It's that time again... :)

 
 
And both my wife and I get to take part in this awesome fund raising event. Last year was incredible - IIRC, we raised $32 000 for the Imagine foundation to help Clark County's struggling public schools music department and buy them new instruments. It was also the very first time that my wife and played together on stage - one song.
 
This year promises to be even better and bigger - and we get to play on 3 songs together. I play a total of 5 songs, and I get the lead for the first time on 3 songs this year. As surprising as it is, I actually had to learn 4 of those songs, because we opted for some of the more obscure material, as well as a few pieces from the 90's.
 
The funny thing is that I hadn't really cared for KISS much for the last few decades, until a few days after we moved to Vegas in 2012 and I happened to stumble upon Ace Frehley's recently released autobiography - which sort of rekindled my interest. As fate would have it, the first local musicians we started hanging out with were these guys. So there's a big connexion between Vegas and KISS for me.
 
Anyway, it's a great opportunity to play with some incredible musicians, to meet other people who got into music because KISS was an integral part of their childhood, to celebrate the music of a band that's all about having a good time and self-emancipation, and to raise money for a very good cause. I'm honoured to be part of something like that.

Just remember Krist, K.I.S.S.

Keep
Rockin
It
STraummy
?
 

My lack of memory is only overshadowed by my lack of tping skills.

 
 

 
Knights Rocking In School Telethon? 
 
(Sounded more appropriate than one closer to the original: Knights Rocking In Satan's Theater! )

I could use six electric guitars. 
(Hmm... Do you think he meant they would go to six winners?  Nah... )

bapu

craigb
I could use six electric guitars. 

As Mom always said, "Why? You can only play one at a time."

My stock replies for Mom and gf's (albeit less than successful) were "Why does a golfer have more than one club? He can only play one at a time." or "Why do you have so many pairs of shoes? You can only wear one at a time."

smallstonefan
My first rock album was Rock and Roll Over. 

Mine as well. 

My first album was the live album by Loggins and Messina! Now that was a great band that nobody ever talks about.  BTW did you know that Kenny Loggins first band was *the electric prunes?*:
 
https://www.google.com/?i...#q=The+Electric+Prunes

My first record was Diary of a Madman.
 
But my first tape copy of an album was KISS' Creatures of the Night. Huge drums, no non-sense heavy songs, dark imagery... The template for almost everything I like and do, musically.