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 							Wicked Lester
  
  Origin 	New York City, United States
  Genres 	Rock and roll, folk rock,
pop
  Years active 	1970–1973
  
  Wicked Lester was a New York-based rock and roll band that
would later become known as Kiss. The band formed in 1970, under its original name Rainbow. Notable members were bassist
Gene Klein (born Chaim Witz) and rhythm guitarist Stanley Eisen, later to be known as Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley,
respectively. In 1971 the band changed their name to Wicked Lester, and recorded an album for Epic Records, which was
never officially released.
  
  The sessions have been released in bootleg form as The Original Wicked Lester
Sessions. Kiss eventually released three tracks from these sessions on their 2001 Box Set release. Wicked Lester's music
featured elements of rock and roll, folk rock and pop. Simmons and Stanley, feeling that the group lacked a unifying
musical vision, began forming a new band in late 1972. With an emphasis on straightforward rock and roll plus theatrics,
they became the hard rock band Kiss in early 1973.
  
  The origins of the band trace to 1970, when bassist
Gene Klein and keyboardist Brooke Ostrander recruited lead guitarist Stephen Coronel, a childhood friend and former
bandmate of Klein's. The group took the name Rainbow shortly thereafter. Coronel recommended rhythm guitarist Stanley
Eisen, who had actually been rejected by the group after a previous audition. Shortly after Eisen joined, Ostrander
recruited drummer Joe Davidson, and the first Rainbow lineup was completed. Davidson's stay did not last long and he was
replaced by Tony Zarrella.
  
  In early 1971, Rainbow played its first show, which consisted of two sets
performed at Richmond Community College in Staten Island. After the show, the group discovered that there was already
another band called Rainbow. They decided to drop the name, and came up with the name Wicked Lester, which Simmons liked
because it was unusual. While the decision to change the group's name came partly out of a desire to avoid any potential
legal issues, it also reflected Klein and Eisen's desire to start playing more original compositions.
 
Crossroads
  
  During their brief existence, Wicked Lester performed in public twice. The first show took
place at the Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg, New York on April 23, 1971. The second, in late summer 1971, was at an
Atlantic City, New Jersey hotel hosting a B'nai B'rith Youth Organization event. Not long after that show, the band
suffered a major setback when they had all of their musical gear stolen. After a chance meeting with Electric Lady
Studios engineer Ron Johnsen, Wicked Lester was given the opportunity to record some demos in late 1971. Johnsen, who
produced the demo tape, shopped it to a few labels, with no success. Eventually the tape was screened by Epic Records,
who purchased the masters and agreed to fund the recording of a full album. One of the conditions, however, was that
Stephen Coronel be fired and replaced with a better guitarist.
  
  Coronel was replaced by session musician
Ron Leejack, and the group continued their efforts to finish the album. Some songs were completely re-recorded to
accommodate Leejack's different playing style. The entire recording process, which followed a haphazard schedule, took
nearly a year to complete. When the completed album was presented to Don Ellis, Epic's A&R director, he stated that
he hated the album and was not going to release it. The next day, Wicked Lester manager Lew Linet requested and received
the group's release from Epic Records.
  Kiss
  
  At this time, Klein and Eisen, now using the stage
names Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, decided that one of the reasons for Wicked Lester's lack of success was their lack
of a singular image and musical vision. They made the decision to move forward and start a new band. Wicked Lester began
auditioning for a drummer in late 1972. Soon after, Tony Zarrella left the group. Ostrander, feeling that the band was
going nowhere, quit. He went on to teach music at Missisquoi Valley Union High School in Swanton, Vermont. Ostrander
died on September 3, 2011 from cancer. 
  
  Whereas Wicked Lester's original sound was rooted in varied
musical styles, including folk and pop, when Simmons and Stanley decided to recruit new members, they made the decision
to focus on a more aggressive and simple style of rock and roll. The first new member they added was drummer Peter
Criss, who had placed an ad in Rolling Stone. The ad stated, "EXPD. ROCK & roll drummer looking for orig. grp. doing
soft & hard music. Peter, Brooklyn." The new Wicked Lester, without a recording contract, began a strict and regular
regimen of rehearsals.
  
  In November 1972, the group arranged a showcase with Don Ellis, the Epic Records
executive who earlier had rejected Wicked Lester's album. While one Epic executive, Tom Werman, was impressed by the
power and theatrics of this new incarnation of Wicked Lester, Ellis once again turned them down. As Ellis was leaving,
Peter Criss's brother, who was drunk, vomited on his foot. In early December, Paul Stanley placed an ad in The Village
Voice stating, "LEAD GUITARIST WANTED with Flash and Ability. Album Out Shortly. No time wasters please." The ad ran for
two issues, December 7 and December 14, 1972, leading to several audition sessions. One audition was by Paul "Ace"
Frehley who showed up wearing different-colored shoes, walked into the room without saying a word, hooked up his guitar
and started playing. Frehley was asked back for a second audition and was a member of the band by Christmas 1972. Within
a few weeks, the group changed its name to Kiss. Their first concert on January 30, 1973.
  
  The recording
of Wicked Lester's album, which began in November 1971 at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, took place over
multiple sessions and was finished in July 1972. The album was a mixture of original material and covers, showcasing the
group's eclectic style. Three of the songs recorded for the Wicked Lester album would later resurface as Kiss songs,
with varying degrees of similarity.
  
  The chorus of their cover version of The Hollies' "I Wanna Shout"
would serve as the inspiration for "Shout It Out Loud" from 1976's Destroyer, although the two songs are completely
different in every other respect. Two of the tracks, "Love Her All I Can", written by Paul Stanley, and "She", written
by Simmons and Steve Coronel would resurface on 1975's Dressed to Kill. "Love Her All I Can" featured similar
arrangements in both versions while the Kiss version of "She" lacked the congas and flute of the original.
  

 The only part of Wicked Lester's album to initially be released, was the cover art, which was used for The Laughing
Dogs' self-titled debut album in 1979. CBS Records, who owned the rights to the album, remixed it and planned to release
it in late 1976 to capitalize on Kiss's commercial popularity. Kiss and Neil Bogart, the president of their label,
Casablanca Records, purchased the master tapes from CBS for $137,500 and never released it. The label and band feared
that if CBS released the tracks it would diminish their commercial appeal. The band worried that their hard rock image
would be damaged by these more eclectic recordings. It was also feared that the release would be accompanied by pictures
of Simmons and Stanley without their trademark make-up, at this point in their career very few photographs of Kiss
without their makeup existed. In later years the album surfaced as a bootleg named The Original Wicked Lester Sessions.
The band bought Bogart's share and eventually released three of the tracks, "Keep Me Waiting," "She," and "Love Her All
I Can", in 2001 as part of a five-disc box set.
  
  Track-list:
  01 "Love Her All I Can" (2:28)
Stanley
  02 "Sweet Ophelia" (2:56) Barry Mann/Gerry Goffin
  03 "Keep Me Waiting" (3:04) Stanley
  04
"Simple Type" (2:33) Simmons
  05 "She" (2:54) Coronel/Simmons
  06 "Too Many Mondays" (3:27) Barry
Mann/Cynthia Weil
  07 "What Happens In the Darkness" (2:59) Tamy Lester Smith
  08 "When The Bell Rings"
(3:11) Austin Roberts/Christopher Welch
  09 "Molly" (aka "Some Other Guy") (2:23) Stanley
  10 "We Want To
Shout It Out Loud" (2:04) The Hollies
  
   
  
  
  
  
 

   						

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