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Look like Kiss with a selfie and the new KISS ME app

Kiss founding member Paul Stanley (the one with the big star across his eye) talks about his band\'s new free app: KISS Me! Official Kiss Photo App. It turns fans into members of Kiss.

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Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY 6:30 p.m. EST January 14, 2015

Paul Stanley shows Jefferson Graham the new Kiss Me photo app backstage at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas. Sean Fujiwara

LAS VEGAS — With more than 14 million followers on Facebook and Twitter, and nearly 5 million views of its music videos on YouTube, the Kiss Army is alive and well, loving the hard-rockin\' band that\'s been at it for more than 40 years.

We met up with Kiss founding member Paul Stanley (the one with the big star across his eye) as he was about to hit the Hard Rock Cafe stage here for a show, to talk about the new Kiss Me! Official Kiss Photo App (free, Apple only) and his new go-to device, the iPhone 6 Plus.

The photo tool app lets you take selfies and then grab onto virtual stickers to make yourself up, Kiss style. As with all things Kiss, expect to spend money — a handful of stickers are free, and additional ones are 99 cents each.

"The cool thing about it is that everybody who feels like us can now look like us," Stanley says. "The idea of being able to take a photo of yourself and apply the makeup of your favorite character, it\'s another way for us to engage the public. We want to interact with the people who make us what we are. Is it fun? Sure. Is it serious? No. But it\'s serious fun."

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Kiss founding member Paul Stanley talks about moving the Kiss Army to social media, with Jefferson Graham on #TalkingTech. Sean Fujiwara

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00:00 It's it's just you guys have always been really good 00:04 at promotion before there was a resort to figures for march

00:06 and now it's all about social media promotion. You guys are

00:09 really big line. We are indeed very big on line in

00:12 and getting bigger all the time. I think social media is

00:16 a great thing when used properly and it does sometimes get

00:20 abuse and you know there are people out there. Who like

00:24 to yell fire when there is no fire and hello leveling

00:28 accusations that people and hide in anonymity but other than that.

00:33 Having social media is it's a great way for people to

00:36 communicate immediately. And it makes the world a smaller place so

00:41 in that way it's terrific. This ban has been here forty

00:43 years fortified borders 4040 years OK but you are there he

00:47 put his moment of relative. Today thanks to social media as

00:50 you were not when you restarted. Both certainly social media is

00:57 message put them. If you have nothing to deliver social media

01:00 is not gonna help so we were here before social media

01:04 and we will right the way. Let's say that the kiss

01:07 army was starting today as opposed to back then remember the

01:11 baseball cards and everything everything right how to do it today.

01:15 Good question I think that all things that lasts the longest

01:19 start with the ground swell. And it's all well and good

01:22 to have talent shows on television and YouTube and other outlets.

01:30 wanted to create a groundswell I think the best way to

01:37 area and have it built from there because some. It has

01:41 to start with the people and and I believe that them

01:45 to sustained something. It needs more than just an overnight close

01:50 so you would not start with the YouTube channel today. Obama

01:53 I don't I don't know you know it's it's such a

01:56 hypothetical question. And here we are forty years later and and

02:01 you know 100 million albums and and countless world tour so

02:06 how we would do if we were starting now. You know

02:10 I may be a dinosaur but I still believe that have

02:13 to wait to people is by engage them. And what I

02:17 try to do want stages engage people and make everybody feel

02:20 that they're important. And that each one of them is essential

02:24 to what we do. It's great to have media outlets and

02:30 and the Internet such. But. I'm one who believes that the

02:34 message for a test to be delivered. And church in temple

Best known as guitarist and frontman of the band "Kiss," musician Paul Stanley poses for a portrait on April 7, 2014, in New York.

For a band that started in 1972, Kiss has always pushed band interaction a little harder than most, with the members of the Kiss Army being offered comic books, trading cards and tons of merchandise for sale.

Now, the band has social media, where the band pumps it out on websites, blogs, and Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and where online access to the Kiss Army costs $50 a year.

"Social media is getting bigger all the time," he says. "I think social media is a great thing when used properly. There are people out there who like to yell fire when there is no fire, level accusations at people and hide in anonymity. Other than that, it\'s a great way for people to communicate immediately, and it makes the world a smaller place. Social media is a great way for us to deliver our message."

"It\'s great to have talent shows on TV and YouTube, but if you want a groundswell, the best place is a club, and have it build from there," Stanley says. "I may be a dinosaur, but the way to get to people is by engaging them. It\'s great to have the Internet, but the message first has to be delivered and go directly to the people."

Kiss founding member Paul Stanley explains why the iPhone 6 Plus is his go to device in this interview with Jefferson Graham. Sean Fujiwara

00:03 I don't think anybody at this point to listen live

00:06 without a Smartphone. Which is it in credible when you realize

00:10 that. You know what was it twenty years ago we thought

00:15 fax machines were the most amazing thing. And I remember phones

00:20 that were in briefcases. I remember the phones that look like

00:25 bricks and drifting help phones got smaller and smaller and now

00:28 they're beginning to get larger and larger question. Six plus. How

00:33 did you figure to fix some people there's different I don't

00:39 sixth I'm gonna regret it because I want to try to

00:42 six plus and I honestly. I always found me the iPad.

00:48 To be. A phone that you couldn't dialogue you can't you

00:51 can't shape it thing. So the idea of having a phone

00:55 that's a little larger where you have a fairly high quality

00:58 screens. Is it a little larger you know but I think

01:02 that the pluses outweigh the minuses certainly the first day I

01:05 had actually got a telephone book that my head. But once

01:08 they got used to it it's. It's pretty neat.

Stanley remembers having one of the first cellphones, which was the size of a brick. "It\'s interesting how phones got smaller and smaller, and now they\'re getting larger," he says.

He recently purchased the iPhone 6 Plus. "I always found the iPad was a phone you couldn\'t dial on," he says.

Stanley says he loves the idea of having a "phone that\'s a little larger with a fairly high-quality screen. Is it a little larger? Yeah, but the pluses outweigh the minuses. The first day I had it, I felt like I had a telephone book next to my head. Once I got used to it, it\'s pretty neat."

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