KISS - Origin of the Wicked Lester name!

[@RockNewsDesk]

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[@andreveach7520]

About 30ish years ago friend of my brother's loaned me the 'bootleg' Wicked Lester album; been SEARCHING FOR SINCE

[@RockNewsDesk]

It's all over KZbin.

[@AlaneBarker]

Really cool! I really enjoyed this and hope To hear more!!

[@RockNewsDesk]

Thank you! And thank you for the comment. Feel free to check out the other videos. 🙂

[@louisborselio8608]

I don't know if they're active anymore, but there was a new band that called themselves Wicked Lester.

[@RockNewsDesk]

Yeah, I remember seeing that a while back. Not good.

[@Cueya]

It's a terrible name, makes me think of molester

[@JWD1992]

Wasn't that the same photo used for the Laughing Dogs album?

[@NCSightsAndSounds]

Good story.

[@budgiemcleod4443]

If you have or haven't seen the Nicholas Cage movie Ghost Rider.... there's a scene that takes place in a jail cell with a kid who's wearing a hoody with the words Wicked Lester on the front.

[@RockNewsDesk]

That's awesome! Now, I have to go watch that movie. Ha ha!

[@louisborselio8608]

I found 2 other bands that bear that name

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@louisborselio8608 Maybe Gene will sue them.

[@RBS-rj1bm]

Interesting info

[@RockNewsDesk]

I'm glad you liked it.

[@louisborselio8608]

I wanna hear Paul's story how they became Wicked Lester. I'm sure he invented that name too.

[@brianstrutter1501]

What credit Paul takes for the name KISS isn't full credit. He just said the name while they were all joking around throwing around crazy names, curse words and whatever. Your assertion is ridiculous

[@LadyFairChildVideo]

people, just skip to 3:00 for the wicked lester name origin.

[@RockNewsDesk]

And skip to 1 hr 51 minutes of "The Empire Strikes Back" to find out Darth Vader is Luke's father.

[@LadyFairChildVideo]

@@RockNewsDesk no, that's a good movie. your video is alot of bla bla bla to talk 30 seconds about the actual subject.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@LadyFairChildVideo Ah... The beauty of choice.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@LadyFairChildVideo For real, though, thanks for watching. And thanks for the comments.

[@angieecu]

Interesting!

[@RockNewsDesk]

I thought so, too. That was a story I didn't know until recently.

[@raymonawalker2316]

😂 Cool , name. 🎉🎉🎉 Wicker baskets 🧺

[@louisborselio8608]

I just checked two other bands called Wicked Lester.And they're both awful.

[@RockNewsDesk]

Wouldn't it be great if Gene had trademarked the Wicked Lester name? 😁

[@louisborselio8608]

@@RockNewsDesk I sometimes wonder what if they just kept the name Wicked Lester, but made all the same songs, same albums, same makeup, and same show. But on the other hand I wish the remaining members of the original Wicked Lester recruited new members to fill Paul and Gene's spots and continued on.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@louisborselio8608 Interesting. You mean, instead of KISS, they'd be called Wicked Lester? Or they had kept the name and the songs like "Sweet Ophelia"?

[@louisborselio8608]

@@RockNewsDesk No kept the name wicked lester, but did all the things they have done and do as KISS. I don't know how old you are or how far back you go with KISS, but in the 70's I had to endure hearing KISS sucks almost everyday. So I just kinda figure saying Wicked Lester sucks required too much effort and people wouldn't say it as often.

[@RockNewsDesk]

@@louisborselio8608 Ha ha! I'm sure they still would have been hated. I was drawing the KISS logo on my notebooks around 1979. 😄