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Happy Birthday Peter Criss

emorenz1 - Posted on December 20, 2021 at 1:56 pm
Happy Birthday Peter Criss

LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 1977: Drummer Peter Criss of the rock and roll band 'Kiss' performs onstage in circa 1977 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Photo by Michael Ochs/Getty Images

Today Peter Criss, original drummer and co-founder of rock band KISS, turns 76 years old.

Criss joined KISS in 1972 shortly after his former band Lips broke up. Not wanting to give up his career in music, he wrote an ad in Rolling Stone Magazine that read, “EXPD. ROCK & roll drummer looking for orig. grp. doing soft & hard music. Peter, Brooklyn.” The advertisement caught the eyes of Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons who were looking for a drummer for a new band they were forming. Soon, Criss and Ace Frehley joined and formed what would be known as KISS.

Watch Peter Criss’s drum solo with KISS from 1976 here:

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