Comments on: Music Urban Legends Revealed #3

By: Narvi

Narvi — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:05:44 +0000

The acronym I heard was “KNIGHTS in Satan’s Service”.

Still untrue, but, in my eyes, more awesome.

By: Mark McDermott

Mark McDermott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:51:20 +0000

More prominent during the 1970′s was the warning various religious groups were passing around to us kids: That KISS was really an acronym for “Kids in Service to Satan.” Oooooooh!

Sometimes, a kiss is still a kiss.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:19:59 +0000

Hehe, yeah, Robert, I admit that I tend to believe them, too.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:31:20 +0000

Oh, of course. But Gebert and McAddams were friends of Frehley’s, so they wrote their books from a position of first hand knowledge.

Now, of course, they could also have been out to just get attention, since they are no longer friends, so that must also be considered!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:01:53 +0000

Yeah, Robert, I was aware that people have said that he collects/has collected Nazi memorabilia, but since I’ve never seen it definitively stated anywhere, it didn’t seem like one of those things I wanted to throw out there if I could avoid it.

Meanwhile, Frehley HAS definitively stated that he was NOT influenced by the SS (this, of course, does not mean that he’s telling the truth, but I guess I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt).

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Well, in the interests of fairness, while Ace Frehley MAY not have intentionally meant to be offensive, according to Gordon Gebert and Bob McAdams in their two KISS AND TELL books, Frehley is (or at least WAS) a collecter of Nazi Memorabilia, so he COULD have been aware of the similarity, and offered the logo as a joke…

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:39:26 +0000

Haha!

Fair enough, Nancy.

By: A. Nominus

A. Nominus — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:30:05 +0000

The “SS” in the KISS logo is NOT “identical” to the WWII SS logo.
The upper portion is clearly shorter than the lower for KISS, and same-size for WWII.

so there.

-Nitpicky Nancy

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:08:23 +0000

Also, there have definitely been cases of stunt men dying and the shots being used in the film; I believe the original ‘Flight of the Phoenix’ is the most famous example of this, because it was a major stunt in the film and a pilot who died doing it.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:04:09 +0000

I think that ‘The Twilight Zone: The Movie’ used some footage from the shot where Vic Morrow and the kids died. Not the parts where they died, though. Just early parts of the take, because they (obviously) couldn’t do it again.