KISS ARMY NORWAY INFO: • THE KISS ARMY NORWAY FANZINE IS PUBLISHED BY: Annual membership of Kiss Army Norway entitles you to four 24-28 Stig Karlsen pages Kiss- fanzines which is filled Rudveien 19. with everything about the hottest 2000 LILLESTR0M NORWAY band in the world. Join now!! You won't regret!! Tel: 63 83 81 61 Fax: 63 80 23 60 Annual membership costs: Editor: Norway 135 Nkr Stig Karlsen Outside Norway 155 Nkr Info issue 1. 1995: Pay your membership fee to Realize date: 13. June'95 postgiro number: 08095093257 • Front cover art by Nils Ally. • Peter Criss interview and photos by Stig Karlsen and Hello and thanks to: Lars G. Gustavsen. • Maria Contessa Interview by Kiss, Peter Criss, Maria Contessa, Stig Karlsen. Photos by Toril Lars G. Gustavsen, Niklas Olsson, Karlsen. Liss Ann Johannessen, Parasite, Nils • Parasite review. interview and photos by Stig Karlsen. Ally, Cato Kristiansen and to the • Layout by Stig Karlsen. family for all the support. • Backcover art by Liss Ann Johannessen. ED TORS PAGE Hello Kissers! ! Welcome to tbe new Norwegian Kiss fan club which is simply called "Kiss Army Norway". Over the years there has been some good and some not that good fan clubs for Kiss in Norway. They have all done it With pride but there has been a lack of seriousity. At the time 1 can -t say that I know of any good clubs at all in our country. You deserve something better. So here we are. we-re the people who Will bring you the hottest news and the greatest reports on the hottest band in the world. As a member you will receive a 24-28 pages fanzine every 3rd month. A fan magazine that we will fill in W"ith interesting articles about Kiss. We also want our readers to participate. There will be room for some of your own private stories, photos and opinions in the mag. Kiss Army was originally formed in USA in 1975 by Bill Starkey and it was formed to get Kiss played on the radio. Kiss Army Norway will follow that example. We will promote Kiss as good as possible by organizing Kiss radio-specials, parties etc. As you see this magazine is written in English. The reason why, is because we want people in other countries to enjoy this club as well. And at the time we dont have the staff to make the transcriptions. Believe it or not but the Kiss members also often read these fan club fanzines. They wanna know what the fans want. So if you have something interesting to say please send us a letter and Kiss might read it.(You can write the letter in Norwegian. We will transcnp it). In the next issue Will we have a "by, sell, and trade" page where you can place a advertisement for free. (Please make them short.) This issue consist on some happenings from the past, but by the next issue we Will be up-dated on Kisses plans for the rest of -95_ Give us a couple of weeks to get real hot. Any questions please Write or call us at the army. Till next time enjoy yourself with interviews on Peter Criss and Kisses costume designer for many years Marta Contessa. We have also taken a chat with the new Norwegian Kiss coverband Parasite. We have spent less time on this issue as we hoped for. We have been busy organizing the Kiss Convention in Oslo, So we promise you a bigger and better September issue. The best is yet to come .... Keep in touch Stig Karlsen Kiss Army Norway 3 __. UPDATES & N WS UPDATES & NEWS UPDATES & NEW_S._ _ Kiss are at the moment in the studio recording a new album with the working title "HEAD". The album is expected for realize in September. Here's the title for some of the demo's that are recorded for this album. Carnival Of Souls, Childhood Ends, Buster, Sleep Until You Die, I Can't Forgive What I Can't Forget, Welcome No One, Dead In Your Face, Hate (Is What I Am), Save Myself, Seduction Of The Innocent, Vengeance ls Mine, In My Head (So Lame). Kiss have with the Revenge-Tour played in Australia, Japan, South• America, USA and Europe (Only UK). Next tour will hopefully include concerts in Norway and the rest of Europe. If you didn't know. Kiss have contributed with a song on the soundtrack album for the movie "Speed". And guess which song that is. Right!! "Mr. Speed". Kiss plans to realize a compilation box with rare demo and live recordings in the near future. The box is expected to include demos recorded with special guests as Joe Perry, Alex and Eddie Van Halen. It will also include Kiss live at the Daisy in 1973. One of Kisses first concerts. Even more tribute for Kissi! Kiss My Ass Too is on it's way! Kiss will do a convention tour in the states this summer. They have just appeared at 6 Kiss conventions in Australia. And the band once again showed the rock world that they are the greatest. They did a 90 minutes live unplugged set where the Kiss fans could choose any Kiss song they would wanna hear. Totally on the whole convention tour they played around 75 different songs. Amazing!!lll!ll At the conventions you could see 16 costumes, old Kiss drum-kits and guitars. The official Kiss tour is rumored to visit Europe and Norway this winter. Kiss will realize their own Kiss fanzines this year. First out is Kiss Classics witch is a reprint of the 70' s Kiss comics. Then there will be a fanzine which all of us Kiss fans are invited to fill in with stories and photos on Kiss. Send your contributions to: KISSNATION Attn: Vivian Singer Ferris/Production Assistant 431 Bolder Rd., PO Box 20023, London, Ont., Canada, N6K 2KO 4 Last August we were lucky enough to get a interview with Peter Criss. The Cat himself. We meet up with him in Copenhagen when he was doing the Kiss Convention tour last year. We did a interview for the Norwegian Hardrock magazine "Scream". As our time with Peter was quite long, couldn't we fit the whole story in that issue, so here is your chance to read the whole interview totally uncensored. Stig Karlsen with Peter Criss at Ascot Hotel. Kiss Army Norway: How is the convention tour going so far? Peter Criss: Things are going very good, it's a lot of work, more work than touring. When you're on tour you got your bus and bed, 5 'I PETER CRISS PETER CRISS PETER CRISS PETER C SS you do some interviews, you do a concert and then you go to bed. This is not like that at all. This is constantly. Every day it's Kiss or Criss. The People over here haven't seen me in 17 years, so they all want a part of me. Everybody wants to talk to me or hug me. It makes me feel real good cause here I am without Kiss, with a new album out. K.A.N.: Tell us more about the new album! P.C.: I have worked real hard this time, and it's a very private emotional album. My mother died, so I wrote "Blue Moon Over Brooklyn" for her. "Bad Attitude" is a song about the tabloids that made up a story about me being a broke, drunk living on the street. I recently had a divorce and that· s when I wrote the song "Good Times". "The Truth" is about the civil war which we had in America and "Strike" is about the youth. K.A.N.: It took you a long time to finish the CD? P.C: Yes!! It took a long time. My mama past away in ·go and then my uncle and my best friend from "New York Dolls" died. That was real J hard for me. Then I had the divorce, and then I had a bad accident. I also used a long time to find the right guys for the band. You got to have chemistry, if you don't have that it ain't going work. K.A.N.: Tell us about the band! P.C.: My bass player Mark Montague have been with me for about 3 years, and he and I wrote most of the songs together. Mike Mclaughlin is just an excellent guitar player. He's going to be real big someday. Mike Stone is just another great musician. So 1 feel that I have the right guys now. K.A.N.: You have also worked with Mark St. John! P.C.: Yes! It was a nightmare. Now I know why Gene and Paul fired him. He is a real hard guy to work with. He played too much. I like to groove a little more. I like R & B, black music and soul 6 PETER CRISS PETE R CRISS PETER CRISS P music. I have a very soulful voice, so it didn't work out with Mark. K.A.N.: Any plans for a tour coming up? P.C.: If I could have my dream come through. I would play Europe first, then Japan, Australia, Canada, and then USA. I dont know right now. As I speak the record company is setting up a whole lot of stuff for me at home. rm going to do a lots of TV shows and interviews. K.A.N.: So you are promoting your album well? P.C.: Yes, and it's doing great on tts own.