If you thought something was a little “off” during KISS‘ “live” performance Thursday morning at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, you’re not alone. Frontman Paul Stanley took to Twitter Friday morning to claim the ageless rock and roll band were “screwed over & misled by the exec in charge” of the 88th annual float and gloat shitshow, which saw KISS painfully mime through a performance of “Rock And Roll All Nite.”
“We ALL deserved better,” Stanley wrote.
He doesn’t specify just how the band was misled, though we can see the screwing part.
Did KISS think they’d be allowed to perform live? Did they demand to not follow a giant float of Jake and Finn from Adventure Time? Were the fake blood demands on the rider not met? (Bassist Gene Simmons’ tongue looked drier than Aunt Kathy’s mashed potatoes.)
As Ultimate Classic Rock points out, the whole broadcast was a bit of a mess. “For example, during the opening verse of the song, a giant balloon featuring Jake the Dog and Finn the Human from the show ‘Adventure Time’ was front and center on television screens across America instead of the group,” writes Matthew Wilkening yesterday. “There wasn’t a close-up shot of Kiss until the first chorus, and for some reason the camera stayed locked on bassist Gene Simmons during Tommy Thayer’s guitar solo.”
Maybe because he wasn’t faking it too well?
Anyway, at least one person fucking loved it: Al Roker. “Oh man, that is one for the ages,” the news and weather man gushed after the performance. “Oh my gosh!”
Bluntly, We were screwed over & misled by the exec in charge of #MacysThanksgivingDayParade . We ALL deserved better. pic.twitter.com/hUVUN9gTqE
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) November 28, 2014
Rock and roll all night, party every day, struggle through holiday parades every morning. Check out video of KISS at the Parade below, you be the judge.
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