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my first rock concert (in the mid 1970s, early teens) was rush opening for kiss in san antonio texas. I hitch hiked the 40 miles to the show and caught a ride back after. no one booed the opening act that night, though many a fan was born. went here to see kiss, and was so blown away by rush I hardly even remember the kiss show..... more great memories from my early rock journey.....
Total garbage. I know people who were there. This never happened. He has also changed his story considerably over the years. He used to say he flipped off the crowd. Then it changed it he mooned them. Now this. It’s garbage.
Sammy was out of Montrose during the Van Halen tour. He quit a couple years before. Some advertisements at the time promoted "Montrose" and some promoted "Ronnie Montrose." He actually performed instrumental because he didn't have a singer at the time.
Sammy was on the first Montrose album(1973) and the second one Paper Money( 1974) Sammy left and Montrose did two more albums with a different lead singer named Bob James. Then Ronnie did his all instrumental album Open Fire in 1978 and toured with Journey. Van Halen opened those shows. Van Halen, then Ronnie, then Journey.
Ha ha ha! So funny! I never saw a KISS opener get booed off stage, and I think crowds today are much nicer. Then again, the openers I saw were usually really good, and somewhat known. Whether it was Slaughter, Danger Danger, Ted Nugent, or Skid Row, the openers were well-received.
0:22 "Had left the band a couple of years earlier", Sammy got kicked to the curb by Ronnie Montrose due to Ronnie changing the direction of his music, His band. Sammy wanted to continue as a hard rock outfit but Ronnie was headed in a more progressive direction, so it was a 'creative differences' split.
No. Sammy told Ronnie that he was leaving the band after a tour in England. Sammy's bass player is a friend and lives about a mile from me. But he actually was kicked out by Ronnie after the first album.
A half a million bucks for a 61 Stratocaster? Yeah he's a little bit of out-of-touch obviously he obviously hasn't had to buy his own guitars for a very long time.
@@RockNewsDesk I guarantee you that if Sammy Hagar auctioned off a 61 Stratocaster that he had been playing all these years, that damn thing would be worth pretty close to half a mill. If not, at the very least a quarter mill. Easily. It would be purchased by a collector or a museum or something like that. It wouldn’t be purchased for the purpose of playing it. It’s not the hardware. It’s the mystique behind it. It would be the history. Especially if, instead of destroying it, he had played on it through his Van Halen years on all those millions and millions of records sold.
@@Hun_Uinaq I agree. I'm not a collector, but I could see one going for a couple hundred thousand bucks if it has belonged to Sammy all those years. But, just a 61 strat wouldn't sell for that.
Sammy is bad ass seen him with Van Halen made them better seen him couple months ago in his 70’s still bad ass I like Kiss too just totally different music
Love both bands. Sorry that Sammy Hagar had to experience that. I have been on stage with my guitar before myself. Luckily I have never been booed off stage before. If I had, I probably would have done something similar to what Sammy Hagar did.Keep rocking Sammy.
KISS - platinum and gold records, 50+ years filling arenas and stadiums around the world. Sammy Hagar - rescued from obscurity by EVH; DLR > SH; makes a crappy tequila, owns a bar, and yells at clouds. IMO
I was in a band called the Tremblers dec. 1980 we did 4 show for Cheap Trick, in san bernadino we had everything but the kitchen sink😜 thrown at us security went out into the crowd with large flash light cracking heads and settled the crowd,new wave and cheap trick not a good mix.🤪🤪
God, I miss the rock ‘n’ roll era! These days, you would never see anybody do something like that. It would be incongruous with the times. The singer would probably sit there and cry. Get all in his feelings. He’d need a hanky. … and a hug. Back then, though? Hell yeah! We would be deliciously scandalized by it. Horrified, to be sure. Very bad. Bad Sammy! Naughty, naughty boy! But, oh, the conversations it would spark in people! The disbelieving tones of voices we would have. We just couldn’t believe it. But, it’s what we expected out of our Rockstars. And, if we didn’t get it, we would wonder what was wrong with them. “ you mean they booed him and he just took it lying down?“ lastly, you can bet your ass a lot of us would’ve been in attendance at the next concert in case he did it again. Probably boo him even though we liked him just to wind him up.
It would've been really fun to put KISS on the same bill as the dreaded Led Zeppelin, and have a zillion KISS fans boo Led Zep off the stage and watch Peter Grant have yet another tantrum like He did with Terry Knight in 69, but He'd be going up against the KISS Army! LMAO!
I seen Kiss in 1979. They were wild😱And if course i was on the floor. I always got there early. When the crowd would pour in i would get slowly shifted to front center. That was how i done all my concerts.
Per hostile crowds...it's in really bad taste to boo or heckle an opener when they are tight, and fit the genre of the headliner. Even if they've a little different. The headliners usually pick the opening bands so it's disrespectful to them as well. I saw Hagar open for ZZ TOP on the Eliminator tour and he came close to owning ZZ TOP. This was right before the Can't Drive 55 video was released. I had only heard Montrose and the song Heavy Metal from the movie. He was awesome and did his job warming up the crowd almost too well. If the band that opens has no business being on a bill and has nothing in common with the headliner I get it. A Band like The Cure opening for a band like Maiden? Yeah they're going to get pelted with everything the audience can get their hands on. That's kind of expected. Those are the situations when you can blame the promoter or whoever the out of touch idiot who booked that band to open.
Actually I can bet Sammy is in far better shape than you are. He was rocking live on instagram just recently. By the way Sammy is light years better than KISS. And still is.
@@briansalisbury4764 You are quite wrong--I'm sure he has more money than I do but I'm in way better shape, and older than him. I agree with you he's way better than KISS, but that's mostly because KISS is one of the worst musical acts ever, not because Sammy Hagar is anything special.
@@briansalisbury4764I'm tired of all these people saying how this rock stars in such good shape and this guy he's in good shape. I'm a 61-year-old union roofer working my ass off in the hot sun for 8 hours. And there's guys 65 to 66 and 67 years old doing the same thing. All these rock stars have to do is sing or play a guitar for an hour and a half or 2 hours. Big fucken deal. They've never done any real work in their whole life.
At the end of the day, though, it was all in good fun. It’s how you interacted with your bands. It was the times. Glorious, glorious times. Now, it’s all fucked up. Even the rock bands of today don’t do anything exciting except for play music. When is the last time you heard of Greta Van Fleet having some kind of wild after party and getting kicked out of a hotel? When was the last time alter bridge started a riot at the stadium? How about Wolfie getting wild? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him even getting drunk. Kid is amazing on that guitar like his old man (RIP, Eddie.) and he plays all kinds of instruments but, he doesn’t shake things up any. None of them do.
Kiss. Cedar Rapids, IA 1990. Faster Pussycat opened, and tore the roof off. The crowd was into it! Middle act time... Slaughter. They come out, and get to the end of the first song. Crowd starts chanting "Pussycat! Pussycat! Pussycat" Mark Slaughter, being irritated, keeps the band going while the chants get louder. Midway through the set, the crowd starts chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" Slaughter then ends their set in frustration. It was pretty funny🤷
@@RockNewsDesk H Hagar does nothing but complain and talk shit all the time.. He can't stand the fact that nobody cares if he is at an EVH celebration concert.. He knows the fans only care about David Lee .. Was watching a recent video earlier where he was complaining about Alex Van Halen not returning his calls... Most likely because he can't stand Hagar either...
I remember attending a concert in the early 1980s where jon bon jovi (1 of if not their first shows) was the opening act for (I think, 40 year old memories are kinda hard to focus these days) rainbow and the scorpions at the allentown fairgrounds in pennsylvania. needless to say, they left the stage in tears since NO ONE was interested in hearing their bubble gum pop (1st) hit. great memories of an era long gone......
Yeah, I disagree with that. When I was a kid, the makeup hooked me, and I wanted to know more. But, the music is what made me a fan. The same can be said of Snake Sabo, Slash, Garth Brooks, Lenny Kravitz, and on and on and on. They discovered KISS and their music, and it inspired them to become musicians. I'm a HUGE rock music fan, and it all started with KISS.
Dude, This is old news! Why do you make it like you have some big scoop? You should at least tell your viewers the story was broadcast on the Eddie Trunk That Rocks show 2 weeks ago!
At the 1:11 mark, I say Hagar told, "That Rocks." Thank you for trolling my channel, and I appreciate your comment. That comment helps the channel grow. Thank you!
In Sammy's Defense it was a KiSS crowd .. Remember..Many of these people actually think Ace Frehley is some sort of great Guitar player, it's funny to watch them clamor for his return for this whole " Last show" thing, even tho you can turn on RUclips videos and cringe at how horrible he is
The only defense I give him is just that he was a young rock star. Ha ha! There aren't many of them who didn't do stupid stuff back then. And, yes, Ace's playing is pretty bad these days.
Sorry but Hagar sucked ass live back in 1977 , he was great with Montrose but he wasn't that good on his own, the truth just hurts sometimes, sad about the Strat though, what a waste.
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my first rock concert (in the mid 1970s, early teens) was rush opening for kiss in san antonio texas. I hitch hiked the 40 miles to the show and caught a ride back after. no one booed the opening act that night, though many a fan was born. went here to see kiss, and was so blown away by rush I hardly even remember the kiss show..... more great memories from my early rock journey.....
That's awesome!
Gene probably got excited and stuck his tongue out when Sammy whipped out mr 3 lock box lmfaooo
Sammy pulled out his little "winkie"
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Total garbage. I know people who were there. This never happened. He has also changed his story considerably over the years. He used to say he flipped off the crowd. Then it changed it he mooned them. Now this. It’s garbage.
Omg I never heard that story before of Sammy being booed off the stage opening for KISS
Are you sure about the timeline, Sammy was still in Montrose when they opened for Journey in 78. It was also van Halen's first tour.
Sammy was out of Montrose during the Van Halen tour. He quit a couple years before. Some advertisements at the time promoted "Montrose" and some promoted "Ronnie Montrose." He actually performed instrumental because he didn't have a singer at the time.
Sammy was on the first Montrose album(1973) and the second one Paper Money( 1974) Sammy left and Montrose did two more albums with a different lead singer named Bob James. Then Ronnie did his all instrumental album Open Fire in 1978 and toured with Journey. Van Halen opened those shows. Van Halen, then Ronnie, then Journey.
@@burningmarl5664 Thanks for that info.
Hagar was well into his solo career by 78. He was fired from Montrose in 74.
No he wasn't.
The Red Rocket
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The red hypocrite
They talked about jim Morrison doing it for 50 years . Never heard about sammy doing it till today.
I was thinking how lucky he was he didn't get arrested. I guess that's one difference between 1969 and 1977.
@@kickinswifty5136 poor guy. Ha!
Never happened.
@@thefonzkissYou're right Fonz, Sammy's full of shit
This is all taken from his book.
Sammy Rocks!!
Last time I saw KISS was in 19 in New Orleans. They had an artist open for them. Oh, joy.
Yeah. He was cool, but, I want a band! Paul's son's band is opening now. They're really good!
Saw Sammy open for Boston on their Don't Look Back Tour in 1978. He was great.
What a great show that would have been! I'm jealous. 😄
@@RockNewsDesk Sammy and his band were great. Boston was unreal.
@@edcastillo9342 I hate I never saw Boston. I had tickets around 2002, but gave them away. I couldn't make the show.
Rock and Roll Over tour the crowds were probably mostly kids. If he did that today he'd be canceled lol
They got away with a lot back then! And almost no one had a video camera.
Sammy is a hypocrite. Kiss has treated opening bands very well . Ask rush and acdc
The Red Cocker. 😂
Ha ha!
Seems like Zeppelin or Sabbath wouldn't have stood a a chance that night either. Tough crowd.
Ha! Those old KISS crowds were tough, apparently.
A half a million bucks for a Stratocaster!😂 Buddy Holly had better on that thing for a half a million dollars.
Maybe Sammy is counting the value of all the drugs he left inside it.
Still though that s*** had better be made completely out of the best Columbian gold on the planet pressed by Pablo Escobar himself.
@@ShawnFanin Sammy didn't have THAT kind of money yet.
Well you know you could get a good look at a Tbone steak by shoving your head up a bulls ass but I'd rather take a butchers word for it.
Saw Kiss in Peoria when Vinnie Vincent was with them. The opening act was The Shoes. The crowd was screaming YOU SUCK. They looked terrified.
Ha ha ha! So funny! I never saw a KISS opener get booed off stage, and I think crowds today are much nicer. Then again, the openers I saw were usually really good, and somewhat known. Whether it was Slaughter, Danger Danger, Ted Nugent, or Skid Row, the openers were well-received.
Just wanted to add, The Shoes didn't suck but they weren't a heavy band. They were more jingle jangle pop.
@@UncleBillyBob732 I wonder if they were a local opener.
0:22 "Had left the band a couple of years earlier", Sammy got kicked to the curb by Ronnie Montrose due to Ronnie changing the direction of his music, His band. Sammy wanted to continue as a hard rock outfit but Ronnie was headed in a more progressive direction, so it was a 'creative differences' split.
No. Sammy told Ronnie that he was leaving the band after a tour in England. Sammy's bass player is a friend and lives about a mile from me. But he actually was kicked out by Ronnie after the first album.
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A half a million bucks for a 61 Stratocaster? Yeah he's a little bit of out-of-touch obviously he obviously hasn't had to buy his own guitars for a very long time.
Ha ha! I was thinking the same thing! Did it have gold plated hardware? 😄
@@RockNewsDesk I guarantee you that if Sammy Hagar auctioned off a 61 Stratocaster that he had been playing all these years, that damn thing would be worth pretty close to half a mill. If not, at the very least a quarter mill. Easily. It would be purchased by a collector or a museum or something like that. It wouldn’t be purchased for the purpose of playing it. It’s not the hardware. It’s the mystique behind it. It would be the history. Especially if, instead of destroying it, he had played on it through his Van Halen years on all those millions and millions of records sold.
@@Hun_Uinaq I agree. I'm not a collector, but I could see one going for a couple hundred thousand bucks if it has belonged to Sammy all those years. But, just a 61 strat wouldn't sell for that.
Sammy is cool, but I can't see his Strat going for that. It's not like he's Jimi, David, or Eric.
Sammy is bad ass seen him with Van Halen made them better seen him couple months ago in his 70’s still bad ass I like Kiss too just totally different music
I saw him a couple times with VH.
HAGAR sung well, but wasn't hung well.that's the word of those who were there.
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Love both bands. Sorry that Sammy Hagar had to experience that. I have been on stage with my guitar before myself. Luckily I have never been booed off stage before. If I had, I probably would have done something similar to what Sammy Hagar did.Keep rocking Sammy.
Yeah, I like both. I haven't been booed off stage either, but, the night is young. Ha ha!
You went on stage with your guitar before yourself. So you opened for yourself.😂🤣
KISS - platinum and gold records, 50+ years filling arenas and stadiums around the world.
Sammy Hagar - rescued from obscurity by EVH; DLR > SH; makes a crappy tequila, owns a bar, and yells at clouds.
IMO
Ha ha ha! But what do you REALLY think? 😄
@@RockNewsDesk 😎
Whhat are you talking about? Sammy’s still got it. He still rocks the house down. Look up chicken foot.
@@Hun_UinaqMeh
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Sammy, "can't drive 55", got lucky EVH picked him.
edit: you spelled chickensh*t wrong.
Sammy's little man was supposedly quite an impressive piece lol
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I saw Sammy open for ZZ TOP back in 83 and red rocker rocked
I never saw Sammy solo, just a couple times with Van Halen.
Get out of here, whoever you are, the nerve of playing real music at a Kiss show, give us lame or give us nothing, sir.
damn.. sammy pulled out his red rocker.. amazing..
I was in a band called the Tremblers dec. 1980 we did 4 show for Cheap Trick, in san bernadino we had everything but the kitchen sink😜 thrown at us security went out into the crowd with large flash light cracking heads and settled the crowd,new wave and cheap trick not a good mix.🤪🤪
Ha ha ha! Funny stuff! I'm glad you survived.
God, I miss the rock ‘n’ roll era! These days, you would never see anybody do something like that. It would be incongruous with the times. The singer would probably sit there and cry. Get all in his feelings. He’d need a hanky. … and a hug. Back then, though? Hell yeah! We would be deliciously scandalized by it. Horrified, to be sure. Very bad. Bad Sammy! Naughty, naughty boy! But, oh, the conversations it would spark in people! The disbelieving tones of voices we would have. We just couldn’t believe it. But, it’s what we expected out of our Rockstars. And, if we didn’t get it, we would wonder what was wrong with them. “ you mean they booed him and he just took it lying down?“ lastly, you can bet your ass a lot of us would’ve been in attendance at the next concert in case he did it again. Probably boo him even though we liked him just to wind him up.
Kiss should be seen and NOT heard !
Sam is an American badass !
At least he had the balls to stqand up and 'express' himself. Rockers theses days are poofs.
I’m sure that’s a mild case compared to what kiss actually did back in the day, especially Genewith his “addicktion” to women.
I was at that show!
This guy just don't stop talking, but at least it keeps his name out there.
That's the name of the game, right?
Could be worse Could be Ted Nugent running off at the mouth!😂😂😂
It would've been really fun to put KISS on the same bill as the dreaded Led Zeppelin, and have a zillion KISS fans boo Led Zep off the stage and watch Peter Grant have yet another tantrum like He did with Terry Knight in 69, but He'd be going up against the KISS Army! LMAO!
at least Sammy doesnt do Milly Vanilli
I seen Kiss in 1979. They were wild😱And if course i was on the floor. I always got there early. When the crowd would pour in i would get slowly shifted to front center. That was how i done all my concerts.
Sammy The Rager 😂
A 1961 strat is about $40k, but because it was Sammy's.... at auction.... maybe . Eddie van halen's kramer sold for $3.9M at auction.
Per hostile crowds...it's in really bad taste to boo or heckle an opener when they are tight, and fit the genre of the headliner. Even if they've a little different. The headliners usually pick the opening bands so it's disrespectful to them as well. I saw Hagar open for ZZ TOP on the Eliminator tour and he came close to owning ZZ TOP. This was right before the Can't Drive 55 video was released. I had only heard Montrose and the song Heavy Metal from the movie. He was awesome and did his job warming up the crowd almost too well. If the band that opens has no business being on a bill and has nothing in common with the headliner I get it. A Band like The Cure opening for a band like Maiden? Yeah they're going to get pelted with everything the audience can get their hands on. That's kind of expected. Those are the situations when you can blame the promoter or whoever the out of touch idiot who booked that band to open.
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No Class. Ever.
At this point Sammy can't see his junk anymore.
Ha!
Actually I can bet Sammy is in far better shape than you are. He was rocking live on instagram just recently. By the way Sammy is light years better than KISS. And still is.
@@briansalisbury4764 You are quite wrong--I'm sure he has more money than I do but I'm in way better shape, and older than him. I agree with you he's way better than KISS, but that's mostly because KISS is one of the worst musical acts ever, not because Sammy Hagar is anything special.
HAHAH. AND YOU KNOW….DONT YOU
@@briansalisbury4764I'm tired of all these people saying how this rock stars in such good shape and this guy he's in good shape. I'm a 61-year-old union roofer working my ass off in the hot sun for 8 hours. And there's guys 65 to 66 and 67 years old doing the same thing. All these rock stars have to do is sing or play a guitar for an hour and a half or 2 hours. Big fucken deal. They've never done any real work in their whole life.
This can't be your favorite band because there are a show band.. teenagers in the garage are as talented as the kiss players
Oh Sammy and his soft love songs
😂😂😂way to go Sammy.
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Then he back tracked ...what a puke
Sammy Hagar kicks ass! How the F did that even happen.
I guess he just wasn't famous enough yet.
We (The KISS ARMY) could indeed be a hostile lot.
At the end of the day, though, it was all in good fun. It’s how you interacted with your bands. It was the times. Glorious, glorious times. Now, it’s all fucked up. Even the rock bands of today don’t do anything exciting except for play music. When is the last time you heard of Greta Van Fleet having some kind of wild after party and getting kicked out of a hotel? When was the last time alter bridge started a riot at the stadium? How about Wolfie getting wild? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him even getting drunk. Kid is amazing on that guitar like his old man (RIP, Eddie.) and he plays all kinds of instruments but, he doesn’t shake things up any. None of them do.
Especially back in the 70s! The KISS fans were pretty rabid.
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I would have went to see Sammy and left when kiss came on
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Not me
Sammy Hagar Rocks!!! Kiss sucks !!! Fans now days at concerts are lame and dont know anything about Music.
Id take old 70s kiss over hagar any day.
Kiss. Cedar Rapids, IA 1990.
Faster Pussycat opened, and tore the roof off. The crowd was into it!
Middle act time... Slaughter.
They come out, and get to the end of the first song. Crowd starts chanting "Pussycat! Pussycat! Pussycat"
Mark Slaughter, being irritated, keeps the band going while the chants get louder. Midway through the set, the crowd starts chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!"
Slaughter then ends their set in frustration.
It was pretty funny🤷
I saw that tour, but in NC. The crowd was much nicer. Ha ha!
Hagar does nothing but cry constantly..
What do you mean?
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Hagar does nothing but complain and talk shit all the time.. He can't stand the fact that nobody cares if he is at an EVH celebration concert.. He knows the fans only care about David Lee .. Was watching a recent video earlier where he was complaining about Alex Van Halen not returning his calls... Most likely because he can't stand Hagar either...
@@anti7928 Gotcha. Yeah, for someone who wants everyone to think he's really laid back, he does complain a lot. Ha ha!
Spammy is a Covert Narcissist. They get worse with age. Crying and shit talking is all he's got left.
@@RockNewsDesk Seriously he's having a great life you think he would be happier..
So is Haggar really friends with the hottest band in the world? I was under the impression he hated Kiss
Yep. They're friends.
strat suck
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Which was worse? This or Vince gill?
I think Vince Gill just grabbed his ass through his jeans. Sammy wins this one!
I remember attending a concert in the early 1980s where jon bon jovi (1 of if not their first shows) was the opening act for (I think, 40 year old memories are kinda hard to focus these days) rainbow and the scorpions at the allentown fairgrounds in pennsylvania. needless to say, they left the stage in tears since NO ONE was interested in hearing their bubble gum pop (1st) hit. great memories of an era long gone......
Isn't that funny how that works? They ended up being one of the biggest bands of the 80s.
Sammy talks too.much about money and how many cars he owns, how many houses he owns, how many tequilas he owns....just stick to the music.
Lmao!!! Epic.
Kiss doesn't even deserve to be an opening act. I liked them when I was 10 and then I grew up!
What do KISS fans know about rock music anyways
More than you do apparently 😅
@@mooch514 sure they do… 😂
@@thetruthhurts6652 get a life .
Kiss is soooooooo overrated. Seen em several times ……. Completely scripted show.
Kiss fans are not necessarily fans of rock music..of course I’m gonna get a lot of 💩💩for this ..but it’s true..
Yeah, I disagree with that. When I was a kid, the makeup hooked me, and I wanted to know more. But, the music is what made me a fan. The same can be said of Snake Sabo, Slash, Garth Brooks, Lenny Kravitz, and on and on and on. They discovered KISS and their music, and it inspired them to become musicians. I'm a HUGE rock music fan, and it all started with KISS.
Kiss… the exact opposite of rock n roll
Dude, This is old news! Why do you make it like you have some big scoop? You should at least tell your viewers the story was broadcast on the Eddie Trunk That Rocks show 2 weeks ago!
At the 1:11 mark, I say Hagar told, "That Rocks." Thank you for trolling my channel, and I appreciate your comment. That comment helps the channel grow. Thank you!
I never really liked kiss bunch😂 Cheese Sticks
It’s because kiss fans having wooden ears & wouldn’t know decent musicians if they’re lives depended on it.
In Sammy's Defense it was a KiSS crowd .. Remember..Many of these people actually think Ace Frehley is some sort of great Guitar player, it's funny to watch them clamor for his return for this whole " Last show" thing, even tho you can turn on RUclips videos and cringe at how horrible he is
The only defense I give him is just that he was a young rock star. Ha ha! There aren't many of them who didn't do stupid stuff back then.
And, yes, Ace's playing is pretty bad these days.
Sorry but Hagar sucked ass live back in 1977 , he was great with Montrose but he wasn't that good on his own, the truth just hurts sometimes, sad about the Strat though, what a waste.
You know, I have no clue what he was like live in 1977. I should probably see what kind of footage I can find on that. 🤔