What he's saying is true. I was in a semi successful band. We opened for big-name bands. We were not allowed our own sound engineer. We had to use theirs. They would be sabotaging our sound on purpose. It's just paying your dues. But it sucks when they turn on the house lights on purpose as a buzz kill when we were up on stage. Never made it big, and I was happy to open in a few arenas. Rock on 🤘
@@1UnkaFunka Chris meant at the time. The first WASP albums had good traction. They weren't bigger overall, but the WASP kids were coming to the shows is what he meant.
I met Chris Holmes at a little bar in Mohave Valley Arizona one time. The thing I remember most was his manager unplugged me and bitched me out cause I sounded great. Circle of life man.
It’s so weird how many stage moves WASP took from Kiss. Watch the Wild Child video and you see the other guitarist primp his hair like Stanley and Blackie does a lot of moves like both Gene and Paul. Sad because KISS should’ve been honored because WASP are amazing
In 1991 on a Sunday night at the Lime Light Rock n' Roll Church in NYC, I saw Blackie Lawless hanging out. That night I told Blackie years prior when I saw them open up for KISS on the Animalize tour at the Brendan Byrne arena in Rutherford NJ. I said to Blackie "you guys were GREAT, and blew Kiss right off the stage". Yes Blackie did appreciate that.
I saw Kiss and Wasp in WPB for Asylum. It was packed and i loved it. Nobody else has ever complained about opening for Kiss. Both Slaughter and Danger Danger who toured with later Kiss said they were treated really well.
So WASP got invited to open and made a bunch of demands that essentially made them co-headliners. Not a smart move to get a big head when you're the opening band. lol. For a VERY Brief moment yes, WASP was very popular, Wonder why it didn't last, they seem so humble lol.
I was at the San Diego Sports Arena show. Probably only my 3rd show but I bought one WASP and one Kiss shirt but it was an old tank tour leftover, I didn't know any better.
They were " cool" to the opening act when they knew they could blow them away..that was definitely the case throughout the 70s. I'm sure they changed their additude about it during the 80s when they found themselves following trends. I totally believe this story because around Animalize W.A.S.P . was young and hungry. They would have killed kiss and their Golden Girls costumes......outfits
I saw that tour. Kiss/Asylum and WASP/Last Command. WASP killed. I looked at my friend and said..”I don’t know how Kiss is gonna top that. Kiss comes on. After 2 songs it was clear they were Kiss. Not close.
I saw the Animalize tour in March 1985. They sold out the Lansing (Michigan) Civic Center, which only had a 6600 seating capacity. I thought W.A.S.P. was the better band that night. KISS kicked ass, but W.A.S.P. just seemed hungrier at that point. Good show!
I bought that asylum cover shirt at the Toronto show on the asylum tour. That other Paul shirt you’re describing was from the Crazy Nights tour which I also bought. I still have all my Tour shirts AND I listen to Black Sabbath. Today I listened to Master of Reality deluxe version
KISS was the band that got me into rock/metal. The first album I ever owned was KISS Dynasty. I got it for my 4th birthday. The first concert I ever went to was KISS. I was fortunate enough to see Hot In The Shade and many years later, to see the farewell tour. However, Chris isn't the only one who says this type of stuff about Gene and Paul. For example, the story from the drummer in B.O.C. about how Paul thought he was Gods gift to the world. Also, the late great Neil Peart from rush saying that Ace and Peter were damaged by Gene and Paul's cynicism. Then, the fact that they didn't even invite Bruce to do ANY songs for their last concert makes me think all of those stories are likely true. I can KIND OF understand not inviting Ace and Peter because of all the past bad blood. However, Bruce has always been loyal to those two as well as the KISS brand and that's how they treat him?? Yhea, FK those guys. I am now MUCH more inclined to believe this story from Chris.
Queensryche opened for Kiss when I saw them on The Animalize tour. No arena either, Henry J. Kaiser held 7,500 for a concert. W.A.S.P. played on the Asylum tour at The Cow Palace opening for KISS, it was a 15,000 seat arena and there was only 6,000 people there.
The first time i saw Kiss was on the Crazy Nights tour and it wasn't even close to a sell out. They played San Luis Obispo,an amphitheater,it had about half seats sold,so about 2500 out of four or five thousand. Kiss weren't too amused either. When they hit the stage I remember Paul looking over at Gene with a really bad look on his face,not a happy camper when he saw all those empty seats. But they kicked ass,what a show. So I'll give them that,oh and Anthrax opened for them and yeah,no contest. They owned the stage that night. But Kiss were great,my first time seeing them in 1988,I walked away pretty happy.
Saw Wasp on their debut tour of the UK,,,, f?cking awesome. Possibly the best gig iv ever been to. Small shitty little club but the atmosphere was electric and Wasp were on fire. Good times
During the WASP and Kiss tour , Blackie was throwing out posters and me and another guy fought over the stupid thing, it got torn in half and we both got half a poster 🫤🫤🫤🫤
I saw KISS on the Creatures tour with the Plasmatics at the Palm Beach Auditorium & I saw the animalize tour at the Sunrise musical Theatre. That's TWO KISS concerts that you & I both attended. I saw the Lick it up tour in Lakeland. Did you happen to see the Lick it up tour in Lakeland too?
@@almosthuman56 I caught that later in the video but, I'd already posted the question & didn't feel like editing. We've surely been to other shows as rock concerts were my favorite thing in the world when I was a teen & twenty something. I saw WASP open for Quiet Riot but it was at the Ft. Pierce Civic Center.
It's a trip to hear how different the Country can be when it comes to concert attendance. In SLC, and Denver, KISS was playing to full if not sold out arenas for lick it up, Animalized. By Crazy nights, it was becoming smaller. Kiss did pack Red Rocks at that time, but from then to the reunion they had pretty much disappeared. The convention time I was in Dallas and there they had some interest, but lots of it came from rumors Pete, or Ace might be there. Us metal heads have chewed a lot of the same dirt, in different states. Lol. Party on Doc,
I was listening to an interview with Steven Carpenter from Deftones recently, and he didnt day they were treated porrly but did say unlike other bands Kiss were not very social with them when they supported in the late 90s.
During my jr high and high school years in the 80's I cannot remember one fellow student saying he or she was a 80's Kiss fan. W.A.S.P. Quiet Riot, Van Halen, Ratt, Ozzy, Guns N'Roses were what those kids were into. Maybe Paul's ultra feminine outfits and prancing didn't help matters? Plus they looked like older guys jumping onto the bandwagon.
Just guessing but I would say this is over blown. But stuff like this is probably common. Also this would have been about the time KISS was trying to reinvent themselves and their records were not selling well. But I like all versions of KISS . Blacky Lawless basically stole Genes act.
I saw Animalize/Queensrÿche and Asylum tours but W.A.S.P. wasn't opening for them. It was at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium and Rochester Memorial Auditorium and it was packed. Not sure if it was sold out for either show. Maybe Western New Yorkers were more into Kiss in that era (not me, although I enjoyed the concerts)
Kiss were playing to half full venues. WASP had traction for the first two records. Chris meant 'butts in seats' not 'worldwide recognition'. Hope that helps.
I thought WASP opened for KISS on the Animalize Tour. I know Accept opened during Lick It Up at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. But getting ahead of myself, Blue Oyster Cult opened for the Hot In The Shade tour. Big disappointment. BOC sucked like a vacuum cleaner convention. And Slaughter opened for the Crazy Nights tour. Paul and Mark Slaughter must have had a blast talking about their horrible experiences with Vinnie Vincent. But getting back to WASP, they were killer for that show. Accept and WASP were the best opening bands during the nonmakeup era and Eric Carr on drums.
Re. the merch: For Asylum/Last Command show out here (Calif.), KISS had a longsleeve blue shirt fer sale. WASP had a white longsleeve shirt. Who copied whom, lol??
Yet Gene wrote better songs than Paul during that time. imo. Gene, Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick saved KISS. While Paul wrote songs like Bang Bang You and You Make Me Rock Hard.
@@almosthuman56 Gene's hair never did recover after he cut it short for his acting career and then let it grow longer after he went back to Kiss full time.
I've seen W.A.S.P. a few times between 2007 and 2020 and I've seen Chris Holmes live a year ago. Believe it or not I actually enjoyed Chris Holmes' gig way more. He was very true to his roots, no bullshit guy. He sounded great, he felt great, his jokes were actually quite hilarious ("D'ya know why I don't have children? Because children shouldn't have children!"). And I totally can relate to what you said about those lame "Asylum" t-shirts. Bands have to pay attention to that! Sometimes you see a band live, it's awesome and you want to buy a shirt but the design is so lame that you just don't buy anything. Because ok, I want to support this band but I would never wear this piece of shit in public :))
Honestly, I can't say I'm surprised by what's said about Gene and Paul, ive heard it all before, maybe they should tone down they're egos a bit. Love the show. !!🇦🇺
@@JJMcHurt fair enough...I saw it young too...in my twenties... didn't question it...then I read an interview with him a few years later and he said it was water...also Blackie said it was water and the whole scene was a put on ...
I get they’re easy to hate but I think the bad musicians thing is a bit overblown. Especially in the early years at least. Peter was a great singer as was Paul in his prime imo
I can definitely relate to Chris’ story. When the Plasmatics were asked to open for KISS on the Creatures of the Night tour we were promised a soundcheck every night. From the first show KISS was always taking up all the allotted time so we couldn’t sound check. Finally at a show in Detroit KISS got done and said the stage was all ours. We ran in stage, plugged in, and just as we were ready to hit the first chords we saw that the doors had opened and fans started streaming into the arena. We high tailed it off the stage and never did get to sound check. We never got a sound check for the entire tour and I don’t think I heard a single note I played on the whole tour. We were getting better reviews than they were and Paul was not a fan of Wendy plus coupled with new guitarist Vinnie Vincent added up to keep us off stage. Very disappointing.
That is crazy and messd up. Saw you open for KISS in West Palm Beach and The Plasmatics were mind blowing! Ran out and bought Coup De Etat days after that show and is in my top 10 greatest album of all time.
@@almosthuman56 I know, I’m a regular viewer of your Only News That Matters and have heard you talk about that West Palm Beach show, memorable for me as someone went into our dressing room and walked off with my bag and stage clothes! And it’s where someone stole Gene’s book of Polaroids of his conquests out of his hotel room. I remember it being a good show for both of us.
The West Palm Beach auditorium!, otherwise known as the leakee teepee!, I moved from there to Tampa 20 years ago and the Jehova's witnesses had bought it, I called it the Jehova dome! 🤣🤣🤣 , saw many a great show there!
What he's saying is true. I was in a semi successful band. We opened for big-name bands. We were not allowed our own sound engineer. We had to use theirs. They would be sabotaging our sound on purpose. It's just paying your dues. But it sucks when they turn on the house lights on purpose as a buzz kill when we were up on stage. Never made it big, and I was happy to open in a few arenas. Rock on 🤘
What was the name of your band?
Wasp was never beignet than KISS!!!! WTFE!!! Drugs have altered this guys memory!!
@@1UnkaFunka Chris meant at the time. The first WASP albums had good traction. They weren't bigger overall, but the WASP kids were coming to the shows is what he meant.
I met Chris Holmes at a little bar in Mohave Valley Arizona one time. The thing I remember most was his manager unplugged me and bitched me out cause I sounded great. Circle of life man.
It’s so weird how many stage moves WASP took from Kiss. Watch the Wild Child video and you see the other guitarist primp his hair like Stanley and Blackie does a lot of moves like both Gene and Paul. Sad because KISS should’ve been honored because WASP are amazing
I saw KISS and WASP in support several times. WASP always had a full stage and appeared to have full effects etc. I question Chris Holmes on this one.
In 1991 on a Sunday night at the Lime Light Rock n' Roll Church in NYC, I saw Blackie Lawless hanging out. That night I told Blackie years prior when I saw them open up for KISS on the Animalize tour at the Brendan Byrne arena in Rutherford NJ. I said to Blackie "you guys were GREAT, and blew Kiss right off the stage". Yes Blackie did appreciate that.
I saw Kiss and Wasp in WPB for Asylum. It was packed and i loved it. Nobody else has ever complained about opening for Kiss. Both Slaughter and Danger Danger who toured with later Kiss said they were treated really well.
“I’m not wearing that shit!” 😂
I hope KISS didn't try to sell any Gene Simmons t shirts during the Asylum tour.
So WASP got invited to open and made a bunch of demands that essentially made them co-headliners.
Not a smart move to get a big head when you're the opening band. lol. For a VERY Brief moment yes, WASP was very popular, Wonder why it didn't last, they seem so humble lol.
I was at the San Diego Sports Arena show. Probably only my 3rd show but I bought one WASP and one Kiss shirt but it was an old tank tour leftover, I didn't know any better.
They were " cool" to the opening act when they knew they could blow them away..that was definitely the case throughout the 70s. I'm sure they changed their additude about it during the 80s when they found themselves following trends. I totally believe this story because around Animalize W.A.S.P . was young and hungry. They would have killed kiss and their Golden Girls costumes......outfits
I saw that tour. Kiss/Asylum and WASP/Last Command. WASP killed. I looked at my friend and said..”I don’t know how Kiss is gonna top that. Kiss comes on. After 2 songs it was clear they were Kiss. Not close.
I saw the Animalize tour in March 1985. They sold out the Lansing (Michigan) Civic Center, which only had a 6600 seating capacity. I thought W.A.S.P. was the better band that night. KISS kicked ass, but W.A.S.P. just seemed hungrier at that point. Good show!
I also saw them both on that tour in Michigan. Wasp blew kiss out of the water the night I saw them
@@nuge1717 I agree! WASP just killed it.
I bought that asylum cover shirt at the Toronto show on the asylum tour.
That other Paul shirt you’re describing was from the Crazy Nights tour which I also bought.
I still have all my Tour shirts AND I listen to Black Sabbath.
Today I listened to Master of Reality deluxe version
KISS was the band that got me into rock/metal. The first album I ever owned was KISS Dynasty. I got it for my 4th birthday. The first concert I ever went to was KISS. I was fortunate enough to see Hot In The Shade and many years later, to see the farewell tour. However, Chris isn't the only one who says this type of stuff about Gene and Paul. For example, the story from the drummer in B.O.C. about how Paul thought he was Gods gift to the world. Also, the late great Neil Peart from rush saying that Ace and Peter were damaged by Gene and Paul's cynicism. Then, the fact that they didn't even invite Bruce to do ANY songs for their last concert makes me think all of those stories are likely true. I can KIND OF understand not inviting Ace and Peter because of all the past bad blood. However, Bruce has always been loyal to those two as well as the KISS brand and that's how they treat him?? Yhea, FK those guys. I am now MUCH more inclined to believe this story from Chris.
Queensryche opened for Kiss when I saw them on The Animalize tour. No arena either, Henry J. Kaiser held 7,500 for a concert. W.A.S.P. played on the Asylum tour at The Cow Palace opening for KISS, it was a 15,000 seat arena and there was only 6,000 people there.
The first time i saw Kiss was on the Crazy Nights tour and it wasn't even close to a sell out. They played San Luis Obispo,an amphitheater,it had about half seats sold,so about 2500 out of four or five thousand. Kiss weren't too amused either. When they hit the stage I remember Paul looking over at Gene with a really bad look on his face,not a happy camper when he saw all those empty seats. But they kicked ass,what a show. So I'll give them that,oh and Anthrax opened for them and yeah,no contest. They owned the stage that night. But Kiss were great,my first time seeing them in 1988,I walked away pretty happy.
Yeah, Mean Man is a great documentary. I didn't realize how close EVH & Chris were.
Yup. In the film, does Chris mention that his explorer was used on the Women and Children First album?
@@machupikachu1085Yes!
Saw Wasp on their debut tour of the UK,,,, f?cking awesome. Possibly the best gig iv ever been to. Small shitty little club but the atmosphere was electric and Wasp were on fire. Good times
During the WASP and Kiss tour , Blackie was throwing out posters and me and another guy fought over the stupid thing, it got torn in half and we both got half a poster 🫤🫤🫤🫤
Wow, Ralph. I had you pinned as more of a John Holmes fan. Chris Holmes? Not so much. John had more of what, um...you "like" in a fellow. Heh heh.
Dayum. That was savage.
@@machupikachu1085 don't shame Ralph because he "appreciates" men with double digit length cox.
"Mean Man" Chris Holmes 🤘🏻 🎸 🤘🏻
I saw KISS on the Creatures tour with the Plasmatics at the Palm Beach Auditorium & I saw the animalize tour at the Sunrise musical Theatre. That's TWO KISS concerts that you & I both attended. I saw the Lick it up tour in Lakeland. Did you happen to see the Lick it up tour in Lakeland too?
No. I saw it at the Hollywood Sportatorium
@@almosthuman56 I caught that later in the video but, I'd already posted the question & didn't feel like editing. We've surely been to other shows as rock concerts were my favorite thing in the world when I was a teen & twenty something.
I saw WASP open for Quiet Riot but it was at the Ft. Pierce Civic Center.
Chris prob wants a spotlight telling a story
Chris Holmes is great! I get a kick outta those solo songs. I'm so glad hes still alive after that cancer scare.
Simmons just got the Key to the city of Niagra Falls NY. He also will get a street named after himself. Just 1 more thing to brag about I suppose.
one side of a story
It's a trip to hear how different the Country can be when it comes to concert attendance. In SLC, and Denver, KISS was playing to full if not sold out arenas for lick it up, Animalized. By Crazy nights, it was becoming smaller. Kiss did pack Red Rocks at that time, but from then to the reunion they had pretty much disappeared. The convention time I was in Dallas and there they had some interest, but lots of it came from rumors Pete, or Ace might be there. Us metal heads have chewed a lot of the same dirt, in different states. Lol. Party on Doc,
I was listening to an interview with Steven Carpenter from Deftones recently, and he didnt day they were treated porrly but did say unlike other bands Kiss were not very social with them when they supported in the late 90s.
Sunrise!! I saw Pantera and Sepultura on acid at one of the last shows at Sunrise musical theater. Kinda near the sportatorium back in the day!
It was Pantera and Soulfly. And Morbid Angel at Sunrise. I was there.
@@almosthuman56 yes yes yes!!!
Is this KISS Wednesday or WASP Wednesday??
I did a series on my channel called WASP Wednesday.
During my jr high and high school years in the 80's I cannot remember one fellow student saying he or she was a 80's Kiss fan. W.A.S.P. Quiet Riot, Van Halen, Ratt, Ozzy, Guns N'Roses were what those kids were into. Maybe Paul's ultra feminine outfits and prancing didn't help matters? Plus they looked like older guys jumping onto the bandwagon.
Dude people liked all those groups you mentioned INCLUDING kiss duh.paul acted like that in the 70s and It was fine.
Just guessing but I would say this is over blown. But stuff like this is probably common. Also this would have been about the time KISS was trying to reinvent themselves and their records were not selling well. But I like all versions of KISS . Blacky Lawless basically stole Genes act.
I got to open for Chris and Randy when they were in Animal, both those guys were cool as hell!!! And man can they play whew!!
That Animal stuff is really underrated. Just as good or better than the solo Blackie 'Wasp' albums.
I saw Animalize/Queensrÿche and Asylum tours but W.A.S.P. wasn't opening for them. It was at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium and Rochester Memorial Auditorium and it was packed. Not sure if it was sold out for either show. Maybe Western New Yorkers were more into Kiss in that era (not me, although I enjoyed the concerts)
I saw KISS and WASP on that tour at the fabulous forum.
'Wasp may have been the bigger draw'. lol
Talk about delusional.
Kiss were playing to half full venues. WASP had traction for the first two records. Chris meant 'butts in seats' not 'worldwide recognition'. Hope that helps.
@@machupikachu1085 See comment above. Hope that helps.
KISS is Americana
They gave us Pantera
I’m with Chris on this!!
Those first wasp albums wow 👍
Sunrise capacity was about 3700
Chris was always metal, compared to "blackie" 5:30
Blackie with a comb-over, he looks like a teenage Trump.
Chris Holmes is a national treasure.
You're kidding right?
Pickled and brain-dead since the 1980s.
Says France?
I thought WASP opened for KISS on the Animalize Tour. I know Accept opened during Lick It Up at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. But getting ahead of myself, Blue Oyster Cult opened for the Hot In The Shade tour. Big disappointment. BOC sucked like a vacuum cleaner convention. And Slaughter opened for the Crazy Nights tour. Paul and Mark Slaughter must have had a blast talking about their horrible experiences with Vinnie Vincent. But getting back to WASP, they were killer for that show. Accept and WASP were the best opening bands during the nonmakeup era and Eric Carr on drums.
They were jealous because they knew WASP were around for awhile as musicians and were respected. They were also much hotter at the time.
Re. the merch:
For Asylum/Last Command show out here (Calif.), KISS had a longsleeve blue shirt fer sale. WASP had a white
longsleeve shirt. Who copied whom, lol??
They BOTH had shirts for sale?? What a bunch of copycats! Next you're going to tell me that the BOTH put out albums in 1985! I would have sued!!
Say it like it is Ralph
no subs seems kind of harsh
sub to his channel then?
@@machupikachu1085 SMD?
Lol ! Are you trying to take over Eddie Trunk's job Ralph? Only Joking ! you Rule!!
Thank you! \m/
If there's nothing else for Chris Holmes to try to stay relevant in media....
Anytime I saw Kiss in an arena in that era, it was barely half full.
you mean someone out shitted Blackie? Well, it would take someone like Gene and Paul
They were his idols, after all.
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It wasn't even the Gene and Paul show in the 80's. Gene was off making movies while Paul held down the fort.
True. Paul still brings that up about Gene.
Yet Gene wrote better songs than Paul during that time. imo. Gene, Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick saved KISS. While Paul wrote songs like Bang Bang You and You Make Me Rock Hard.
@@almosthuman56 Gene's hair never did recover after he cut it short for his acting career and then let it grow longer after he went back to Kiss full time.
Chris Holmes is a badass guitarist
I've seen W.A.S.P. a few times between 2007 and 2020 and I've seen Chris Holmes live a year ago. Believe it or not I actually enjoyed Chris Holmes' gig way more. He was very true to his roots, no bullshit guy. He sounded great, he felt great, his jokes were actually quite hilarious ("D'ya know why I don't have children? Because children shouldn't have children!").
And I totally can relate to what you said about those lame "Asylum" t-shirts. Bands have to pay attention to that! Sometimes you see a band live, it's awesome and you want to buy a shirt but the design is so lame that you just don't buy anything. Because ok, I want to support this band but I would never wear this piece of shit in public :))
Infamous Chris Holmes quote: “I’m a piece of crap.” WASP ruled on that first album
Wasp rules
WASP took what KISS did in the ‘70s, and made it much better!
Honestly, I can't say I'm surprised by what's said about Gene and Paul, ive heard it all before, maybe they should tone down they're egos a bit.
Love the show. !!🇦🇺
WASP 1st album way better than KISS 1st album.
And Van Halen's first album is better than Deep Purple's first album. Your point again?
Chris Holmes has chunks in his stool that are bigger than Paul and Gene.
Never got into WASP.....Motley Crue was my favorite at that time. But, to be fair, WASP never needed backing tracks....
Ummm....
I still just vision Chris in the pool pouring vodka over his head!!!! Now that’s METAL
Water ?
@@philipholmes5884 ummmm the scene from Decline of Western where he is in his Mom pool-Water maybe but as a teenager it was VODKA
@@JJMcHurt fair enough...I saw it young too...in my twenties... didn't question it...then I read an interview with him a few years later and he said it was water...also Blackie said it was water and the whole scene was a put on ...
Holmes over anyone in either band!
I hate kiss. There overrated and there songs sucked.
Their ya go ! They'res an opinion that matters ! 👍🏻
They can spell, though.
@@machupikachu1085 whoosh...🙄
Fact of the matter is, Kiss was successful because of the gimmick. They are not good musicians, vocalists, anything
I get they’re easy to hate but I think the bad musicians thing is a bit overblown. Especially in the early years at least. Peter was a great singer as was Paul in his prime imo
I guess I'm a friggng idiot then cuz I love most of their music
Not good musicians?
And that's why they were so influential?
You may not like the band, but to say Paul is not a good vocalist is either ignorant or disingenuous. Paul was a world class singer.
I can definitely relate to Chris’ story. When the Plasmatics were asked to open for KISS on the Creatures of the Night tour we were promised a soundcheck every night. From the first show KISS was always taking up all the allotted time so we couldn’t sound check. Finally at a show in Detroit KISS got done and said the stage was all ours. We ran in stage, plugged in, and just as we were ready to hit the first chords we saw that the doors had opened and fans started streaming into the arena. We high tailed it off the stage and never did get to sound check. We never got a sound check for the entire tour and I don’t think I heard a single note I played on the whole tour. We were getting better reviews than they were and Paul was not a fan of Wendy plus coupled with new guitarist Vinnie Vincent added up to keep us off stage. Very disappointing.
That is crazy and messd up. Saw you open for KISS in West Palm Beach and The Plasmatics were mind blowing! Ran out and bought Coup De Etat days after that show and is in my top 10 greatest album of all time.
@@almosthuman56 I know, I’m a regular viewer of your Only News That Matters and have heard you talk about that West Palm Beach show, memorable for me as someone went into our dressing room and walked off with my bag and stage clothes! And it’s where someone stole Gene’s book of Polaroids of his conquests out of his hotel room. I remember it being a good show for both of us.
You may have not heard a single note but we sure did. That 1983 show in Cleveland may have been the loudest concert I've been to.
@@WesBeech-v9e It was one of the greatest shows I have ever seen
The West Palm Beach auditorium!, otherwise known as the leakee teepee!, I moved from there to Tampa 20 years ago and the Jehova's witnesses had bought it, I called it the Jehova dome! 🤣🤣🤣 , saw many a great show there!