Paul Stanley Is Now a Singer in a Soul Music Cover Band

looks like your wish will come true

Regarding his future plans for SOUL STATION, Stanley said: "What I'd love to do is do some new music with the band and I'd also like to do a live CD, 'cause we've recorded everything, and, quite honestly, it sounds as good as anything done in a studio. You can't go wrong with the people that I've got in this band. When you've got three great back-up singers, when you've got three great horn players. The pedigree of everybody in the band… I'm the mutt, but I hold up my end."
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That's even worse than I imagined it would be.

 

He should cover something from Peter Criss' solo album

 

This doesn't suck at all. Good for him.

 

Good for Paul.

Now how about Gene in a Beatles tribute band?

 

I actually know Gene personally, he told me he will form the Beatles tribute band eventually, but at the moment his time and energy is taken with the Kiss tribute band he's been since 1982.

 

Fear The Walking Dead.


I've listened to several YouTube clips of this Paul Stanley project and the only place it transports me to is Pledge Week on PBS - serviceable renditions which make you want to hear the original, better versons. Other than as a vanity project, I'm not seeing the point. If there is one beyond vanity. Which I doubt. Maybe in a few years Paul will write another book dissing the members of this band...

D.D.

 

Looks like Gene's sharing hairdresser with Donald Trump. Or hair donor maybe!

 

With these aging rockers, I guess I see any project like this as taking away time from projects with the bands that made them famous; the band I care about. In many cases the main bands weren't/aren't going to record anyway, but it still bugs me. Time is fleeting.

 

I agree...Bowie's death hit me hard and I can't help thinking Gene & Paul (and Tommy & Eric) need to be cranking out music while they can.

 

Unless he starts hanging out with Ron Jeremy...

 

I keep hearing the Moody Blues in my head singing, "I'm just a singer in a soul cover band..."

 

Well, i'm glad a famous American artist is recognizing and supporting R&B. It usually seems that the only people who give respect to it are the Brits. It's time Americans stood up for their own art form.

I say: go for it Paul!

 

Don't hate, but I could see him covering "Don't You Let Me Down." He WON'T. But I could see it.

 

Maybe Paul will do Tim Curry doing Sloe Gin...
You know, like Escape from the Island?

 

Will Paul smash the upright bass at the end of the show?

 

Are you saying he is going to get his nose pruned down to look like one on a skull and get all kinds of bizarre plastic surgery that makes him look like a space alien?

 

Well, that's certainly a possibility, but the scarier thought is that he looks a lot like that now, although his nose still looks good.

 

and then charge $8,500 to one lucky buyer, autograph extra

 

I wasn't so much making reference to him ending up looking like her so much as the chance of ending up looking like someone else who tried to look like her........ *ahem*.............

 

Ah! Very clever, I was off my game earlier.

 

I like it!

I give him all the credit in the world for having the courage to do something different, and it sounds good as well!

Grant, I totally agree with you, it's great to see famous Americans recognize our contributions to fantastic music.

I also agree that many old school acts should still be recording new music.

In all honesty, even if they did, what would be the result? Old school acts don't get the support, promotion, attention that they have more than earned and deserve!

I've said many times, if Paul McCartney made the best album of his entire life these days, would it get the real attention that it deserved, would he be asked to perform on the biggest and most popular shows and specials.

Not just McCartney, but any of the old school acts, because quite a few of them have come out with great new albums, but most don't even know about them?

If they had brand new killer music, would it get real attention?

 

That clip was much better than I expected, not bad at all. Beats the heck out of hearing him croak his way through "Love Gun."

 

I just had to share this quote I found:

Imagine an alternate universe where the KISS reunion doesn't happen, the band gets dropped and immediately forgotten after Carnival Of Souls and Paul is reduced to butchering the classics at bus stops next to a tip jar and that will give you a good idea what Paul Stanley's Soul Station sounds like.

 

I think the alternate universe would be COS is released on time and spawns a huge hit for them in The Jungle, which even two years late did pretty well for them.