How KISS Hired Me: Bruce Kulick shares his story (Daniel S Interview) 

Bruce is such a great guy. Much respect.

Tears are falling solo is one of the best solos of the 80s .

I wish Bruce was still in KISS.

Bruce delivered in KISS!! And delivered! And delivered!! Whatever the band's mood was through the years he was in it, he delivered blistering, melodic, ballsy solos! A humble guy. A great craftsman! Bruce Kulick - I take my hat off to you.

Bruce is a solid guitar player, i love the sound he brought to Kiss in the 80's and early 90's

Bruce was in the band when I first saw them in 84, and I have always considered him a core group member.

Bruce is my favorite guitar player from Kiss, love how talented and humble he is.

Great interview! I saw Bruce on the Revenge tour in 1992. He is awesome!

I don't think people could understand that for long term KISS fans I love these people as people artists and guides through life... Love you Bruce.

what a down to earth guy.......would love to be able to sit down with him and just pick his brain for a few hours.

Bruce you such wonderful guitar player for kiss for those twelve years. I like watching perform on stage during those times.

Super Modest. Got to meet him, totally cool dude.

I have met Bruce several times in Australia He was always a class act and his solo shows were amazing.

Great guy and a perfect fit for KISS in the eighties. Saw Bruce twice with KISS, 1984 and 1988. Great memories...

Bruce Kulick was So perfect for KISS in the 80s it's not even funny

In my opinion Bruce is without a doubt one of the most underrated guitar players ever!

Bruce Kulick is my favorite Lead Guitarist that KISS ever had. I was able to talk to both Paul Stanley and Bruce at the Real KISS Convention at Cobo Hall in Detroit, my hometown. I said to both of them "Do not let the KISS Reunion Tour happen with Ace and Peter, they will not appreciate it, in the end they will make a mess out of it." I won't tell you what they said to me in response, because I would not want to misquote them. I will say that Bruce looked at me like he knew exactly what I was trying to say. To answer the persons question about whether or not Bruce Kulick was asked to rejoin KISS and playing the part of the Spaceman. No he was not. Anyways, that's it. Rock on Bruce! I love your work!

Great interview with my favorite guitar slinger

Great interview, really appreciate it!

Best guitarist Kiss ever had.

I met Bruce and he was such a nice guy. No ego at all

I met Mark St.John at a guitar clinic that Alan Holdsworth was doing.He was real shy and humble. Bruce seems quite laid back too.Loved his tone and time in KISS.

This is great stuff, thanks man!

Seems like a great guy!

This guy MADE '80s KISS; Totally

Incredible turn of fate. Unreal to get that call. He held it together and you can see how his personality did him well.

great interview!!! thanks for sharing! i just subscribed!

I bought both the Blackjack albums when they came out. Amazing to think of where each of the members ended up.

Bruce is in my opinion the second best lead guitar player to have ever been in Kiss next to Ace

Bruce is such a great guy !

Bruce is the most humble rocker I have ever seen. Also he is the best lead guitarist KISS has ever had in their line-up. I was pissed when they dropped Bruce and Eric Singer for Ace and Peter to do the reunion tour. I think the Reunion tour was a mistake. I thought after Peter and Ace left...AGAIN, they should have brought Bruce back in like they did Eric. I have many albums that I like from KISS for various reasons, but felt that REVENGE was solid thanks to the heaviness that Bruce and Eric brought to the line-up. Bruce, you are amazing. Thanks for your time in KISS.

He's a class act. If KISS can't have Ace, then Bruce should be there. Hell, with Paul's voice wrecked, just have Bruce and Ace.

Bruce was incredible 🤘

Every video on my channel has an Ace lightening bolt guitar strap featured lol. Bruce is my next favorite KISS guitarist.

At first glance I thought it was Geddy Lee in the thumbnail.

Do you have the full interview? I think Bruce not played in You wanted the best cd!

Genuinely nice guy. Met him when he toured with Union about 10 years ago. Well and truly shit on by Paul and Gene.

He is one classy guy. 🤟🤓

Class act..

Love the original KISS and without makeup Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr best lineup

Great guitar player

Bruce Kulick & Jared Leto/Jake Gyllenhaal , cool

"Ability to complete things" Half the battle

The only living member of Kiss I'd trust.

I was KISS on the Hot in the Shade tour, Summer os 1990. The Album SUCKED, but the concert was amazing. I was learning how to play the guitar, so through out the concert I mostly watched Bruce. Great AMAZING lead guitar player....

I got lucky enough top see Bruce twice, 1987 with KISS & 200? with Grand Funk. The KISS show had no solo spot that I can remember, Eric did a solo. Highlight of the show. Had no idea what a monster rock player Bruce is till the Grand Funk show. It must have been summer 2002, the singer kept mentioning Bruce being from "ground zero" (NYC). Rock guitar as it should be!

I truly hope that Bruce got paid! He deserved it!

Bruce was the best guitarist in Kiss ever had period.

Bruce seems like a super cool dude.

Like bruce said here, kiss was always what Paul wanted it to be, no wonder Peter and Ace walked in the early 80s

It’s a shame Bruce, Eric Carr and Singer didn’t go into the R&R HOF with KISS. The Hall of Fame is a joke anyways, but Bruce definitely earned his place there.

Rip Bruce 💔

I've never really been a fan of kiss once Ace and Peter left, Aces solos on the original stuff were awesome, but to me, Bruce is a much better guitarist and I just like his style more. It's the kind of style i grew up on and tried to learn, George Lynch, Vivian Campbell, Warren DeMartini etc.

Why is the back drop blood red and his shirt black?

1. Bruce 2. Vinnie 3. Ace 4. Mark 5. Tommy Ace and Bruce will always be my favourites

Bruce was the most talented Kiss guitarist.

“Gene will license everything” Bruce ain’t wrong 😂

Jake Gylenhall doing interviews now??

Paul is the boss of KISS.

I highly suggest “ Eric Carr story “ - a book of insights.

he's always been my favorite guitarist for KISS. The one question I want to know is...does it bother him he never got to do a farewell or encore tour. Unplugged was his last gig...and he didn't know it at the time.

Was a big fan of Bruce. I was actually in Vancouver when Bruce came on Robson street to say Rock n Roll all night with 12 000 players to break the Guiness record of the most players. We were only 8000 so no record but a fun afternoon playing that song like 20 times in a row with a kiss cover band. I think they were called Black Diamond or something like that. I was a huge fan of Bob as well. Such a killer tone o Paul's solo album. He.had the playing to.match.

Bruce Kulick fue la verga en Kiss. Se acopló muy bien a la banda y en especial con Paul. Le tocó un periodo difícil con Kiss pues ellos tiraron estúpidamente el maquillaje. ¿Cuál personaje ubiese tenido Bruce?

Apparently, Vinnie was only on 500 dollars a week, so I hope Bruce got paid properly.

Eugene Levy

Kiss should have Hired Bruce after Ace or Mark. Bob kept telling them to Hire Bruce K. Paul and Gene always made BAD decisions with hiring guitar players.

Bruce and no other kiss guitarist can compare to Ace Freely. No disrespect he had a style about him.

Bruce Kulick is the best KISS guitarist. He took it and made it his. They were at their best musically when he was in the band.

Mark norton rules

We all know KISS is Paul’s band.

Bruce Kulick was the best guitarist for KISS no matter what. In my honest opinion, it would have been wonderful if Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons could have immediately hired Bruce Kulick as their new guitarist after Ace Frehley had left the band for the first time in 1982. Instead of going through with the two worst guitarists such as Vinnie Vincent & Mark St. John like they had, Bruce Kulick could have been there right from the start when Ace Frehley was leaving and so on. It was a very sad moment when Bruce Kulick & Eric Singer had to leave KISS in 1996 in order for the band to make way for the reunion tour with all four original KISS band members which included Ace Frehley & Peter Criss. It became even more saddening that Bruce Kulick was never asked to rejoin KISS after Ace Frehley had left the band again for the second time in 2002 after the original farewell tour was over. Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons had both thought that their newer guitarist Tommy Thayer who joined KISS in 2002 could capture and copy Ace Frehley's persona of the Spaceman makeup better than Bruce Kulick. Throughout his tenure as a KISS band member as well as a lead guitarist from 1984 to 1996, Bruce Kulick was an awesome guitar player in many different ways. Bruce Kulick may have played on five KISS studio albums from Asylum to Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions but please don't forget that he also appeared on a couple of live albums including Alive III and MTV Unplugged. If you check out a KISS song called "I Walk Alone" which was featured on Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions, Bruce Kulick had provided his first and only lead vocal performance on that song and it became the only KISS song to feature Bruce Kulick on lead vocals. To this day, Bruce Kulick is featured on more than twenty KISS releases. When Bruce Kulick & Eric Singer had left the band in 1996, they were however still paid weekly during the reunion tour while they were both sidelined from KISS. Both of them were still allowed to do other projects as long as Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons okayed them. Even though Bruce Kulick left the band in 1996, he still continued to work with KISS after his departure. Bruce Kulick had even got the chance to work with Tommy Thayer when they both contributed lead guitar and other stuff as additional musicians on that Psycho Circus album in 1998 which was the first new KISS studio album to feature the band's original lineup since 1979's Dynasty. Otherwise, the rest is history as they say. I sure do hope that Bruce Kulick gets a chance to rejoin KISS for the last time before they call it a day for good. Between the lead guitarists Ace Frehley, Bruce Kulick and Tommy Thayer, they have always been the best guitar players in their own ways and they were definitely legit for KISS. As for Vinnie Vincent & Mark St. John, they were not the best as both of them were very hard to work with. By the way, Bruce Kulick was one of the KISS band members not to wear any makeup designs during the non-makeup period and he had often stated that had he ever worn makeup in the band, he would have liked to have been the "Dog" since there was already a cat in the band. Other than that, I take my hat off to Bruce Kulick no matter what and I wish that he was still in KISS. And that's that. Why mess up the good thing?

Yup ghost playing. I know because im a ghost lol. Its not because the guitar player sucks or anything like that its because studios are frigging expensive lol im the type you show me once I can nail it down. I do a lot of metal rythm for local metal bands pressed by a budget

Yeah...Mark's "hand problems"...😂

Still so afraid of saying anything bad of Gene or Paul. Those NDA are no joke

Blackjack!!!!!!!

the perfect line up of Kiss in my opinion was with Vinnie and Carr

Was he really going to be 'the Dog' if they did makeup?

he looks so much like ace.even talks a little bit like him..weird

Kiss has so many examples of ghost players on albums. If you really think about that it's pretty fucking lame. Hire a bunch of studio musicians and then act like the album was made by the band members.

Bruce looks like he is wearing fake groucho marx glasses and nose.

I was so disappointed in Bruce's showmanship when KISS played in brisvegas many years ago.. he just stood there motionless..he plays brilliantly.. but being that he was playing in KISS>. he was as boring as batshit to watch.. Gene was Gene and Paul STanley was squealing like a teenage girl and twirling around like a dog chasing his tail.

Every band has a guitar tech with a secret wet dream to actually step out on stage. To bad it always is a fail!!!!

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What is this, the ridiculous beard channel?

Bruce thinks he is popular again

i heard that paul stanley and jane simmons are lesbians. next time you interview this roady Bruce Kulick ask him if its true. I been wondering about this for years

Bruce did great, but they never should have dumped vinnie Vincent