Kiss will perform a special acoustic show at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland. (AP Photo)
Before Kiss took the stage for tonight’s acoustic show at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley took a minute to answer a couple of questions in front of a Kiss video slot machine.
The band is going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next week and will then kick off its 40th anniversary tour.
“It’s only important to us because it’s important to the fans,” Simmons said, talking about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors.
Kiss will be inducted into the Rock Hall with a presentation in New York on April 10, but will not perform after there was a dispute over which members would perform at the induction ceremony.
“We decide who and what this is and nobody else,” Simmons said.
The band was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine for the first time in its 40 year history recently.
Stanley described the band as the bitter pill that the magazine had to swallow.
Simmons and Stanley’s new arena football team the LA Kiss will have its third game this weekend at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Stanley said it was more than a football team, and described the LA Kiss dancers, the BMX team and all of the entertainment that is part of the entertainment.
“We’ve got more firepower, more pyro than a third world country,” Stanley said.
The Thursday night show is a stripped-down, acoustic set that is billed to include stories about the music.
Simmons and Stanley said thanking San Manuel for their support of the LA Kiss from the beginning when others were asking them to “prove it.”
“San Manuel Casino has been a great supporter of the LA Kiss,” Stanley said.
Simmons said the casino’s outreach to the local community was one of the reasons they wanted to do something special here.