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FOREVER KISSED
Winchester man has assembled an 896-piece collection of rock band
By Monty Tayloe / The Winchester Star
Photo by Scott Mason/The Winchester Star
His grandparents say that when 4-year-old Benji Knee came to live with them in 1976, the obsession had already begun.
Born with Down syndrome, he brought his favorite toys to make the move easier: Four long-haired dolls - one each for Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons - the original lineup of the face-painted hard-rock band KISS.
"They're the hottest band in the world," Benji said 34 years later, standing in front of a dresser stuffed with KISS T-shirts.
His dolls are now just a small part of a 896-piece KISS collection that has taken over his grandparents' basement, his bedroom, and now even the family living room.
"This is his whole life," said Benji's grandfather (and retired city treasurer) Walter "Skeeter" Knee, 75, standing in the basement Benji calls his office.
Winchester man has assembled an 896-piece collection of rock band
By Monty Tayloe / The Winchester Star
His grandparents say that when 4-year-old Benji Knee came to live with them in 1976, the obsession had already begun.
Born with Down syndrome, he brought his favorite toys to make the move easier: Four long-haired dolls - one each for Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons - the original lineup of the face-painted hard-rock band KISS.
"They're the hottest band in the world," Benji said 34 years later, standing in front of a dresser stuffed with KISS T-shirts.
His dolls are now just a small part of a 896-piece KISS collection that has taken over his grandparents' basement, his bedroom, and now even the family living room.
"This is his whole life," said Benji's grandfather (and retired city treasurer) Walter "Skeeter" Knee, 75, standing in the basement Benji calls his office.
Like most offices, it has a desk, but it's sitting next to a life-size cardboard cutout of the members of KISS, and is surrounded by shelves piled with statues, books, toy cars - even cologne - all featuring KISS.
Benji has at least three KISS lava lamps, a battle ax-shaped KISS lamp, and a toothbrush that plays "Rock and Roll All Nite" - his favorite KISS song - while he uses it.
"He even has KISS chap stick," Skeeter said.
When Benji goes bowling, he wears KISS-themed sweatbands, and uses a KISS bowling ball, and he's never without his KISS watch, KISS ring, and a KISS T-shirt.
"People always ask me if he has anything else to wear," said Nancy Knee, 77, Benji's grandmother.
Many of the items were sent to him by friends and family members who know to watch for memorabilia.
Some of those friends were on hand when former KISS guitarist Frehley was signing T-shirts in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 2007.
He wrote "Be safe! We support you!" to Benji on the shirt, which is now framed on the Knees's wall.
The shirt is a prized part of the collection, but Nancy said Benji loves everything involving KISS equally.
"He is thrilled with every single thing, even just a little card," she said.
Nancy said she believes Benji's membership in the KISS Army - as the band's fans are known- helps him.
"It's good for him to think about them and talk about them," she said.
At Benji's job at NW Works, his co-workers quiz him on KISS trivia, and Benji spends time each day in his KISS basement, photocopying and laminating pictures and articles about his favorite band.
His fandom even led him to write a short article for the NW Works newsletter.
Titled "My Dream Comes True," it is about the KISS concert that Nancy and Skeeter took him to in 2000.
"I'm pretty sure we were the oldest people there," Nancy said. "It's a pretty remarkable show," Skeeter added.
Though they don't completely share Benji's enthusiam, more than 30 years of being surrounded by KISS has started to wear them down.
Skeeter said he likes the song "New York Groove," while Nancy prefers "Beth."
"It's easy to kind of tune it out," she said.
While they may not feel the same as Benji about the band, the Knees are as dedicated to his hobby as he is.
Nancy said she buys KISS memorabilia as soon as it is released for fear that Benji will miss something, and Skeeter is nearly on a first-name basis with Virginia's authorized KISS dealer.
In 2000, when Skeeter gave Benji his basement office, the doting grandparents strung a streamer across the basement stairs for an official ribbon-cutting- which now hangs on the basement wall.
Benji loves KISS so much that he finds it impossible to pick a favorite band member, though he admitted liking the original lineup best.
He also has trouble picking his favorite piece in the collection, though he's partial to the lifesize cutout.
He said he likes to come downstairs and look at the whole collection.
"I like all of it."
By Monty Tayloe / The Winchester Star
Photo by Scott Mason/The Winchester Star
His grandparents say that when 4-year-old Benji Knee came to live with them in 1976, the obsession had already begun.
Born with Down syndrome, he brought his favorite toys to make the move easier: Four long-haired dolls - one each for Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons - the original lineup of the face-painted hard-rock band KISS.
"They're the hottest band in the world," Benji said 34 years later, standing in front of a dresser stuffed with KISS T-shirts.
His dolls are now just a small part of a 896-piece KISS collection that has taken over his grandparents' basement, his bedroom, and now even the family living room.
"This is his whole life," said Benji's grandfather (and retired city treasurer) Walter "Skeeter" Knee, 75, standing in the basement Benji calls his office.
Winchester man has assembled an 896-piece collection of rock band
By Monty Tayloe / The Winchester Star
His grandparents say that when 4-year-old Benji Knee came to live with them in 1976, the obsession had already begun.
Born with Down syndrome, he brought his favorite toys to make the move easier: Four long-haired dolls - one each for Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons - the original lineup of the face-painted hard-rock band KISS.
"They're the hottest band in the world," Benji said 34 years later, standing in front of a dresser stuffed with KISS T-shirts.
His dolls are now just a small part of a 896-piece KISS collection that has taken over his grandparents' basement, his bedroom, and now even the family living room.
"This is his whole life," said Benji's grandfather (and retired city treasurer) Walter "Skeeter" Knee, 75, standing in the basement Benji calls his office.
Like most offices, it has a desk, but it's sitting next to a life-size cardboard cutout of the members of KISS, and is surrounded by shelves piled with statues, books, toy cars - even cologne - all featuring KISS.
Benji has at least three KISS lava lamps, a battle ax-shaped KISS lamp, and a toothbrush that plays "Rock and Roll All Nite" - his favorite KISS song - while he uses it.
"He even has KISS chap stick," Skeeter said.
When Benji goes bowling, he wears KISS-themed sweatbands, and uses a KISS bowling ball, and he's never without his KISS watch, KISS ring, and a KISS T-shirt.
"People always ask me if he has anything else to wear," said Nancy Knee, 77, Benji's grandmother.
Many of the items were sent to him by friends and family members who know to watch for memorabilia.
Some of those friends were on hand when former KISS guitarist Frehley was signing T-shirts in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 2007.
He wrote "Be safe! We support you!" to Benji on the shirt, which is now framed on the Knees's wall.
The shirt is a prized part of the collection, but Nancy said Benji loves everything involving KISS equally.
"He is thrilled with every single thing, even just a little card," she said.
Nancy said she believes Benji's membership in the KISS Army - as the band's fans are known- helps him.
"It's good for him to think about them and talk about them," she said.
At Benji's job at NW Works, his co-workers quiz him on KISS trivia, and Benji spends time each day in his KISS basement, photocopying and laminating pictures and articles about his favorite band.
His fandom even led him to write a short article for the NW Works newsletter.
Titled "My Dream Comes True," it is about the KISS concert that Nancy and Skeeter took him to in 2000.
"I'm pretty sure we were the oldest people there," Nancy said. "It's a pretty remarkable show," Skeeter added.
Though they don't completely share Benji's enthusiam, more than 30 years of being surrounded by KISS has started to wear them down.
Skeeter said he likes the song "New York Groove," while Nancy prefers "Beth."
"It's easy to kind of tune it out," she said.
While they may not feel the same as Benji about the band, the Knees are as dedicated to his hobby as he is.
Nancy said she buys KISS memorabilia as soon as it is released for fear that Benji will miss something, and Skeeter is nearly on a first-name basis with Virginia's authorized KISS dealer.
In 2000, when Skeeter gave Benji his basement office, the doting grandparents strung a streamer across the basement stairs for an official ribbon-cutting- which now hangs on the basement wall.
Benji loves KISS so much that he finds it impossible to pick a favorite band member, though he admitted liking the original lineup best.
He also has trouble picking his favorite piece in the collection, though he's partial to the lifesize cutout.
He said he likes to come downstairs and look at the whole collection.
"I like all of it."
08/01/2010
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07/31/2010
BACKSTAGE WITH KISS AT HOTTEST SHOW ON EARTH
Paul Stanley talks about the band's future without him or Gene Simmons
By D.X. Ferris
Photo: Mueller/Redferns
At a near-capacity show for their recently launched Hottest Show on Earth Tour in Pittsburgh last night, Kiss proved why they are the reigning kings of theater rock, delivering an electric two-hour, 21-song set of glam-rock smashes, newer tunes, over-the-top pyrotechnics and plenty of blood-spitting. "We have a problem that a lot of bands don't: there are a lot of songs we have to play," Paul Stanley told Rolling Stone backstage before the gig. "So it's a matter of mixing it up, but playing what people want to hear."
Check out photos from the summer's hottest shows.
With three massive video screens and bright LED lights, Kiss kicked the show off with fiery jams like "Modern Day Delilah" and "Cold Gin," but the band hit their stride once they launched into "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll," which found Kiss saturated in blinding white light and sent the crowd into a frenzied clap-along.By D.X. Ferris
Photo: Mueller/Redferns
At a near-capacity show for their recently launched Hottest Show on Earth Tour in Pittsburgh last night, Kiss proved why they are the reigning kings of theater rock, delivering an electric two-hour, 21-song set of glam-rock smashes, newer tunes, over-the-top pyrotechnics and plenty of blood-spitting. "We have a problem that a lot of bands don't: there are a lot of songs we have to play," Paul Stanley told Rolling Stone backstage before the gig. "So it's a matter of mixing it up, but playing what people want to hear."
Check out photos from the summer's hottest shows.
With three massive video screens and bright LED lights, Kiss kicked the show off with fiery jams like "Modern Day Delilah" and "Cold Gin," but the band hit their stride once they launched into "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll," which found Kiss saturated in blinding white light and sent the crowd into a frenzied clap-along. (Dozens of die-hards dressed in full Kiss fatigues while hundreds more donned the band's trademark makeup.) Throughout the gig, guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer filled in solidly for original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, especially when Singer reprised Frehley's sparks-shooting guitar solo in "Shock Me." When Criss left the band in 2004, Kiss abandoned playing the fan-favorite "Beth" but they revived their 1976 classic � to date, their highest-charting single ever � for their current tour. "The band is bigger than the members," Stanley told RS. "The idea that some people can be replaced and not all of them would be a little pigheaded and big-headed of me. Gene and I, there are people out there who could do what we do at least as well, if not better. I don't have to be there for it to be Kiss." Stanley added that the band could "absolutely" continue if he and Simmons decided to retire.
While the band delivered fan favorites like a show-closing "Rock and Roll All Nite," Kiss mined their catalog for deeper cuts like the faux-disco 1979 single "I Was Made for Lovin' You," during which Stanley zoomed over the crowd suspended by wires. (Another surprise: "Crazy Nights," the no-makeup-era single that sounded 10 times better as a summer-evening singalong than it did broadcast on MTV in 1987.) Kiss' show was also big on tunes from 2009's Sonic Boom and even those heavy, anthemic songs could have been long-lost tracks to albums like 1976's classic Rock and Roll Over."Sonic Boom was something that fortified us and really united us in the sense that we're now celebrating everything we've done in the past, the present, and where we're going in the future," said Stanley. "Sonic Boom is not the last album. It's the first album in the next phase."
Stanley said that the band plans to go back in to the studio next February and release an album as early as next summer, but in the meantime, Kiss are content to deliver a hit parade for the Hottest Show on Earth tour. "We don't want to fall into the thing where you have to play obscure songs," said Stanley. "I'm a big believer that a song is obscure for a reason: Songs that aren't as popular aren't as good."
Set List
"Modern Day Delilah"
"Cold Gin"
"Let Me Go, Rock �N Roll"
"Firehouse"
"Say Yeah"
"Deuce"
"Crazy Nights"
"Calling Dr. Love"
"Shock Me"
"I'm an Animal"
"100,000 Years"
"I Love It Loud"
"Love Gun"
"Black Diamond"
"Detroit Rock City"
Encore:
"Beth"
"Lick It Up"
"Shout It Out Loud"
"I Was Made for Lovin� You"
"God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II"
"Rock and Roll All Nite"
By D.X. Ferris
Photo: Mueller/Redferns
At a near-capacity show for their recently launched Hottest Show on Earth Tour in Pittsburgh last night, Kiss proved why they are the reigning kings of theater rock, delivering an electric two-hour, 21-song set of glam-rock smashes, newer tunes, over-the-top pyrotechnics and plenty of blood-spitting. "We have a problem that a lot of bands don't: there are a lot of songs we have to play," Paul Stanley told Rolling Stone backstage before the gig. "So it's a matter of mixing it up, but playing what people want to hear."
Check out photos from the summer's hottest shows.
With three massive video screens and bright LED lights, Kiss kicked the show off with fiery jams like "Modern Day Delilah" and "Cold Gin," but the band hit their stride once they launched into "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll," which found Kiss saturated in blinding white light and sent the crowd into a frenzied clap-along.By D.X. Ferris
Photo: Mueller/Redferns
At a near-capacity show for their recently launched Hottest Show on Earth Tour in Pittsburgh last night, Kiss proved why they are the reigning kings of theater rock, delivering an electric two-hour, 21-song set of glam-rock smashes, newer tunes, over-the-top pyrotechnics and plenty of blood-spitting. "We have a problem that a lot of bands don't: there are a lot of songs we have to play," Paul Stanley told Rolling Stone backstage before the gig. "So it's a matter of mixing it up, but playing what people want to hear."
Check out photos from the summer's hottest shows.
With three massive video screens and bright LED lights, Kiss kicked the show off with fiery jams like "Modern Day Delilah" and "Cold Gin," but the band hit their stride once they launched into "Let Me Go, Rock 'N' Roll," which found Kiss saturated in blinding white light and sent the crowd into a frenzied clap-along. (Dozens of die-hards dressed in full Kiss fatigues while hundreds more donned the band's trademark makeup.) Throughout the gig, guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer filled in solidly for original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, especially when Singer reprised Frehley's sparks-shooting guitar solo in "Shock Me." When Criss left the band in 2004, Kiss abandoned playing the fan-favorite "Beth" but they revived their 1976 classic � to date, their highest-charting single ever � for their current tour. "The band is bigger than the members," Stanley told RS. "The idea that some people can be replaced and not all of them would be a little pigheaded and big-headed of me. Gene and I, there are people out there who could do what we do at least as well, if not better. I don't have to be there for it to be Kiss." Stanley added that the band could "absolutely" continue if he and Simmons decided to retire.
While the band delivered fan favorites like a show-closing "Rock and Roll All Nite," Kiss mined their catalog for deeper cuts like the faux-disco 1979 single "I Was Made for Lovin' You," during which Stanley zoomed over the crowd suspended by wires. (Another surprise: "Crazy Nights," the no-makeup-era single that sounded 10 times better as a summer-evening singalong than it did broadcast on MTV in 1987.) Kiss' show was also big on tunes from 2009's Sonic Boom and even those heavy, anthemic songs could have been long-lost tracks to albums like 1976's classic Rock and Roll Over."Sonic Boom was something that fortified us and really united us in the sense that we're now celebrating everything we've done in the past, the present, and where we're going in the future," said Stanley. "Sonic Boom is not the last album. It's the first album in the next phase."
Stanley said that the band plans to go back in to the studio next February and release an album as early as next summer, but in the meantime, Kiss are content to deliver a hit parade for the Hottest Show on Earth tour. "We don't want to fall into the thing where you have to play obscure songs," said Stanley. "I'm a big believer that a song is obscure for a reason: Songs that aren't as popular aren't as good."
Set List
"Modern Day Delilah"
"Cold Gin"
"Let Me Go, Rock �N Roll"
"Firehouse"
"Say Yeah"
"Deuce"
"Crazy Nights"
"Calling Dr. Love"
"Shock Me"
"I'm an Animal"
"100,000 Years"
"I Love It Loud"
"Love Gun"
"Black Diamond"
"Detroit Rock City"
Encore:
"Beth"
"Lick It Up"
"Shout It Out Loud"
"I Was Made for Lovin� You"
"God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II"
"Rock and Roll All Nite"
07/31/2010
KISS AT HERSHEY PARK STADIUM TONIGHT
KISS tour recruits new generation of fans
CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News
Hot dogs. Apple pie. Chevrolet. And ... Kiss?
Quite so, according to Kiss drummer Eric Singer, who argued the band is an integral part of American culture.
"Kiss has become a part of Americana. It's very much a part of the American landscape," he said during a recent phone interview. "When you come to a show, it's like taking the kids to Disneyland. There is that kind of spirit at the shows."
To keep that spirit alive, the band is dedicated to ensuring that it delivers as much spectacle on stage as possible.
"What we're doing is taking what we did last year [on tour] and adding more aspects to the show to make it bigger and better," he said. "We take Kiss and improve and enrich it and make it better."
So what can we expect at Saturday's concert at Hersheypark Stadium?KISS tour recruits new generation of fans
CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News
Hot dogs. Apple pie. Chevrolet. And ... Kiss?
Quite so, according to Kiss drummer Eric Singer, who argued the band is an integral part of American culture.
"Kiss has become a part of Americana. It's very much a part of the American landscape," he said during a recent phone interview. "When you come to a show, it's like taking the kids to Disneyland. There is that kind of spirit at the shows."
To keep that spirit alive, the band is dedicated to ensuring that it delivers as much spectacle on stage as possible.
"What we're doing is taking what we did last year [on tour] and adding more aspects to the show to make it bigger and better," he said. "We take Kiss and improve and enrich it and make it better."
So what can we expect at Saturday's concert at Hersheypark Stadium?
"If I tell you, it ruins the surprise," Singer said.
The band is touring in support of its first studio album in 11 years, "Sonic Boom." Singer said that while the group will perform a few songs from "Boom," which fans and critics say harkens back to the classic, '70s-era Kiss, it's not going to neglect fans who want to hear the classics.
"You can't do too much new material," Singer said. "As much as die-hards want to hear the obscure songs, the majority wants to hear 'Detroit Rock City' and 'Love Gun.' Kiss is very much a show band and has a lot of energy to bring and maintain. Getting too obscure or veering away from what fans know is not the best idea."
He should know. Singer has been a member of Kiss, which includes guitarist Tommy Thayer and original members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, for a while. He initially drummed with them from 1991 to 1996. He then rejoined the band in 2001 after the reunion with original members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley fell apart.
Since then, Singer has worn the "Catman" makeup in concert that Criss made famous. Does he get grief about it from die-hard Criss fans?
"Of course," he said. "But I learned a long time ago, people will like you, love you and hate you for any reason, or no reason at all. I'm not going to make everybody happy, and I accept that.
"It's just a band. We just make music. I'm not solving the problems of the world. Ultimately, it's about having a good time and having fun."
And Singer is dedicated to ensuring that concertgoers have a good time.
"No matter how you feel on a given day, it's the one job you don't get to call in sick," he said. "I've gone onstage and played when I had a bad flu with chills. I've never called in or missed a show. You feed off the fans. The minute you see [the audience] it energizes you and helps you get through the tough times."
That dedication has apparently resulted in a resurgence of interest in the band, especially among the younger generations, Singer said.
"There's a renewed interest in Kiss now," he said. "There's a new generation of fans that's helped us be reborn and re-energized. The whole thing has become multigenerational."
Singer says Kiss is a unique band.
"There's a certain empowerment being onstage and in costume. It's a unique, special feeling. Knowing the crowd is with me is a very empowering situation. Putting on the makeup takes it to another level. It's a crazy shield that lets me be whatever I want."
So how long does it take to get into that make-up anyway?
About two hours, Singer said. "It gives you a chance to focus in," he said. "Applying the makeup, you can't rush the time it takes to do it. It's like preparing yourself for battle. It helps us focus in and channel the energy, so by the time we hit the stage there's no wasted effort."
IF YOU GO
Kiss performs at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Hersheypark Stadium. Cost: $131, $75.50 and $45.50 Tickets: Giant Center, 717-534-3911.
CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News
Hot dogs. Apple pie. Chevrolet. And ... Kiss?
Quite so, according to Kiss drummer Eric Singer, who argued the band is an integral part of American culture.
"Kiss has become a part of Americana. It's very much a part of the American landscape," he said during a recent phone interview. "When you come to a show, it's like taking the kids to Disneyland. There is that kind of spirit at the shows."
To keep that spirit alive, the band is dedicated to ensuring that it delivers as much spectacle on stage as possible.
"What we're doing is taking what we did last year [on tour] and adding more aspects to the show to make it bigger and better," he said. "We take Kiss and improve and enrich it and make it better."
So what can we expect at Saturday's concert at Hersheypark Stadium?KISS tour recruits new generation of fans
CHRIS MAUTNER, The Patriot-News
Hot dogs. Apple pie. Chevrolet. And ... Kiss?
Quite so, according to Kiss drummer Eric Singer, who argued the band is an integral part of American culture.
"Kiss has become a part of Americana. It's very much a part of the American landscape," he said during a recent phone interview. "When you come to a show, it's like taking the kids to Disneyland. There is that kind of spirit at the shows."
To keep that spirit alive, the band is dedicated to ensuring that it delivers as much spectacle on stage as possible.
"What we're doing is taking what we did last year [on tour] and adding more aspects to the show to make it bigger and better," he said. "We take Kiss and improve and enrich it and make it better."
So what can we expect at Saturday's concert at Hersheypark Stadium?
"If I tell you, it ruins the surprise," Singer said.
The band is touring in support of its first studio album in 11 years, "Sonic Boom." Singer said that while the group will perform a few songs from "Boom," which fans and critics say harkens back to the classic, '70s-era Kiss, it's not going to neglect fans who want to hear the classics.
"You can't do too much new material," Singer said. "As much as die-hards want to hear the obscure songs, the majority wants to hear 'Detroit Rock City' and 'Love Gun.' Kiss is very much a show band and has a lot of energy to bring and maintain. Getting too obscure or veering away from what fans know is not the best idea."
He should know. Singer has been a member of Kiss, which includes guitarist Tommy Thayer and original members Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, for a while. He initially drummed with them from 1991 to 1996. He then rejoined the band in 2001 after the reunion with original members Peter Criss and Ace Frehley fell apart.
Since then, Singer has worn the "Catman" makeup in concert that Criss made famous. Does he get grief about it from die-hard Criss fans?
"Of course," he said. "But I learned a long time ago, people will like you, love you and hate you for any reason, or no reason at all. I'm not going to make everybody happy, and I accept that.
"It's just a band. We just make music. I'm not solving the problems of the world. Ultimately, it's about having a good time and having fun."
And Singer is dedicated to ensuring that concertgoers have a good time.
"No matter how you feel on a given day, it's the one job you don't get to call in sick," he said. "I've gone onstage and played when I had a bad flu with chills. I've never called in or missed a show. You feed off the fans. The minute you see [the audience] it energizes you and helps you get through the tough times."
That dedication has apparently resulted in a resurgence of interest in the band, especially among the younger generations, Singer said.
"There's a renewed interest in Kiss now," he said. "There's a new generation of fans that's helped us be reborn and re-energized. The whole thing has become multigenerational."
Singer says Kiss is a unique band.
"There's a certain empowerment being onstage and in costume. It's a unique, special feeling. Knowing the crowd is with me is a very empowering situation. Putting on the makeup takes it to another level. It's a crazy shield that lets me be whatever I want."
So how long does it take to get into that make-up anyway?
About two hours, Singer said. "It gives you a chance to focus in," he said. "Applying the makeup, you can't rush the time it takes to do it. It's like preparing yourself for battle. It helps us focus in and channel the energy, so by the time we hit the stage there's no wasted effort."
IF YOU GO
Kiss performs at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Hersheypark Stadium. Cost: $131, $75.50 and $45.50 Tickets: Giant Center, 717-534-3911.
07/31/2010
SHOUT IT OUT LOUD FROM PITTSBURGH
07/31/2010
SCENES FROM CINCINNATI MEET & GREET
