When Kiss played their final show with guitarist Vinnie Vincent on March 17, 1984, it marked the end of a brief, productive-yet-volatile partnership that the band's principals had pegged as doomed ...

From the bombastic to the utterly ballistic, we count down the best of the mysterious guitarist's always-entertaining lead breaks with Kiss and the Vinnie Vincent Invasion ...

Vinnie Vincent, who co-wrote three of Creatures ' nine tracks, wound up getting the gig (though was pointedly never an "official" member of Kiss), while Farris was part of a core that also ...

His time out of the group opened the door to six-string adventures for other guitarists, like Vinnie Vincent, Bruce Kulick (who survived one of Kiss's most disgusting gigs) and Tommy Thayer.

Born Mark Norton in Hollywood, St. John was Kiss' third official guitarist, having replaced Vinnie Vincent -- the substitute for Ace Frehley -- in 1984.