One of rock’s newest super-groups, Kuarantine – featuring Fozzy front man and wrestling icon, Chris Jericho has released their latest cover by the legendary Kiss. The song, “Heart Of Chrome” comes from the 1993 Kiss release – “Revenge”. That album featured Bruce Kulick on lead guitar.
Today, Kulick joins forces with Jericho, drummer Kent Slucher (Luke Bryan), guitarist Joe McGinness (KLASSIK ’78) and bassist PJ Farley (Trixter) on this new version of the song.
Jericho and I talked about the bands philosophy of choosing which Kiss songs would be included in Kuarantine versions and how this collaboration between Kulick and the band came about. Jericho tells Sound Vapors, “The kind of basic rules that we have are, the songs have to have Bruce involved, but never have been a video or single. That’s our basic rules for this.”
Jericho continues about having Kulick play on the song. He says, “We’ve known Bruce for years and he’s a great guy. He’s very proud of this era as he should be and he also knows that I’m a huge fan of his era and especially the Revenge record which we discussed at length before. So when the idea came up to do Kuarantine and to do Heart Of Chrome.. I’m actually not sure who suggested it. Bruce sort of knows all the guys that are in Kuarantine and I think one of us came up with the idea to ask him and I reached out to him. He was totally into it and was even excited to do the video for us and just really nailed it all across the board.”
Jericho continues, “It’s funny because I think even Paul (Stanley) and Gene (Simmons) were really intrigued by the whole Kuarantine project because when I told them we were doing it they were both excited about it. I know that when I emailed Gene about it, he instantly emailed Bruce to tell him, at which Bruce already knew. Then when I told Paul we were doing ‘Heart Of Chrome’, he was like: If you could do that song in the original key with the original melody, then you’re really doing something special. Then when I sent him the final track he said, You did it, it sounds great!”
Jericho and the guys’ last single was “No, No, No”, taken from the 1987 Kiss album, “Crazy Nights” which became a hit for Kuarantine and was surprise for many. Jericho tells me, “When No, No, No cracked the top 60 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, I think they were both kind of pleasantly surprised that this obscure tune from 33 years ago, that was never released as a single and was never a hit in any way, shape or form is now, quote – unquote, a hit by cracking the charts.”
Jericho is one of the busiest artists that I have ever interviewed. If everything in his music life wasn’t enough he maintains his profile as one of the most successful and popular professional wrestlers of all time. His crossover appeal is so great that fans sing the lyrics to one of his songs with his rock band Fozzy, long after he’s entered ring and the P.A. has cut the actual music. It really is a cool moment to see. You can see it HERE.
We dive deeper into his favorite wrestlers growing up, his favorite albums and some killer Canadian bands. You can hear my entire conversation with Chris Jericho by clicking on the link to your favorite place to listen to podcasts or by watching the video version on YouTube.
-Tommy Marz
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