Anyone catch KISSETERIA on A&E this past week? Interesting documentary about KISS getting together to do their 35th Anniversary tour starting in Australia. You get to see a few behind the scenes stuff.
It will be re-broadcast on July 24th.
Yeah, I watched it-it was fun but I'd say 95% of it was badly staged, especially the "where's Eric?" portion. But it was enjoyable and in a few weeks I get to see the guys for $10 and we paid no service fees!
_________________ "We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors."—College Basketball player Weldon Drew
Those on stage pyrotechnics always look scary. Not many bands can pull off such an elaborate stage show. KISS always gives their all. I get to see them once again in August.
_________________ "Every day a little sadder, A little madder, Someone get me a ladder."
ELP
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright
Those on stage pyrotechnics always look scary. Not many bands can pull off such an elaborate stage show. KISS always gives their all. I get to see them once again in August.
I don't understand how bands or singers can perform with that stuff going off around them. It's fun to watch, but if I were performing, it would throw me off my stride.
I don't understand how bands or singers can perform with that stuff going off around them. It's fun to watch, but if I were performing, it would throw me off my stride.
Ask James Hetfield!
It's so rehearsed that I doubt they even really notice that stuff much any more. You definitely would feel the heat from it, though - I wasn't all that close to the stage when I saw Kiss in December, and you could really feel the heat from the pyro line by the drums.
_________________ Alan
"This is a true story, except for the parts that didn't happen." - Steven Wright
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As the concert business struggles with top-name cancellations this summer, KISS hits the road in North America, betting that its spectacle of classic rock, pyrotechnics and fire-breathing will lure cash-strapped concert-goers looking for dependable entertainment.
The group is set to embark on its 32-date "Hottest Show on Earth" tour of the United States and Canada that starts on Friday in Cheyenne, Wyoming and ends in Fontana, California in September to promote its "Sonic Boom" album.
The fact that KISS still plays 15,000-seat venues 37 years into its career comes from providing fans with what they want and touring with regularity, even when the band's popularity ebbed and flowed, its lead singer said.
"It's about the marathon," KISS co-founder Paul Stanley told Reuters. "It's more about who lasts the longest -- if you're depressed or lose your drive because of one tour or one show, then you're in the wrong business."
Stanley says fans are now "more discerning" and artists have to give them high-quality, high production entertainment if they hope to fill arenas and amphitheaters during this economic downturn. "They want bang for their buck," he said.
KISS has been riding a wave of renewed popularity since it put its trademark make-up back on in 1996, in contrast to the early 1980s when album and ticket sales plummeted and the band was regarded as hard rock has-beens.
Several artists have been finding this summer a tough slog. Earlier this month, concert industry publication Pollstar said that ticket sales from the top 100 tours in North America had slipped 17 percent in the first half of 2010, compared to a year ago.
Organizers of the all-female Lilith tour scrapped about a third of the shows, while Christina Aguilera shelved her tour altogether.
"It's fairly simple -- there are only so many dollars available," said Stanley, a guitarist who sings lead on classics like "Detroit Rock City".
While KISS has so far not had to cancel shows or co-headline with another major act to book its tour, it has not been entirely immune to the tough concert market.
A ticket search on promoter Live Nation's website found that top seats for next month's show in Long Island, New York were nearly sold out, and selling for several times their face value on reseller site StubHub. But thousands of cheaper seats for the Long Island gig were still available three weeks before the band was due to take the stage
_________________ "Every day a little sadder, A little madder, Someone get me a ladder."
ELP
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”—Steven Wright
I watched Kissteria today, and a thought hit me. For a band that always claims to have gotten where they are by believing in themselves, it seems like they have a lot of self-doubt. Let me 'splain...
Kiss has an interesting story. There are lots of interesting things that are going on (and have gone on) in and around that band. Throwing together a tour for the 35th anniversary of what some people consider to be the iconic live album of the 70s is interesting. How it's put together is interesting.
So why resort to all the contrived BS on this show? Where's Eric? Wrong painting (and Doc couldn't even do a good fake surprised face). Tommy pretending to fall asleep at the party. Paul fake asleep while doing the painting. The fake "let's do another show tom'w" crap.
There's enough stuff that's fascinating about this band in real reality that they don't need to go to reality TV reality.
Ugh - sometimes I don't know why I put so much thought into this...
_________________ Alan
"This is a true story, except for the parts that didn't happen." - Steven Wright
Wow-here's the opening night set list of the US tour from North Dakota. This will be the best $10 I have ever spent. I'm not surprised they kept in "Crazy Crazy Nights" as that was all over MTV and got solid airplay. I'll enjoy that cheesefest! Also, this is even longer than the European shows this year. 9 different songs from the US tour I saw last fall!
1.Modern Day Delilah 2.Cold Gin 3.Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll 4.Firehouse 5.Say Yeah 6.Never Enough 7.Deuce 8.Crazy Crazy Nights 9.Calling Dr. Love 10.Shock Me 11.I'm An Animal 12.100,000 Years 13.I Love It Loud 14.Love Gun 15.Black Diamond 16.Detroit Rock City Encore: 17.Beth 18.Forever 19.Lick It Up 20.Shout It Out Loud 21.I Was Made For Lovin' You 22.Stand 23.God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II (Argent cover) 24.Rock And Roll All Nite
_________________ "We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors."—College Basketball player Weldon Drew
The Metal Den continues to unearth rare audio. Their latest posting is what they believe is the earliest known live 'audience recording' of KISS performing "Deuce" at Bayou Theatre in Georgetown, Washington DC on March 25, 1974.
This was the first official KISS tour, after the band had initially broke through the club scene and began to tour in support of their self-titled debut album, KISS, which was released on February 18, 1974 through Casablanca Records.
This concert was only the fourth date of the tour and they played two shows on this historic night as you'll hear the emcee say when introducing them. -
I always thought their names were Gene, Paul, Peter and Ace.
What was I thinking...?
I don't know... perhaps that Chaim Witz, Stanley Eisen, Peter Criscuola, and Paul Frehley aren't exactly unfamiliar with the concept of making up alternate names for themselves?
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