PAUL STANLEY'S SOUL STATION COVERS BAND SET FOR CALIFORNIA GIGS

Paul Stanley's 10-piece R&B review Soul Station has booked four decent sized Southern California club gigs for next month. Back in September 2015, the band played the first of its half-dozen club gigs at L.A.'s Roxy Theatre. Stanley stayed far away from Kiss material by tackling only '60s and '70s soul/pop classics by the Jackson Five, the Isley Brothers, the Delfonics, the Temptations, the Miracles, Al Green, the Stylistics, and the Spinners, among others. This time around Stanley and the band -- which features Kiss drummer Eric Singer -- will hit such "So. Cal" towns as Pasadena, San Juan Capistrano, Solana Beach, and Agoura Hills.

• At the time of Soul Station's initial Roxy show, Paul Stanley talked to Rock Cellar magazine and shed some light on his early love of R&B: "When I first heard (Stevie Wonder's) 'Fingertips' it was so unlike anything on the radio because first of all, it was live and it was improvised. The song pretty much ends and falls apart and then one of the background musicians asks 'What key?' and they start up again and then you hear the announcer announcing Little Stevie Wonder. That was exciting and painted a picture that I wanted to certainly be a part of."
  
• When we last caught up with Paul Stanley, he explained that if a fan shells out their hard earned cash to see Kiss in concert, they're getting a massive show by seasoned vets who know exactly what it takes to deliver the goods -- be it in an open air stadium or a smoke-filled, hole in the wall club: "There’s absolutely no substitute for working your way up. Bands today that are starting out -- they don’t have a clue. Most of these bands go from obscurity to selling a million albums, two million albums -- they couldn’t entertain a phone booth and that’s why (laughter) they don’t sell tickets. You learn the craft by doing it. You start in the clubs, you work your way up to being third on a bill in an auditorium, then you get to headlining there, then you get to work your way into arenas. By the time you’re in arenas, you damn well know how to do it." :
  
• February 24 - Thackerville, OK - WinStar Global Event Center
  
• February 25 - New Orleans, LA - Krewe of Endymion Parade & Extravaganza at Orleans Avenue
  
• April 21 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort & Casino
  
• April 22 - Laughlin, NV - Laughlin Event Center