Bob Gruen

[mysterious music] I'm Brent Friedman.

Years ago, a family friend who became a cabinet member in the Reagan administration disclosed to me that aliens are real.

They're here, and he'd seen them

I'm Bryce Zabel.

He was murdered in 1980.

His event happened in 1974.

Thank God he had a witness in May Pang, his girlfriend from the time, but he didn't get to speak for himself on this.

And so, I don't know.

You could see parts of their live shows and some behind-the-scenes stuff from, uh...

Do you remember Bob Gruen? Uh, Bob Gruen, famous photographer, and, uh, just rock and roll photographer, basically.

Mm-hmm.

He filmed them during this tour, and you can find it on YouTube, or you can get the DVD.

Like, they were like, "No, we're men." Uh, it-

Yeah.

That's actually what Bob Gruen said.

He's like, "No, you would look at them, you wouldn't see tits.

That was a two-day festival that was, I don't know who the promoters were for that point, and I have, uh, I have a poster from that, and I also have the original booklet or playbill that came for the people that attended that day.

Right, and there's Bob Gruen photographs.

Yeah.

You just off one of them.

Yeah.

There's one infamous one on the, on the internet, which I have a copy of.

I contacted Bob Gruen to see if he has any more or any other photos, and took me a couple of years [laughs] for him to respond, but his, his people said, "No, sorry.

We don't."

Yeah, this is at...

Bob Gruen took that.

Bob Gruen...

Hold on.

Oh, that's cool.

The way that that all came about...

Was Bob Gruen.

That's a Bob Gruen photo.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and Bob Gruen, you know, the famous ph- punk ph- photographer, uh, he said that Kiss had gone to see the New York Dolls play at another Diplomat Hotel sh- uh, gig that they did later that year, and Kiss thought they were fantastic, and they loved that there were lots of women at the gig.

So at the next Kiss rehearsal, they had a meeting about what they were going to look like, and decided that they couldn't compete with the Dolls because they were, quote, "Gorgeous."

Yeah.