Michael Doret is the amazing artist who vast work includes the logo for the New York Knicks basketball team.
He also designed one of the most popular album covers for the band KISS…their 1976 “Rock And Roll Over” album.
And he’s even designed a cover for an issue of the Japanese magazine 「アイデア」 (Idea)!
Michael Doret did an interesting interview with me today.
It’s on the Interviews page of my website…Click here to read it.
…any fans out there who want to come by the studio to get their (Rock And Roll Over album) covers signed, they’re more than welcome!
Michael Doret
Tokyo Five 
I did another interview with Michael Doret on 2009 August 18th.
Please read all of my interviews at this page:
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tokyo5/interviews.html
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You make it sound so easy! did you just see his work and where or how to contact him and go from there? You are good at giving interviews and it is free advertising for him. would you like to do that for a living?
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>did you just see his work and where or how to contact him and go from there?
In the case of Michael Doret, I knew he painted the cover for KISS‘s “Rock And Roll Over” album cover (pictured above)…so I found his website and emailed him.
For the other interviews I’ve done, I met Bruce Kulick (KISS‘s former guitarist in Tokyo)…as well as Eric Singer, their drummer. I asked him in person if he’d do an interview with me.
The other earlier interviews were people I heard about in the news and emailed them.
>You are good at giving interviews
Nothing special…just simple questions.
>would you like to do that for a living?
There are real journalists who are much better than me!
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Nice interview! I love his art too. he’s very talented. how did you get the interview?
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>how did you get the interview?
I just asked him. Same as I did for all the interviews on my site (here: http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tokyo5/interviews.html )
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At one point I had designed one that included ALL the make-up designs. (Eric & Vinnie included.) I was going to have it done on my shoulder.
I chickened out.
I wish I would’ve kept that drawing…I thought it turned out pretty good.
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Actually, I once saw someone who had a Rock And Roll Over tattoo with Vinnie Vincent and Eric Carr’s characters added.
It was cool!
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Wow! Nice interview! I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never clicked over to your other website before, but am so glad I did! I read two interviews today and can’t wait to go back and read the rest! Great job!
Do you have any idea where the memorial in Shizuoka is?
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>Wow! Nice interview!
Thank you.
>I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never clicked over to your other website before
Oh, please do. It’s here:
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tokyo5/index.html
>I read two interviews today and can’t wait to go back and read the rest! Great job!
Thanks for the kind words.
>Do you have any idea where the memorial in Shizuoka is?
You mean the one mentioned in this interview:
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tokyo5/interviews.html#yellin-j
It’s at Mt. Shizuhata Park.
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RARO is one of the few things I ever seriously considered getting tattooed.
However, in the end, the decision was always “no”.
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You should get it!
The design lends itself to a tattoo well.
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Michael Doret’s interview with me is here:
http://www3.ocn.ne.jp/~tokyo5/interviews.html#doret
(in case you missed the link to it above).
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