Letters

This photo is of my brothers, my Uncle and myself taken in 1979 after my uncle received his KISS Make-up kit for Christmas. We would paint our faces and air play along to KISS Alive II. My mother would later take this picture and send it to our local radio station in in Syracuse 95X who not only gave us tickets to see the band on The Creatures of the Night tour in 1983 (which would be all of our 1st concert ever) but they arranged for us to meet Gene Simmons and Eric Carr at the studio before the concert. Though a brief encounter they both made us all feel special and it was amazing for 2 reasons. The 1st is that KISS still wore makeup during this time and we met them unmasked and the 2nd was that Eric Carr like my uncle are no longer with us and just enormously adds to the sentiments felt that day even more. I have been a KISS fan for as long as I can remember and brought my love of them through the 41 years since this picture was taken and KISS became my sons 1st concert as well which culminated with us seeing KISS on the farewell tour last February in Allentown. Thank you to KISS for being the band I always wanted to see and for being such a huge part of my entire family!! - Scott Dobson