Kiss Could Live Forever
Kiss is in the middle of a farewell tour that began in 2019 and won’t finish until 2022, thanks to COVID and the kind of personal health issues that come from being a 69-year-old who’s been in Kiss for almost 50 years. Unlike their previous farewell tour, this one appears to be the for realsies end of the line for Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, but that doesn’t mean Kiss will die. Simmons and Stanley have both suggested passing the band off to a new generation of, uh, Kissers, while a consultant who used to work with them also predicted that Kiss will outlive us all.
That makes sense for a brand that’s always been open about trying to rake in as much money as humanly possible, selling everything from table lamps, shower curtains, and deodorant, to the Kiss Visa card, for when you want to embarrass your children at every single Olive Garden outing. But while other bands have replaced members and tribute acts with names like Elvis Parsley and Zed Lepplin have been a mediocre thing forever, that consultant envisioned the musical equivalent of “Mickey Mouse and Batman,” a product that evolves with the times to cater to each generation of tacky, undiscerning music fans.
In a weird way, that could almost be a return to tradition—it’s not like everyone stopped playing Chopin’s piano music the moment he died, and who was Chopin if not the Gene Simmons of 19th-century Poland? But it also feels like ominous foreshadowing, the latest effort to transform pop culture staples into shambling zombies that exist for the sake of continuing to exist. Either way, it’s weird to imagine our great-grandchildren painting their faces and heading off to watch a cyborg play “Rock and Roll All Nite” at Neo Madison Square Garden.
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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