The sessions have been released in bootleg form as "The Original Wicked Lester Sessions". Kiss officially released three tracks from these sessions on their 2001 "Box Set" release. Wicked Lester's music featured elements of rock and roll, folk rock and pop. Simmons and Stanley, feeling that the group lacked a unifying musical vision, began forming a new band in late 1972. Adopting a more straightforward, harder rock sound and an emphasis on stage theatrics, they became the band Kiss in early 1973.