No Regrets
“Bill was so much smarter (and shrewder) than I realized, smarter than any of us realized. Impatient as we were for our big break, we all sort of presumed that Bill merely talked a good game. Two weeks was a ridiculous deadline, of course, but it was Bill who had made the offer, so we figured we might as well hold him to it.
One day we all went down to his office in midtown Manhattan, the idea being not necessarily that we’d dump him, but merely to ask for an update. But so much had been happeni...ng. In fact, as I’d learn much later, Bill had put the KISS machinery in motion well before he even met us that night at the Diplomat. What we perceived as an outrageous promise (“Give me two weeks!”) was actually just Bill being the master showman that he was. Like any great gambler (and KISS represented the biggest gamble of Bill’s career, by a wide margin), he’d done his homework and manipulated the odds in his favor. Managing a rock ’n’ roll band is at best a risky proposition; bankrolling that band and promising to make it one of the biggest bands in the world requires gigantic brains and balls in roughly equal amounts.MoreLess
One day we all went down to his office in midtown Manhattan, the idea being not necessarily that we’d dump him, but merely to ask for an update. But so much had been happeni...ng. In fact, as I’d learn much later, Bill had put the KISS machinery in motion well before he even met us that night at the Diplomat. What we perceived as an outrageous promise (“Give me two weeks!”) was actually just Bill being the master showman that he was. Like any great gambler (and KISS represented the biggest gamble of Bill’s career, by a wide margin), he’d done his homework and manipulated the odds in his favor. Managing a rock ’n’ roll band is at best a risky proposition; bankrolling that band and promising to make it one of the biggest bands in the world requires gigantic brains and balls in roughly equal amounts.MoreLess
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