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SP TLIGHT INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE See more featured Ticket events, page 5 ‘ASSASSINS’ AT PLAYERS GUILD 10 FEATURES 8 TOTO REGULARS 3 FIVE Qs - MR. SPEED 4 ON THE BEAT - FAIR HIGHLIGHTS 6 GRUB 12 MOVIES 18 MOVIE LISTINGS THEY SAID IT LOUISVILLE’S SIDEWALK MUSEUM “Records, I have control over. That’s what I cared about as Artwork by 10 Louisville-related artists is on now outdoor display in a young performer as well. downtown Louisville in a project titled I didn’t know about what “The Sidewalk Museum,” sponsored salary it was. I cared about by ArtsinStark. Four of the pieces are: creative control. That nobody “Dumbledore” by Angelo Oddo; “Breath of Life” by Sean Johnson; “Study in can tell me what to sing or Green” by Barbara Taylor Aiken; and force me to sing or album “Bad Hair” by Mike Criswell. cover design or anything that had to do with my creativity. It had to feel right to me.” Singer Barbra Streisand. Her new album, “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway” is in stores Friday. 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Kinda Don’t Care (Deluxe Version), CONTACT TICKET Major Lazer Justin Moore Dan Kane, Repository Entertainment Editor @DKaneREP 6. CAN’T STOP THE FEELING! (Origi- 8. NOW That’s What I Call Music, Vol. 59., [email protected] REPOSITORY SCOTT HECKEL nal Song From DreamWorks Animation’s Various Artists B.J. Lisko, Repository Ticket Designer, Staff Writer @BLiskoREP ■ Assassins at the Players Guild. “Trolls”), Justin Timberlake 9. Lemonade, Beyoncé [email protected] 7. Me Too, Meghan Trainor 10. Blurry face, twenty one pilots NEXT WEEK 8. Into You, Ariana Grande KICK IT WITH TICKET ONLINE 9. Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul), Sia Grace Potter, AC/DC and more! 10. Rise, Katy Perry facebook.com/tickettalks @TicketTalks cantonrep.com 2 Thursday, August 25, 2016 @TicketTalks Q&A Five Qs The world’s greatest Kiss tribute Mr. Speed pays homage to rock icons, set for Stark County Fair performance By B.J. Lisko had a Kiss poster, and I con- Repository staff writer nected the two as the band I LIVE MUSIC KOSAK ON KISS MOVING ON W/NEW MEMBERS had saw on the commercial WHO: Mr. Speed (Kiss tribute) Kiss manager Doc McGee and members of the band have hinted ike many Kiss fans, Rich for the radio. He had a couple WHEN: Wednesday, 8 p.m. that the group will continue after band founders Gene Simmons and Kosak was drawn to albums, and it sounded cool to Paul Stanley retire. It has sparked intense debate among Kiss fans, so WHERE: The grandstand at the the band’s music and me. So I thought, I have to learn Ticket got Kosak’s view. L Stark County Fairgrounds, Canton Kosak: “I personally would not want to see that. I’ve grown up with over-the-top anything and everything I can ADMISSION: $8 in addition to fair superhero about this band. That’s how it this band and had a lot of major experiences in my life as a result of admission being a Kiss fan. I wouldn’t want to see four people who aren’t an imagery as a started for me.” MORE INFO: mrspeedonline.com original member or haven’t been part of the lineup to this point in one kid. Those first incarnation or another. I want them to leave it alone and go out with few experi- 2. What are the their heads held high. I think if they start putting a Kiss 2.0 out there, ences left such biggest challenges play. They want to make sure it’s just gonna dilute the whole thing. It just doesn’t seem right. an impression, of being in a tribute you’re playing through Mar- “People ask me from time to time, would you ever entertain the Kosak eventu- band, specifi cally for shall amplifiers and playing thought of auditioning? I’d be foolish to not want to at least give it a go. But would I as a fan if I wasn’t a part of it, go to see it? No.” ally went from Kiss? Kiss fans are a the signature guitars. It’s very being a super pretty rabid group. expensive to do what we do. fan to supreme A. “Being in a tribute band, We try to do it to the best of our at what we do. But could we show was bad, that’s all that RICH KOSAK tribute artist. you’re under a microscope. ability with the financial means stop our day jobs and do it for a people will remember. We’re The The fans want to see every little we have. We’ve done it all out living? No. There’s no guaran- constantly doing whatever we Cleveland native and his award- detail of your costume. They of our own pockets. We’re at a tees in the tribute world. You’re can to make the show the best winning Kiss tribute band, want to see how your boots point after all these years, we’re only as good as your last show, spectacle possible. It’s a real Mr. Speed, emulate the looks, look, what kind of guitars you making good money and if your last labor of love. We really pay style, sound, stage presence and attention to doing everything mannerisms of rock ’n’ roll’s PUBLICITY PHOTO the right way.” penultimate theatrical group. ■ Kiss tribute band Mr. Speed Mr. Speed formed in 1994, will perform Wednesday at the 3. Does the setlist and for more than 20 years, Stark County Fair. focus on a particular Kosak and Co. have estab- era of Kiss or does lished themselves as one it span the entire of the midwest’s best Kiss catalog? tribute bands. The group A. “Since day 1 of this band, is set to perform at 8 we have prided ourselves on p.m. Wednesday for the doing the deep tracks or Stark County Fair, and the rare tracks in the Kiss recently Kosak (who catalog as well as all the performs in the group classics. Any guy that as Paul Stanley) gave wants to say he’s in a a bit of background on Kiss tribute band can Mr. Speed for Ticket’s play ‘Rock and Roll All 5Qs quiz. Night’ and ‘Detroit Rock City.’ But it’s 1. What fi rst to your credit if you drew you to can play something off Kiss? ‘Carnival of Souls’ or A. “The way ‘Sonic Boom’ or ‘Mon- it all started ster.’ Some of the fans was I had seen a com- don’t enjoy those songs as mercial for the Kiss Radio much, but for us it’s gotta one morning when I was be fun, and if it’s not fun for a kid. The band’s image us, it’s not gonna be fun for was just something I the fans.” had never seen before. Fast forward a couple 4. Tell me about months. A family moves earning the honor onto my street, and of “Greatest Kiss there’s a young boy in tribute band in the the family. It turns out world.” he had gone to see Kiss A. “That came about in a few months earlier 2012 in Las Vegas. Kiss with his uncle. He SEE KISS PAGE 4 @TicketTalks Thursday, August 25, 2016 3 ON THE BEAT Stark County Fair entertainment highlights CANTON The 167th Stark County Fair opens Tuesday for a run through Sept. 5. Gates open at 8 a.m. daily, and buildings open at 10 a.m. Admission is $6 at the gate, with children 2 and under admitted free. Gate admission will be discounted to $4 until 2 p.m. on Aug. 31 and Sept. n Ohio Weather Band, Sept. 2 at 1. On Sept. 2, admission 7:30 p.m., pavilion. is free for kids 14 and younger if accompanied 11 a.m. Sept. 3, free. n Smash-It Demolition Derby, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4 and 4 p.m. Sept. 5, by an adult. Admis- n Tractor and truck grandstand. sion is free on Sept. 5 to pull, NTPA-sanctioned, n Chases Racing Pigs in the midway daily. anyone with a military at 7 p.m. Sept. 3 ($8). I.D. Admission does not n Draft horse and pony include rides and some hitch show at 10 a.m. grandstand events. Sept. 4, free. For full fair schedule n Smash-It Demolition and information, visit Derby at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4 www.starkcountyfair. and 4 p.m. Sept. 5 ($8). com. PAVILION SHOWS GRANDSTAND SCHEDULE (free admission): (prices vary): n Stark County Fair n High school band Band, 2 to 4 p.m.