene. Why do we not have a Gene signature Epi? Why didn't Kiss record that? It was an obvious hit.

You must be really grounded.

I love his Brillo pad toupee. It gets me all hot and tingly right in my special area.

No she-I-it. That’s why I said if you don’t know, no one does. And I’m the seen as the huge d-ick on this forum.

Just saw this: https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/fender-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-it-overcharged-millions-guitarists/ I hope JVC doesn’t think I’m staring a hate thread by posting this.

If you don’t know, no one does. But I think I mentioned why it got locked. Some member posted about the shooting and DT, and that was a rap. I wish someone would do that to any “what are the best strings to go on my J-45” thread.

I remember when I saw Kiss for the second time. It was my birthday present form my wife and she reluctantly went with me. I told her look you may not like their music, but it will be a great show, and they are gonna blow stuff up. She called her brother and mentioned we were going to see Kiss and she really wasn't looking forward to it. Her brother said to her on the phone without any coaching form me "Their gonna blow stuff up". I laughed when she told me that. I also told here tons of people will be dressing up. We walked form the parking lot to the car and saw no one dressed up, and my wife was yapping in my ear about it. As we handed out tickets to the lady I said to her "there are lots of people who came dressed up tonight right?". She answered "Yes". About 5 mins later we were walking to our seats and of course we started seeing tons of people dressed up and then my wife started asking all of them if she could take their picture. She did have a good time. Saw them twice with my son after that. The first time I saw Kiss it was the original 4. Kiss may not make great music, but their concerts are entertaining. Of that there is no doubt.

I worked Security for Fake CCR last night. They were called Creedence Revised. They were from Chicago. The band was really cool, and put on a good show. It was the best tribute band I have seen at the place I work so far. Now I'm not trying to start anything, but the last bunch of shows I've been to, I have not seen (maybe 6 or 7 shows) one bassist or guitarist play a Gibson. It's been Fender and Taylor. Except for Lyle on his Collings, and his other guitarist had custom made things. Just an observation. The guy in the Eagles Tribute band even said his white EDS-1275 said Gibson on the headstock, but was built for him and was fake. Cause he was playing it during the sound check and I talked to him about if when I saw him backstage.

Tofu, veggie or plant based hot dog anyone?

Cause someone mentioned the recent 4th of July shooting, and the Orange Messiah in the same sentence. That's why, and if you read it you damn well know that's why. After I read that post, I knew it would be a matter of just as soon as Duane or KSD saw that it would be nuked. The hot dog one is still up, but I'm confident as a forum member were gonna find a way to bring politics ect into it, and it will die.

Maybe partly true. Genes story is one everyone who moves to America wants. He came to America at age 8 with his mom with little to no money, and neither one spoke English. Now this is all stuff I got form watching Kiss docs. Gene said I live in America, and in going to learn to speak English. I applaud that. Then 4 guys form NYC form a band. And if your a musician you know if you can play or not. Kiss probably though and knew they were a sub par band. Then they decided on a gimmick. OK let's play dress up. Paul you dress like a campy porn star, Ace you dress like a space guy, Peter your gonna be a cat, and Gene will be a demon. Why not its the 70's, Elton dressed like Donald Duck. Well along comes a 1975 live album, and now they are gaining momentum, and in a year or two will be one of the biggest acts in music. Ace and Peter are the drinkers and druggies of the band and they come in and out cause their playing was not what the Gene and Paul though it should be. Then Kiss took off the make up and made many more lamer albums than in the 70's and now they are saying good by to us, in a tour that wont end. Let it end Gene. Anyone see the YT footage of Paul singing, or better yet this is more accurate, his vocals are coming out to the crowd, and he is no where near a microphone. Opps . . . busted you cheaters. And if you think they didn't bring in studio musicians to play for Gene at times, well you would be dead wrong. Now Gene is worth $400 million. He is a great businessman, you gotta give him his props for that. Playing the Bass not so much. I though you can the Rush guys were tight and your busting Geddy's balls. A guy who is 1000 x's a better bassist than you Gene.

Yet here you are?

Man when I was 11, I lived for Kiss. I did mention I saw them 4 times. Now Gene is just a sad old terrible bassist who can stand up for 2 hours in a costume. Poor Geddy with all his talent in Gene’s eyes would pass out doing it. Gene your not the only one who has ever done it. Gwar does it to name one other band who play costume dress up. I did play Destroyer a few weeks back. It’s got a good song or two. Gene should just stick to what he’s good at - poking his wee wee in women and making $. Anyone see the YT vid of him getting schooled by Carol Kaye on bass? It’s been taken down Probably at Gene’s request cause it embarrassed the hell out of him. Gene didn’t even know where the one is. Wait and your a so called bassist.

Duct Tape too.

When I was a kid we used to go to Der Wienerschnitzel. It was in an A frame building, and you used to drive into the middle of it and that was the drive thru. I used to love their corn dogs. After a while they took "Der" out of the name of the place. In Japan on the street across from the base I was stationed at, the Japanese called corn dogs - Stick Dogs.