- Tom Morello Salutes KISS Army In Rock Hall Induction Speech This night proves that the bullies and critics were mistaken, guitarist says Tom Morello may be currently touring with new Hall of Fame inductees the E Street Band, but on Thursday night at Brooklyns Barclays Center, the former Rage Against the Machine guitarist saluted the Kiss Army while inducting Kiss into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Given the dichotomy between Morellos left-leaning worldview and Gene Simmons take-no-prisoners brand of capitalism, it was ostensibly an unlikely pairing. But Morello cast aside his political views to praise his first guitar hero, Ace Frehley, though, perhaps because he couldnt help himself, he did manage to work in one power-to-the-people plug. Tonight, we honor the fifth memeber of the band: the Kiss Army, he said of the bands loyal fanbase. This night proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the bullies and critics were mistaken. Tonight this is the Rock and Roll all night, and Party Every Day Hall of Fame. As the guitarist told Rolling Stone before the ceremony, he first saw Kiss play when he was 12 and attended their shows religiously during his formative years. Ive known Gene and Paul for some time and Im a huge fan of the band and have been an advocate — a noisy, fist-pounding advocate for years for Kiss to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said Morello. One of the all-time great bands is being rightly enshrined. When those records were released, focus was shifted because it was a band in makeup or because it was band with explosions, added Morello. But those are great anthemic songs with badass riffs. Theres a reason why Kiss sold 100 million records around the world. There was no one spitting blood in your living room when you were listening to them. I was rocking out hard to them. In 1994, the guitarist teamed up with Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, RATM/Audioslave drummer Brad Wilk and Faith No More bassist Billy Gould as Shandis Addiction to cover the groups 1976 song Calling Dr. Love for the compilation Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved. Thursday capped off months of discussion and speculation surrounding every aspect of Kiss induction. Simmons and Stanley have frequently expressed their displeasure with the Rock Halls decision to only induct the bands four original members. (Simmons told Rolling Stone that he invited current members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer alongside guitarist Bruce Kulick to sit at his table at the ceremony). In an interview with Rolling Stone, Hall of Fame CEO Joel Peresman countered Simmons. I totally understand his point of view, said Peresman. What hes failing to understand is that there are certain acts that are nominated and brought in on their entire body of work, up until the day before the nominating committee meets. With Kiss, there wasnt a single person we spoke to that didnt feel the reason these guys were being inducted was because of the four original members. Source: rollingstone - Jason Newman
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:32:22 +0000
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