Has Gene Simmons been working out lately?

[heinlein99]

With Gene's tongue, he didn't need a long schlonger.

 

BTW, I saw Kiss live during their Dynasty tour back in the day....

[october]

After hearing story after story about how "awesome" Kiss was live, I finally saw them a few years back. My girlfriend got tenth row seats and a backstage pass/tour for each of us. Simmons was backstage, greeted us, then claimed he "had to take a dump" and wandered off.

 

Bar none, hands down, the worst/most overrated show I have ever seen. I don't know what they were like in back in the day, but they sure blow now. I wanted my money back, even though it was free.

[seanfingh]

 

I saw them in '97 and again at the Super bowl in '99 and they rocked hard. But they were clearly older and getting sort of pudgy. I would imagine within the last couple of years it would have started to get kind of sad.

[Ringfinger]

Sad indeed.

[dekeuk]

Bar none, hands down, the worst/most overrated show I have ever seen.

 

 

 

I saw KISS for the first time last night at the NYC Madison Square Garden show. I picked up a single nosebleed seat in the street for $15 (face value $39) just so I could say I saw them.

 

I can honestly say this was one of the GREATEST concerts I have ever seen. Definitely in the Top 5 of any show I have ever seen.

 

They played the entire set list from the original ALIVE album (except for 2 songs), plus a few others. With the exception of one song from the new album, and "Lick It Up" from 1983, the most recent song on the set list came from a 1977 album.

 

The stage show was spectacular, the best I have ever seen from any band, with giant video screens (which I needed given my cheap seat).

 

They displayed the energy of guys 25 years old, not 55 years old. I thought it was 1979, not 2009 out there.

 

They were FAR SUPERIOR than any "geezer" rock band I have ever seen such as The Stones, The Who, Steve Miller, Skynyrd, Mellencamp, Jethro Tull, ZZ Top, and the Van Halen re-union tour. They blew those other dinosaur acts away, there is no comparison.

 

If you get a chance to see them this fall of the 35th anniversary tour GO GO GO - it is money well spent.

 

Here is some cheap amateur youtube video below which does not do justice to the magnitude of the show, but it gives you an idea:

 

 

 

 

with Paul flying across the crowd to a 2nd stage

 

 

 

 

with Gene spitting blood and flying (at the 3 minute mark)

 

 

live from another show on the tour but the background stage effects on this song were stunning