Enjoyed my first time seeing KISS perform last night. We bought the tickets over a year ago and last night we finally got to go enjoy some live music.
For those who don't know, Gene and Paul are the only two remaining original members. That being said, it was a great show and included TONS of pyro. There was some lip syncing happening but considering the group is all pushing 70, and touring, with those costumes and full makeup as well as putting on the show they do...well, I was impressed overall. Paul even took a zip line of sorts out over the crowd and performed two songs while standing amongst the crowd (on a raised platform of course).
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I saw them four or five times back in the late 70's and early 80's all over the state. What a show! Simmons spitting blood. (Now that I'm so much older that's not such a big deal.) That's back when nobody knew who they really were because of the costumes. I still remember some of it, ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ
kinda.
In about 1974 I went to "Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom" in Atlanta because a friend worked security there and could get us in free.?ÿ We even got to sit in Alex Cooley's box seats.?ÿ The band was Kiss and it was the first time I had even heard of them.?ÿ My first impression was WEIRD, then they began to play and I enjoyed the music.
Andy
Sometime around 1976 I was living in a rural trailer park with my two small children.?ÿ The folks next door had a young daughter that played her KISS albums constantly.?ÿ It drove me (and everyone else in the trailer park) nuts.
Being the only baby-sitter in that quarter section she watched my boys from time to time.?ÿ I had a stereo and once she asked if she could listen to her records while she watched the kids.?ÿ As long as I wasn't there I didn't mind.?ÿ She inadvertently left her KISS album on my turntable, but apparently had taken home the cover.?ÿ I gleefully tossed the album in my trash.
Being in a rural area it was common at the time for everyone to burn their trash.?ÿ There were several burn barrels at the rear of the park property for folks to use.?ÿ The album was incinerated with the rest of my trash.
A few days later I was talking to my neighbor.?ÿ He had seen his daughter's melted vinyl in the ashes of the burned trash.?ÿ He told me he had no idea how it wound up in the burned trash, but he was pretty sure it was divine intervention.?ÿ
My only remark was "Huh? That's too bad".?ÿ 😉
KISS, started for me in 6th grade when my school confiscated my KISS lunchbox and the KISS bookbinders I had got as a KISS army member.
Saw them around 79 and it was all a young guy could hope for. Saw them two years ago on their never ending "farewell" tour and while the smell of illegal herbs was still in the air everyone had their clothes on and it was no comparison to the crowd in 79.
If you ever get a chance to see the movie "Detroit Rock City" do it. Not for the acting but for a historically accurate snapshot of a KISS concert in their hay day and the surrounding anti KISS culture.
If you ever get a chance to see the movie "Detroit Rock City" do it. Not for the acting but for a historically accurate snapshot of a KISS concert in their hay day and the surrounding anti KISS culture.
I will say, they had video playing in the background of live performances of their songs while playing that same song live for us. It was cool to see some of the video because it's stuff I hadn't seen before.
In 1977 at daycare we took baby powder from my little sister??s diaper bag and put it on our faces like makeup and borrowed mops and brooms as guitars from the janitor??s closet. ?ÿThe long haired older girl pretended to be Gene Simmons and she would spit water on Ace Frehley. ?ÿThey let me play the star child since I supplied the makeup. ?ÿThe memories are totally worth all the trouble we got in.
Obviously I very rarely go to nightclubs but when I do, that song "I was made for loving you ..." always gets anonymously dedicated to me.
It really was wilder some time back. Sammy Hagar opened for .. (crs) once, and someone in the audience shot him in the gut with a roman candle. He kept playing (the whole band) while giving that dude the finger. Spotlight shone on that dude, and you could see the audience moving in on him?ÿ spotlight cut off and who knows.
I didn't realize you were so not old.?ÿ We started using a babysitter in April 1974 who lived very close to us.?ÿ We both new it would be a short term deal that would terminate about the same date as the babysitter gave birth to her first child.?ÿ But, she would be very experienced in dealing with a one to two month-old baby.?ÿ This gave us some extra time to more fully search for the next babysitter.
I didn't realize you were so not old.
Nifty that you thought I was older.
Daycare ... 1977 ...
He ain't no spring chicken, it's just that so many of us on here are old codgers on Medicare.
@bill93?ÿ
We codgers just make more noise.?ÿ I'm sure there are far more youngsters than oldsters.
