KISS Gene Simmons: Ace and Peter cut from new film 'They keep making horrible choices'
Another day, another unfiltered interview from the king of outrageous soundbites. Gene has been doing a major round of interviews, along with bandmate Paul Stanley, as they prepare to restart the band’s final farewell tour, which has been interrupted by the global pandemic. Earlier this year, they also appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York to promote the no holds barred new documentary, which clocks in at four hours, but contains surprisingly little input from Ace and Peter.
Gene gave a new interview to Talking Wax and the subject of Gene’s 1978 solo album came up. This opened up the whole topic of why all four original members of the band had decided to take a break to pursue solo projects which unsurprisingl lead into Gene opening fire on his two former bandmates.
Gene said: “The band almost broke up at that point… The solo record was (KISS manager) Bill Aucoin’s idea to save the band. So all of us went off and did whatever.
“Both Ace and Peter were in their dysfunction period. It had to do with drugs and alcohol and an inflated (sense of importance)… Ace in particular wanted to leave the band and Peter also wanted to leave the band in a kind of ‘nobody appreciates me, I’m not getting my share’ kind of thing…
“I remember on the way out, Ace told me, ‘You’ll see, I’m gonna sell ten million albums.’”
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