Picture it: New Haven, Connecticut, December 1987. KISS is up to its neck in spandex and hairspray, with the makeup-heavy 70s in the rearview mirror and the makeup-heavy 90s still far in the future. The hits may not be coming like they used to, but the band can still put on a show. And unlike a lot of the competition back then, they could pull surprises like this: here’s Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Carr and Bruce Kulick all stepping up to the same mic for an a capella version of “White Christmas.”
If you’re watching this and thinking, “wait, aren’t Gene and Paul Jewish?” Well, yes, but so was Irving Berlin, and he wrote “White Christmas.” Though I bet Irving didn’t shout “YEAH!” out loud the way Paul does here.
