On 13. August 1973 Bill Aucoin offered Kiss to become their new manager after seeing them live three days earlier at the Diplomat. On 15. October, 1973 Kiss signs with Bill Aucoin’s Rock Steady management.
On August 13th, Aucoin returned after their show in the Grand Ballroom of the hotel to offer the band a deal: He was to become their new manager. As told to Chris Charlesworth in MELODY MAKER in 1975, the band was not impressed with Aucoin, as he willingly admitted that he was not nor had ever been a rock group manager and the band still had a manager of their own to do business for them. Bill Aucoin was undaunted, as he told Charlesworth in the same article. “J told them that in two weeks I could get them a record contract and set down specific plans as to their future. If that didn’t happen they could have nothing more to do with me.” The band members, feeling that they had nothing to lose in the deal, decided to give it a shot. They signed a short-term contract with Aucoin that night, successfully getting rid of their current man- ager who had worked with them over the past year.
“Black Diamond: The Unauthorized Biography of Kiss”, book by Dale Sherman
