{"id":3401,"date":"2006-11-01T02:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:21:15","slug":"whats-better-than-a-group-of-midgets-dressing-up-and-singing-like-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/01\/whats-better-than-a-group-of-midgets-dressing-up-and-singing-like-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Better Than A Group of Midgets Dressing Up and Singing Like KISS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=524718\" target=\"_new\">KISSing UP:<br \/>\nSmall in stature, tribute band lives large in honor of Gene Simmons and company<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Almost exactly a decade ago, Joey Fatale had the idea for MiniKISS, the &#8220;littlest KISS tribute band in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was moving and, in the process, going through his vinyl records when he came upon his copy of &#8220;Alive!&#8221; the 1975 live album that helped make KISS a legend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it would be great to have a band of little people dressed up as KISS,&#8221; Fatale said. &#8220;I threw it together as a fluke.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thing that could make it better is realizing <i>it&#8217;s not the only one<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MiniKISS clicked with Comedy Central&#8217;s mock-news program &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; which recently did a broad parody involving the &#8220;rivalry&#8221; between MiniKISS and Tiny Kiss, another KISS tribute band with a little-people lineup. On the MiniKISS Web site, Fatale has more or less foreclosed on commenting on Tiny Kiss, but he&#8217;s taken marketing precautions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this country great?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISSing UP: Small in stature, tribute band lives large in honor of Gene Simmons and company: Almost exactly a decade ago, Joey Fatale had the idea for MiniKISS, the &#8220;littlest KISS tribute band in the world.&#8221; He was moving and, in the process, going through his vinyl records when he came upon his copy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18480,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/18480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}