Gene Simmons was the most recent guest on Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast, and for the duration of the conversation, he recalled the initially time KISS put the makeup on in the early ’70s.
KISS formed in 1973, and played their pretty initially show at the Popcorn Club in Queens, N.Y. on Jan. 30 of that year. Though the makeup has been element of their appear because the starting, Simmons could not pretty recall who initially came up with the notion for them to put on it, but remembered how it began.
“Nobody who was ever in KISS can ever lay claim to saying, ‘I’ve got a brilliant idea, everybody should put on makeup. Let’s wear more makeup and higher heels than your mommy ever did.’ Nobody did, it just happened,” Simmons explained.
The rocker described that the band rehearsed in a “rat-infested loft” about that time, and when they decided to go buy face makeup, they also purchased inexpensive mirrors so they could see themselves though they applied it.
Simmons pointed to a photo of the band that was taken on Sunset Boulevard in 1974, and mentioned that their makeup in the image was just about identical to the styles they came up with in their rehearsal loft the year prior.
See a photo from the very same shoot below.
KISS in the ’70s
“I have to say that I can’t recall paying attention to anything because we were all getting off on each other,” Simmons responded when he was asked what the initial reception to the makeup was.
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Afterward, Steve-O, who was kicked out of The Gene Simmons Roast in 2008, was ultimately capable to share the joke he was going to make at the occasion, but never ever had the opportunity to.
“I thought it was funny when KISS took off their makeup in the ’80s. But man, it was hilarious when they had to put it back on,” the Jackass star mentioned.
“The best part of that joke is when you’re too rich to give a fuck,” Simmons replied.
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