For years up years, since the RnR Hall of Fame was opened KISS and it's loyal legions of fans have *****ed and moaned about their not having been inducted. The complained loud often and long about how any band who put the phrase "I Wanna Rock n' Roll All Night" in their biggest song, naturally deserves to be in the hall. I don't mind this, if you love a band root for them support them that is your right. But that wasn't enoug for KISS fans. Every time another class of artists/musicians was inducted WITHOUT their favorite band KISS fans would take to the internet, radio stations and every other medium they could find not just to bemoan KISS' absence from the rolls but to belittle other inductee's whom they felt "undeserving". I experienced this first hand when Laura Nyro was inducted 2 years ago. The backlash from KISS and RUSH fans was brutal, ignorant, sexist and saddening. So... last year RUSH is inducted, this year KISS gets in. Fine, all's right with the world eh?

No all is NOT right with the world. After the longest induction introduction speech ever and all the *****in' and whinin' and bombast of this band of face painting fools DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THE GOOD GRACE TO PLAY!!!! That's right after all the sturm and drang over all these years the members of KISS hate each other so much they would even play at their induction. When they'd all said their respective "thank you's" they turned to one another in confusion and bewilderment as the musical introduction for Cat Stevens picked up. Cat Stevens who DID play and DID speak with class and grace. How fitting that a basic and earnest singer songwriter from England should show this perhaps THE most seli-absorbed band in modern history how to behave was priceless. I hope I never hear from Gene Simmons and Company again. And I hope KISS fans have learned that the only thing worse than not gettin' what you want sometimes... is gettin' it!

Worf