Paul ragging on Vinnie sounds completely like100% professional jealousy. Vinnie is a much better player than Paul, and IMO he wrote better songs. Paul dishes lots of dirt on tons of people in his book, but he was the last to publish too, so he sort of had the last word. Plus he’s a bigger bitch than Vinnie would ever be, even if Vinnie transitions for real. Vinnie’s whole problem with Kiss was he felt the employment contract was unfair. People generally side with Jake E Lee over Ozzy on the publishing raw deal he got, sort of the same deal here. Kiss was dying. They were passé in a post VH/LA metal world. Vinnie updated their sound and, it’s been said, their look to compete, and the thanks he got was peanuts. He was married with 2 young girls at the time. He felt it was unfair, and I agree with him. That being said, he needed their quality control to a certain extent in the solo department, as evidenced by VVI. I personally love that album, but even I would agree (being a VV fan) that it’s ridiculous overplaying on every solo. And the whole thing just rubs people wrong to this day. The more recent events in his life haven’t done anything to change peoples minds about him, and all that is squarely on him. FWIW
