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The two decided to try again, but needed a catchier name.

”Stanley (real name: Stanley Eisen) and Simmons (born Chaim Witz) met through a mutual friend and teamed up for the short-lived band Wicked Lester. ­Peter had a weak chin and Ace had bad skin. “They made a big noise as a group but, individually, there were no stellar musicians in Kiss. “Most musicians thought the kabuki makeup was lame,” Philips told The Post. Instead, Kiss played its first gig, in 1973, to an almost empty Popcorn Club in Sunnyside. Former yeshiva boy Simmons and opera-loving Stanley were nobodies who couldn’t cut it at Manhattan hot spots. The only way they could make it work was to create theatrical characters inspired by comic-book ­superheroes: a starchild, a demon, a spaceman and a freaky-looking cat.īut success was a long shot. “But Gene saw himself in the mirror and realized he looked like a pro wrestler in drag.” “Kiss originally wore lipstick and eyeliner,” recalled musician Binky Philips, who went to high school with guitarist Paul Stanley. So it was no wonder that a Queens band wanted to try it out, too. In the early 1970s, David Bowie, Lou Reed and the New York Dolls made men in makeup cool. What is the cheapest ticket available for the 2023 Railbird Festival? How much is the cheapest ticket for a concert at NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center? How much do they cost?īilly Joel has just a few MSG concerts left.

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