When Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons decided in 1996 that they were going to bring Ace Frehley and Peter Criss back into the fold, dust off their platform shoes and reapply the clown white, it was undeniably the best course of action for the band. It pleased both long time and casual fans and put KISS back in the limelight for the first time, arguably since the spectacle of the removal of the makeup in 1983 on MTV before the release of Lick It Up.
