Dressing up like KISS!

It was a lot of fun! I still remember it like it was yesterday. Paul and I were big time KISS fans. Now this wasn't always the case. I remember when I was in 9th grade (let me date myself here, this was back in 1975-1976) I used to hate KISS and all KISS fans. I remember saying KISS was a bunch of fags and using the old KISS my A$$ line but hey, we were just kids. Anyway, I used to go to my friend Mark Morrell's house and play pool. One day he put on an album while we were shooting pool. I said, "Who is this?" Mark said, "KISS". The album was KISS ALIVE. I was a fan ever since. Typical of not knowing the music and just judging by the looks. The interesting thing is once I started liking the music, the looks didn't bother me at all. As a matter of fact, I started to like them. One day, Paul McGowan, a personal friend of mine that had a lot in common with me (Martial Arts and now KISS) and I got together and decided to dress up like KISS. It was a spur of the moment thing. He liked Gene Simmons and I liked Paul Stanley. So here's what we did, we went to Murphy's Mart and bought some white shoe polish and used his mother mascara and lip stick and painted our faces as Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and walked down the street. We got whistles, comments and horn honks. In case you were wondering, it wasn't Halloween. We just did it! And we did it time and time again. I vaguely remember one day, a friend of ours named Tad Morrison wasn't feeling well and we painted our faces and stopped over to Tad's house. I don't even remember Tad's mom taking the picture! But, by the power of Facebook, Tad posted it online and here it is today! Thanks Tad for the post. Now everyone can see how crazy we really were!