Great video! A lot of this info we'd all learn about from Peter and Paul's books many years later.
@patricksingleton85352 жыл бұрын
I was there!!! I ask the Elder question 18:30 mark. He was a great guest and gave great answers as you can see. Class Act indeed!!
@maria-lena59196 ай бұрын
Bill was always fair & honest. If it wasn't for Bill maxing out his AMEX card to promote the band; KISS would have found it much harder to get noticed internationally. R.I.P Bill.
@RocknRollAllNight6 ай бұрын
True that. Bill is a huge part of Kisstory!!!
@pat12pack5 жыл бұрын
I was there! Im the one who asked about the Elder!! He gave great answers and made the experience memorable for me!!1 RIP Bill!!
@cellblocknine53852 жыл бұрын
@@optimisticoutreach1236 why so mean?
@optimisticoutreach12362 жыл бұрын
@@cellblocknine5385 long story with that guy. But I took down the comment as it does appear mean without the backround story.
@incognitoguitars99995 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this. Terrific.
@clausm22033 ай бұрын
Great interview
@haysfordays4 жыл бұрын
"You can't replace Ace. " He's right. Yet they went ahead and did.
@j.reveille68153 жыл бұрын
Ace left... he was never fired. .and Tommy is no Ace even in space man make up.
@haysfordays3 жыл бұрын
@@j.reveille6815 Agreed. They did not fire. But they did "replace".
@Prof_Tickles922 жыл бұрын
Ace did it to himself
@mr.brenman213211 ай бұрын
@@Prof_Tickles92You mean Ace didn't lie to the fans and treated the farewell tour as an actual farewell tour.
@edlonghorn1507 Жыл бұрын
So many bands had bad management took all their money rags to riches riches to rags cutthroat business for many those guys were lucky to hook up with a guy like Bill a good manager to them and a good man in general the best period in their careers is with him and them under his wing
@Prof_Tickles92 Жыл бұрын
Had he not gotten hooked on Cocaine I really believe that Bill would’ve been with them for much longer.
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
After I watched Bill Aucoin YOU TUBE sent me an interview with Ace from 1994. They fired him, he ripped them off.
@apolloadamos87712 жыл бұрын
People are so rude. How many times in your life are you going to meet Bill Aucoin? So just talk all over him … 🙄
@nelsonapratts29564 жыл бұрын
BTK is supposed to be in jailed at maximum security.
@beauzer363 жыл бұрын
Holy shit you are right. They are the same.
@allentate37602 жыл бұрын
His nephews were in my Boy Scout troop. One do them became a roadie for Alice Cooper, he used to have one of Cooper’s old guillotines in his backyard.
@RocknRollAllNight2 жыл бұрын
Thats preety cool
@allentate37602 жыл бұрын
@@RocknRollAllNight it is. The Guillotine sat behind a fence but you could see 4-5 feet of it sticking about the fence. Their backyard faced the entrance to our neighborhood so every time we drove in or out we’d see it. It was cool pointing it out to friends visiting. The roadie died young, don’t know why. Their father, Aucoin’s brother in law was a Navy fighter pilot in Vietnam. Just a street over lived the famous navy Vietnam POW Jeremiah Denton.
@kevinkaatz8833 жыл бұрын
The way Gene handled the Eric Carr tragedy is appalling and sums up what I've been writing
@RocknRollAllNight3 жыл бұрын
sad, I know
@MrMalkinPens712 жыл бұрын
Kevin it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person with Eric care Gene and paul Have Forgotten the audience and where they came from
@johnm2617 Жыл бұрын
I'll take Bob's opinion of vinnie! He got screwed also !
@mjpalafox12 жыл бұрын
Throws his jacket on Tommy Lee's bass drum. Boss move!
@kevinkaatz8833 жыл бұрын
I've never seen a U-Haul truck following a funeral procession, have you?
@chrisi123 Жыл бұрын
GENE cancelled Erics insurance and a view days later he died....WOW...That makes me sick. No Kiss Fan anymore from now on
@RocknRollAllNight Жыл бұрын
It is awful what happened
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
But Bill made clear, Eric didn't die because of that! Cancer is cancer.
@kevinkaatz8833 жыл бұрын
I'm not judging, just laying out a fact. And im not declaring the below isn't the entire Buddhist philosophy. I follow the below, have never put material over man and am trying to break free of the reincarnation-cycle back to this dimension/cycle/vibration
@berlywally4 жыл бұрын
What's with the Crüe sign... double band expo that day ?
@Monoaux2 жыл бұрын
"Fifth" member of the band right here!
@RocknRollAllNight2 жыл бұрын
He was a huge huge part of Kisstory!!
@hollandrocksls3 жыл бұрын
I'll never understand the cancelling of the insurance
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
Paul wrote about Eric Carr: "I was wrong". But I haven't yet heard Gene talking about that.
@hollandrocksls8 ай бұрын
@@HappyMachorino-bd8no they have never addressed the insurance issue. Paul just said that he was wrong about his thinking with Eric and his involvement with kiss
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
@@hollandrocksls Maybe it's this mistake what Ace threatened to reveal...?
@sjs15553 жыл бұрын
Aucoin stopped managing Kiss in 82. How does he know about anything that happened within the band subsequent to that year?
@Supertron13 жыл бұрын
I think it was because Paul and Gene stayed in contact with him for awhile after they fired him, since it was business and not personal. They didn't have a personal falling out with him until sometime in the late 80's when they discovered that he had apparently been selling their old costumes and equipment to fans and collectors.
@Supertron12 жыл бұрын
@Mr.Brenman21 I'm not sure. In Paul's version of the story, Bill wasn't responsible for the warehouse but he still had a key and they never thought to ask him to return it or to change the locks because they still trusted him.
@Prof_Tickles922 жыл бұрын
@@Supertron1 read the book KISS and Sell written by a top record executive who knew the band and the behind the scenes stuff. Aucoin was stealing from the kiss warehouse around 1987 which is also when Paul was at his most dejected, broke and on the verge of throwing in the towel. But then two miraculous things happened which were able to ferry the band into the revenge era. Smashes, Thrashes, and Hits became an unexpected best seller and went platinum; and Hot in the Shade produced a hit single, Forever. These two things generated enough cash flow that the bad was able to stick it out for a few more years. But revenge came out, and while a chart topping album that was loved by critics, it didn’t go platinum. KISS was broke again until Polygram records issued them an ultimatum: “Get the original guys back in makeup or we’re dropping you.”
@MichaelHansenFUN4 жыл бұрын
he ages gracefully and i saw a picture where he kinda looke dlike Les Gold...
@kevinkaatz8833 жыл бұрын
While the rest of us are here to learn, spiritual-growth.......Gene is here to make $$$$$$$$. Hope he learns sooner than later, but not my "call"?
@MD-wk3gj2 жыл бұрын
It sounds like Bill is saying he worked so Peter could keep the rights to his makeup. I would think as the manager of the band his fiduciary responsibility should have been to the band and work to retain those rights to the organization.
@RocknRollAllNight2 жыл бұрын
You are probably correct
@mr.brenman213211 ай бұрын
Peter was a founding member of that Band and Bill cared for him. It's Peter's makeup. I'm sure you're a big fan of Gene Klein and Stanley Eisen.
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
@@mr.brenman2132 Bill cared of Peter? But when they discussed about firing Peter, Bill voted against him.
@mr.brenman21328 ай бұрын
@@HappyMachorino-bd8no Bill did everything to keep him in the band.
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
@@mr.brenman2132 But Ace voted against Peter, too. And Ace was more important for Bill. That's why Peter called Ace a traitor.
@booshting35204 жыл бұрын
"Look it"
@johnm2617 Жыл бұрын
Just wish these guys could of got along , after achieving your dreams it just all fell apart! And $$ should of been split 4 ways for as long as it lasted!!
@johnm26172 жыл бұрын
Bill loved his cocaine in the day ! He was also gay ! But he carried the band in the early days !RIP Bill !
@RocknRollAllNight2 жыл бұрын
Bill was always so nice to the fans. He is missed
@thegrigs7772 жыл бұрын
uhm.Paul says this guy was into little boys
@MapesT2 жыл бұрын
Paul will say anything to discredit someone he doesn't like at the time to prop himself up more. Classic narcissist!!
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
In the 70's (sexual revolution) sex with children was not incriminated and even "in" .
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
Not true. Paul didn't write what YOU wrote. He didn't SAY he just quoted what Bill himself told him: Bill confirmed that he... with this boy. Paul pointed out, how much drug abuse nearly destroyed Bill's character. And the question is: why didn't the parents of the boys react?
@MrMalkinPens712 жыл бұрын
Rip Without bill there would have been no Kiss Band sadly he has been insulted like everyone who worked with the band paul and gene have forgotten where they came from without Peter and ace there was no kiss paul and gene are greedy and. This show it Tommy and Eric Are embarrassing themselves be your own person
@RocknRollAllNight2 жыл бұрын
Bill Aucoin was very nice to me every time I met him. He was a visionary and was a huge huge part of KISS' success. Thanks for watching my channel
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
Watch the Ace interview 1994: Ace is a better businessman than he would let us know. Bill Aucoin worked with Billy Idol, but wanted money from KISS. More than Ace! And not only Paul and Gene fired him. ACE VOTED AGAINST BILL Why do people always blame Paul and Gene? Bill was greedy. Ace was greedy.
@cellblocknine53852 жыл бұрын
Tesla was better than KISS.
@darinpearson2554 Жыл бұрын
So, what are you doing here? Go to the Tesla forums and slob their knobs.
@vmanblack2912 Жыл бұрын
Do you feel better after writing that shit?
@chrisi123 Жыл бұрын
Well guess what Bill.....they replaced ACE.
@mr.brenman213211 ай бұрын
Ace retired and they put a roadie in his makeup after they lied about a farewell tour in 2000. Great guys.
@HappyMachorino-bd8no8 ай бұрын
Ace voted AGAINS Bill, they fired him. In an early video, Ace was angry that Bill got more money from KISS than he himself.
@chrisi1238 ай бұрын
and rightfully so...without Bill they would be nowhere@@HappyMachorino-bd8no
@HappyMachorino-bd8no7 ай бұрын
@@chrisi123 Hallo? Bill was NOT working with them anymore. He had new customers, but still took money from KISS as if he was their manager. That's why Ace sounded so angry!