PETER CRISS Says Solo Album Was Inspired By New York City After 9/11

July 24, 2007

Launch Radio Networks reports: Peter Criss, the original drummer for KISS, releases a new solo album today (July 24),titled "One for All". Criss produced the album himself for the first time, and guest musicians include keyboardist Paul Shaffer and bassist Will Lee of "Late Night with David Letterman". The album includes a range of styles, from rock and jazz to blues and Broadway, and includes covers of "What a Difference a Day Makes" and "Send in the Clowns".

Criss says "One for All" was inspired by the how it felt in his hometown of New York City in the weeks after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. "The city was so close again, it seemed like New York really was in pain, and there was a lot of reaching out for everybody, everybody's reaching out for everybody, everybody seemed really, like it was Christmas, there was gonna be more actually wanting to care, and loving in New York," he said. "The city seemed kind of hurt."

Criss says he then made the jump to "One for All". "And I thought of the old slogan 'One for all, all for one,'" he said. "And it was like that famous slogan that the four musketeers would say. And I thought, you know, that's a great thing, 'All for one,'that's how we should be thinking now."

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