Amen!!

agreed

What foundation please?

Foundation = KISS... dah!🫥

Brilliant! That tells me everything... WHAT FOUNDATION IS THAT KNUCKLEHEAD???@@maria-lena5919 "Foundation" does NOT equal "KISS"! KISS was a band, NOT a foundation. Apparently your verbiage is LOST IN TRANSLATION!

yup

All three called Peter earlier that day!! All three are still best of friends!!

Thanks for watching my channel. I am glad you liked the video. Tom Snyder was a great interviewer. Ace's solo album is my favorite album of all time.

It was a great interview. That was a great moment when Peter clapped his hands, I agree

Peter is a cool cat. Thanks for watching my channel

He was always my favorite. Ace as a close second, but Peter was always my #1

Paul

Him and Ace

​@@gnbgffgcd3902- Same for me!

Thanks for watching my channel.

He's among my favorite drummers of all time.

Yes, I wanted him to do well too

They all sold the fiction that the parting was amicable and they were all still good friends. When you listen to any of the interviews from Europe and Australia in 1980, it's all "we wish Peter all the best, he's a member of the family, blah, blah, blah". They were nothing if not experts at putting a positive spin on things.

Peter got a big head when Beth was a hit. He thought he could be a crooner in Vegas! Right!’

solo music is amongst the worst ever made....evidenced by all the snippets in this video.

@@Explorer766 I had no issue with the first solo album in 1978. There were some good songs on that one. Far removed from Kiss so I wasn't thrilled as a 17 yr old. I like it more now. I haven't heard a lot of his later stuff but what I did hear was not so good to me.

Both great covers of a Rascals classic.

So did Robert Plant long before Led Zeppelin was formed.

Also: Rachel Sweet co-wrote and recorded "Shadows of the Night" a year before Par Benatar but didn't put it out as a single.

Not sure of the exact date, but it was somewhere around September of 1980.

@@RocknRollAllNight Peter mentions Bonham dying, so that was Sept 25, 1980. It's after that.

lol

Yeah, Paul Stanley, "We shot the clip for Shandi, Peter quietly packed up his drums, and went home, we never saw him again for years" (something like that)

I call shenanigans on that...

Snyder was terrific. Check out his early-70s interview with Our Gang members Spanky, Darla, Stymie, Buckwheat and Butch. Truly historic. Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas virtually NEVER did media, but Snyder got him.

Tom Snyder may seem dry and not "hip" to modern audiences, but he came from a news background at a time when news reporting was just that - reporting. As in, not trying to spin anything, just straight ahead reporting. He wasn't trying to be a star or a "personality". In the modern landscape, brooadcasters are expected to be a "personality", rather than a "reporter". Broadcasters have to show some kind of personality to sponsors. Talk shows are much more abundant than in any other era. It's about being a stand-up comedian giving "fluff" interviews as opposed to learning about the person being interviewed, but with the internet and the 24/7 kind of access to information and celebrity life, there's really nothing more to learn about celebrities, be it an actor, a musician, or anyone else. So, you just crack jokes the whole time because it's expected that the audience already knows about you. Snyder is a throwback to a time when there weren't television cameras in your face 24/7, or music channels on cable, so the only way to learn about your favourite celebrity or hear new music was on late night talk shows. It was an era that wasn't obsessed with "ratings". It was very much like what John Mellencamp said about recording. So long as you're not spending a lot of money and are selling respectable numbers, the label will love you. Not so much today, where you need to be platinum out the gate, else risk being tagged a failure.

​@@sfpincchicagoI liked Snyder too.Sincere genuine guy. Up until the mid 80s there was honesty and sincerity still.Then Video cameras turned anyone with one into a "reporter."🤭 Now EVERYTHING has got to be sensationalized because every dolt and their shadow has a camera to record/make shit up. Everything has gone 🤪

@@jeffhodge7272 It's not so much that everyone is a reporter, it's that there are 24 hour news channels when there is just not 24 hours of news daily. First you had the nightly news at 10, then you had to add the midday news, and then you had the early morning news. Unfortunately, then there was birth of the 24 hour news channel, which is fine for certain circumstances, but there's not enough news every single day to justify the 24 news cycle's existence, so then they had to introduce anchors with their own shows, which often veers beyond "hard news". Again unfortunately, this leads to more of the "sensationalistic" reporting and less "news". By way of example, the New York Times has an opinion piece on Taylor Swift's sexual preference. Opinion piece or not, why is it "news"? Is this something that the public DEMANDED? Why is this "news" worthy of a column in a paper like the New York Times? News is no longer news, now news is "entertainment", because people demand the news be less "newsy" and more entertaining. Sure, Taylor is breaking box office records in many different categories, but that's news. No one wants news. What's way more entertaining is speculating if she's a closet lesbian! News "the people" want to know!! It's why you have such an uneducated populace. Actual news is too "newsy". No one wants that. The corporate sponsors/backers/owners don't want to be telling people about anything that might hurt their own business or that might reflect poorly on them. News as people born before OJ Simpson's fall from grace is gone. It doesn't exist. It's all corporate-scripted entertainment. There's no "anchor", they're entertainers. The corporation dictates what the on-air dictator is allowed to say. It's like how WWE doesn't want traditional "broadcasters" with experience in calling sports. They want pretty people so they are aesthetically pleasing to appear on camera. We'll tell you what to say, no experience needed, just be pretty. It's seeped into all walks of life, Bands have to have an "image" ("Backstreet Boys", "Spice Girls"), obviously news, television ("reality" TV"), etc.

That must have been awesome!!

All the bands stayed at the same hotel in my hometown. The Capital Center in Largo MD was the venue all the bands played at. Me and my friends got to meet alot of rock stars 🌟

agreed!

50% true.

​@@NothingLikeVinyl I like this reference

10000%

Peter perhaps is not the most technical drummer, but he had a jazz background and he brought that to Kiss. The first 3 albums is where you can hear it the most.

When Ace left the band, Gene and Paul made sure in the settlement to not allow him to release an album for five years after his departure. They put no restrictions on Peter, knowing any album he made would be a commercial disaster.

Compared to the crap out today, it's not that bad. When he rocked it, it was just like his KISS hits. When he tried to be Sinatra, big mistake.

@@davidzabel5195 did not know that. Typical Paul and Gene.

@@davidzabel5195 they made sure it didn’t do well behind the scenes.

Peter es un gran baterista y tiene una gran voz. Su voz en canciones como Black Diamond, Conductor de bebé, Escapada y Mainline- fue fantástico

Yeah I always liked Peter’s voice much better than Paul’s. ​@@RocknRollAllNight

lol

Let's face what? He was offered (and took) $850,000 to NOT play on the Psycho Circus record. He sucked so bad that they paid him to appear on the credits (and make their dumb fans happy) and be replaced by a session musician who could actually play. There's a video on KZfaq where he himself tells this story. Ace was paid the same amount of money to NOT play on that record.

@@poliziagrammaticale9430 your version of history is not accurate but enjoy.

@@Novaheart1998 What I said is available on the web for everyone to check. I have no interest to make it up.

Hmmm…Eric Singer is light years ahead of Peter. I love the original 4 and what they did from their first album to Alive II, and Paul and Gene were never able to replicate that. That I’d agree with.

@@poliziagrammaticale9430 I’m not talking about him later , he’s clearly not as good as he was in the past, Im talking about the original lineup, its the best version of Kiss, I don’t care what anyone says.

Pinocchio

Like you haven’t either? 👀

Pinocchio Chris

@@jimmykrackkorn4347Ace has lied as well from time to time

Just turned 34?

That would have been great! Another song I would have loved to hear him do is 'Katmandu' by Bob Seger. It already sounds like Peter, so to hear him do it would have been awesome.

Hell yeah

He sabotaged himself. Whatever artistic integrity and direction he had initially was well and truly destroyed by the time he left Kiss. Maybe he listened to the wrong people, maybe just his ego, but the fact that his 1978 solo album was so disliked by so many Kiss fans should have told him that style of music wasn't going to sell in the 80's. In that interview on YWTBYGTB he summed up his solo years playing in clubs perfectly. "I hated it". Not many people could have jumped out of one of the biggest bands on the planet and begun releasing a totally different style of music and succeeded. Peter didn't get close.

Peter claims in his book that Gene, Paul and the record label conspired to bury the album. But here he is on national network TV promoting the record...

Because he had very little support, he did his own legwork.

Casablanca did not promote the album. They gave a smidge and stopped.

I am Glad you like the content. Thanks for watching.

He seems fine to me

@@RocknRollAllNight I know that’s what I’m saying he seems happier

Peters thing with drugss was as long as he was Happy, he was straight most of the time. When Nazis gene and paul made him miserable, hed drink and get high.

While we're on the subject of context, Peter was fired in 1979. Ace didn't leave the band for another 3 years and the lawsuit Polygram bought against Kiss was as much about revenge for Kiss suing them in 1980 as it was about Ace actually leaving. Neither Kiss nor Polygram could really afford to dump the other party at that point, and all that aside, the only real contextual issue around Peter that matters is that he pissed his own talent and career away.

@@ajo3085 Theres no question Peter let his drug problem wreck what he had. And yes he was voted out because he had become too much of a liability. But too much of that gets embellished by Paul. He loves to use terms to establish what he likes to sell as his authority, which he didn't have. Peter was a co-founder of the group, so matter how you want to feel about him he had as much authority as Paul Stanley. So to suggest he was simply "fired" like you or I might be fired is not what that was. As a co-owner he was relieved of his duties but was still entitled to his quarter share of the band's revenue. Look at it in the same manner as John Schneider being voted out at Papa Johns, even though he was the founder of the brand. You think he's actually gone? Hell no. So until Peter was bought out in 1988, which was his biggest mistake, he was still entitled to the revenue he helped create in that brand. Again, its the music BUSINESS.

@@Playitstraight44 Dress it up any way you want Rick, but he was fired. He's in a business, the other shareholders, co-managers, trustees... call it whatever you want, no longer wanted to work with him so he was fired.

@@ajo3085 Thats not dressing it up. Thats the business equation of what went down. Its not a good thing on either side. Peter Criss blew it. But Paul Stanley did not make it happen, nor was it his decision. It took the collective body of the company to arrive at that and it was clearly the right move.

The "collective body of the company" was well and truly Stanley, Simmons and Aucoin by that point and the business equation was simple. Did they reassign, retrain, demote or transfer Peter Criss to another part of the business? Nope, he was shown the door.... business 101... if someone in the company isn't doing their job, they get fired, retrenched, terminated, axed. Paul and Gene could go around saying Peter retired twice from Kiss but it wouldn't change the fact that he was fired twice.

Why?

His music was good. I just think it was not what his target audience wanted to hear. Sad, because Peter is awesome!!!

PETER CRISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ace was warned!!!! Tom was very upset at Peter for not keeping his litter box clean backstage as well 😂😂😂

Always wondered that myself. A lot of ppl didnt pay attention, but you could hear Peter tell him "you're gonna suffer in the dressing room for that one". Always wanted to know the aftermath lol

You ARE joking aren’t you ?🤣

​@AudiophileTommy pretty sure they are...but who knows..lol

4 yrs.isn't WAY older.

Sometimes Drugs takes years to show the bad effects.

That Gene & Paul portrayed him as?? Ever read any of the books about them Christopher, including his own? Ever wondered why the '79 tour appearances were mostly just Paul, Gene & Ace? Ever hear Bun E Carlos say he'd been on standby to play one of the LA '77 shows until Pete was carried to the drum riser? Ever listened to his playing on the Dynasty tour shows (in particular)? The guy was a mess.

You must not know about kiss and Peter Criss Peter Criss used a lot of drugs and drink a lot of alcohol once he became a millionaire it's a known fact if you're a big kiss fan

@@ajo3085 bun e. Carlos aka Brad carlson cheap trick is better than kiss

@@billycain9890 agreed.

Good question the albums stunk bad. It must have been the drugs

@@RocknRollAllNight How did he sit down listen to those CDs and think damn this is great but better yet how did the record company print that garbage and put it out? The entire thing is unbelievably ridiculous from Peter to the producer, to the engineer to the record company itself. Complete joke.

@@chrishenry6367 I agree, He could have done some kickass rock songs. His voice was awesome back then, and I am sure he could have gotten some great musicians to work with. I dont get it either.

Did Peter ever try to recruit Bob Ezrin to re-write / produce any of his solo songs?

Peter sold his 25% share in KISS when he quit for a few million. So, he could not use the Cat makeup then (and now) for anything. Dumb move. Just imagine if he didn't sell his rights back to KISS. He would still be making 25% of what KISS has made from 1980 till now and beyond..

@@markmedina5543 He's the 'Digger Barnes' of KISS.

@@markmedina5543 Ace did the same thing whn he left the band.

@@justdiggin3340 Yup. I guess they didnt think (or care) KISS would last long after they left.

@@markmedina5543 I wonder if they ever imagined Gene and Paul would put Peter and Ace's make-up on Eric and Tommy, then try to pass off fake KISS as original KISS. I stopped caring about the band when they did that, and I'd been a fan since the '70s.

very funny

@@RocknRollAllNight He was crap by 1979.

Well, of course, he’s going to deny it on a format like this, but if you read his book, he was a major league drug user, and was out of it for a long period of time

I know right

They still had same management…and still on same team so to speak , they might have.

Peter was a huge part of Kiss' success in the 70s. His drum style and singing voice were awesome.

In the '70's marijuana and cocaine didn't count.

Id say less than ace. Peter atleast wasn’t behaving like ace he would mostly just act up on money

I agree. What a shame

I lost interest after they left. I like their 70s stuff way better than the 80s stuff.

Peter's is my least favorite of the 4. I rank Ace's the best, then Paul's, then Gene 3rd and Peter's last

Looks terrible

34 at least going on 35

34.

This is True!!!!!

but at least musically it is one of the best that the original members have

THATS RITE ITS TOM !!!!!!

Its Eric Singer

Don't be a dolt.

Peter told a few lies in that interview

The original 4 KISS is my favorite band of all time

Unmasked had some good songs on it.

WHEN😂