KISS GUITARIST PAUL STANLEY LIVES TO WIN WITH ROCKSTAR BAND

(VIDEO) Paul Stanley is in rehearsals to support the release of his album Live To Win, and he talked about his release sans Kiss

Paul Stanley is holed up in a Los Angeles studio rehearsing material for his solo run of dates in support of his new solo album Live To Win, which will hit stores on Tuesday, October 24. Stanley who fronts Kiss with bassist Gene Simmons, released a solo album in the 1970s along with his mates, and it’s his first since the 1978 release.

Stanley told us at rehearsals that the title of the album, Live To Win, reflects his outlook on life.

“Um, there were no obstacles in making this album because the philosophy is the title, Live To Win. I believe that you set your goals and you don’t let anything get int the way of you accomplishing them, because if you live to win you’re always going to win — even if you don’t succeed. If you fail on your own terms, you’ve won. So, I set myself up to win. Just doing the album means I won.”

Stanley isn’t going it totally alone. Many of the members of his touring band were on the TV show Rockstar as the house band.

“I knew from the get-go even before the album was done that I was going to tour, and I was determined to have a band as opposed to a bunch of hot-shot musicians. You can put great musicians together, but you don’t have a band, and when I saw the show ‘Rockstar’ — it was ‘Rockstar: INXS’ and then it was ‘Rockstar: Supernova…for my money it should be called ‘Rockstar: House Band because that’s the reason to watch that show — the band was phenomenal, and I knew that they could really do the songs justice and that we would have a great chemistry. The band was phenomenal and I knew they could really do the songs justice and we would have a great chemistry. The rehearsals have been unbelievably good, and there’s people showing up all the time just from word of mouth who want to come in and hear things. This is important to me because tickets have sold so quickly that it makes me raise the bar that much further, and I want to make sure th

Paul Stanley’s solo dates begin this Saturday (October 21) in Atlanta, Georgia. He has dates scheduled through November 15 in Las Vegas.