Don't let the door hit you in the ass, Duped.
Back to Kiss...I've got a couple of stories that only a diehard fan might find interesting. (Probably not, though.)
As I mentioned, both my older brothers were huge KISS fans as kids. (I doubt either of them listens to much of them these days.) We used to put on this little shows at my house on Christmas day. All the cousins were usually involved and, this one time, my brothers and two male cousins dressed up like KISS. My mother -- a really good artist -- did a perfect job with the makeup. They had the goofy threads, platform boots, and everything! I wanted to be involved, so my mother also dressed me up, and I was the emcee. They lipsynched
Shout it Out Loud and
Rock & Roll All Nite, then promptly left the living room to change into their Village People outfits for a similar performance. (My cousin, Joey, would also dress up as Dolly Parton that year, with an ugly green dress, moptop wig, and two balloons under his dress which he popped for a finale. But that's another story...)
Second story: I used to know a guy who worked at a fairly famous record store in NYC -- Bleecker Bob's in Greenwich Village (featured on Seinfeld, btw!), who was a huge KISS fan. He told me that a couple of guys he knew had broken into a storage facility and stolen thousands and thousands of dollars worth of KISS memorabilia. Ever hear of something like that happening? I'm pretty sure it was in NY. Never knew what became of those guys, or the merchandise. End of story.
I was right...no one in their right mind would find either of these stories very interesting...Sorry.