Earlier this year, KISS guitarist/singer Paul Stanley spoke with Ultimate Classic Rock and discussed the band’s plans to continue as digital avatars. Stanley said that fans “got the wrong impression” of the band’s next phase.
“One thing that’s interesting is people, I think, perhaps even understandably, got the wrong impression initially of the avatars,” Stanley said. “Because at the Garden shows, we wanted to give people a glimpse of some of the things, or one of the things, that’s to come. But the avatars are really in their infancy. They’re far from where they’ll end up in terms of look and purpose. The purpose, ultimately, is not that we’re being replaced by flying avatars. It’s just another way of diversifying what KISS is.”
Stanley went on: “Quite honestly, many times in the last 50 years, people have scratched their heads about what our plans were. And nine out of 10 times they’ve been successful, and other people have followed. So that’s nothing really new. We’re in a fortunate position and a unique position of being a band that can do things that other bands can’t do. So to not explore and take advantage of many of them would be, I don’t know, ridiculous, and also, really, at this point, mystifying. We’ve worked this hard to create four icons, and a band that’s iconic in so many different ways, and to not diversify and maximize what we’ve created, we’d be crazy.”
In a new interview with Artists On Record, KISS bassist/singer Gene Simmons shared an update on the avatars, but he wasn’t revealing much. “Look, part of the fun of Christmas is when you open your present, you’re shocked and surprised and hopefully delighted,” Simmons said. “So why would I tell you in February what you’re gonna get for Christmas? There’s so much hard work being done behind the scenes, and what I’ve seen will blow your mind. So in a very real way, our end is really like the caterpillar becoming the butterfly. The end is the beginning.”
An excerpt from Simmons’ interview can be seen below.
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