Popular music is wrought with "feuds" between artists. The fires of the "feuds" are usually fanned by the fans and the media. Musical feuds run the gamut from light-hearted "whose better" feuds, like the Beatles and the Stones, or Maiden and Priest, to serious life-or-death feuds such as the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry. In recent weeks a serious music feud has been boiling, and for all we know, it may come to a head soon.
No, it's not Mariah and Nicki. I said music feuds, not over-hyped, attention-seeking crap doing and saying stupid nonsense for publicity. It is Aerosmith and KISS. Two legendary rock band with roots in the 1970s, huge hits in the 1980s, and a dip in album sales in the new millennium, (Honkin' on Bobo and Sonic Boom combined to go Aluminum), Kiss and Aerosmith have been touring, and selling quite well, over the last few months. Kiss with Motley Crue, and Aerosmith with Cheap Trick are sure to be two of 2012's top live draws. Each band has a new album of highly-anticipated new music. Aerosmith has been touting Music From Another Dimension!, due out November 6, as a return to their musical roots. KISS has been promoting and marketing Monster, released October 9, for weeks. So what the hell are they feuding about? Why the cheap jabs at each other?
"I'm a big believer that when people recycle old stuff, they should leave it where it was. When you hear bands that are lifting riffs that they had 15, 20, 30 years ago, I think, 'My God. Can't they come up with anything new?'" - Paul Stanley, in an interview with Billboard.com.
"KISS is a comic-book rock band. They've got a couple of hits, but they're more, they're comic book — you see them in their spackled faces." -Steven Tyler, in an interview with 102.5 The Bone in Tampa, FL.
These two bands toured together in 2003 for the Rocksumus Maximus Tour. It was the 7th highest grossing tour of that year. What happened in the last 9 years to form a sort-of bad blood? Is it their cholesterol medicine? Was it a race for the last box of Geretol? Was it a dispute of which episode of Matlock to watch? Seriously, both of these bands have a great deal of hits, and each band has a fan base that is strong enough to support for years to come. Gene Simmons will be able to market everything. Steven Tyler will be able to do non-Aerosmith ventures (like American Idol, and screwing up the National Anthem at football games), so why the knocking on each other? More importantly, does anyone care what these guys are doing if they're not making and playing music?
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