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Question: Please tell me out of all 10 KISS Members, who is the only one that was never OFFICIALLY a member of KISS? (As in, he played with them, toured with them, but NEVER signed a contract as a member of the band)


Answers: Please tell me out of all 10 KISS Members, who is the only one that was never OFFICIALLY a member of KISS? (As in, he played with them, toured with them, but NEVER signed a contract as a member of the band)

Paul Stanley
Gene Simmons
Tommy Thayer
Eric Singer

Former members
Peter Criss
Ace Frehley
Eric Carr
Vinnie Vincent - NEVER signed a contract
Mark St. John
Bruce Kulick

don't know, don't care...

Bing Crosby, sheesh everybody knows that ?

Wow, you freaks are really into KISS aren't you?

Vinnie Vincent

i dont have a clue!!!
who are they anyway?

Ace Frehley

Vinnie Vincent was brought in as a songwriter and uncredited studio replacement for Ace Frehley during recording for Creatures of the Night. He contributed to several songs on the album, including "I Love It Loud", and "I Still Love You". Vincent was subsequently chosen to replace Frehley permanently.

Vincent originally wanted to use his given name in the band, but this was vetoed by Gene Simmons on the grounds that it sounded "too ethnic". Vincent then suggested the name "Mick Fury", but this was also disallowed. Simmons later suggested the name change to Vinnie Vincent. Vincent started actively pushing to join KISS as a full member. Despite misgivings Simmons and Paul Stanley harbored about his personality, Vincent was taken into the band, and Stanley designed an "Ankh Warrior" persona and makeup for him.

From 1982-1983, the new line-up of KISS became Simmons (Demon), Stanley (Star Child), Eric Carr (Fox), and Vincent (Ankh Warrior). This incarnation of KISS was to be the last incarnation of the original makeup era. At the end of the Creatures tour, the band removed their make-up.

Aside from songwriting credits under his given name, Vincent's involvement with the recording of Creatures Of The Night was not widely publicized for several years, because the band was not sure it wanted to let fans know that Ace Frehley had left the band. For this reason, Frehley still appeared on the cover of the original album artwork, as well as in the music video for I Love It Loud. When the album was re-mixed and re-released in 1985 with a non-makeup cover and a slightly different song order — to reflect the band's roster change and abandonment of their makeup and costuming — Vincent was again absent from the album cover, as then-current lead guitarist Bruce Kulick appeared there instead. The liner notes accompanying the re-mixed LP, however, have credited both Ace Frehley and Vinnie Vincent with lead-guitar performances on Creatures of the Night.

Lick It Up is the only instance of Vincent appearing on a Kiss album by actual image, and it is the only Kiss album where Vincent receives unambiguous and exclusive lead-guitar credit.

Vincent's personality did not mesh well with either Stanley or Simmons, and he was dismissed from Kiss at the end of the Creatures tour. He was rehired before recording started for Lick It Up, because Simmons and Stanley could not find a new guitarist on such short notice. Personality issues arose once again, and Vincent was fired following the Lick It Up tour; he was replaced by Mark St. John. Vincent's work on Creatures of the Night continued to not be officially recognized until the album was remastered in 1997.

Vincent was later utilized by Kiss as a songwriter on the 1992 album Revenge, contributing to the songs Unholy, Heart Of Chrome, and I Just Wanna. Before long, however, Vincent and the band fell out with each other for a third time.

Rumors have circulated for years amongst Kiss fan circles regarding the true reason (or reasons) for Vincent's dismissals from the band, with at least one band member refusing to comment, except to say that

Members
Paul Stanley
Gene Simmons
Tommy Thayer
Eric Singer
Former members
Peter Criss
Ace Frehley
Eric Carr
Vinnie Vincent
Mark St. John
Bruce Kulick


Vinnie Vincent never signed a contract...so he was never officialy a member =]

ViNNiE ViNCENT! (born Vincent Cusano)



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