KISS - Bruce Kulick Talks the Death of his Brother, Mark ST. John, and Asylum.

[@elvisparker4691]

Bruce Kulick. A Class Act and a Great Guitarist. 👍🎸 3 Great Albums Too. Godspeed - Bob Kulick. Another Great Guitar Player.

[@amazingcaucasian4679]

Bruce is an excellent guitarist and a class act. Really miss him in Kiss.

[@CYMRUKID69]

I loved Kiss in the eighties the best line up kiss ever had was Gene, Paul, Eric Carr & Bruce Kulick. When Bruce joined & they released Asylum the music got better. R.I.P. Eric Carr you were one of a kind.

[@kenshinshimura5083]

Bruce Came in on Animalize and Not Asylum.

[@CYMRUKID69]

@@kenshinshimura5083 Asylum was kulicks first album as the official lead guitarist of kiss on Animalize the official lead guitarist was Mark St John. Bruce Kulick was an additional musician on Animalize playing on only a few tracks.

[@kenshinshimura5083]

@@CYMRUKID69 Yeah because of something happened on his hand.

[@karlsalocks]

Absolutely. The most professional member kiss ever had

[@mr.brenman2132]

@Leigh Miles Nope. Ace, Peter, Paul, and Gene is the greatest Kiss lineup. The ticket sales said so. The Hall of Fame says so. Bruce and Eric were obviously great musicians and great guys though.

[@johnmarshall3903]

Even Ace likes Bruce!

[@1983jcheat]

Asylum is one of my favorite Kiss Albums.

[@JCStorm76]

Me too. I believe it’s their most underrated album

[@georgedoughly8682]

Asylum is an Excellent album!

[@jesterjigs9914]

Anyway you slice it🤙🏼

[@exeortegarubio]

Bruce and Eric are on fire on that record

[@fundhund62]

I consider it their best album start to finish. The overall level is higher than on any other record they did. To my ears, at least.

[@bb-gc2tx]

i was to young to remember kiss in the 1970s i grew up on bruces era of kiss which imo is the best version of the band by far. bruce being able to handle two very different and huge personalities like gene and paul shows what a great guy he is

[@williamcurry1132]

even ACE said Bruce was the BEST doing his leads plus BRUCE was his own persona the NON MAKEUP era

[@twinvasion7798]

@34:30 I never had a problem with the Asylum cover and Bruce having blue lips since he was in the lead guitarist role but never wore makeup and never officially had his own “solo color”. But Carr did have orange as his official color when he joined as the Fox so it was kinda odd that they’d ignore that and give him green lips (I’m sure since Paul blames the new characters for the downfall of KISS and not the overexposure that he was apart of in the late 70’s, he wanted no references to the Fox or even Wiz at that time). All very trivial, but I’ve always loved everything about Asylum (except Carr not finally getting a lead vocal).

[@jeffconner9370]

I feel your pain Bruce my brother passed away in 2013

[@mztbass]

Bruce... My heart goes out to you and your family for your enormous loss 💔🙏🙏. I would love if Carnival of Souls can be discussed in more detail one day. Bruce's footprint is ALL over this album. His finest work IMO (monster riffs and solos as well as wicked bass line in Jungle). I like to refer to this album as "Bruce Unleashed"

[@stevenrobertson3010]

Bruce was a perfect fit for Kiss. He could do the bluesy classic sound and shred if he had to

[@GlorianaCherubini]

I'm so sorry about Bob, Bruce, love live Bob Kulick, heaven was missing an Angel

[@kameel68]

Bob did some amazing stuff on Alive II and KISS Killers. Bruce is a great player too. I had hoped Bruce would return to KISS after the reünion tour.

[@kameel68]

@@ISOLATIONHUB Bob's stuff on Paul's Solo Album was great too.

[@markbunton9919]

The best KISS guitarist by far to me. His albums get largely ignored for no reason at all except that they weren’t the classic lineup in makeup. Asylum - Carnival of Souls are all amazing albums and some of the best work they ever did.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

Bruce had no originality at all. Thats been my only criticism of him. And I can only think of one solo he ever did that is memorable: tears are falling

[@MM1717mm]

clearly you weren’t listening to kiss in the 70s .. NOTHING after dynasty even compares

[@raywideman7157]

Carnival of Souls was a very underrated record, overshadowed by the reunion tour. I really liked it. Also great solos on Revenge as well

[@MJForever1999]

@@vaekkriinhart4347 Tears are falling is one of the most overrated KISS tracks of the 80s. Bruce slayed every song on Revenge and Carnival of Souls

[@tonywaldon2596]

I.complete.agreed.carnaval.of souls kicks ass

[@blakedawson2129]

I saw him with kiss in that era. I remember knowing who he was. I thought he did a great job that nite. he seemed to bring Paul's playing out as well. they closed with baba oriely and did they key parts with fingertaps standing side by side. the kiss sign behind them lit up like the union jack. they killed it with that. the place went nuts! Bruce fit the band well I thought. oh ya, wasp opened. they were fun.

[@LEIFanevret]

A stable line up! With Eric Carr and Bruce

[@MaidensWorldOfWax]

The Kulick brothers - Class Acts and Great Guitarists.

[@joeyfisher68]

Great interview . .didn't finish because the ad breaks got out of hand . .at one point it was between every question

[@brianphillips9152]

Bruce is top shelf all the way. I never really got into the 80s KISS. That funky, sloppy 70s rock sound was the KISS I loved.

[@Cincinnatus1869]

Humble Pie with make up was Kiss in the 70s

[@cecilmusick8629]

I've always thought Bruce seems like a really good guy!

[@elvisparker4691]

Because he is ... 👍

[@ChadStormTheAftermath]

He is! He’s very much a class act. A few years back, he was a guest musician for a Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp at MGM Grand. The last night, all of the rock stars played on stage with their students. I was working there at the time. He came in and we shook hands and spoke for awhile. After a few hours, he was leaving. He went out of his way to come over to me to say goodnight. I was floored. I was going through a separation from my wife at the time and had no idea how much that lifted me up. He is a super nice guy. Very humble. Bob was cool too!

[@markymo32]

Holy crap !! Five ads with in the first 11 minutes of the video ?! Can't watch that many ads.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

I know, I'm trying to watch the ads but this fkng interview keeps interrupting !!!!

[@MM1717mm]

🤣🤣

[@AdamLB]

@@vaekkriinhart4347 youtube premium my friend

[@tonyruiz1976]

First Bruce i Want to say is I'm so sorry for the loss of your brother just wanted to say you were my favorite kiss guitar player i saw you for the Asylum tour in Puerto Rico and it was awesome also one of my favorite kiss live show was the Animalize show on MTV it was awesome and you killed it still one of my favorite shows i really liked everything you did with kiss thanks for all the great music and specially the guitar playing you Rock man thanks again it was my favorite kiss era with you and Eric carr may he RIP thanks again man

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

I have MANY MANY bootlegs of the Animalize tour...I have the FULL Mark St. John show on audio cd and I have a show where BOTH Mark and Bruce played (Baltimore, MD and Binghamton NY

[@MrCamarra]

Definitely took a few tours to find his stage legs but he definitely did the job, and well!

[@chloeycheyenne]

Not only the colors on the asylum cover match the solo album colors, look at the order the members are put left to right and top to bottom, same as the dynasty cover. Coincidence?

[@electricianron_New_Jersey]

The thumbnail is awesome. Totally remember it from Circus Magazine.

[@carmelaspadafora9180]

Hi Bruce Kulick

[@tomyost3959]

Wow. , got to meet Mark when he went back home to his parents house on east street , sad to see thar particular drug take its toll on some people

[@MrCamarra]

Probably the best line up.. Simmons, Stanley, Kulick, Care.. everyone's going to have their opinions and that's what's great about forms like this people like the original because of the looseness and just with the fact that it's the original I'm able to see the merits and all of them but there is something special about this lineup just seem very well-rounded.. I think musically it was definitely a step up Simmons and Stanley had already been playing the tunes for a while Eric Carr despite being a long time Peter Chris fan was a night and day drummer definitely more rock and roll which is where they read the time and Bruce could play anything even others material could make his own..

[@isaiahmarquez9717]

Yep. Good ole Care. Gotta love Care. He really seemed to Care….

[@williamcurry1132]

question is there a lot of unreleased songs from the 80's (STUDIO) kiss wise ?

[@jimilove7773]

Bruce is a great guy.....great player ...but Bob was better and should have been in Kiss after Ace/vinnie left......Saw him on the paul 89 club tour/blackthorne and got to meet him!

[@keithholley546]

One of the half shows Mark played was Baltimore arena/civic center with Queensryche opening. I don't remember much I was only 14 except one of the queensryche guys tripped over the others guitar cord and faceplanted.

[@johnmcminn9455]

I wonder why they didn't ask him to do the costume I remember hearing King of the Mountain, and knew right there he had some great chops as well as the more obvious phrasing

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

Bruce has said he wouldn't want to be in Kiss in its current form. When he was in the band, he got to "be himself" and put his own spin on the classic songs, whereas Tommy Thayer is expected to "be Ace" and play everything note-for-note like the records.

[@johnmcminn9455]

@TheJohnnyCotts yes, I guess they decided to bring back the classic make up and jumped right over Kulick and St.John I don't really dig Thayer in the classic costume but his sound and guitar work really does the Classic line up justice, he sounds great, and Eric Singer is one of my favorite drummers from Black Sabbath . The drums on Eternal Idol are amazing I don't see much about Kulick playing in Grand Funk on You Tube it seems Bruce joined GFR immediately after leaving Kiss

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

@@johnmcminn9455 After Kiss reunited with the original lineup in 1996, Bruce put together a new band with John Corabi from Motley Crue called Union. They did a couple of albums, but never really got over. He didn't join Grand Funk until the early 00's, after GFR kicked Mark Farner out.

[@tommyaddison6539]

This was great

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

21:40 yeah, I gotta say, Bruce Kulick shines on Asylum. It's the last good Kiss album. (1985). 'Love's a Deadly Weapon' is KISS' hardest song ever. It's metal. Bruce is badass on Asylum

[@scottanderson4175]

Baltimore was one show Mark played half a show and Bruce played the other half 🥂

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

That's really odd. I dont thjnk any band has ever done that

[@rocknroll6396]

its weird how in the modern internet age we still have "DJs" up against a time limit & break! lol thats so antiquated. 😂😂😂

[@kth351twinvasion5]

Bruce Kulick saved KI$$ & ASYLUM is top notch 8TEEZE KI$$, even though Eric shoulda had orange lips on the cover...😋🦊🧡🧡🎃

[@williamcurry1132]

85 was a special year

[@alyssamalfoy9238]

Bruce I'm sorry for your brother's loss he he was great 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Bruce one day you'll finally see your brother okay and you probably know when but I love you both and I felt the same when my Grandpa died I felt the same way you did ❤️💜♥️♥️♥️♥️ I love you guys

[@justinfendelet8675]

HOTTRR THEN HELL in,1974 is a Metal record

[@dominickelshomanopoly4582]

KZbin don't give my phone number for ads

[@ericdunn7596]

It's great, trial by fire is a great inspirational song It's no creatures, or lick it up though

[@fundhund62]

It's far better than both of those. To me, Animalize and Asylum are their best non make-up albums, by far.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

Trial by Fire shouldve been the 2nd single off Asylum- not Uh All Night

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

Joe Augustitus (below) says Bruce got a restraining order on his brother Bob. (???!) Anyone else know anything abt this?

[@jeromejackson2455]

Bruce is the man that save kiss in 84 to 93

[@Gordon-i6v]

Iforgot Mark St John

[@thomasdudley6514]

Terry knight and the pack roots of metal

[@williamcurry1132]

always figured it was more than the injury reiters syndrome

[@HappyMachorino-bd8no]

Bob threatened Bruce and his wife. Bruce had to get a restraining order against him. Eddie didn't want to be disrespectful to ask Bruce.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

What I wanna know is just how much did Paul play guitar on Asylum. I'm guessing not much at all- if any. (?)

[@thomasdudley6514]

Even before they established the 4 look they looked more the new y dolls

[@isaiahmarquez9717]

Too many ads.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

I LOVE BRUCE with all my heart and I honestly love Vinnie as well....that first Invasion album so many of those songs should been KISS songs. Also ASYLUM WAS A HEAVY ALBUM...that was the first album Eric had half the drum sound he had on COTN

[@RandomDudeFromSomewhere]

I know the original lineup is classic, but there's something to be said for the Eric Carr/Bruce Kulick lineup.

[@97warlock]

so wheres the full show with him, this was recorded a while back & he said he will be doing a nother show full show , i like Bruces stories/.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

bruce kulick has always been a fill- in Vinnie was legit.. all others are fill- ins since V V Vinnie was cool.. and great asset.. he was as crazy as Ace and just as valuable.. he was legit; everyone after were not legit

[@vincevandergraff1508]

😂😆 wrong. to be an asset to the band, you have to be a team player. vinnie was not a team player by any stretch of the imagination.

[@dwightrenfield2241]

If any member was a fill-in, it was VV.

[@rongohring3029]

You are right. I Loved Ace and when I saw them on the Creatures of the Night Tour, I was still hoping somehow that Ace would be there. I was desperate tobsee him there. But of course he wasn't and Vinnie Vincent was. But Vinnie blew my f'ing mind. I saw them during the three semi okay albums came out and it was the Dynasty Tour and I was in awe But the Creatures show, even though there wasn't all that many people there, blew me away and they were going for it. Whoever missed that Tour missed a really good, loud show. Vinnie solo was a mind blower. Like Ace did in his heyday.

[@dangilbert8391]

Kiss

[@markobarsness4316]

Too nice of a guy to be a member of Kiss

[@MM1717mm]

meh .. you might be surprised... my experience was he’s actually pretty human

[@Cincinnatus1869]

Eric Carr may have been the nicest guy in the rock world

[@ferox965]

He's a total pro and killer player. Of course KISS wanted him.

[@drlarrymitchell]

The ONLY member of Kiss who never had to get done up like a clown. The only one.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

Mark St. John. Ur wrong

[@MM1717mm]

bob kulick was pretty much a member

[@johnmarshall3903]

@@MM1717mm Get real, he played on 3 studio songs on alive 2. Hardly a member.

[@rongohring3029]

Mark St. John too. Which his time in the band was short because of whatever 1,300 excuses why he wasn't in the band. I've heard them all. R.I.P Mark St. John.

[@daveytandtheplacetobe7561]

what an assinine comment

[@naitsabes3328]

They were separated, because money. Stop crying over papers.

[@jeromejackson3632]

When bruce join them in 84 85 he had riffs and solos

[@dominickelshomanopoly4582]

RIP BOB KULICK KISS BRUCE VINNIE MARK NEEDS THE MAKEUP

[@thomasdudley6514]

Wicked Lester proto metal like later v fudge of the hastles looking glass glass harp and Chelsea with Peter

[@vincentvancoch7603]

I love king of the mountain ⛰️ 😍

[@Frankenberry]

I can't believe Eddie Trunk would say he thinks "Asylum" is the best non-make up era KISS album. Where does he come up with this shit? To me, it's probably the worst of the non-make up era... Either that one or Crazy Nights. My favorite non-make up era albums are probably 1) Revenge 2) Lick it up 3) Animalize for me everything after that's all about the same level of "meh" not awful, (aside from asylum and crazy nights) not great. That's not figuring in Creatures of the night though... I'm not sure how to classify that one, it's post peter/ace, but they were wearing make up when it was released, yet they re-released it with a cover without make-up. So, it's kinda the odd man out.. but if I were considering that one, it would replace lick it up, and lick it up would fall to third.

[@naitsabes3328]

Please stop to look the past, poor man, we ask and ask about Animalize tour. LOOK FORWARD!!!! he did an incredible job, but let him make new music.

[@dominickelshomanopoly4582]

Mark had no arthritis in his 30s or 40s

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

Kiss never brought Kulick on as a member in a proper, respectful way at all 11:30 I hated Kulick on Animalize tour bc he wasnt a member, and he just stood there, not giving a fuck. Thats paul n genes fault. 4 lead guitarists in 2 years

[@Jamiescottsmith]

I was 16 when this album came out, my best friend was a huge Kiss fan and all of us would tease him that Kiss were posers chasing the glam scene, bands that were 10+ years younger than these guys. It just smelled pathetic. It's an exact rip off at that time of Poisons Look what the Cat Dragged In. I mean Gene was on Oprah wearing blush and lipstick. The Demon, not so much.

[@thomasdudley6514]

Wrong ! Kiss come from garage bands so does grand funk I will name them genes band the links the cat was in a bunch of groups same with Eric car high school garage bands are the true punk rock created first in delco pa

[@purplehouse26]

So how did he die? did he kill himself???/ thats what i wanna know.

[@nssherlock4547]

No, heart disease 70 yo.

[@seanfagan6998]

Kiss had 6 years. After the 6 years they should have went away.

[@phillynott2459]

There are several great songs after the original lineup though. You don't like anything after the first 6 years?

[@markr.devereux2713]

The 80s /90s KISS was middlin' arena rock with a few decent songs thrown in. It didn't compare to the mighty KISS with makeup in the 70s. Now it seems a little bit of a joke with the counterfeit members. I still find kisstory interesting with all the books that have come out.

[@phillynott2459]

@@markr.devereux2713 I couldn't have said it better. I always liked early kiss, but recently I got into them properly and WOW ... the albums with Ace Frehley are amazing. I think my favorites are 1. Detroit Rock City 2. Love Gun 3. She 4. Baby Driver 5. Black Diamond or Deuce

[@markr.devereux2713]

@@phillynott2459 yeah definitely . It's those guys those songs those albums. They never equalled that output. I have at least 20 favorites from that era. The band and the management deserve all the acolades for that run.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

IF YOU DO NOT LOVE 80's KISS YOU DO NOT LOVE KISS - I grew up with 70's KISS and I HATE the Original ONLY fans...I HATE THEM

[@robertstewart239]

In my opinion, they're being far too generous about Asylum. It wasn't the brilliant album they're making it out to be. It had some good songs, but that's the best I could say about it. In his autobiography, Paul talked about Gene bringing in sub-par songs in the nid-eighties. When i read that, I immediately thought of Secretly Cruel. She was all over me like a cheap suit! Awful! Secretly cruel, I ain't nobody's fool. Not the band's finest hour.

[@phillynott2459]

I like "Tears in Heaven" on Assylum the best. How did Paul write such a great song? It seems like someone else wrote it, like maybe Eric Clapton or someone.

[@jimilove7773]

Love Phil but EC is boring.

[@vaekkriinhart4347]

. Tears in Heaven came much later than Tears are Falling.. and the songs are completely different on every fking level

[@rongohring3029]

You mean 'Tears Are Falling'.. That doesn't sound like an Eric Clapton, to my ears, but that's just my shit opinion.

[@Betrayerslayer]

Women were soooooo hot then. Or at least I dig it.

[@WilliamSmith-ex9et]

I’m really surprised everyone so gaga over asylum. It’s definitely weaker in my opinion then lick it Up or animalize. Uh all night is just borderline embarrassing.

[@MM1717mm]

seems weird for him to be talking more about the SHIT kiss years than paying tribute to his brother .. but then, bruce has always been pretty awkward (sorry dude) RIP Bob ☮️

[@KrazyRock]

Crazy Nights was better than Asylum I think..

[@j.reveille6815]

Nope

[@phillynott2459]

@@j.reveille6815 your opinion

[@MM1717mm]

lol why are we even talking about these shit albums in 2021 ?? 🤣🤣

[@rongohring3029]

'Crazy Nights' is the only KISS album I took back to the store and got my money back. That album made me say bye bye for the rest of their run. Just not interested in much anything after that keyboard laden shit album. Bubble gum music.

[@michaelhembree4167]

What caused bob to die

[@97warlock]

at 13:18 He said ......."the long history you had with Kiss" ........... Bruce barely had any history with KISS in 1984. very little.

[@markr.devereux2713]

Bruce kulick who cares. Tommy thayer is preferable.

[@michaelpolo6117]

Tommy Sour SUX!!!!Bruce was much BETTER!!!!R.I.P. Bob.....

[@michaelpolo6117]

Tommy was Aces tech and It should've stayed that way. I saw him last year for the end of the Road tour. And he will NEVER PLAY as good as ACE. He is really sloppy and tries too hard. But Just is Terri-BAD....Worst KISS SHOW EVER!!! And I saw the REAL FAREWELL SHOW IN 2000 and when they first got back together in the 90's ...Starting w Crazy Nights w I was a kid. So I have seen the 70's and. 80's KISS.Ace is BEST but Bruce is much BETTER than T. Sour😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@markr.devereux2713]

Bruce or tommy who really cares. I've heard. Very few tracks with Kulick that excite me. The lead solos are lukewarm kulick.jist ain't heavy enough. I mean I dropped the horrible 80s records and moved on to better metal bands. Always a fan of Ace up til dynasty then bye be.

[@markr.devereux2713]

@@michaelpolo6117 I noticed Tommy .never really nails the. solos. That infuriates me too. If youe r going to be an ACE clone get it right or as close as possible. I know it may be tougher being all decked out in costume with pyro exploding constantly but you're in KISS. I don't know but something about SINGER pisses .me off.

[@ericmartin7426]

Who care of you

[@robdangripp9406]

A lot of their playing the songs a lot faster had a lot to do with Eric carrs faster drum tempo.

[@Ricky-nz5tw]

Interesting 👍🏻👍🏻