{"id":33138,"date":"2025-12-29T11:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=33138"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:38:17","slug":"peter-criss-2025-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/29\/peter-criss-2025-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Criss (2025) Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"33138\" class=\"elementor elementor-33138\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3f8118a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"3f8118a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a25faeb\" data-id=\"a25faeb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12faa10 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"12faa10\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One of the founding members of KISS, drummer\/co-vocalist Peter Criss (recent Kennedy Center Honor recipient and Rock And Roll Hall of Famer), released his first solo album in 18 years, on December 19th of 2025 (one day before Peter&#8217;s 80th birthday).<\/p><p>Peter has been talking about this album for many years, but I think it was worth the wait.<\/p><p>I preordered the CD and bought the digital version on Peter&#8217;s Bandcamp page.<\/p><p>Just the first day of having the digital version, I played it 12 times all the way through.<\/p><p>I really love this album.<\/p><p>Aside from a few great R&amp;B songs and one sort of Rockabilly song (awesome), this album really ROCKS!<\/p><p>Peter is still in fine voice and his drumming is still great.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>And he has a great group of musicians with him on this album.\u00a0 John 5 (Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, 2wo, solo artist) plays guitar on three songs while Mike McLaughlin plays guitar on the other songs.\u00a0 Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth, Talas, The Winery Dogs, Sons Of Apollo) plays bass on all but one song (Matt Montgomery on the other song), Paul Shaffer of The David Letterman Band plays all the piano and organ parts, and Dennis Collins, Sharon Collins, and Cat Manning supply backing vocals.<\/p><p>If you are a Peter fan, KISS fan, or rock fan, I can&#8217;t see anything here you should not like.<\/p><p>I think this is one of Peter&#8217;s best albums and IF I ever meet him (he&#8217;s the only original member of KISS I&#8217;ve not met) I would love for him to sign my CD.<\/p><p>Thank you Peter for this great album.<\/p><p>I love you forever.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e5cfdd7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"e5cfdd7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e10823\" data-id=\"7e10823\" 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December 19th of 2025 (one day before Peter&#8217;s 80th birthday). Peter has been talking about this album for many years, but I think it was worth the wait. I preordered the CD and bought the digital version on Peter&#8217;s Bandcamp page. Just the first day of having the digital version, I played it 12 times all the way through. I really love this album. Aside from a few great R&amp;B songs and one sort of Rockabilly song (awesome), this album really ROCKS! Peter is still in fine voice and his drumming is still great.\u00a0\u00a0 And he has a great group of musicians with him on this album.\u00a0 John 5 (Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, 2wo, solo artist) plays guitar on three songs while Mike McLaughlin plays guitar on the other songs.\u00a0 Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth, Talas, The Winery Dogs, Sons Of Apollo) plays bass on all but one song (Matt Montgomery on the other song), Paul Shaffer of The David Letterman Band plays all the piano and organ parts, and Dennis Collins, Sharon Collins, and Cat Manning supply backing vocals. If you are a Peter fan, KISS fan, or rock fan, I can&#8217;t see anything here you should not like. I think this is one of Peter&#8217;s best albums and IF I ever meet him (he&#8217;s the only original member of KISS I&#8217;ve not met) I would love for him to sign my CD. Thank you Peter for this great album. I love you forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33147,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33138\/revisions\/33147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}