BILL AUCOIN

'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. 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 debicals. He has now started to work along side KISS on new DVD projects relating to unseen concert video and unpublished photos.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.[1]
He also has the distinction of passing to sign Van Halen because he sees no commercial potential in them.

Contents

List of bands managed

Trivia

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. 1981

Billy Idol manager 1982–1984

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.