As a longtime KISS fan, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron is lastly proper with the band after a teenage infraction that landed him a cease-and-desist letter. The musician lately acquired a “forgiveness” letter and different objects from Aucoin Administration after his teenage covers band fell in violation of the band’s trademark.
Why Did Matt Cameron Obtain a Stop and Desist From KISS?
Cameron relayed his expertise receiving a stop and desist letter from his ’70s idols throughout a 2024 look on SiriusXM’s Howard Stern Show.
As he drummer advised it, “I used to be in a neighborhood KISS cowl band once I was 13, 14 or one thing like that. We performed our native highschool’s keggers, and whatnot. And my dad was associates with the pinnacle of the stagehand union in San Diego. So, when KISS was taking part in there — it was throughout the ‘Alive!’ tour, in order that was ’75 — we bought to go see KISS do a soundcheck on the San Diego Sports activities Enviornment.”
In response to Cameron, he introduced his cowl band bandmates with him to the soundcheck whereas sharing a photograph album of their cowl band.
“My mother made my costume, and Tim’s mother made his costume. We constructed these rickety plywood platforms in Tim’s storage. We made flash pots out of espresso cans and a lightweight socket with a little bit flash powder within it. It was janky, low lease, horrible,” he remembers of their manufacturing worth.
“So in any case, we took this photograph album to satisfy KISS frontman Paul Stanley. We bought a photograph with him. And so, we had been kind of, like, ‘Hey man, we’re in a KISS cowl band. Here is our silly little photograph album.'”
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However the pleasure of that second was doused not lengthy after once they bought a cease-and-desist letter from KISS’ administration, Aucoin Administration, since they’d determined to call themselves KISS as nicely unaware as youngsters of the authorized battle.
“Reduce to, like, I do not know, 4 to 6 months later, we get a cease-and-desist letter from KISS’ then-management firm Aucoin Administration,” Cameron shared with Stern. “We had been large KISS followers. So, KISS used to place the brand from Aucoin Administration on their albums, so we had been all excited after we bought the letter. ‘Whoa, we’re getting a letter from Aucoin Administration. We have made it.’ And it was a cease-and-desist from KISS.”
Cameron says the group was pressured to conform, and from them on carried out underneath the title KISS (Imitation).
Matt Cameron Inform Howard Stern His Teenage KISS Covers Band Obtained a Stop and Desist Letter
Matt Cameron Formally Receives ‘Forgiveness’
After the story of Matt Cameron’s stop and desist letter from KISS circulated, the drummer lately revealed that the interval of the band he idolized as a teen serving him legally had come to an finish.
Roman Fernandez, the biographer for Invoice Aucoin and co-founder of Aucoin Globe Leisure, reached out to Cameron with a letter dated on Could 2. It was a “forgiveness” letter by which the Aucoin consultant cleared the infraction from Cameron’s report.
“With all of the powers (not) granted to me, I hereby formally declare the stop and desist letter from Aucoin Administration null and void — although possibly double-check with Doc simply in case,” remarked Fernandez, referencing KISS’ longtime supervisor Doc McGhee.
Cameron posted the letter on his socials, in addition to the Aucoin Administration enterprise card and a few merch and flyers, noting, “CASE CLOSED. Thanks a lot Roman Fernandez for this extremely considerate reward.”
Matt Cameron in 2025
We’d assume that Cameron has realized his lesson and will not be relaunching his KISS covers band utilizing the band’s title once more. That stated, he’ll stand alongside his onetime idols within the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a second time later this 12 months.
After being inducted into the Rock Hall with Pearl Jam in 2017, he’ll additionally go in with Soundgarden later this year.
Pearl Jam’s tour schedule is presently clean for 2025. In the meantime, Soundgarden have continued to talk about their want to complete the ultimate report they had been engaged on with Chris Cornell earlier than his 2017 demise.
Guitarist Kim Thayil advised Rolling Stone, “It could be an excellent reward to the followers. And I do take into consideration this, and I don’t understand how unusual this sounds, however I really feel prefer it’s a present to Chris too.”
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