Take It Off - KISS Unmasked In The 80s

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

It’s Le Champion’s favorite era of KISS – 80's KISS! So much so that he wrote the forward to a new book called “Take It Off: KISS Truly Unmasked!” Greg Prato wrote the book which features interviews with Bruce Kulick (who was KISS’ lead guitarist for much of that time period), video director Paul Rachman (who did the “Unholy” and “Domino” videos), producer Ron Nevison (who helmed the “Crazy Nights” album), and TIJ alum and rock expert Eddie Trunk! So today, Greg and Eddie Trunk join Chris to talk 80's KISStory, including a breakdown of the 12 non-makeup albums, the big tours, late, great drummer Eric Carr (who was a close personal friend of Eddie’s), Vinnie Vincent’s contribution to the band during his short tenure, Gene Simmons’ run of 80s films, and the role that MTV played in keeping the band alive.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to Talk His Jericho's The Pot of Thunder and Rock and Roll.
0:16.3	And it's all about the Rock and Roll today.
0:18.6	As we dig into 80s kiss, my favorite kiss era, we're going straight down the rabbit hole
0:24.0	with a non-naked peers with my longtime friend and talk his Jericho alumni Eddie Trunk and
0:29.3	author Greg Preydo.
0:30.4	Greg wrote a book about this period of history.
0:32.8	It's called Take It Off Kiss, Truly Unmassed, Available All Great Books or Sold.
0:37.2	Eddie Trunk was interviewed for the book, Bruce Culek, who's interviewed for the book.
0:40.2	And I wrote the forward.
0:41.8	So that's pretty cool.
0:42.8	Greg focused on the 12 albums released during Kisses Non-Makeup Years, starting to look
0:46.6	it up all the way to Carnival's Souls.
0:49.6	He interviewed tons of people, like I said, including Bruce Culek, Kisses League guitar player
0:53.6	during that period.
0:54.8	Producer Ron Nevesin, who did the Crazy Nights record and video director Paul Rackman,
0:59.2	who did the videos for Unholy, I Just Wanna and Domino, all from Revenge.
1:03.8	Eddie Greg and I talk Kiss in the 80s, the tours, the videos, the albums.
1:08.0	We talk about the late great Eric Carr, who was also close friend of Eddie's.
1:11.2	We debate the value of falling guitar player Vincien and his time in Kiss.
1:15.9	It's one of my favorite subjects, Kiss in the 80s.
1:19.1	Alright, so new book that just came out, dealing with my favorite era of Kiss.
1:33.2	Take it off.
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