Gerardo Pichirallo

[TOQUE 🇨🇦 @toquerocks]

Rain. Wind. Lightning Storms.
We played through it all tonight

Thanks @dauphincfest for showing up to Rock with us. Great Crowd !!!

Thanks Rob,Shelly, Kamryn and all the stage staff tonight for the incredible support and hospitality.

[Gerardo Pichirallo @GPichirallo]

🎸Ace Frehley Band LIVE 89 North Music Venue, Patchogue NY June 26, 2026 ... https://t.co/udbPNl9mcY via @YouTube

[Bob Nash @bob_robertnash]

When Legends Collide!
Peter Criss and Sammy Hagar
#70sKISS

[Giselaine @rebelwithyou]

KISS “Let Me Go , Rock ‘n’ Roll
Live in Detroit 1975
(franKENstein video)
#Kiss #KissArmy

[Gerardo Pichirallo @GPichirallo]

"I'm in Need of Love & Wiped Out & Fractured Mirror" Ace Frehley@Parsipp... https://t.co/FUzIetoLsF via @YouTube

[Gerardo Pichirallo @GPichirallo]

Ace Frehley Tribute Band/Rock Soldiers coming to the greater Montreal area! https://t.co/rIGCIyXKoV

[Jimusic @JVMonte2]

Remembering Myles Goodwyn, lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for April Wine born in Woodstock, New Brunswick 🇨🇦 on this day in 1948.

What are your favourite songs that showcase Myles Goodwyn as a solo artist or as a member of April Wine?
#MylesGoodwyn

[ROCK ENTERTAINMENT NEWS @funnyandfab4]

@StrutV22 @vivien2112 Ged with the "Moving Pictures" man 🤣 Actually back when KISS called Rush a "Canadian Zeppelin 🤣, They friendly did in 1974 to 1975, Rush opened for KISS on the Hotter Than Hell & Dressed to Kill tours! GED bless! 🤘😎🎸🍻👍

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

Happy Fathers Day. Remember, we’re all just passing through. All your stuff will be gone, sold or given away. Your children are your heritage. Be a father they can be proud of. 🇺🇸

[Mitch Lafon @mitchlafon]

Parenting done right!

[TOQUE 🇨🇦 @toquerocks]

Sound-check-check-ch-ch. 1-2, 1-2!!!
Edmonton, show today.
Joining us on today Bass is Our GREAT Partner in Crime, Zach Throne.
Who's coming to the Show tonight?
We are playing too with the incredible @CrownLandsMusic too.
Don't miss em.

https://t.co/BjyRltwGmv

[Gerardo Pichirallo @GPichirallo]

Rehearsal Clips: By Space Frehley (A Tribute to Ace Frehley) https://t.co/oYCThLAMuZ via @YouTube

[Richie Scarlet @scarlet_richie]

Message directly from #TheEmperor #RichieScarlet about this SAT JUNE 20th 630pm at #TheStrandTheater Hudson Falls, NY! Tix/Info https://t.co/db9h1k9qdf Watch - https://t.co/WFpHo0WR1s @HairMtlMessiah @MetalHammer @HairMetalGuru @EddieTrunk @KISSopolis #AceFrehley @KISSArmyAus

[Eric Shimada @ShimadaEri11956]

Canadian Top 3 rock bands : Legend!
Rush, Triumph and April Wine!!!

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When Gene Simmons was eight, he watched his mother wash blood from her hands in a Queens apartment sink.

It wasn’t her blood.

She had bitten her tongue to stop herself from crying while memories of Auschwitz flooded back. She had survived the camps by sorting through the belongings of the dead.

Her son, born Chaim Witz in Israel, learned early that survival meant silence, endurance, and work.

“My mother saw hell,” he later said. “Everything I’ve done was to make sure she’d never see it again.”

He sold fruit on New York street corners, spoke three languages by the age of twelve, and copied accents he heard on television.

At fifteen, he changed his name to Gene Simmons after seeing a comic book advertisement for an American hero named Gene.

Wanting to fit in, he practiced smiling in front of a mirror until it felt natural.

The accent never fully disappeared.

The shyness did.

In the early 1970s, while working as a schoolteacher during the day, he teamed up with Paul Stanley to create a band unlike anything people had seen before.

They wanted something impossible to ignore.

Part circus. Part army. Part religion.

KISS was born inside a rented rehearsal room that smelled of cigarette smoke and ambition.

Simmons created his alter ego, “The Demon,” and built armor from motorcycle parts.

He practiced breathing fire so often that he once set his own hair on fire.

The gamble paid off.

Within a few years, KISS was selling out Madison Square Garden and earning millions through merchandise.

Simmons treated the band like a business empire.

Dolls. Comics. Lunchboxes. Pinball machines.

Anything that could carry the KISS logo became part of the brand.

When critics mocked them, he simply smiled.

“They laughed at us,” he said. “Then they bought the T-shirt.”

But the most revealing thing about Gene Simmons wasn’t the makeup, the fame, or the money.

It was the discipline.

He never drank alcohol.

Never used drugs.

And rarely slowed down.

Once, he flew from Tokyo to Los Angeles, recorded a song, then boarded another flight back to Japan for a concert.

When fans asked why he worked so hard, his answer was simple.

“Because my mother still wakes up at 4 a.m. to check if the doors are locked.”

Gene Simmons built his empire from more than ambition.

It was armor forged from fear.

Strength shaped by survival.

And fire painted across a face that refused to be pitied.

Because in the end, every success was his way of telling his mother that she had survived for a reason.

[Bob Nash @bob_robertnash]

Eric Carr singing lead on Black Diamond
hits different
#KISS50

[Bob Nash @bob_robertnash]

How great is this?
#70sKISS

[The Metal Voice @themetalvoice]

Possibly the last Triumph show ever, last night in Montreal ? We shall see

Also, Triumph / April Wine double bill can possibly be the show of the year 2026

No backing tracks, pure will and determination. Both bands climbed over a mountain and reached the top.

Triumph Set list
When the Lights Go Down
Somebody's Out There
Spellbound
Hold On
Allied Forces
Blinding Light Show
Rock & Roll Machine
Rocky Mountain Way
Never Surrender
Lay It on the Line
Follow Your Heart
Magic Power
Encore:
I Live for the Weekend
Play Video
Fight the Good Fight
April Wine Set List
I Like to Rock
Oowatanite
All Over Town
Say Hello
Enough Is Enough
Before the Dawn
You Could've Been a Lady
Just Between You and Me
Sign of the Gypsy Queen
Roller
Photos by Jimmy Kay and Perrin Wolfson

[80s Nostalgia Channel @80s_channel]

True story.

[Mark Strigl @Strigl]

Taking calls now on @OzzysBoneyard at 844-666-9991! Let’s talk Canadian classic hard rock. With Rush kicking off their tour and Triumph currently on the road, we’re celebrating some of the greatest rock ever made north of the border. What are your favorite Canadian bands and songs? Give us a call and join the conversation!