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KISS Guitarist TOMMY THAYER Attending Golf Classic Fundraiser

June 26, 2006

According to KissKollector.com, KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer has once again chosen to attend a golf fundraising event to benefit underprivileged children. Tommy is currently appearing as one of the guests at the third annual Shaun Micheel Make-A-Wish Golf Classic, taking June 25-26 at Ridgeway Country Club in Mephis, Tennessee. Tommy brought in a signed Paul Stanley Silvertone guitar for the auction set up by his good friend, top golfer Shaun Micheel, who happens to be a big KISS fan (and teaches Tommy to become a better golfer himself). Last year's event raised over $175,000 for children facing life-threatening medical conditions in the Mid-South of the USA.

In an interview from August 2004, Shaun Micheel said he's getting guitar lessons from Tommy: 'I'm just learning how to play. I was with my friends from KISS last week. The guitar player and the lead singer were both trying to give me some guitar lessons, so my first song that I'm learning is 'Kumbaya', and that's only two chords, and I have not quite figured out how to do that."

"I was with them last week in Atlanta. I was actually going to have Tommy come up to the golf course and was actually going to have him help me present the guitars to the guys last night, but they added some shows. But I was with him last week in Atlanta and I flew down and rode with him to the show, and we got stuck in the Atlanta traffic trying to go to their gig. Paul and I were just talking, he's just showing me little things, just very beginning, where to put my fingers, basically little chords. It's exciting. And then the next day, I took Tommy out and Doc McGhee, their manager to play at the Peachtree Club in Atlanta.

"Tommy and I are going to exchange services, but I think it is going to take him a lot longer to teach me to play guitar than me to teach him to play golf."

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