MiniKiss vs. Tiny Kiss: Battle of the all-dwarf tribute bands

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I'm sure this says something profound about American culture -- but I have no idea what it is.

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Rival bands clash over little-person KISS tribute
A Las Vegas incident highlights the MiniKiss-Tiny Kiss tussle over who owns the concept.


By Robert W. Welkos
Times Staff Writer

They might be pint-sized performers onstage, but offstage they're in a giant-sized dispute.

Joey Fatale, the 4-foot, 4-inch New Yorker who heads the all-dwarf KISS tribute band MiniKiss, is denying published reports that he tried to sneak past security last month at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to confront a rival band leader, 4-foot "Little" Tim Loomis of Tiny Kiss, for allegedly ripping off his idea for such a group.

Loomis, a former drummer for MiniKiss, was performing with Tiny Kiss, which includes three little people and a 350-pound woman, on St. Patrick's Day at Beacher's Madhouse, a Las Vegas variety show, when the incident occurred.

Show host Jeff Beacher told The Times on Monday that Fatale "tried to sneak in saying he was Tiny Kiss" and had to be escorted from the premises. According to the New York Post, Fatale's lawyers sent a legal cease-and-desist letter to the show trying to shut down the act.

[Rick Myers]

1. MiniKiss played at a race event I attended

Didn't see them, the idea was just TOO strange.