“I was afraid that I would miss playing with Kiss and doing what we do”: Paul Stanley on why he hasn’t picked up a guitar lately
Paul Stanley has opened up about life after Kiss, and why he’s been reluctant to pick up the guitar since his Kiss days came to an end.
Last December, Kiss said goodbye to fifty years of dragon-boots-donning pyro-blasting glam rocking with the conclusion of their End Of The Road farewell tour. But leaving the stage behind isn’t quite as easy as one would imagine, as the guitarist recently reveals.
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“Last week, I was trying to figure out why I haven’t picked up a guitar,” Stanley tells Gibson TV [via Guitar World]. “I haven’t played much. And I couldn’t figure out why. And then I thought if I started playing, I was afraid that I would miss playing with the band and doing what we do.”
“It’s my DNA that I just needed to back away for a bit. It’s 50 years with Kiss. That’s pretty phenomenal. And then to cut it off, at least in terms of being a live band, takes some acclimating to and adjusting to,” he admits. “So I needed a little time just to sit back and get my bearings.”
Looking back on the band’s legacy, Stanley says: “It always felt amazing. And I think losing sight of that would mean you don’t deserve it – to the very last night, going out onstage, and doing what I aspired to do when I was a kid.”
“To end it the way we did was really exactly what I wanted. I wanted us to end in a way that was undeniable. I wanted it to end in a way that people can say once upon a time, there was a band. And certainly there were a lot of unique bands. But there’s only one Kiss.”
Nonetheless, Kiss may have pulled the plug on their live shows, but the band told fans at their Madison Square Garden closing show last year that the members will be rocking on as virtual avatars of themselves.
Kiss’s avatar era comes after the hugely popular ABBA Voyage production in London, where members of the iconic Swedish pop group deliver a set of their greatest hits as realistic hologram projections.
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