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Thanks for the cross post - now we have a place for our discussions of new metal to go along with our discussions of the classic stuff here.
. In 1972 Chiam Witz and Paul Eisen, formerly of Wiked Lester, recruited Peter Crisscola from an ad he posted in the Rolling Stone and dropped an ad in the New York Village Voice and snagged Paul Frehley to round out their new foursome.
A couple of nits: Chiam Witz had been going by Gene Klein for quite a while by this time (from Israel to the US as a child) and it was Stanley Eisen. Also, as a fellow drummer I'm surprised you made no mention of the original KISS style with lots of hard rock guitar over Peter's Motown-style beats.