William 'Gui' Aucoin (also known as Bill Aucoin) is a band manager that has managed several successful bands during the course of his career. He is known to have discovered Kiss and he then worked with them for the next 8 years; even owning a merchandising company, Niocua, which sold Kiss fan products. Kiss (also typeset as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in December 1972 He left as the band management due to creative and directional difference's in 1981. One of the factors often quoted was his vast unruley and expensive business organization which was eating up huge sums of money KISS were not making after the Unmasked / Elder debacles. He has now started to work alongside KISS on new DVD projects relating to unseen concert video and unpublished photos.
He is now back in the management business and has formed a management company with his partner Kosta Kantzoglou, called Aucoin Globe Entertainment. As of late 2006 he has two bands he is working with fulltime: Crossbreed and a band from Finland, Lordi that has just signed with The End Records. Crossbreed is a six member Industrial metal, Shock rock band from Clearwater Florida Lordi is a heavy metal quintet from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992 however the band was not formed until 1996 by Tomi Putaansuu (known The End Records came into existence in 1998 its sights set on offering discriminating listeners the best in eclectic avantgarde metal [1] He also has the distinction of passing to sign Van Halen because he saw no commercial potential in them.
List of bands managed
Kiss manager 1973–1981
Piper manager 1975–1977
Spider manager 197?–197? (featured Anton Fig on drums)
Manowar manager for a brief time circa. Kiss (also typeset as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in December 1972 Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings Anton Fig (born August 8 1952 in Cape Town South Africa) known as "The Thunder from Down Under" Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn New York. 1981
Billy Idol manager 1982–1984
Rising Star mentor 1989-1990
Flipp manager 1998?–2003
Starz manager 1977–1979
Crossbreed manager 2003–present
Lordi manager 2006–present
Trivia
- Bill Aucoin originally produced a television show called "Supermarket Sweeps" in the early (Pre-1973) 1970s. Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad, 30 November 1955, Stanmore, Middlesex) is an English rock Flipp is a Minneapolis -based band (1995 which attempted to revive the Glam-rock era of the early 1970's using its combination of tongue-in-cheek social commentary The rock band Starz was a 1970s heavy metal and Power pop band from New Jersey, United States. Crossbreed is a six member Industrial metal, Shock rock band from Clearwater Florida Lordi is a heavy metal quintet from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992 however the band was not formed until 1996 by Tomi Putaansuu (known