KISS bassist Gene Simmons has been making the publicity rounds as the band continues its “End of the Road” farewell tour. He recently told Classic Rock magazine that the band had hoped original guitarist Ace Frehley and original drummer Peter Criss would join them for encores at select shows on the road, but that doesn’t look like it will come to fruition. “It would be the saddest thing of all if they chose not to be there. But such is life. I hope and wish they’ll get over the victim, ‘look what happened to me.’ No, nothing happened to you. These were all decisions you made. They were in and out of the band three different times. Can you believe that? How many chances in life do you want? That’s the saddest thing.”
Earlier this week, Simmons revealed on Twitter that he turned down an offer to be on the hit TV show, “Dancing With The Stars.” “Thank you @officialdwts Dancing With The Stars for the offer to be on the show. Respectfully passing. Wouldn’t be fair to the other contestants. I won the Twist contest back in the Stone Age”.
The show is one of the most popular in the U.S. and features a host of celebrities competing to be the best dancing couple with their professional dancing partner. Couples try to earn votes from the audience and assigned judges. FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho appeared on the show in 2011, and he talked about his experience on the “Kicking It With The Koves” podcast. “It was hard, man,” he said.
“It is not easy to do. And I turned it down twice. ‘Cause I was really good friends with Stacy Keibler, who was in the WWE, and she did ‘Dancing With The Stars’. And she was a huge hit. If you go back and watch, she was one of the first kind of breakout stars from ‘Dancing With The Stars’. Her legs were weapons of mass destruction, was what they called her legs. So she had a lot of influence on the show, and she kept suggesting me to the casting directors. And I turned it down a couple of times. When I finally accepted it, I remember I was on tour with FOZZY in Ireland and I was outside on the street talking about it. And I was, like, ‘Listen, I’ve gotta do this. Because if I don’t, I’ll always wonder. And now I’m just a dick if I turn them down. They obviously really want me to do it, they really think that I can do it, so let me give it a try.”
“I think one of the reasons why I did fairly good — I think I lasted six weeks or seven weeks — was because dancing is choreography, which wrestling has a lot of choreography, and you have to understand the timing of music: how to stay on the beat, stay off the beat, stay behind the beat,” Jericho said. “And, obviously, as a musician and as a singer, that’s what you’ve gotta do — you’ve gotta sing in time with where the music is, and that’s kind of what dancing is as well.”
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