Interesting Rolling Stone Article About Vinnie Vincent

Went down the rabbit hole last night regarding Vinnie Vincent. I don't know why. I was never a KISS fan and only had a passing interest in Vinnie Vincent after releasing "Love Kills" and no interest after. Something about the late lives of old rockers interests me, I guess. Anyway, this was a pretty interesting article that also just happened to make Vincent seem like a real schyster. I also never realized that his first wife was murdered and his second wife died of alcoholism.

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SMYRNA, TENNESSEE, IS not a likely place to find a guitar god, or anyone in particular, which meant it was just about perfect for Vinnie Vincent. For a while anyway. The town of 42,000 people is roughly 25 miles southeast of Nashville, and full of non-descript McMansions and farmhouses kept watch over by lazily grazing goats and cows. There are cozy residential subdivisions, too, where children’s bikes are strewn across the well-manicured front lawns of one-story brick ranch houses.

One property near the outskirts of town, though, sticks out amongst all the idyllic sameness. Behind a forbidding eight-foot-tall picket fence and a padlocked gate stand two houses. Paint cans, a television set and stuffed black garbage bags litter the driveways. This is where guitarist Vinnie Vincent — who gave life back into Kiss in the early Eighties, when the bandmembers had removed their makeup but seemed musically ready for embalming, and then became a hair-metal solo star in his own right — has lived in seclusion for the last 15 years. Or, more accurately, had lived. It’s hard to know where Vincent is these days.

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The Long Kiss Goodbye: The Search for Vinnie Vincent