Paul Stanley recently spoke with the Las Vegas Sun about being star-struck the first time he met Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page back in 1976.
Stanley recalled that while KISS was recording their Destroyer album, Led Zeppelin was putting together their The Song Remains The Same soundtrack, and the two happened to be across each other in the lobby of the recording studio.
"We were in the lobby, and Jimmy came up and he knew who I was, and who the band was," Stanley remembers. "It was stunning. Not five years earlier, I was in the audience, watching Led Zeppelin with my mouth open, just not believing it."
Stanley, who will turn 58 in less than a month, says that the excitement he gets from playing live is the main reason he still likes playing in KISS.
"There's no substitute for me getting up onstage and having 15,000 people calling my name."
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