#Wicked Lester

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30 Gennaio 1973 – Dopo aver cambiato il loro nome di Wicked Lester, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley e Peter Criss si esibiscono per la prima volta come Kiss, al Popcorn Club del Queens, a New York.

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Simplisma

It seems that the floodgates to the subject of Wicked Lester have definitely been opened and not properly closed again. And you know how it goes with toothpaste, once it's out you can never get it back in the tube.

So why not continue with it right away and see what else comes out of it. It won't be too much new though, as the one with Paul's '78 solo album might have been an exception. But hey, you can't always hit the bull's eye. So let's make do today with Charisma from Dynasty (1979) and its somewhat simpler predecessor Simple Type (1972). Whose riff is of course 1:1 the one from Charisma, until it just won't budge after the first run through, and a little bit later mutates into something completely different.

If I'm not mistaken, Gene had even used this riff for another song before the Wicked Lester days, I mean, who can remember all that stuff, but obviously for years it just didn't seem significant enough for him to find a use for Kiss between 1974-77, or even his '78 solo album. And in those days neither he nor Paul were stingy with their recycling practices.

And here you can see how little Gene must have had up his sleeve in '79, taking the idea for the lyrics from his manager buddy and spinning them on, and taking the riff from a pre-pre-Kiss predecessor demo that had been omitted until then. But, at least he picked the most interesting, albeit catchiest part for Charisma.

Luckily for me, because I really love this song.

Charisma (1979)

Simple Type (1972)

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Wicked Lester - The Original Wicked Lester Sessions - "She" - 1972 - Pre...

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(WICKED LESTER)

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idv characters as really shitty (actually phenomenal) blackout poems

all taken from @reallybadblackoutpoems (thank you for your service)

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🩵🤍🩷🤍🩵 (pls do not edit/repost my art w/o permission)

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Holding space for these lyrics today

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is this anything

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A tease of Jonathan Bailey and Jeff Goldblum's interview for NBC Nightly News

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I can’t believe the Malevolent fandom has slept on For Good from Wicked as a Jarthur song. Arthur as Glinda (Kristen Chenoweth) and John as Elphaba (Idina Menzel). Trust me.

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Hey everyone, requests are open again!! I would really like to see some slasher requests :)) Spooky season is coming! Tags specified some of the things I write for but check out my masterlist for the full idea of things I write for.

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Me Waiting For Bye-Byes

Wicked Lester has always been one of those things for me.

You know, the kind of thing that you remain aware of, but like to put off as you please. Something like the Kiss reunion pre-1996, while you eagerly await the follow-up studio album to Revenge (1992), if you know what I mean. It's difficult.

But today we have a little treat that I just couldn't pass up, and one that could also be used wonderfully as a kind of door opener to even more Wicked Lester songs. So why not?

In this respect I like to remember a little anecdote about the recordings for Paul's '78 solo album. Wasn't it said by someone relevant (1), vaguely recited, that the last bit of Goodbye was written pretty much as the last of those sessions while everyone else except Paul was on lunch break? And without wanting to question this, I can imagine this scenario quite vividly.

Because as much as I appreciate Paul's solo album and Goodbye, you can hear that. Which of course is not to denounce the quality of the result, no, not in any way, but simply to point out where exactly Paul could have gotten the necessary inspiration so quickly.

One is obviously from Destroyer (1976), but I already wrote enough about that a while ago, and the other, well, has covered a few extra kilometers and must have hopped back into Paul's lap from the then orphaned Wicked Lester album (1972) to the studio in 1978, and incidentally goes by the name of Keep Me Waiting. Goodbye's vocal chorus and Keep Me Waiting's opening and main riff should, I guess, speak for themselves.

And yes indeed, Paul writes best when under pressure *wink emoji

Side Note:

(1) Paul himself

Just don't let yourself be pressured into clicking on those highlighted links below:

Goodbye (1978)

Keep Me Waiting (1972)

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[queenclaudiabrown]

Lorraine Wickes: Imagine if you got to the ARC one day and everyone was like, quietly reading.

Lester: I would be suspicious.

[sincerelyhannahx]

ineffable husbands in different fonts (to some extent) except they get slowly more insane

Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens)

Stede and Ed (Our Flag Means Death)

Killer Queen and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (Queen)

Remus and Sirius (Marauders)

Belle and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast)

Phil Lester and Dan Howell (Dan and Phil) Imagine this is flipped for continuity, but it felt wrong to put Phil on the left.

The Priest and Fleabag (Fleabag)

Marvin and Whizzer (Falsettos)

Glinda and Elphaba (Wicked)

Quirrell and Voldemort (A Very Potter Musical)

Alphys and Undyne (Undertale)

(don't ask for explanations, this just makes sense in my head)

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Smackdown 6/16/23

Shotzi wore the Bald Eagle Bikini Top from Wicked Lester Clothing (no longer sold)