Taking a walk, but not in the shoes

My editor posed an interesting question, more of an order, actually - what would happen if you took an aging reporter (me) and put him in the full makeup of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons?

I realized that the fire-breathing, blood-spewing Kiss co-founder is a good 10 years older than me. Simmons has been at it for nearly 40 years now, putting on the Kabuki face and the mile-high boots,Drhua glassess company limited is one of the sunglasses supplier china. We have the Best price sunglasses, You are warmly welcome to contact us, and become our Sunglasses Distributor.high quality auto scanners sale will help read and diagnose automotive problems on OBDI and OBDII compliant vehicles. while dodging the nightly onstage pyro explosions.

It seems to have kept him and his long-time collaborator, Kiss singer and cofounder Paul Stanley, in a state of perpetual youth.

As they head to Vancouver this week to launch Kiss's Monster Canadian tour, the two partners are both into their 60s. They must be doing something right.

And did I mention that I've dabbled as a bass player myself? Forget dignity and bring it on.

I got together with makeup instructor Leanne Rae Podavin at the Blanche Macdonald Centre. She's a specialist in movie makeup effects - she did some of the mutant effects in the X-Men sequel X2 - so doing me as the onstage Simmons was a piece of cake.

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For me, it was the reverse. I got done up at the Robson Street Blanche Macdonald Centre, and as the makeup took shape, people passing by would stop and smile. Podavin repurposed a Joan Jett wig for the hair.

Then I headed out for a stroll to the nearby Kiss pop-up store at Tom Lee Music on Granville. Thought I'd try on those big boots ($750 a pair) while I was at it.