“They weren’t the best band in the world, but they were stars. That’s what you look for in bands. ‘Boy, I wish I was a member of that club’”: Kiss legends Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons remember the New York City rivals who were doomed to failure

New York Dolls.

“They were so much better live than on record,” Gene Simmons says about the outrageous rock ’n’ roll band from New York City who were rivals to Kiss in the early ’70s.

In a new interview with Track Star podcast, Simmons and his Kiss bandmate Paul Stanley discuss a broad range of music – from their biggest influences such as The Beatles, Slade and The Who, to the stars of the New York rock scene from which Kiss emerged.