Paul Stanley knows that he will sound great during KISS’ ‘End of the Road World Tour’

Paul Stanley knows that he will sound great during KISS’ ‘End of the Road World Tour’

KISS frontman Paul Stanley was recently interviewed by Australia’s Herald Sun and he covered a wide range of topics including his voice issues, whether the band will record a new album in the future and KISS‘ recently announced End of the World Road Tour.

In terms of his singing, Stanley advised: “If anyone wants to hear me sound like I did on (1975’s) Kiss Alive! then put on Kiss Alive!…. It would be absurd. Of course your voice changes. Any athlete’s body changes. Any singer’s voice changes. The naysayers and the scrooges will find the video of you falling on your ass, that’s the one they’ll post. But when you’re playing to between 20,000 to 60,000 fans a night and beginning and ending a show with an audience going crazy, I’m not really that concerned with the sceptics.”

Stanley continued: “I’m in the same boat a lot of people are…. I see singers around my age and we talk about it. The difference could be many bands have a singer where you go ‘Well he sounds really good’ but, so does the keyboard player singing along with him. Or the person singing off stage. Kiss have never done that.”

“I understand there’s people who tend to spout negativity but they’re in the vast, vast, vast minority. I will do everything in my power and I know that I will sound great on this tour. That is not delusional. I don’t look the same as I did at the beginning of the band, nobody looks the same today as they did decades ago, but it’s all about degree. But there are realities of course.”

In terms of KISS recording a new album, Stanley opined:

“I don’t think there’s any reason to record at this point. You’re up against your past. Your past is much larger and more potent than the quality of your songs. It’s about songs that had a moment in somebody’s life, that’s where the power comes. It’s a photograph of a certain moment for somebody.”

“Whether or us or the Stones or any classic band, when people say, ‘Why don’t you do a new album?’ they have no intention of wanting to hear it. They may tolerate a new song or two. But don’t kid yourself, when the (Rolling) Stones put out a new album someone will say, ‘That’s terrific, now play Brown Sugar’. It’s the nature of the beast. I’d rather go out and celebrate our glories and not hunker down in the studio to do an album which, understandably, will never receive the embracing that earlier ones do.”

“If you put on a live concert of any of the classic bands and turn off the sound, I could tell you every time they’re playing a new song because the audience sits down. People really don’t want to hear those new songs live.”

You can read the rest of the interview with Stanley at Australia’s Herald Sun.