NEWS: Which Little-Person Kiss Tribute Air Guitar Band Will Win?

MUSIC: Which Little-Person Kiss Tribute Air Guitar Band Will Win?

What is it about the now-defunct rock band Kiss that inspires so much tribute? It was the first band to get merchandized out the wazoo, lending their likenesses to everything from lunchboxes to hats to dolls to mugs (they even have their own overfilled section on eBay). Now, it seems, there's somewhat of a smackdown afoot in about which air guitar Kiss tribute band made up entirely of little people really owns the idea.



The two bands are called MiniKISS and TinyKiss. It seems that "Little" Tim Loomis used to be the drummer for MiniKISS and quit to form Tiny Kiss, in which three little people are accompanied by a 350-pound woman. They were playing a place in Vegas called Beacher's Madhouse on St. Patrick's Day when Joey Fatale, the frontman of MiniKISS evidently tried to infiltrate security with the intention of confronting his former drummer over stealing the idea (which seems plausible to me -- nobody's in two little-person air guitar Kiss tribute bands in a row by accident).



Fatale claims nothing really went down and that the whole thing is a publicity stunt for the venue, but I don't care. Stories like this just really brighten my day. I think I even smell a reality show... Midget Kiss Idol? Midget Kiss Wars? Bring it.







image from latimes

Nitpicking, but

...try an eBay search for "Beatles" sometime.

/beatlemania

[Edited on Apr 17, 2006 by Keith]

I wanna know which 'Little Gene Simmons' has a longer tongue.

air guitar?
huh so they don't even play kiss music and people buy there stuff

now-defunct rock band kiss?
not that i care either way, but aren't they just taking another break before doing another farewell tour?

no, they sit up there on stage and pretend to play the instruments while the lead singer actually sings...its kinda of lame...though i did accidentlaly fuck the peter criss one up in the pit...sorry, i didnt see him.