Stanley tells the Joe Rogan Experience: "It's very difficult to move forward when two of the people are, at times, like flat tires. It becomes more of a problem when their reason for being is to foil and to throw off track what you're trying to do."

Stanley adds that he was happy splitting Kiss revenue evenly at first, until, he says, Frehley and Criss starting contributing less to the band's output. He says: "I never wanted or expected anybody in the band to do necessarily the same amount of work that I did, but I expected them to give 100%.