Our Meet & Greet With Ace Frehley!!!

December 9th 2009 is a day we’ll never forget in our KISStory!
That’s the day we did a Meet & Greet Vip Experience with former KISS leadguitarist Ace Frehley!!!
I’ve met Ace once in 1995 during a expo in Amsterdam (NL) So because it has been a while for me and Marina never have met him before, we both looked forward to meet him. Everything took place during Ace Anomaly European Tour in Bochum (Germany)

We arrived later at the venue then we had expected, caused by traffic jams, but we had plenty of time after all because the Meet & Greet started around 9:45 PM. A little bit nerveus we went inside the room were Ace sat behind a table…

I went to Ace first, give him a hand a said that it was great to meet him again, I give my items for signing and asked him to sign them personal to me. So he signed my Ace solo Picture Disc and Anomaly CD. Told him how much I loved the CD what he really appreciated. After he signed them it was time for my photo with him and Marina took a coupple of pics. I gave Ace a hand again and thanked him and that I looked forward to his show.  

Now it was time for Marina to meet Ace, when she sit next to him Ace said to her "Another blond girl " with a smile. He signed her CD and told him that it was great to meet him.

I took some pics and than I asked if it was allright that we could have a photo with Ace and us together. That was no problem and we both sat down next to Ace and we got a great photo with him.

Ace was very relax and friendly during our Meet & Greet with him, even that it all took only a short time, he signed several items for us, we got more pics with him than we had hoped for and Ace was in a great mood! We had a awesome experience!

After the Meet & Greet it was time for Ace show and what can we say, it was great to see him rockin’ on the stage. As said before Ace was in a great mood, he joked a lot on the stage, about how small Bochum was. The sound was great and the band played tight. Ace played 4 songs from his new CD (see for setlist in slideshow) He didn’t use his lightning guitar during New York Groove. Ace played before approx 700 crazy fans. We had a great time at the concert. Because we did the Meet & Greet, it was impossible to get to the front. I made some pics to get a idea how it was like...

Bruce Kulick's Private Party - Review!!!

On friday november 27th we attended Bruce Kulick’s Private Party in Amsterdam (NL) limited to 120 guests only!
After the doors went open and we got in, we checked out Bruce merchandise, sadly he not got his new album for sale there (release in Europe: Januari 29th, in the US: Februari 16th 2010) but had a new version of his BK3 EP for his European fans for sale! Also there was a book, where you could write a personal message to Bruce, that would be presented to him right after his show. Of course we wrote something in for him with a photo of us.

Around 9 PM Bruce took the stage, he regoniced us right away, becasue we stood right in front of him, lol. He welcomed everyone for coming and told about his busy schedule of last week, with seeing KISS live in Anaheim, Fantasy Camp and of course coming over for his Private Parties in Europe. It was a kind of guitar clinic, but all in a easy comfortable way, all relax. Bruce started with playing the leads of Unholy. Then he gave Marina his guitar, so that he could take of his shirt. She couldn’t believe she got his guitar in her hands! Bruce joked and said; "she asked if see could take it with her "…

Bruce played guitar, backed up by a tape, on the songs as: Liar, Jumping The Shark & Pair Of Dice. At the end he played parts of; Warmachine, No, No, No and God Give Rock & Roll To You II. Between the songs he explained some tricks of his guitarplaying and about his upcoming new BK3 album as well. After the set was done, the special book was presented to Bruce and he was suprised by it and thank everyone who contributed to it.

It was time for a small break before the Meet & Greet started, it al was relax, you could come by his table when you wanted. We waited till the end, Bruce was glad to see us and I start telling him how much I loved the new songs (because they played 90 seconds clippings of all the new songs from his BK3 album on the background during the M&G session and as a bonus they played: Hand Of The King, with Nick Simmons on vocals, in his entirely) Also Bruce appreciated it that Marina runs his fanpage on Myspace. We took photo’s with him and he signed items for us. Again Bruce was very nice to us and we had a awesome evening!

Bruce said this on his site about the evening:
" Sad to leave Holland. Thank you, all my Dutch fans! "

So enjoy the photo’s: 

*(c) 2009. All personal interviews/stories/Photo's may only be used by others if is reference/linked to this site or me and ask me first!

Our Meet & Greet With Lydia Criss!

Yesterday we went to the KISS Expo in Kuurne, Belgium. We arrived @ 2 PM at the venue, went inside, got 2 free posters at the door and then it was straight to the merchandise stands. There were about 8 dealers who sold old & new items, KISSonline was there with a lot of new items and of course Lydia Criss was the special guest, who sold & signed her awesome photobook Sealed With A KISS! First we went to Lydia, to let her signed our copy of the book (we had it since it came out) She was very nice and when we asked for a photo, see came behind her table to the front of it and we take some cool pics with her.

We bought some items, like DVD’s and 2 cool Alive 35 Hoodies. Also there was a videomessage from Bruce Kulick, he talked about his upcoming new BK3 album and the private party’s in Europe in november/december (we’ll be there) Around 5 PM it was time for the Q&A with Keith Leroux (KISSonline) He told some cool stories about all the merchandise and that KISS was playing songs from Sonic Boom on the rehersals, like I’m A Animal, When Lightnings Strikes or Danger Us. He was sure that KISS will return to Europe in 2010 (on the expo there was going a rumour around that they’ll play on Graspop again, as they did in 2008)

After that it was time for the Unplugged show of KISStory and right after it Lydia Criss took the stage for her Q&A session. She told some cool stories about Peter Criss when she was married to him. Some of them we never heard off before, like that she has some old filmfootage when KISS did their first tour in Japan and that it’s possible that it could come out on DVD in the future!

Than it was time for the great mega show of KISStory, they opened with Modern Day Delilah and had a great setlist with bombs, smoke and pyro! It was great to talk with fans and a lot came up to me and gave compliments about my site! Enjoy the photo's...

New KISS CD Sonic Boom Out Now!!!

First new KISS album in 11 years! SONIC BOOM!!! Out Now!!!

Although I got a copy of the new KISS album " Sonic Boom " 2 weeks ago, I bought last friday the special 2 CD/1 DVD set at my local record store. I got also a free promo CD-single of Modern Day Delilah (!) and a promo poster!

Sonic Boom! Wow! What a album! It's in my CD player all the time!
KISS give us fans what we want, a true all balls out album! There isn't not one song that's bad, from Modern Day Delilah till Say Yeah it's a real pleasure to listen to! Paul & Gene vocals on the tracks are awesome and to my suprise, Eric & Tommy's songs are unbelieveble!
Eric drumparts are strong and Tommy's guitarparts & solo's are so cool, it's great to hear Paul & Gene sharing vocals on several songs, wow what a line-up, what a album!

My favorites are; Modern Day Delilah, Russian Roulette, Stand, All The Glory, When Lightning Strikes & Say Yeah, but as I said before, there isn't any bad song on Sonic Boom! KISS delivered the goods and it was worth the wait, their album is for sure a Sonic Boom!!!

The bonus DVD from Argentina, shot during the Alive 35 World Tour on april 5th 2009, brought back a lot of good memories to me and my girlfriend. We couldn't stop thinking about when KISS was on tour in Europe last year! The footage is raw and it's only a shame that only 6 songs are on it, but we see a great band in action! We just want more…

KISS is back, with a Sonic Boom! So, get this album now!!!

The album contains 11 tracks:

Modern Day Delilah – Stanley 3:40
Russian Roulette – Simmons 4:00
Never Enough – Stanley, Simmons, Thayer 2:16
Yes I Know (Nobody's Perfect) – Stanley, Simmons 3:21
Stand – Stanley 5:20
Hot & Cold – Stanley 3:36
All The Glory – Simmons, Thayer 4:10
Danger Us – Simmons, Singer 3:18
I'm A Animal – Stanley 4:04
When Lightning Strikes – Stanley, Simmons, Thayer 3:38
Say Yah – Stanley, Simmons, Singer 2:25

The Jegoku Retsuden tracklist is:

Deuce, Detroit Rock City, Shout It Out Loud, Hotter Than Hell, Calling Dr. Love, Love Gun, I Was Made For Lovin' You, Heaven's On Fire, Lick It Up, I Love It Loud, Forever, Christeen Sixteen, Do You Love Me, Black Diamond & Rock & Roll All Night.

The DVD tracklisting is:

Deuce, Hotter Than Hell, C'mon & Love Me, Watching You, 100.000 Years & Rock & Roll All Night.

 

Release date of Sonic Boom! in Europe is October 2th, in the US October 6th!
Sonic Boom comes with a 20 page booklet and will be released as a regulair 1 CD, a 2 CD-set and the special 2-CD/DVD package! Also it will be released on vinyl soon! I got my copies in!

This is my promo CD-single of Modern Day Delilah…

And this is my promo CD-single of Say Yeah!

This is the bootleg vinyl picture disc of Sonic Boom!br>

Signed Ace Frehley Anomaly CD!

I bought Ace Frehley’s new album Anomaly on september 12th here in Holland! It’s the digipack-pyramid version and all I can say; I love his new album, it’s Ace’s best album since 1978!!!
Last friday I got the signed Anomaly CD & Vinyl in, very cool! On Ace site they’re sold out!
Take a look to my signed CD booklet by Ace…

This is the tracklist:

Foxy & Free, Outer Space, Pain In The Neck, Fox On The Run, Genghis Khan, Too Many Faces, Change The World, Space Bear, A Little Below The Angels, Sister, It’s A Great Life, & Fractured Quantum. Bonus iTunes track: The Return Of The Space Bear.

ESP Live In Holland & Belgium 2009!

We went to the concert of ESP in Uden, after a 90 minutes drive we arrived at the De Pul, a small venue were about 200 fans show up for the gig. We met a lot of friends and it was great to talk to eachother again.
About 9 pm ESP took over the stage and as ussual it was from the start a party, Chuck a.k.a. Hellvis is always great to rock his bass and his Gene Simmons impression is often hillerious, John joked a lot with his funny stories and one-liners. Of course Bruce guitarplaying was excellent and Eric rocked behind his drumkit.
The band was in a great spirit and it was great to see them perform live again here in Holland.
The only complaint was that there wasn’t allowed to take photo’s during the show! I don’t understand why, because in the past you were allowed to take photo’s at ESP shows.

ESP‘s setlist:

Parasite (KISS), Love (Union), Under My Wheels (Alice Cooper), Unholy (KISS), Live Wire (Mötley Crüe), Domino (KISS), Highway Star (Deep Purple), Master and Slave (KISS), Power To The People (Mötley Crüe), Master & Slave – Continue (KISS), I Wanna Be (Union), Man in the Moon (Scream), Helter Skelter (Beatles), Ace of Spades (Motorhead), I Love It Loud (KISS), Black Diamond (KISS) & Tie Your Mother Down (Queen)

After the show they did a signing session and this time it was better organised than I witness at previous ESP signing sessions, however it seems that they (management?) stopped before everyone got their item signed. Only 1 item was allowed to let signed. Bruce was as always a gentleman and made a comment about my girlfriends Paul Stanley tattoo, Eric signed our photo with him backstage at Alice Cooper from last november.

On monday februari 16th we went to the ESP gig in Verviers, Belgium. It was only a 30 minutes drive for us. The venue, The Spirit Of 66, was small and I guess around 200 people were there. We got a front spot at the stage, before Bruce and this time it was allowed to take photo’s, but only for the first 3 songs. So I took as many pics as was possible.
Again the spirit of the band was great and this evening, we stood so close at the stage that, if we wanted, we could thouch Bruce or John.

After the show was over they came out to do a signingsession on the stage. We had a few things with us for signing, as photo’s, ESP CD cover ect. Everyone signed our stuff. All were very nice, especially Bruce, who was thankfull to us, we got each a guitar plectrum from him! He’s still a great guy! We had a blast!

All we can say, if you can catch ESP live, do so!
Enjoy the pics…

*(c) 2009. All personal photo’s/slideshows/filmed footage may only be used by others if is reference/linked to this site or me and ask me first!