Kiss:THE EARLY YEARS

	Some people called him the fifth Kiss, but he's really Neil Bogart, who was president of Casablanca records, Kiss's first record company. He's posing with them here after signing their first contract. This picture came from ROCKSCENE, one of the many rock n roll mags of the late 70's.
	Here's a pic of Gene at the Hotel diplomat in July, 1973. At this point, I was 10 yrs. old and had yet to hear of KISS
About '74, a small town about 2 hours north of me, Cadillac, Michigan, had a "KISS day" instigated by their football team. It got a lot of press and was an early example of how Kiss took grass-roots America by storm.