KISS guitarist Paul Stanley says that, despite changes to the band's lineup, their trademark characters will stay the same. Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience, Stanley says previous experiments have not fared well.
"I think where we went astray is when we first replaced Peter [Criss] and we decided we needed a new character."
"And the problem with that kind of stuff is that it started to become — interestingly, I think — disingenuous. It took an air of fake in the sense that it became a menagerie."
Stanley talked about some forgotten incarnations, saying, "I mean, we had a Fox and an Egyptian Warrior. Next we would have the Turtle Boy and the Frog Man. So I think once we brought Ace and Peter back for the reunion tour, which I hoped would go on forever - in other words, I hoped that everybody would get back together, everybody would see the error in their ways and we would move forward and stay together forever. But when that wasn't to be, I thought, we really built these four images. And, arguably, you can go anywhere in the world and people know who Kiss is, regardless of whether they know who those people are."
"Those images are the images that will continue when I'm not here either," he concluded.
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