Music fans have long been charmed by Kiss's ferocious rise in the '70s from a rat-infested rehearsal space to worldwide acclaim, but Simmons tells Q104.3 New York's Jim Kerr and Shelli Sonstein that the view from the proverbial Kiss rocket ship is "even crazier."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer says he struggled for years to articulate what it means for Kiss to be so successful for so long. He offered an analogy to explain his perspective.
"So there's a rocket going up with an astronaut going to the moon or someplace out there. Everybody's watching this astonishing spectacle, the pyro and the rocket going up and they're describing it to the astronaut like, 'Boy, it's amazing. You've never seen anything like it!'
He goes, 'Oh yeah? From my perspective looking down on the planet, you have no idea.' It's just beyond anything, especially for a kid that wasn't born in America. I was born in Israel. ... English was my third language. ... So this Kisstory [documentary] thing is really a celebration of the American dream if you really want to get to the nitty-gritty. And we've got this four-hour documentary, which is the headline at the TriBeCa Film Festival."
Kiss's career-spanning two-part A&E Biography: Kisstory documentary premiered over the weekend at the TriBeCa Film Festival.
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