Kiss
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| Name(s): | KISS |
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| Scope/Focus: | Music |
| Date(s): | 1973- |
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One of the biggest and most iconic rock bands ever, KISS started in 1973 out of the ashes of Wicked Lester. They are famous for their over-the-top live shows involving face paint, explosions, Gene spitting blood (fake), fire (real) and rolling out his long tongue. Their most famous songs include "Rock N Roll All Nite," "Detroit Rock City" and "Beth."
Fandom
Starting in the 1980s, fans began holding Kiss Conventions or Expos. In 1994 at the "First Annual Detroit Convention" group members, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley made a surprise visit, where they "raided" a display of their old costumes and equipment, that they claimed had been stolen from them. Inspired by the popularity of these fan-run expos, they started having their own official conventions in 1995, featuring memorabilia displays and the band performing an acoustic set. The success of these would lead to the original line-up reuniting and performing full shows, again.
Fan Club
Pairings
The top ship on AO3 is guitarists Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley.
Example Fanworks
Fanzines
Fannish Resources
- KISS fanworks on AO3
- #kissband tag on DeviantArt
- KISS fanfic at Rockfic
- Fanfiction.net - As of June 2, 2002, ff.net had 24 KISS fics (RPF was later banned).
Other Links
Gene Simmons-Gene Klein's Fanac
One of its members, Gene Simmons, used to contribute science fiction, comics, and fantasy zines using the name, Gene Klein.
In 1977, he wrote in a letter of comment to Janus #8, in which he said: "I haven't been active in fandom for about five years.... By 1969-70 fanzines were getting boring anyway -- politics was making strong headway, and that left me far behind."
See more at Fancyclopedia.
Some zine tribs, out of many:
- "Arioch" #2 (letter of comment) (1968)
- "Asmodeus" #3 (1969)
- "Bombshell Ama-Zine" #10 (regular column called "Hokum?") (1967)
- En Garde #5 (The Avengers (TV)) (art) (1968)
- "Exile" #3, #4 (commentary, art, con report) (1968)
- "Fantasy News" #8, #9, #10, perhaps others (art, letters of comment) (1968-1969)
- "faun" (a crudzine) (discontinued as of 1969) [1]
- "One Step Beyond" #1 (commentary, art) (1968)
- "Space & Time" #5, #6 (letters of comment) (1969)
- "Wierdom Illustrated" #12 (1968)
References
- ^ mentioned in "Asmodeus" #3 by that zine's editor: "Gene adds, and I regretably have no space left to print it, that he has discontinued his zine faun, for the reason that he got sick of people who complained that his zine was available only for contribs. These people are just giving a rotten excuse for laziness."