Paul Stanley admits missing performing with KISS but has accepted it’s “not gonna happen again”

Paul Stanley opened up about life after KISS‘s “End Of The Road” farewell tour on the debut episode of “Stories To Tell With Richard Marx” podcast. The band’s guitarist and vocalist discussed adjusting to his new normal more than a year after the tour’s completion.

“There are people who are touring constantly because they’re empty and need that audience positive response. Years ago, probably decades ago, that may have been the case for me. The last tour was a chance to really take in how valuable this all meant to me. But I couldn’t keep doing it any more than Michael Jordan could,” Stanley explains.

“I’ve always been more than a musician or performer – I’ve been an athlete – and you realize that you can only do that so long. I’ve been blessed to do it into my 70s, which if you told me that 50 years ago, I’d say you’re out of your mind. So, yeah, I miss it, but I don’t crave it.“

Stanley also shared his experience of visiting Madison Square Garden a year after KISS’s final show: “It feels almost like a fantasy, like an out-of-body experience. I look at videos of me on stage a year and a half ago and I go, ‘wow.’ And I also have to go, ‘that’s not gonna happen again.‘”