Apologies in advance if these are reposts, but I've not seen this set before. Not the most flattering set of pictures, but still... http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/aeroflott2/Vin/Screen%20Shot%202016-04-26%20at%2014.56.32_zpswwd304jl.png http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/aeroflott2/Vin/S...

Having a bit of a clearout as we are about to move house, and stumbled across my old CD collection. Forgot I had this. It was a Special Edition re-release of the VVI albums, by Zoom Club Records, a UK based label. I bought it back in 2003 at a record fare over here in the UK. I'm not sure if it saw ...

An April Fool's. I mean really? Is this where we start laughing?

Really? Wow.

Total fantasy:

VV rejoins Kiss for a full make-up Creatures era tour.

More likely but also great:

Some new music dripped out over time, and a book.

Nailing that Decibel Geek interview would be a great start either way.

Close but no cigar.

This could be a great opportunity for Vinnie I think. Let's hope things can get worked out.

From carvinmuseum.com: The '89 catalog showed this interesting photo of guitarist Vinnie Vincent, which was taken from his video "Love Kills". Although the X100B stacks are obviously Carvin, less obvious is the one-off VVV Carvin that Vinnie is playing (VVV = Vinnie Vincent V). This evidently was cr...

Related to this, I found this cool little snippet of an interview the other night:

http://www.jacksoncharvelworld.net/vinnieinterview.html

VV talks about guitar endorsements back in 1984, and mentions he met and played with Eddie Van Halen which I didn't know.

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I'm not trying to run the guy down at all. I'm a huge fan it just seems like such a waste to not want to play anymore. Honestly, what could be holding him back? I wish the guy nothing but the best. Sorry dude, I wasn't running you down at all - I'm with you in terms of wishing he did something - I ...

None of us have walked a single step in VV's shoes, so it's kinda easy to sit here and make sweeping statements about what he should or shouldn't do. And let's not forget, he may be living a perfectly happy existence somewhere, oblivious to all this conjecture about his life. We have to respect that...

I'm sure this has been spotted before (did a search, couldn't find a thread). I was browsing YouTube this morning and watched some of the Invasion live show in Toronto in '88. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TPhYBv4a-g[/youtube] I'm really surprised to see them clearly lip syncing the back...

Apologies if this is going over old ground, but does Vinnie to this day in theory receive some sort of publishing/royalties for his work on Lick It Up? And if so, is it possible to estimate what that might mean in terms of an income today? If there is some sort of payment made, however small, it doe...

Not enough coffee this morning - I meant 25% in my post above, Kiss being a four piece obviously. It's not like Vin did an Ozzy and locked himself away after exiting Kiss and drowned himself in a sea of booze, drugs and self-loathing. he got straight back on the train, got a record deal and started ...

I'm not sure you know. Vinnie clearly wasn't happy being the hired hand. I don't think it was a simple case of "VV was a dick, wouldn't sign his contract, and so was booted out of Kiss". I do think VV struggled with playing second fiddle, playing those old songs and not being a genuine 20% participa...

I disagree. I think VV is fair game (as are the other members and ex members of Kiss), and his behaviour on these Euro expos gives an interesting insight into what his modus operandi must have been like, and what it was like to actually work with him. Whatever "industry" you are in, when you arrive ...

So what the hell is going on?

Are we seeing the strange ramblings of a madman, or has someone got the keys to the forum and is messing around?

Streetbeat wrote:my favorite V solo is what he did on All hell's breaking loose, that's untouchable, the egyptian flavor reminded me of his Ankh persona
that was fantastic

That's a great observation. All hell's Breaking Loose is a great song all round - really unique.

Board now closed.

Another fun episode....

Can't see it happening after the Revenge debacle. Could he pull off the 'look' again at his age? I've often thought it would have been cool for Vinnie to rejoin in the Ankh makeup after Ace left second time around. Similarly, if Eric was still with us when when Peter left, would he have been back in...

I was thinking about VV's solo playing and it seems in VVI, it was all about how many notes he could fit in to most of his solos. Which got me thinking about other songs he's solo'd on where the playing fits the song well without the mad "bumblebee" signature he seemed to have. In my estimation, has...

I'm interested in learning more about Vinnie's writing credits on the Revenge album. Is there more info about how this came about? Really surprised to see he wrote with both Paul and Gene. I had assumed it was just with Gene, who has always seemed to be able to talk rather more positively about Vinn...

Aeroflott if he was so done with the forum he wouldn't be checking in on this site. He still looks at it from what I have been told. I never said he was done with the forum - this one or the old board. I'm just saying the levels of fandom on the the other forum are borderline creepy. Vinnie for me ...

I've read the snippets of posts that are viewable, there's also quite a bit at www.waybackmachine.org. I can honestly say I've never read a weirder forum in my life. Aside what whatever shenanigans were going on with Vinnie supposedly having multiple accounts, the "fans" on there all sound a bit des...

Really enjoyed that - thanks for putting it together. What a fascinating guy - I admire his loyalty to the band.

The mentality of respraying and repairing guitars is interesting also. Personally, I would leave all the "battlescars" on the guitar, rather than restoring them. These things would have taken a real battering on the road - that kind of damage left on the guitar would have meant more authenticity (to...

Hmmm. Bottom left?

Let's not forget that Vinnie has a history of selling guitars to fans that weren't quite what he claimed, as described by Paul Stanley during this Q&A.

Watch from 2:20:

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Assuming Paul's story is true, that's pretty damning.

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That picture was taken last year at the Hard Rock Seminole, FL.

Not sure how conclusive this might be, but this appears to show Vinnie using a pink headstock on the LIU Tour: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/aeroflott/VV%20Guitar/Screen%20Shot%202015-05-13%20at%2009.22.04_zpsz4mwazkd.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/aeroflott/VV%20Guitar/kiss-lic...