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 9 years; even owning a merchandising company, Niocua, which sold KISS fan products. He left as the band management due to creative and directional differences in 1981. One of the factors often quoted was his vast unruly 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 He has now started to work alongside KISS on new DVD projects relating to unseen concert video and unpublished photos.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 an entertainment company called Aucoin Globe Entertainment. He also has the distinction of passing to sign Van Halen because he saw no commercial potential in them.
 Bill Aucoin 2008 |
 Bill Aucoin, Peter Criss, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Joyce, Neil Bogart |
KISS manager 1973–1982
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
Rising Star mentor
1989-1990
Flipp manager 1998?–2003
Starz manager
1977–1979
Crossbreed manager 2003–present
Lordi manager 2006–present
Nothing Rhymes with Orange manager 2007-present
Bill Aucoin originally produced a television show called "Supermarket Sweep" in the early (Pre-1973) 1970s.
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