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Memorial Tribute To Late KISS Drummer ERIC CARR

July 12, 2005

Late KISS drummer Eric "The Fox" Carr — who was recently voted one of the world's 10 best drummers — would have turned 55 today, had he not passed away at age 41 on November 24, 1991 after losing a battle with cancer.

To celebrate his memory, KISS Kollector Online has posted highlights from the interview with his last girlfriend, Carrie Stevens, that appeared in the November 1992 issue of KISS Kollector magazine.

Carrie Stevens, now a Playboy playmate and actress, was born on May 1, 1969 in New York and met Eric Carr for the first time in Memphis on the 1987 KISS tour. She started dating him eight months later when she spent the summer in Carr's hometown of New York with her sister, and moved to Los Angeles in February of 1989 around the same time when Carr was recording the "Hot in the Shade" album there with KISS. Stevens and Carr were in a serious relationship by summer of 1989, but when KISS' "Hot in the Shade" album came out towards the end of that year it was time for the band to go out on tour again. Stevens travelled with Carr a lot on that tour.

"It's difficult to be in a relationship with someone who is on the road… it caused a lot of turmoil in our relationship… but being a rock star made Eric very happy, he loved every minute of it," she said. "He loved being a star, and there's a lot of things when you love somebody who's in that position, there's a lot of things you have to deal with and back then I was very young and inexperienced, and we fought a lot 'cause I didn't understand a lot of it… We loved each other as much as two people can, as much as is humanly possible, I think that being on the road caused a lot of problems between us, but we really stuck together through it… It's just not great memories for me."

Check out some other higlights from the interview at www.kisskollector.com.

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