The fiery killer

Laugh all the way to the funk

Johnny X was eager to promote the band. Coming from the US, he understood our heads. That, unlike all the other musicians we tried to work with. Before him, no one understood what we were talking about. Our conceptual world was completely different from theirs. And their musical preferences. They worshiped Clapton. Hendricks, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Dark Purple at best, not knowing the glam-rock and punk stars, nor the ideas and surrounding hype industry. We felt strangers in a foreign country. We were frustrated by the crunch. The example we faced was the American KISS band. Her, "THE KISS ARMY", had millions of friends from the US and abroad. Every shitty album it released sold for millions, the pyrotechnics packed with explosions in the audience, the media collaborating in full devotion, and most importantly - its members knew how to play it. A gimmick chased a gimmick, and the crowd ate everything.

We followed the percentages of astonishment at KISS's career development. How they fed the audience with the story that they came to our world from outer space. How did they encourage the rumor industry about why they only appear in costumes and painted faces. How they were, in fact, a circus circus of a grandiose rock show leaning on blood splashes, spitting flames, and of course, Gene Simmons' dreadful tongue. I really liked the huge lottery made by millions of their fans: five happy winners received an exclusive photo showing the band members without masks! Only five! And that was just part of the gimmick. Because if any of the five had a mind to run with the image to the media, he must have been disappointed to find that within five minutes of exposing the image to the air, she simply consumed herself and disappeared. Huge! KISS could be written for a PhD, but we were embarrassed that Gene Simmons, the band's leader, was a Haifa boy named Haim Weitz . The Israeli accent was dominant in his speech, even though his youth had already passed him in the US. Add to that the fact that two of the band members were Jewish, and that the band's first performances were at Bar Mitzvah parties and Jewish events - and you will understand that we got the idea to march on it. The faces were so unrecognizable, and so were we. KISS went for larger-than-life performances, and so did we.
Oh well. At least we tried.
The big difference was theirs was money and we didn't. In KILLER's early years we had no divorce on our ass, and this was avenged on us throughout. We recorded our songs in the studio with a ridiculous amount of studio hours. An average of five to six hours per song. If we had the minimum financial investment then everything would have looked different. And sounds different, too. Remember this as you listen to our recordings since.
Johnny X had huge economic potential. Money flowed in their family like garbage. But only a flimsy breeze came to him as long as he had fun here in the country, away from his conservative and disappointed family. The family put X on him. As far as they were concerned, he was the Black Sheep and had no desire to cult