Hi Tommy, how are you doing?
I’m great, good to talk to you, how are you?

I’m fine thank you. I have a few questions for you, but first I have to say this is my first ever interview so be a little patient for me please.
I will, I take it easy on you, you doing a fine job.

The last show on the “End Of The Road” tour is at the Madison square garden in New York on the 2th of December. Is that the real end date or is KISS not able to stop touring
We’ve been touring on the “End Of The Road” tour for the last 4 years now, with 2 years on hold of covid and we are going strong the last leg and we keep going strong till the 2th of December and that would be the absolutely last show of the band touring. Now people getting a little confused sometimes because KISS is not going away, KISS is a valuable brand and an important band and the merchandise will go on.

It seems that you are enjoying everything about KISS so it doesn’t really stop, I think?
Yeah I am, but I will find other things to do, I’m not ready for retirement, I’m in my early sixty’s so I am the young one in the band. So I find other things to do, maybe things that doesn’t have something to do with KISS but we’ll see what happens.

Lets talk about your future and the future of your comrades. What are you going to do wit hall that spare time?
Well I can’t answer for them, but I’ve got other projects I’m doing. I’ve been involved in the wine business up in Oregon with my brother, I have some property that I own, so I’m a farmer. I’m also helping developing some animation projects with some partners, trying to get some television series for children and some Japanese anime for a more mature age. Anyway, different things. I’m the kind of guy who is always doing something, I’m not the sit around.

It’s good to keep going, otherwise you get old?
Yeah that’s really important.

The music business: is it possible you are going to a band, or produce a record?
People are asking if I’m getting involved in another band, or even managing something. I don’t think so. I am in the business for 50 years and I’m not interested in being in another band and managing a group is very interesting, but I think it’s a tough business also especially these days breaking through it’s difficult. I think I had enough of all that kind of stuff and gonna do some other things that probably will not be involved with a band or being in a band.

I didn’t expect that because you are already 35 years or so in the music business professionally, haven’t you?
I’ve been in the music business professionally  for more than 40 years now, and it’s been great.

You work for and  with the band since 1989, will that continue in another form?
It’s possible, like I said earlier, KISS will continue and I may be involved with something, somehow, but I don’t know at the moment. But it’s possible.

I’ve red an article from 2015 about your favourite music and there where all 70’s bands like CCR, Pat Travers, but also the heavier stuff, like Deep Purple and Black Sabbath on that list.
Most of it is because I grew up in that era when I was 13, 14, 15, 16. That’s really when I was forming my blood of my youth. On that age Rock and Roll with that bands it all start happening then.

Do you look to newer bands and listen to them?
Yeah, some, but even The Foo Fighters is not really a new band they have been around for 25 years.

But you don’t listen to the real new bands?
I kind of listen to a little bit of everything, but the newer groups don’t really resonate with me, because I already have the stuff that I love and I think the newer groups always sound like something else. When you get older, you go “oh that sounds like Led Zeppelin”, or “that sounds like KISS, I rather listen to the originals. Then you don’t have to listen to bands who sounds like that band. But if I was an 18 year old kid I’ve been up around bands concerts and going crazy.

Well, I’m 51 and try to follow what’s happening in the music world and I like thrash metal bands for example, so I try to listen to the newer bands also.
That’s not really my thing. I like bands, I like hooks, probably more of the pop element, although I do like loud guitars, but everybody’s  got their own thing, but thrash isn’t it to me, but everybody got his own taste.