Did your mom hate KISS?
Maybe not to the extent of the mom in the film, but was your mom 'Anti-KISS'?
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Great thread . . . I was in first grade in 1977 when Love Gun hit the stores. My parents were into the Beatles and the Stones, so they thought KISS were total crap. My dad told my brother and me that KISS could say bad words with their guitars; however, he was cool enough to wake us up one night when KISS was jamming on late night TV.
I'm surprised to read how many of your mothers are into KISS (must be younger mothers). There were probably less mothers into KISS in the 70s' then there are today . . .
Hating rock and metal bands is very 1983. Marilyn Manson once said that he likes going to the deep south because it's the only place in the world where he still gets a comically OTT reaction from the "Rock = Satan" brigade. Everywhere else has moved on from hating bands for a perceived perverse ideology. Sadly, hating bands for their music or looks is still alive and well and it comes mainly from the younger generations. I think Kiss were never the tightest live band and they weren't the rockinest but they put on a great spectacle.
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My mom is the same age as the characters in the film, so she liked them. Although not as much as other bands like Ziggy Stardust and Van Halen.
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I started to listen to KISS when I was like twelve years old. My mom just rolled her eyes.
She didn't get concerned until I started to listen to Black Sabbath.
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I was born in '74 so I was a little kid during their heyday, but my brother Mark (8 years older than I) had every album, the Mego dolls, the trading cards--the whole thing. By '79 he'd sort of moved on to other bands and he gave me all of his KISS stuff. I would come home from kindergarten and put "Destroyer" on my little record player and rock out .
Mom must've been a bit concerned that KISS would lead me down the wrong path because one day I came home and found that all of my KISS records were gone, replaced by a stack of The Who albums. Turns out she took them to work with her and traded them to some bus boy or dishwasher. Not sure why she thought The Who would be a better influence, but Mom was never much of a rocker. It only took a few spins for me to realize The Who weren't for me and into the trash they went.
I do remember my Grandma using the "Knights in Satan's service" thing on me .
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My Aunt and Uncle are the prudes in my family. It's so bad that growing up, I had to put up a disguise (play along with what they were saying) so they wouldn't hound me.
It got so bad that when I turned 18 and finally cut loose, they'de practically harrass me every minute I was awake (via emails) with their religious propanganda. When I told them to finally stop, it started a great cival war in my family that still hasn't been resolved as of today (I am now 34).
Prudes. Every family has one.
EDIT: The civil war in my family has ended, but the scars still remain. At the most recent family function in which we were all there, I barely was able to have a conversation with my Aunt and Uncle. All I got was uncomfortable silence, cold stares, and, as I was leaving and saying my goodbyes, my Uncle just said "CIAO!" and just walked away. WOW, talk about being a bitter person. At least my cousins were polite and actually talked to me.
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My mom didn't like Kiss. She like good music like Zeppelin, Genesis,Sabbath etc.
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Luckily I grew up in a heavy metal family. My parents loved KISS and they love that I really like them too.
I was one of the lucky ones to be born into this kind of music.
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"I fought your kind in the great war and we kicked the living *beep* out of you"
If I'd been a teenaged KAS, my mother would not have been pleased.
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My mom didn't mind at all, as long as it took my mind of all those stays in the hospital I had as a kid. Yeah - there was a lot going on back then...and KISS helped.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
I was barely three when I received a Gene Simmons Mego doll. I don't know if my mom even knew who KISS was. I'd probably seen a commercial and acted interested.
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