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  • ele falavaaaa õ/

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  • Gene suck....

  • Mark played a couple of shows in USA... there was a show where Bruce replaced him at the middle of it because of Mark's hands problem. There is a pic where you can see Paul, Gene, Eric, Bruce and Mark at the end of the show. Sorry my english.

  • how do u find this??

  • it's a shame that Mark never got to play in front of the fans. he was such a talented musician. R.I.P. Mark

  • Definitely the most unique of the KISS lead guitarists, too bad he only lasted one album. I'm hoping that a future "KISSology" will include one of the not-many shows with Mark St. John. I've never heard him play live.

  • @ChannelBelongs2Scott

    Mark St. John never played live. Bruce Kulick played on the tour because Mark had a problem with his fingers so he had to leave before the tour.

  • ONE ALBUM, ANIMALIZE .... I MISS HIM.

  • He seems so nervous there. But he's a good guy. Seems very sweet. Its a shame he didn't get to work with them longer.

  • I went to Garden Grove HS with Mark Norton ( real name) He had a progrock band called Jabberwocky with his brother Mike (ELP, King Crimson not metal). There was a concert at the Don Wash Auditorium 1977 at the school Gazelle headlined, then Axis Sally; Jabberwocky opened. The concert was organized by a high school junior named Brian Healy and about 1500 people showed up. The bands got nothing but the school made enough money to buy a new weight room for the pathetic jocks. What a waste!

  • I was lucky enough to see him play with Kiss in Poughkeepsie,N.Y. He kicked ass live! Better than Vinnie by a thousand miles. RIP Mark.

  • haha! Mark talked with a lisp...I can't stand his playing on Animalize...too crazy, too dramatic, too over the top. Vinnie was better.

  • Gene was just sleazy looking back then.

  • @Warchief01 Unlike now....

  • @MsPhil75 you are weird

  • @MsPhil75 Now yes. The original band doesn't suck one bit. 

  • Thats kool!!!

  • Musically Animalize with Mark St John on it was one of KISS best albums.The fingerwork of St John on that album was incredible.One of my fav songs from that album is Under The Gun.I love the double bass work onthat song from Eric,whom is another member that is sorely missed.

  • Gene seems really, really baked here (though I know he's not).

  • What a shame. He could have saved KISS.

  • eu fiquei com tanta raiva de o gene simmons ter tirado o vinnie vicent da banda , e no album animalize vem a cara dessa gretchen na capa, que roguei praga, só sei que o cara teve artrite nos dedos e nunca mais deu as caras nio kiss.

  • nossa eu não sabia que a gretchen fez parte do kiss.kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

  • he kind of looks like ozzy

  • St. John, otimo guitar, faz falta, tocou mto no Kiss, e no Funk Railroad

  • I'm currently sitting next to Marks son.

  • Funny how everyone likes Mark st. john but hates tommy thayer. Mark was a replacement gutarist as is Tommy. the only difference is that Gene and Paul put Tommy in make up.

  • @raran44 Mark was replacing Vinnie who replace Ace. Both Vinnie & Mark played (or more likely) allowed to play in their own style. Technically Vinnie, Mark & Bruce are better than Ace. Ace though had that special something that made both him & KISS better with him than without. Tommy is in Ace's make-up, but more importantly is that he is that he sounds like Ace. To me there is NOTHING on Sonic Boom that doesn't sound like Ace could have done it. Fox mak-up worked. So could something else.

  • Gene's wig looks like Delta Burke's.

  • MARK ST JOHN WAS A GOOD GUITARIST AND GENE AND PAUL WERE THE FOUNDERS OF THE BAND AND WERE ALWAYS VERY PROTETCTIVE OF THEIR NEW MEMBERS..WOUDN'T YOU?,,MARK WAS SO HAPPY TO BE IN KISS AND THEN WHEN HE LEFT/THROWN OUT...HE STARTED AN AMATEUR CLUB BAND AND THRASHED KISS..NO CLASS..THE SEVEN PEOPLE PER NIGHT AT MARK'S BAND WERE THERE BECAUSE HE WAS IN KISS..NOT BECAUSE OF HIS PLAYING WHICH NO ONE CARED ABOUT..KISS JUST WANTED A GOOD REPLACEMENT FOR ACE WITHOUT DRAMA..ACE & PETER HAD CAUSED ENOUGH!!

  • @mooch514 whats with the fucken caoslock? fuck

  • 4 years ago :( too bad

  • RIP Mark

  • @SuperJewTV1

    REITERS SYNDROME WAS B.S.

    I KNEW MARK, WE ALSO HAD SEVERAL MUTUAL FRIENDS...

    MARK TOLD ME THE REAL STORY IN FEBRUARY 1985, AND RETOLD THE SAME STORY IN AN ONLINE INTERVIEW YEARS LATER...

    

  • GENE IS VERY CONTROLLING, HE TOLD MARK HOW TO PLAY HIS GUITAR AND HOW NOT TO PLAY HIS GUITAR, BOTH GENE AND PAUL WERE NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE NEW GUY TO UPSTAGE THEM, DURING REHEARSAL'S MARK WOULD SET HIS GUITAR DOWN, AND GENE YELLED AT HIM, YOU EAT WITH IT, SLEEP WITH IT... MARK NOW NOT WANTING TO BE IN THE BAND BASED ON THE WAY HE WAS TREATED, WENT TO HIS LAWYER TO SEE IF HE COULD GET OUT OF HIS CONTRACT, HIS LAWYER SAID, THERE IS NO WAY OUT OF THIS CONTRACT, UNLESS YOU DIE...

  • SO MARK RESEARCHED AILMENTS THAT WOULD PREVENT HIM FROM PLAYING AND CAME UP WITH REITERS SYNDROME (ARTHRITIS INHIS HANDS), GENE & PAUL BOUGHT IT HOOK LINE AND SINKER AND, MARK WAS RELEASED...

    MARK THEN STARTED FORMING A NEW BAND WITH HIS BROTHER MICHAEL (WHITE TIGER), IF MARK REALLY HAD REITERS SYNDROME, THERE IS NO WAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PLAY THAT QUICKLY AFTER LEAVING KISS...

    IT WAS THE PERFECT LIE TO GET HIM OUT OF AN UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATION, AND IT WORKED...

  • I'm glad this was included on Kissology II. That was the first time I actually heard Mark speak lol. Mark seemed like a good guy. Too bad we, the KISS army, didn't get to know him well enough. He will be missed, along with Eric.

    R.I.P. Eric and Mark!

  • Nice wig Gene !!!!!!

  • my dad was best friends with him

  • mark was actin gay in this interview RIP. gene is a dick

  • I didn't even know that he died.

  • wow...Mark was so Hansome!!!

  • he was soo nice

  • rip dude.

  • an amazing... AMAZING guitar player...

  • Gene looks like he just woke up.

  • @robertkurt2 no, that's when he went to sleep - we're still waiting for him to wake up.

  • ha he looks like ozzy

  • the saddest part is, is that Mark wasn't let go because he did something wrong. he was let go because he couldn't move his hand and the band decided they liked Bruce (his replacement) better.

  • nice wig Gene!!! lol

  • how do you find these easter eggs

  • @MrCraigary123

    on the menu with your remote as you browse for your selection you can actually see the options

  • fuck dude he looks like ozzy

  • @dor14sp thtas wat i was thinking

  • gene realy liked that guy i think

  • i think there DRUNK HAHA

  • i like what Mark contributed to Animalize 1984

    But then im glad Bruce was in the band from 84 tour /1985 - 1995

  • We miss you Marky boy :( R.I.P The Saint.

  • Mark seemed like a really nice guy. It's a shame he had to leave us so soon.

  • The best musician to ever be in kiss.. he had no place in that band, but that's not a negative thing. Rest in peace

  • very good guitarist, met him at a convention years back an he was nice and humble. RIP

  • rip mark st john a baddass guitar player

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  • wait, what was the initiation

  • Gene Simmons is an ass  but sorry to say he's killing the band but yet he say's that drugs kill rock bands but his marketing is and has been killing kiss for years kick out Gene Simmons and bring back peter and ace and get an new bass player

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  • ur right, but gene is one of the founding members and the oldest, and u cant kick out thhe founding member.

  • @1989cmo LOL

  • great guitar player, as all the guitar players for KISS where. rip mark st john. you fucken rocked man. -kissfan59474

  • Gene says he doesn't do drugs? Either he is very tired in this video or he is high?

  • haha, i dont think he is high on this interview, But when gene says hes clean, i dont 101% belive that statement, I belive hes clean now, but allso think he may have done some drug use in the 70's with petter and ace. but Gene never let drug interfere with KISS,unlike Ace and petter. Genes a good man. I know he dosent use today. rock on

  • gene is a jew !!

  • yes Mr.Gene Simmons happens to be jewish,so what. Hes a good man( a good dad to his kids) and hes good to his fans. I dont wana see you comment like that againe,unless you wana see a very pissed of kissfan!

  • He had a really rare condition, that came around the start of the Animalizie Tour, so Bruce Kulick came in. I generally quite like Gene but this interview and his sex video made me thing about that.

  • Look at that tyrant Gene Simmons trying to butt his way into the frame of the whole fucking shot!

  • yeah basically saying you're a hired gun and you have no fucking say. i used to think the world of kiss as a kid but i grew up and grew out of them. ace and peter are awesome but the other 2 punks paul and gene are ripping it all apart.

  • yeah gene does that. if you notice when the reporter asks mark, "dose the band let you give your ideas" gene buds in. why is that I wounder?............... lol

  • is he still alive

  • no he died in 2007. RIP dude great KISS member even if you only played with them for a short time

  • yeah agreed ty for telling me i k=never knew how did he pass

  • i love  you daddy.<3,haley

  • Gene Simmonds is an absolute child - control freak. Grow up idiot!

  • The Mark St. John Interview, given by Gene Simmons (with special guest: Mark St. John).

  • Miss you Mark especially during this time of year. I really can't speak highly of Gene.

    You're the best amongt Randy Rhoads!

  • gene pretty much shut him up lol

  • what a sad loss, seemed like such a sweet bloke, and an awesome guitarist.

  • No kidding. This guy just never had it good. He was literally in the band for months because of some bummer condition he got and I'm sad that he is no longer with us. He was too young.

  • iron maiden's "a matter of life and death" is a fucking classic.. epic album. so what? can still make good music.

  • where do you think the info I posted came from.

  • Animalize = KISS' highest selling 80s album. Glam Metal FTW!!!!! \m/

  • Nope, Crazy nights was,Aninmalize charted at #19 Crazy Night charted at #18

    Both went Platinum

  • highest selling. not highest on the charts.

  • wrong...

    Crazy Nights is the 14th album by American hard rock band Kiss. It was the fourth Kiss album in a row to achieve platinum status. The album peaked at #18 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, [1] making Crazy Nights the highest-charting Kiss album of the 1980s in the United States.

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  • still not true but but the subject is getting old ,I own all KISS CD's they all have some great songs

  • it is true. look it up on wikipedia or whatever. and every KISS song is awesome. from their 70s hard rock/glam days 2 their disco rock stuff 2 their progressive rock stuff to their 80s glam/pop metal stuff and even their grunge stuff is awesome. \m/

  • @Acekicken I also have every single KISS CD :D

  • he said "Animalize" has sold the most copies over ne other 80s KISS album. not how it charted.

  • genes dream is the beaver, oregon fighter for eric singer, tommy thayer...

    Wolfy is in Roxx as Midnight Wolf,

    Im of my own dream...

  • I like how Gene basically shuts Mark down from saying anything....

    When the interviewer starts asking Mark a question.

    Simmons says...

    "He puts his fingers on the guitar and that does the talking for him"

    Now STFU and Obey!

    RIP Mark

  • i hate easter eggs - i am too busy to go looking 4 them..thanks for finding and posting this

  • how can you love kiss but hate simmons ? thats like loving corvettes but hating GM ! stupid racist comment, just stupid !

  • I can say it too, I love Kiss but hate Simmons. He's an egomaniac, who shuts everybody who's doing an interveiw. I'm not racist. I would just like Gene to shut the fuck up and just make music. Look up kiss interveiw on Tom Snyder show see how Gene's face looks when Ace & Peter get all the attention! Every band has an asshole.

    Metallica - Lars

    Megadeth- Mustaine

    GnR - Axl

    Kiss- Gene

  • Mustaine IS Megadeth U TWAT

  • And Gene IS Kiss

    And Lars IS Metallica

    They are still assholes to work with though. U TWAT

  • i think james hetfield is just as much of an asshole in metallica. and i agree. lars is a dick. gene is a dick. axl rose is a dick. but i still love metallica, kiss and guns n roses. just because u dont like their personalities doesnt mean u cant appreciate their music.

  • I feel you. I mean, i think gene can be funny. and i love his songwriting, and singing and bassplaying. but he can be a real dick and thats just a fact. and as u mentioned there are a lot of similar examples. the most obvious is probably axl rose in guns n roses. i love gnr and i like axls voice and i think he is a great musician but the fact remains: the guy is a class one, fucking a-hole.

  • interesting to note all four bands/arseholes you mention HAVENT had a decent record in fifteen years

  • So you haven't heard Load & Reload, Death Magnetic

    And Chinese Democracy is not bad

  • Nope, Chinese Democracy isn't bad ... it sucks!

    In 100 years ,people who enjoy music will say: "until the Black Album, Metallica made good music".

    In 100 years, people who watch too much MTV will say, "after the Black Album, Metallica made good music".

    Question is, whos opinion will matter in 100 years ... :)

  • stupid comment !

  • Answer is ... not yours :)!

  • I never watch MTV and Load is my fav album.

  • last good metallica album was master of puppets

  • load,reload,death magnetic,chinese democracy all suck.last good metallica album was master of puppets.

  • That's a very close minded statement. Load/ Reload were bluesy albums, just because they weren't playing 1000 miles an hour doesn't mean it isn't good, you have to be open to new ideas.

  • bluesy albums?sounded more like sell out albums.metallica sucks anyway.they are sell outs

  • Reload was a great album

  • metalllicas latest is kinda good

  • How can you love corvettes and hate GM?

    Corvette is a cool car.

    GM consists of greedy old men who rob White Trash like yourself of their jobs.

    Which do YOU prefer?

    There is a difference between KISS fans and KISS-Kattle, you know ...?

  • hey, I'll keep this simple "SUCK MY WHITE TRASH COCK' you little frickin goose steppin' ASSHOLE ! Wahat color trash are you !

  • shit head NO GM = NO CORVETTE

    simpleton ...

  • fenriz218 wtf man. proves the only asshole around here is you.

  • I love KISS and Israel is a bloody cool place (when there's no suicide bombers) - but I can honestly say that the "creep" on Marks left side fullfills ever clichee of "greasy hebrew" ... prooves one thing though: you can go through you whole life not having a beer or whatever ... and still be an Arsehole!

  • Um ok thanks man, you don't have to be fucking rude, ''if not thats my problem?'' what the fuck?

  • R.I.P. Mark St. John

  • Can any of you guys explain why this is not on my Kissology 2 dvd? is it because i have the UK version? + do any of you have the Largo show on your DVD of kissology 2?

  • do you know what easter egg means? if not thats your problem.

    basically if you have it in your dvd player, go to the main menu and scroll along further than you should or press up to find it. if lon a computer just hold the mouse over diverent bits of the screen and click.

    (its a hidden thingy)

  • How do you get to this on Kissology 2?

  • Very effeminate sounding, Singer was (speaking like Yoda, I am).

  • GENE is a BIG liar!!!!! I know he has been drunk and stoned hundreds of times! He just wont realize it!

  • How you YOU know?

  • Gene said they had to keep slowing down Mark, said he would just come out and want to shred every song.

  • this is not on kissology II

  • yes check on the third disc, on the menu go on kissology

  • he was a brilliant guitarist. RIP Mark.

  • ...Wow...Gene's like,"Marks amazing guitarist" and now he's like,"Mark just played random notes, it sounded like a buzzing bee and you just want to kill it"

  • what's is he going to say? "Hey this is our new guitarist...he sucks....and yeah..."

    No, he's going to say what anyone would say in that situation, "he's amazing."

  • yOu fUnnie! lol

  • @Directorboy91 Shows what a moron Gene is as a person and businessman. As the demon on stage, his songwriting, voice and performing is all great, but as a person he is a cynical bastard.

    Mark St. John is what makes 'Animalize' a great record. R.I.P.

  • @SilverTounge85 I might be wrong but Gene wasn't much a manager/businessman in the very old days, he started to become more of a boss when the problems with Ace and Pete started to get out of control (if they were really that much out of control actually)

  • Animalize was definitely the best KISS album without makeup. Even the stage design they had for that tour was the best one of that era. The only thing that sucked about Animalize was Gene's wig.

  • R.I.P. Markk

    =(

  • Gene is sitting a little too close for comfort if you ask me. Mark might as well have been sitting on Gene's lap.. "Good Mark ( pats his head like a dog), it's your turn to speak now"...

  • Genne is drunk

  • hilarious. Gene has never been drunk, he does not drink alcohol.

  • Ah, vai se foder

  • I never believed Gene has never been drubnk. If that is true he is the biggest nerd/square in the history of Rock. I mean come on. I have friends that don't drink but to be in a rock band and never have experimented that is to hard to believe.

  • believe it. I'm a rock and roll musician, a bass player, and an artist, I never drink alcohol and have never done any drugs. maybe it's a Jewish thing.

  • I don't do drugs but to have never been drunk in your life? That is bizarre. Thats like saying I have never walked on a beach or I have never kissed a girl. I don't get it. As far as being Jewish I don't believe in steretypes good or bad for a whole group of people.

  • Well really it is not bizarre because drinking is not a law...it is free choice.

    Some people want to drink and follow the sheep...some want to have their own personality and not be sucked in by the

    world party persona. Not saying drinking is bad...just saying most people do it cause they wanna feel like an adult. Then when they are an adult they have grown to love the taste or lifestyle. Anyhow I admire anyone who doesn't need to drink or smoke to have a good time.

  • I do not NEED to drink to have a good time. I just would say if Gene claims not only has he never been drunk but he never even DRANK an alcoholic beverage I find that hard to believe. Sounds like Gene is making the statement to shock because that is what he enjoys doing. If it is true you have to admit it is very unusual for a Rock star to never have drank alcohol before. And I never drank in High School and I admit that is unusual behavior.

  • I see what you are saying but I am not talking about you...I am talking about those who drink a lot everyday or week just to get a high...the insecure ones. You sound like someone who truly likes to drink cause you enjoy it. Reason I say this is because you drink when you want one...just like anything we may crave. I just don't think it is bizarre cause a lot of people play rock and don't drink. More do drink that play rock however so I get your point. To each their own.

  • Oh yeah I did not need you to inform me drinking is not a law. I was aware of that. People who drink do not have their own personality? I was not aware alcohol made a person's personality fade away. Believe it or not I do not need to drink to have a good time either! Many days go by without me drinking! WOW! I never drank to follow any "sheep" I was just curious and I enjoyed the feeling and will indulge myself now and then.

  • Yeah he have to be

  • Hehe hey guys...after this i don't really belive Gene ^^, it seems like he is fucking drunk ^^

  • Are there any other Easter Eggs on KISSology 2?

  • I think that set only has this 1.

  • Do someone know what Jackson guitar Mark used in KISS 1984?If you no tell to me.

  • He used a Jackson Soloist. It was a black strat-type with 3 single coil pickups and 3 mini switches. At least that is what he was holding in the Heaven's on Fire video and the Animalize tour program.

  • Was It custom?

  • Do someone know what Jackson guitar Mark jused in KISS 1984?Ef you no tell to me.

  • Mark never had arthritis those two morons

    paid him to keep quite...

    even australian kiss fans admit this

    and IM NOT australian...one bit...

  • Where is this on Vol. II

  • If you are still wondering where you can watch this easter egg on KISSology 2, I'll tell you. Put in disc 3. Now w/ your remote go up so the KISS logo lights up. Click on it.

  • The thing I get from this, for the most part, is Gene saying, "Mark is really humble... he just lets the guitar talk for him", and without saying it, he adds, OR ELSE. Interestingly, Gene said the same thi