KISS: Interview with Peter Criss The Catman Talketh By Tim
McMahan Ask anyone if they know who Peter Criss is and they'll
likely respond, "Ain't he the cat guy in KISS?"  Criss will
forever be known as "the cat guy" to millions of fans --the KISS
Army-- who grew up buying KISS albums (80 million sold since
1972), KISS notebooks, KISS action figures, lunch boxes,
T-shirts, make-up kits (!), Halloween costumes, and on and on.
The band has become an American rock-and-roll icon. Add to that
the legendary KISS concerts -- Gene Simmons (the Demon) blowing
flames, spitting blood, wiggling his so-called double-jointed
tongue. And the Cat Guy, Criss, rising four stories in the air
behind a rack of smoking drums. Omahans will get a chance to
relive the rock 'n' roll magic Dec. 16 as KISS returns on their
Psycho Circus tour with the band's original line-up: Gene, Paul,
Peter and Ace. The Reader caught up with the cat guy on his day
off, kicking back at Chicago's Ritz-Carlton Hotel -- ground zero
for the next 16 days as