Chris Jericho’s KISS cover band, Kuarantine, is gearing up for a short run in the midwest. The band pays tribute to KISS’ non-makeup era and will play shows in Chesterfield, Michigan (July 5), Franklin, Ohio (July 6) and Warrendale, Pa. (July 7).
Jericho spoke with Youngstown Studio ahead of the shows and shared what KISS co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons think of the band which has recorded five non-makeup era tracks so far including “Good Girl Gone Bad,” “Loves A Deadly Weapon,” “Heart Of Chrome,” “No, No, No” and “Silver Spoon.”
“Paul loves all the Paul songs,” Jericho said. “Anytime I send him a Gene (song) he’ll send a puke emoji or something like that. I think for ‘Love’s A Deadly Weapon,’ he wrote, ‘Bad Van Halen.’ I’m like, ‘It’s your song!’”
He continued: “We’ve done ‘Heart Of Chrome’ from ‘Revenge’ and ‘Silver Spoon’ from ‘Hot In The Shade.’ And ‘Silver Spoon’ got to No. 21 on the charts, and Paul really loved both of those. He was very complimentary. With Gene we’ve done ‘No, No, No’ and ‘Love’s A Deadly Weapon,’ but we just did ‘Good Girl Gone Bad,’ and that one went to No. 10 on the charts. Gene is very appreciative — they both are. I think it’s cool for them to know that you can release these songs to the radio and people will listen to them. Getting a top 10 song isn’t easy, and to do it with an obscure KISS song from 37 years ago, that’s not easy. But the reason why it works is that these songs are very good songs.”
Jericho’s full interview can be viewed below. For more information on Kuarantine’s upcoming tour, visit Kuarantine.com.
