Rock beef: Paul Stanley responds to Aerosmith's KISS dis
By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic October 17, 2012 , 7:00 a.m. Call it a clash of egos, a publicity stunt or merely one more battle in the long-running war between Boston and New York City, but Aerosmith 's recent dismissal of KISS as "a comic book rock band" has prompted a response from KISS singer-guitarist Paul Stanley. Last week, for no apparent reason, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith decided to denigrate KISS on Florida radio station the Bone. Responding to a question about the 2003 KISS/Aerosmith tour, Tyler fired this shot: "Kiss is a comic book rock band and they got a couple hits, but they're more of a comic book. You see them in their spackled faces." Ouch. Tyler continued: "We were always a band that had something to prove. We always wanted to blow off whatever band it was, and I remember when we went out with KISS in '76 or something, one of our roadies got into a knife fi...