With Kiss, lead guitarist Tommy Thayer roams the stage in six-inch platform heels, his signature Gibson and Epiphone Les Pauls echoing across stadiums and arenas worldwide.
It's quite a spectacle, and when it comes to rock 'n' roll grandiosity, few do it better, let alone with so much flash. Thayer's slick licks are only matched by the grease paint adoring his face, and the leather draped over his frame. But at the crux of it all, that age-old single-cut curio – unless he's deploying his rocket-shooting Flying V – is slung over his shoulder, and through that most sacred of talisman, Thayer summons the ghosts of those who came before him.
