KISS deliver the greatest show on Earth with ‘The Final Tour Ever’
“You wanted the best, you got the best”
By James Shotwell / substreammagazine.com
The legacy of Kiss is one of style over substance where songs serve to sell the live show and live shows exist to sell the merchandise. The band has had numerous top 10 singles during their forty-five-year run in rock music, but in many ways, they have always been considered outcasts. Blame it on the makeup they wear or the fact they only take themselves as seriously as the need to at any point, but rock diehard at large have always looked down on the group as something existing just outside the realm what is considered cool.
What those so-called rock purists don’t realize is that being outside what is considered cool is exactly where bands should want to exist.
Rock and roll has always been the sound of outsiders. Though it was stolen from its creators and repackaged for mass marketability, the heart and soul of rock has remained the same since its inception. Kiss has always represented the original intention of the genre. Remove the clothes and makeup and nonstop pyrotechnics that accompanies every performance and you have a band writing songs for the working class that are grounded in everyday reality. They sing to inspire as much as they do to entertain, and their final tour is an extension of that idea in every way.
On March 13, The Final Tour Ever rolled into Detroit (Rock City) with everything fans have come to expect from Kiss, including fire, explosions, blood-spitting, and a collection of rock anthems built for maximum pleasure. The show featured nearly two hours of music spanning the group’s entire career, and every so often frontman Paul Stanley would stop the performance just long enough to shed some light on the band’s history.
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