Gene Simmons

And going, you know, the prut and prut and prut and prut, oh.

And this is after we rehearsed it for 100 times.

He was a feel guy.

You know, you see the template and you're about to play a song.

You know where the bridge and the chorus are going to be.

You know, eight bars of this, then you do the riff.

You know where you're going to go.

Peter was just along for the ride.

Field drummers, jazz drummers are closer to that.

I'm glad you said though.

In the old days, those drummers would play the top of the kit, and something called dropping the bomb would be when the kick would hit.

They would hardly use the kick.

So it was all top stuff.

And there are lots of stories Peter's told about Gene Krupa, and they're very entertaining.

Okay.

Oh, he immediately tore open the doors of what could be, what should be, because we were in a rat-infested loft, maybe twice as big as this room was.

with egg crates that we stuck on the wall that still had cracked, some cracked eggs.

And of course at night, the huge dinosaur cockroaches would come out.

Oh, it was horrible.

There were no windows and everything, but we didn't care.