For girls, Mini KISS bassist finds makeup is ‘like a magnet’

By Melissa Arseniuk

Thursday, April 2, 2009 | 6:33 p.m.

When it comes to getting girls, Joseph Fatale says it’s all about the make-up.

In fact, the Mini KISS bassist says he gets more action with the make-up on than off.

“We get more girls being in Mini KISS make-up than we doing being out of Mini KISS make-up,” he said. “It brings it a lot. It’s like a magnet.”

Sitting on a couch backstage at LAX before the pint-sized band’s Wednesday night performance, Fatale, a.k.a. “Mini Gene,” held nothing back.

“We’ve had our share of good times with the girls, absolutely,” he said. “It’s all good.”

There’s more to the make-up than girls, however.

Jeremy Stott, a.k.a. “Mini Paul,” said that the elaborate face paint is a key part of the band’s performance.

“It wouldn’t be KISS (without the iconic face paint). It would be just anybody else,” he said.

While one might imagine a group of make-up wearing little men dressed up like the members of KISS might be given a hard time, but the mini musicians said problems are few and far between.

“There’s always been a lot of love for us,” Fatale said, noting he’s been assuming the role of Gene Simmons for over a decade now.

The band’s drummer, Kurt Levee, a.k.a. “Mini Peter,” said the flack they catch has nothing to do with their music or their size.

“There’ve been some incidents, but what do you say? It’s jealousy,” he said.

“You’ve got your drunken idiots,” Fatale acknowledged, “(but) nobody really messes with us.”

“And if they do, we’ll take them out,” Levee said with a laugh.