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KISS ALIVE!!! 1975-2000 - For the first time, KLASSIC KISS FEATURES ALIVE I, ALIVE II AND ALIVE III. And, the NEVER BEFORE ISSUED MILLENIUM CONCERT 1999-2000. The set hits stores this Tuesday. Best Buy will sell the KISS ALIVE SET with two extra bonus tracks.

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November 16th -

Happy to report our monster KISSOLOGY - 6 HR DVD debuted in America at #1 and debuted in Canada at #1.
It's a KISSWORLD. We're all just living in it.

   All day yesterday, our GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS show was filming us everywhere around town.
   Ended the day going with Miss Tweed to see the powerful and attractive PAUL STANLEY at the House of Blues. No one has better pipes. Period. He killed last night.
   Upstairs, we hung with BRUCE KULICK, his brother Bob, TOMMY THAYER and his Amber, former KISS producer MICHAEL JAMES JACKSON, who worked on CREATURES, KILLERS and LICK IT UP, JOHNNY 5 (Manson's guitarist) and lots of well wishers.
   Mrs. Erin Stanley and good lookin' Evan (Paul's son) were right there rockin' to the action.
   Log onto KISSONLINE.COM for all the details and fotos.

November 14th -

   Thanks to all of you with "Ideas" -- and it seems, almost all of you have em.
   Let me stress AGAIN (and again)...the 'ideas' are worth next to nothing. Simply because EVERYONE has ideas. And, you can't trademark or copyright an 'idea'...
   Most important is: Do you have the funding to make an idea a reality. If not, you're idea MAY be worthless. If you have an INVENTION, you may have something you can sell.
   Otherwise, "Hey Gene, how about a Gene Simmons Hot Air Balloon?" Means nothing. You may have the idea (and you're not the only one, remember that), but who pays for it? How much air does it take? How safe is it? Who gets it in the air? "I dunno, Gene. I just have the idea."
   Means nothing.
   So, please ...all of you out there: If I don't post your ideas, it's not because I don't appreciate your emails, or don't think you are worth posting, it's simply because what you want me to post, is almost worthless.
   Sad, but true.

   On a positive note, if you have an idea, GO AND FIND FUNDING (money). Borrow from friends/relatives. Go to a bank. Have a business plan. Get some legal advice. AND THEN COME TO ME.
   Ok?

GENE SIMMONS' MONSTER BOOTS IN CINGULAR TV COMMERCIAL

There is a new Cingular TV commercial featuring several different artists in a grocery store, and in one scene you see Gene's monster boot taking a big step out of a freezer. The commercial is currently airing.

Thanks to KOL supporter Jill Cataldo for letting us know that she viewed the commercial Monday night 11/6 on NBC during the show "Heroes" . She also mentioned that someone also posted it on Youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8C5dX6Ox18 .

KISS' "Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977" DVD box set sold a whopping 52,000 copies in its first week of release to debut at position No. 1 on Billboard's Music Video chart.
"Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977" is a monumental six-hour, two-DVD box set featuring vintage material going all the way back to the deep early roots of the band's classic lineup — GENE SIMMONS, PAUL STANLEY, ACE FREHLEY and PETER CRISS — captured and re-mastered on two state-of-the-art DVDs featuring more than 70 live performances and four full concerts bundled along with unreleased tracks and never-before-seen footage. The mind-boggling first volume of a definitive three part collection (volumes two and three are being readied for release in 2007) presented by VH1 Classic, "Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977" is a showcase of pristine digitally-restored video coupled with a 5.1 audio mix to provide both stunning visual quality and powerhouse finely-detailed sound designed to meet the approval of the most demanding KISSmaniac.
"Kissology: Volume One 1974-1977" goes all the way back one of the band's earliest live performances in the New York pre-punk glam rock bar scene of the early 1970s before tracing the rocket-paced transformation of KISS into international rock gods who filled the world's largest arenas as the undisputed hottest band in the land by 1977.

KISSONLINE.com EXCLUSIVE

Pictured is the new KISS Musical Equipment Case String Lights from licensee Rabbit Tanaka. The item has been approved in pre-production stage but is not yet available in retail stores.

Go to KISSONLINE.COM. The only Official KISS site.

November 3rd -

   The powerful and attractive PAUL STANLEY and I have been in NY on KISS business...launching our KISSOLOGY 6 HR DVD (it's a huge hit -- check out KISSONLINE.COM for more info and fotos).

    I am currently meeting TV people on a new TV PROJECT, which surprisingly, is going well...certainly better than I thought. More on this soon.
   While in NY, we spent the day shooting our TV show...in simple terms, I had stuff to do and our GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS cameras followed me around.
   AND,  thee people at A&E have told me our GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS Season 1 is a MONSTER HIT. So much so, that the last few episodes had bigger viewership than previous episodes. And, the last episode of the season, was at a peak..cool.
   To those of you who wonder if what you see of me and my home life on your tv sets is accurate. It is. This is who I am. This is who I have always been. This is probably who I will always be.
   I refuse to surround myself with losers. I refuse to surround myself with drinkers, dopers and smokers.
   I refuse to live my life by anyone else's rules. I live my life by my rules.
   I refuse to get married, not because I don't care enormously for Shannon (23 years and counting), but because one of the two in a marriage is a MAN. And, I'm one of them. I don't have a high regard for the male of the species. It's more violent and less prone to be around. My father was not. I do not want to become my father. Women, I find, are a higher life form and perhaps we would all be better off if they ruled the world.

   To those of you who are interested, our SEASON I BOX SET is coming out any day. There are TWO VERSIONS: A Deluxe version and a Regular version.
   We have put lots of stuff you haven't seen in it, including TWO SONGS you may not have heard before -- a sample of the more than 150 SONGS that will be included in the forthcoming GENE SIMMONS "MONSTER" BOX SET...
   And, Miss Tweed and I are on the INDY CRUISE -- a huge boat filled with Indy Racing League CEO Tony George and the entire Indy Family on board. Currently, docked in the Bahamas. And, no...I didn't get sea sick.
   Our SIMMONS ABRAMSON MARKETING team (Rich Abramson, my partner and Lucky, our ass't) put on an Indy Halloween Party...CEO Tony George came as...GENE SIMMONS...with a beard and an I AM INDY hat...holding his daytimer book. AND, there was another Gene Simmons...this time with KISS WAR PAINT...
  We got it all on tape we shot for our GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS.
   Notice, by the way, I am unashamed and unapologetic about using my full name where ever and whenever I can.
   YOU WILL ONLY GET THE RESPECT YOU DEMAND.
   Try it.

   Walk up to people and start using your full name. "Hi, I'm George Johnson." Instead of, "Hi, I'm George."
   It works.
   It has for me.

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