KISS 1979 Dynasty Interview Without Makeup

In this video we take a look at KISS Backstage on the Dynasty Tour 1979 putting on their costumes and hanging out backstage.. You can see them doing the final touches on their makeup and having their costumes touched up before hitting the stage!
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KISS 1979 Dynasty Interview Without Makeup
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#kiss #genesimmons #paulstanley #acefrehley #petercriss #kissband #kissdynasty

[@kennethanderson2273]

My favorite KISS days started in 1978 and never stopped. Even though they so called retired. Love that Band..!!!!!

[@IanK369]

@@JustOncexxxI started in '91. Wasn't around for the original run.

[@IanK369]

@@JustOncexxxBro- I've been a fan for 33 years. Of course I know all their stuff! In my opinion, Kiss from 1973 to 1977 is pure magic. It's no mystery why they became the biggest band in the world at that time. No one else had ever done that before. By the time of the solo albums, Double Platinum, and Dynasty the cracks began to show. However, I will defend Dynasty as a great record even if it was a little different than what they did before. Suffice it to say that I love all the eras even if the original is my favorite. I can still listen to anything from Unmasked to Psycho Circus and enjoy it. I'm not a huge fan of Sonic Boom or Monster but even they have their moments.

[@jaimathewc4]

I came to know KISS only by 1978 after buying the DYNASTY audio cassette..

[@kennethanderson2273]

Although my Kiss days started in 78, I immediately went back to the beginning of their career. Then from that point forward I was and I am a life long fan. Then in 1982 I did a road trip to Chattanooga TN from Atlanta Ga to see Vinnie in the Creature’s tour, right before the makeup was removed.. (I was 17 yrs old). And that’s a whole other story. But I made sure I saw them every year in the non makeup years. (Seen them something like 18 or 20 times since)…. All different members and all reunion stuff and the last current members. Love that Band, Love that Band…. Fan for life…

[@smb7647]

The Dynasty tour was my 1st of many KISS shows. i was 13 and it was in Providence RI...I had a blast and will always remember it

[@trippwhitney9197]

I saw them in Portland Maine probably just before your show with New England

[@butters395]

prov ri...aug 1st 1979...wed night...i was 14 new england backed em up 👍😝

[@trippwhitney9197]

@@butters395 that’s when Gene started singing in his weird, growling voice.

[@smb7647]

@@butters395 I was in sec 110

[@robmitchell5603]

I saw the original lineup of kiss and they were awesome

[@richardmontgomery5701]

Hysterical listening to the old commentators reporting on 'em. They're trying to make sense of the whole thing. EASY PEEZY - All for Flash and fun! Love the boys all of them! Cherish them forever. Best times I ever had.

[@hieronymous7]

I love that the song in the live footage is Ace Frehley's New York Groove!

[@TheColdrush22]

They've never done a decent live version of it. Or of "I was Made for Loving You."

[@clintbronson5]

Exactly ………Simmons bass is turned on way to high and Paul’s playing is well………………

[@kristinadospoy7347]

Ace is forever the Space Ace!!!

[@pauldunlea3669]

'' Critics can say whatever '' Kiss were the biggest band in the world In the 70's

[@Lakk6Metal]

❤️ No wonder this is my favorite band ❤️

[@vistalite]

Greatest show bar none. Seen them in 82, 83, 95, 96 and 2023. The best in 95, worst in 83, but still better than any other band.

[@Testing-123]

too bad the sound engieer(s) were toying with the sound in this clip 10:07 while they were singing Dr Love, trying to make them sound out of tune.

[@andyfurda7808]

I remember watching this on TV when it aired.

[@Johnsmith-fh4mt]

Me too! 8 of us carried in my parents rec room and watched.

[@Johnsmith-fh4mt]

Ace was right about Peter's face. Paul told the funny story of when they were on their first tour driving in the station wagon and Peter said, I have the baby face out of the 4 of us and Ace said, yeah, a baby walrus. 😂😂😂 Looking at the pic of Peter and Ace without makeup I see what ace was talking about. 😂

[@CJMarsicanoPA]

I watched this when it first aired back in ‘79. When my father heard the remark about the band investing in an industrial park, he was quite impressed. The only disadvantage to that was in later years, when I was well into adulthood, my dad would always be calling me on the phone when they were doing some sort of TV appearance, especially in the post-reunion years. 😂

[@muziktrkr]

KISS didn’t know anything about business back then, otherwise they would have audited and fired Aucoin at the time and forced Bogart to sell them their master tapes.

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

My Mum rang up at the end of last year to tell me they were on TV playing at the football grand final! I'm 54 years old! 😁

[@jeffm.1256]

That’s crazy. $117 million in retail sales in 1978. Before the internet. Would probably be equivalent to 3 X’s that these days.

[@brianmanning-ym8gj]

what does internet have to do with ticket and album product sales?

[@jeffm.1256]

@@brianmanning-ym8gj retail. That includes Merchandise.

[@davidtrahan3062]

Brilliant work and as true today as it’s ever been 🎉❤

[@tracezachdaniels4264]

GREAT JOB ALL...THANX 4 MAKING Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO the music worldwide. LOVE YOU ALL...!!!....MUCH LOVE.!!

[@gregmahaffey907]

Wish the Cleveland show was pro shot. Would be so amazing to see another dynasty pro shot

[@drummingwithjeff]

Concert footage is from Richfield Colisseum

[@redrocket4853]

This was the period where they lost a lot of their original fan base, I went to 3 shows on the Love Gun tour, 2 on Destroyer, 2 on Alive, & the audiences were mostly like any other audience of say 15-22 year olds , but by the time Dynasty came around the audience was predominantly parents with 8-12 year olds

[@garylandgraf5436]

Been a fan since '75, when I was 10, started buying merchandise then, just bought a book called "kiss at 50" for almost $50, still buying merchandise almost 50 years later.

[@glengamble526]

If it brings you happiness, go for it!

[@leeatterberry1239]

So sad 😢

[@alkohallick2901]

A fool and his money are soon parted.

[@ChessemillPerezChristopher]

the end where hugh Dow looks at the camera and said OK. Priceless, same look my parents gave me.

[@user-wx6ne9ot4r]

Love the dynasty show.

[@kristinadospoy7347]

Ace was always beautiful. He was far more beautiful than the others.

[@user-hs4uv1fv1o]

No one can whine better than Paul.

[@anthonytucker8913]

Donald Trump does

[@user-hs4uv1fv1o]

@@anthonytucker8913 that’s your next President

[@jamiesonmathias7859]

The women he was taking care of did !

[@kristinadospoy7347]

I always called Paul Stanley "Mr. Conceited".

[@clintbronson5]

Lol Trump does 🤣 like……lime we’re doing great now with $5.00 a gallon in gas and a fast food meal costing over 10.00 and groceries through the roof! Yeah yeah gotta love Biden 🤣😂🤣😂🤪

[@wulfacidrug6787]

I wanted the best and I got the best!!! Kiss at a point was the best and influenced those that became the best!!!!!

[@DPSARAUJO]

My favourite kiss days were without makeup. Loved it.

[@coolrides4002]

When Dynasty came out I left the army

[@myleslong5584]

Same. Dynasty was SUCH a disappointment. Had 8-tracks,albums,cassettes,posters & t-shirts but,never gave ‘em a dime after Dynasty.

[@shandonsahm3343]

Not me...

[@tonygriffin2079]

REVENGE should've been their last album and tour!

[@gopherb3985]

Probably should have been the last album but the reunion tour was pretty cool. The 1st farewell should have wrapped it up.

[@eclecticx]

Indeed. It was the band's best album.

[@DannyDeraney]

I wonder what happened to that land in Cincinnati.

[@andrewking4885]

Gene's renting it out.

[@rickculpepper709]

Great stuff

[@stephencraig7130]

Kiss is no more. They sold it! The name. The imagery. The music. The merchandise. EVERYTHING!! It's all over. One of the members of the group ABBA purchased them. Look it up!

[@petrockanroll]

Those rings on genes hand are quite telling! And Pauls vanity ong *I'm so beautiful*

[@shandonsahm3343]

Paul wiggles n prances...is 100 💯 correct lol 😂😂😆

[@robertfisher4689]

I remember watching this episode of 2020 when I was a kid... hahahaha

[@MobiusBandwidth]

Gene wrote an article published in I think Wizard magazine, about how he used Spiderman comics get his students in Spanish Harlem to learn to read English, and how that was effective. I'm sure he was a great teacher, but it was pretty honourable of him to realise he was in that field for the wrong reason and got out. a lot of people would keep a steady paycheck.

[@jasonl1942]

Now he just blatantly rips people off. He's such a saint.

[@smokemeateveryday5321]

I don’t think Hugh is down with KISS.

[@charlesbronson4282]

KISS JUMPS THE PHANTOM OF THE SHARK...

[@TheColdrush22]

Absolutely not. (Your line made me laugh though.)

[@brian-ld4vd]

I'd never give Kiss another penny of my money.

[@PedroLopezBeanEater]

😂😂😂

[@Assarkask]

Why?

[@royalpurple7655]

T​@@Assarkaskbecause they're lame.

[@20yearsofblueskies]

Pretty sure they dont need it anymore

[@mikemc5221]

Ummm who cares.

[@imagine9265]

AS A TEEN IN 1975 I WAS BLOWN AWAY WHEN I BOUGHT KISS ALIVE I WENT OUT AND BOUGHT ALL FOUR SOLO ALBUMS THE ONLY ONE WORTH LISTENING TO WAS ACE'S,BACK IN THE NY GROVE AND RIP IT OUT BUT IT WENT DOWN HILL FROM THAT ALBUM ON SOME OF THE ALBUMS AFTER THAT OTHER STUDIO MUSICIANS PLAYED ON THEM AND NOW BECAUSE OF TECHNOLOGY LET US KNOW KISS WAS A COMPLETE FRAUD BAND WITH REVOLVING MUSICIANS THAT FIT INTO THE COSTUMES ALL TO LINE THE POCKETS OF GENE AND PAUL IT WAS NEVER ABOUT THE MUSIC ONLY ABOUT SELLING MERCHANDISE AND GETTING RICHER. F**K KISS

[@ricksantana1016]

😂 It’s too late they WON THEY’RE OWN GAME!..

[@imagine9265]

@@ricksantana1016 LED ZEPPELIN ☆☆☆☆☆ ROLLING STONES ☆☆☆☆ BLACK SABBATH ☆☆☆ THE WHO ☆☆☆ DEEP PURPLE ☆☆☆ BAD COMPANY ☆☆☆ AEROSMITH ☆☆☆ KISS 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

[@scatrrr]

"This is one of their bizarre performances!"

[@jeffkaufman9875]

KISS on the way down the mountain, backstage and treading the famed boards of the late-great Richfield Coliseum!..

[@mickeyflick9664]

Yeah, thanks for showing them "without makeup". WTF?

[@Charlie-hp2oh]

they only show the noise parts 🤣

[@jameswhite9096]

i was there!

[@eclecticx]

Stanley, Simmons, Frehley, and Criss were entertaining. Stanley, Simmons, Kulick, and Singer, however, were the best version of KISS. Revenge was this band's greatest album, IMO. It certainly evidenced the best KISS has ever been vocally and musically.

[@guymangotree2185]

It's so hard for me to understand why anyone would want to be known by the whole world, like Paul Stanley craves_ To me that would be terrifying_ I'm glad theres people like Paul Stanley who do it, to entertain us all, but wow....I would never wish that for myself_ fascinating

[@ricksantana1016]

Paul Stanley of the past was a different person, the Paul Stanley of the present is a new Man… 🎸🔥🚴

[@Lovegun-w4s]

Ace definitely doesn't give me the impression that he was in a street gang and fighting. Definitely looks like he couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag!!!!

[@_vixen_4504]

Well he was a member of the street gang the ducky boys which were located in the Bronx.

[@kjnodwell]

He and Blackie Lawless were in a gang together at one point...Blackie has talked about it.

[@stevejohnston8543]

Looks like a kindergarten grade school excursion 😂

[@kevinpaige5746]

Hugh Downes is a real jack ass about it.

[@vinniebarusa]

I loved the "Here I am schlepping along at a news studio" giant sigh at the end of the video 🤣

[@AK-ep6ik]

The Kiss Army was wiped out in a flanking maneuver...

[@joebagodonuts7563]

Ace Frehley said most of his friends are dead in prison or "straightened out" as in made members of one of the five families. 🤪

[@garyyoung3367]

So I'm guessing that industrial park went bust

[@LindaSmith-td7mx]

To bad aucoin took most of those millions leaving the band struggling im sure casablanca had there hand in the cookie jar as well

[@alkohallick2901]

*too

[@SuperFlanders123]

Nice look at the end there Hugh...🙄

[@ronaldmello1831]

Back in the day... 1978-1979 I would go see them every time they were in town. I bought shirts, belt buckles, posters, and I always enjoyed myself at their shows. They were great live. Hell of a show. Now that I'm older and all I hear is how they bag on each other. It really disapoints me. There's an old saying "It's better to burn out than to fade away". Even Ace's new album sounds too much like the old days. I myself have grown and adjusted to the newer styles of Rock and Roll.

[@GiggiGazzaneo-qe1nk]

50+ years later😂😂😂😂 I used to dislike the reporter so much. Well KARMA, he had to eat every single word! He prolly croaked by now.😉

[@Cape-Dweller]

It’s obvious that Charles m Young didn’t listen to the music

[@jeffkaufman9875]

Paul’s STILL wiggling and prancing, no?..

[@TravelatorH8r]

Aack

[@ukrpgfan4029]

Why does it say without make up?

[@jamesjames2070]

Love the lost in space shirt at about 5 min

[@ponzo1967]

A lot of CA$H business back in those days.

[@Michael-eu1mz]

Yep I just went to see the Pantera show down Baltimore arena and they won't take cash only cards now it's ridiculous

[@ponzo1967]

@@Michael-eu1mz cash is no longer king, never thought I would see the day.

[@jamesrevell6475]

Honest question: Is Paul Stanley gay? He sure has some flaming feminine characteristics. I'm glad that I didn't get to see these interviews while growing up. No way would my mother have let me buy the albums and I doubt I would have cared to own them.

[@kerbyjackson88]

Seems like people have always wondered that. He's got kids, if that really answers the question, and I'm not sure it really does.

[@DBTdad]

Dudes on fire gay 🔥

[@rogersyme1368]

Peter def looks better in make up...

[@pauldunlea3669]

Without Bill Aucoin Kiss would not excist

[@melissaminor7012]

Nightmarish!!???!? 😂

[@dmaster4194]

Another really trash journalism on the band this 20/20 segment was even worse than The Land of Hype and glory on nbc from a year earlier, Dynasty was the beginning of the end of Kissteria they were having trouble selling out shows the costumes were becoming ridiculous they were no longer the respected kick ass hard rocking band but were turning into Liberace onstage the age of the people attending the shows was trending downward real KIDDIE SAT MORNING crap instead of the monster that was Kiss from the previous years. The dolls and all the other stuff that was being sold in the stores had a lot to do with them losing a big part of the original audience that made them big in the Mid 70's and it was all downhill from 79 onward up until the REUNION 96 that resurrected the Kiss brand.

[@jamiesonmathias7859]

I agree my favorite years was from 81-91 ! They got so much better when they finally got real drummers who could play double bass & Rock, metal music. Peter Miss the 1920 Big swing jazz roaring from out of 1920s could not even play single bass let alone double bass. And they finally got real guitarist Vincent & Kulick !

[@catpocalypsenow8090]

The Demon.

[@nkmcfrln]

The second time I watched the 20/20 special on Kiss was the end of me being a fan. It started with opening Love Gun and discovering the cardboard Love Gun. By the time Alive II was released I wasn’t a fan.

[@Duketomlinson-yk9sg]

The who most overrated band in history

[@nkmcfrln]

@@Duketomlinson-yk9sg Says a nerd

[@pantafine]

They are multi millionaires; do they need more money??

[@user-eq4yb4uu9c]

Who would have thought they would be broke within a year? Because better bands came out. Later gators!

[@matts1364]

This was a bad record

[@aceofflame5938]

I respect your opinion

[@Mountainrock70]

It reeled in disco ducks and Stella’s. Thats it.

[@jimilove7773]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@jamiesonmathias7859]

​@@Mountainrock70Hey Stella got her groove back from listening to NY Groove !

[@severinstarrs4125]

Get a life