PETER CRISS VOICE DONE BY...
...Michael Bell. He did voice work on MANY well known cartoons.
shareWas his voice dubbed for his speaking parts, his singing or both? I think it's pretty funny that they dubbed it at all. I wonder why it was done that way? Does he have a strange voice or something?
Mate - "There's a ship off the starboard side!";
Captain - "BLAST 'EM"
Gene Simmons has mentioned this in interviews....reportedly, ...many of Peter's lines couldn't be heard (spoke low), or were not clear (mumble).
After hearing Gene mention it, I could tell it was a dubbed voice. Recognizing the voice (from 70's cartoons), I did some research to find the guy's name.
I met Peter at the 1994 KISS convention in New Jersey and when he was asked about PHANTOM he said that the reason his speaking parts were overdubbed by another actor is because at the time he was heavily into drugs & alcohol, and his speech was so slurred that he was nearly incomprehensible. He also never showed up to do "looping" (when actors go back in post production to re-record dialogue that isn't audible), though I guess if his speech was that hard to understand, re-recording it probably wouldn't have done much good anyway.
Your Favorite Band Sucks.
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Peter refused to show up for the looping sessions. He was done with Kiss at the end of filming of the movie. The singing was him from the studio tapes but the voice was not him.
shareI wouldn't take Criss' version of things either. He's known to often contradict/BS things he says. The story was that Criss was not only having a lot of problems with drugs and booze, but that he was also on the outs with the band and had declared he was quitting. The movie was filmed during a period when the band was barely speaking with one another. Criss did not show up to loop his dialogue (the process is the norm by the way) for whatever reason and Hanna-Barbara utilzed the cartoon voice. Peter has very few lines in the film anyway. I've never noticed his actual voice in there, but it's likely during one of the fight scenes. His singing voice, however, is his of course. I also learned recently that for a number of the live scenes, they had to use a double for him on the drums. This may have only been for the coverage shots because I'm pretty sure that the band put on a full concert at King's Island during the shoot.
shareYou can tell, in the film, Ace clearly doesn't give a flying *beep* about it.:-) It's up to Paul and Gene again to care, Peter and Ace seem stoned.
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