Published: October 17, 2024
There was a few times (in KISS's touring days) where there were two people who wouldn't be talking to two other people.
In an interview with Steve-O's Wild Ride! podcast, KISS frontman Paul Stanley weighed in on the onstage fight during JANE'S ADDICTION's concert in Boston last month which resulted in the remainder of the tour being canceled. Asked if he and his KISS bandmates ever came close to trading blows on stage, he said: "Cardinal rule: you don't hit. And you don't bring your problems on stage. You leave your ego — well, that's more difficult. But you leave your anger and your resentment at the bottom of the stairs. And we would go on stage and have a great time sometimes playing and then walk off stage and not be talking to each other. The audience doesn't deserve that. The audience paid. And that goes back to that same philosophy of being the band we never saw."
Paul continued: "People get one chance to see you, possibly on a tour. It doesn't matter about last night or about the night after — that's their night, and for them to see you not interacting with your bandmate, that's kid shit. That's disrespectful to the people who paid.
"There was a few times (in KISS's touring days) where there were two people who wouldn't be talking to two other people. You go up on stage and rock out and have a great time and then you walk off stage and you don't have anything to do with them. It's your job."
