Gene Simmons

No question.

Paul was there much more musically when I was asleep at the wheel.

Paul's able to write any kind of music and sing almost anything.

Much better vocalist, better looking guy, better shape.

Absolutely.

And great family guy, no drugs, no booze.

You can't find that in rock and roll, you know, in bands.

But...

Early on, at the very beginning, we recognized in each other, I'm going to do better with this guy than if I do it on my own.

So when our first band, Wicked Lester, had our equipment stolen in Chinatown, we had nothing.

We turned to each other and I went, well...

know what are you going to do and he's going to well what are you going to do i said well i'm going to go upstate and i know this guitar player i'm going to put another group together and he said can i come with you and so right away we were hitchhiking on route 17 to put another band together and eventually wound up in new york and put kiss together i'll give you a quick story we started poking fun of each other's songs i'm going all you ever

Paul starts saying, all you ever write about is monster songs, like I'm the God of Thunder and all that.

What?

What did you say?

Oh, that's a good idea.

I'm going to go home and write that thing.

I'm the God of Thunder.

Yeah, that's what I'm going to write.

He goes, oh, you like that, huh?