Should KISS be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
I am not a big KISS fan but absolutely. There is no question of their influence in rock. Actually, I think you have to put Alice Cooper in first. He was one of KISS’S biggest influences and Simmons one time said, “When they say Alice Cooper, he thought what would it be like if there were four Alice Cooper’s” Anyway, getting back to KISS, the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame is a joke. You put Madonna in or a rap group before you put in KISS, Alice, Nugent, Iggy Pop, etc. I just can’t get past that. KISS’s influence on music is all over the place. If you ask most hard rock bands who are your five biggest influences, KISS is usually one of them. For some reason the Hall, has a problem with hard rock bands. There are very few in. At least this year they got it right and are going to put Metallica in, but in all fairness and no disrespectful, it is crazy they would put in Metallica before KISS and some of the other bands I listed.
