10/04/2009
Kiss News
10/04/2009
ESPN WORKING ON KISS - CADILLAC STORY
By Jeff Broddle
The story that has been told and retold, of the rock band KISS visiting Cadillac in 1975 at the invitation of the Cadillac High School football team, will be retold again, this time by the cable sports network ESPN.
Vikings football coach Jim Webb confirmed Friday that an ESPN crew asked permission to film the homecoming game Friday night. The crew also filmed part of the homecoming parade.
Webb said the players were "pumped" to hear the news that ESPN would be on the sidelines for the game.
"I told the players, in case they needed a little more motivation than homecoming, that some of them might be on national TV," Webb said.
By Jeff Broddle
The story that has been told and retold, of the rock band KISS visiting Cadillac in 1975 at the invitation of the Cadillac High School football team, will be retold again, this time by the cable sports network ESPN.
Vikings football coach Jim Webb confirmed Friday that an ESPN crew asked permission to film the homecoming game Friday night. The crew also filmed part of the homecoming parade.
Webb said the players were "pumped" to hear the news that ESPN would be on the sidelines for the game.
"I told the players, in case they needed a little more motivation than homecoming, that some of them might be on national TV," Webb said.
ESPN crews will return to the area in coming weeks to conduct interviews with select individuals who had a part in the event.
ESPN Producer Dan Arruda said ESPN learned about Cadillac's role in "KISStory" after the recent Cadillac News article was posted on sportsbybrooks.com.
"I can't believe we hadn't heard about this story before," Arruda said.
No date has been set yet for the airing. The segment is likely to be five to eight minutes long, or possibly longer depending on where the story goes, and may air on Sportscenter or possibly Outside the Lines.
"We'rcoming at this from a sports perspective," Arruda said.
ESPN is looking for film, old photographs, home movies, and other memorabilia to help flesh out the video, especially film or photos of the 1974-75 team. Local folks who have these items, or perhaps have a ticket stub or a really good story to share about the KISS visit, may contact Arruda at [email protected]
"I'l try to get back to as many people as I can," Arruda said.
The story that has been told and retold, of the rock band KISS visiting Cadillac in 1975 at the invitation of the Cadillac High School football team, will be retold again, this time by the cable sports network ESPN.
Vikings football coach Jim Webb confirmed Friday that an ESPN crew asked permission to film the homecoming game Friday night. The crew also filmed part of the homecoming parade.
Webb said the players were "pumped" to hear the news that ESPN would be on the sidelines for the game.
"I told the players, in case they needed a little more motivation than homecoming, that some of them might be on national TV," Webb said.
By Jeff Broddle
The story that has been told and retold, of the rock band KISS visiting Cadillac in 1975 at the invitation of the Cadillac High School football team, will be retold again, this time by the cable sports network ESPN.
Vikings football coach Jim Webb confirmed Friday that an ESPN crew asked permission to film the homecoming game Friday night. The crew also filmed part of the homecoming parade.
Webb said the players were "pumped" to hear the news that ESPN would be on the sidelines for the game.
"I told the players, in case they needed a little more motivation than homecoming, that some of them might be on national TV," Webb said.
ESPN crews will return to the area in coming weeks to conduct interviews with select individuals who had a part in the event.
ESPN Producer Dan Arruda said ESPN learned about Cadillac's role in "KISStory" after the recent Cadillac News article was posted on sportsbybrooks.com.
"I can't believe we hadn't heard about this story before," Arruda said.
No date has been set yet for the airing. The segment is likely to be five to eight minutes long, or possibly longer depending on where the story goes, and may air on Sportscenter or possibly Outside the Lines.
"We'rcoming at this from a sports perspective," Arruda said.
ESPN is looking for film, old photographs, home movies, and other memorabilia to help flesh out the video, especially film or photos of the 1974-75 team. Local folks who have these items, or perhaps have a ticket stub or a really good story to share about the KISS visit, may contact Arruda at [email protected]
"I'l try to get back to as many people as I can," Arruda said.
10/04/2009
KISS ALIVE 35 CONCERT RECORDINGS
KISS Live instant USB Wristband and 2-CD-Sets are available now!
Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer und Eric Singer are celebrate the 35 year history of one of the biggest rock bands of all times on a tour across North America.
Most shows of the KISS Alive/35 US Tour 2009 are being exclusively recorded by Concert Online.
The audio recording are be available as a USB leather wristband with a KISS metal buckle. An absolute must-have item for every KISS fan!
In addition an instant live CD set, consisting of 2 CDs in Collector's Box.
USB wristbands and CDs can be purchased right at the venue of each concert!
YOUR VERY OWN KISS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Concert Online exclusively records each show of the KISS ALIVE 35 Tour in North America. To ensure maximum quality, all tracks are recorded live and are mixed with state-of-the-art recording technology by Concert Online.KISS Live instant USB Wristband and 2-CD-Sets are available now!
Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer und Eric Singer are celebrate the 35 year history of one of the biggest rock bands of all times on a tour across North America.
Most shows of the KISS Alive/35 US Tour 2009 are being exclusively recorded by Concert Online.
The audio recording are be available as a USB leather wristband with a KISS metal buckle. An absolute must-have item for every KISS fan!
In addition an instant live CD set, consisting of 2 CDs in Collector's Box.
USB wristbands and CDs can be purchased right at the venue of each concert!
YOUR VERY OWN KISS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Concert Online exclusively records each show of the KISS ALIVE 35 Tour in North America. To ensure maximum quality, all tracks are recorded live and are mixed with state-of-the-art recording technology by Concert Online.
USB WRISTBAND:
The original leather KISS USB wristband contains the audio recording of the show of your choice in highest MP3 quality (320 kBit/s) and KISS bonus multimedia material. Just plug in your wristband to a USB port on your computer and start the embedded KISS multimedia player to listen to your MP3s and enjoy the bonus features. Of course you can copy your MP3s to your computer, your MP3 player, etc. to listen to KISS ALIVE 35 wherever you want! The wristband can also be used as a standard 1GB USB flash drive.
2-CD SET:
The KISS ALIVE 35 DigiPak contains 2 discs with the complete recording of one concert of your choice in CD quality.
USB wristband and 2-CD Set are available on location at every KISS ALIVE 35 North American Tour show or online right here at Concert Online.
KISS LIVE CONCERT CDS & WRISTBANDS
Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer und Eric Singer are celebrate the 35 year history of one of the biggest rock bands of all times on a tour across North America.
Most shows of the KISS Alive/35 US Tour 2009 are being exclusively recorded by Concert Online.
The audio recording are be available as a USB leather wristband with a KISS metal buckle. An absolute must-have item for every KISS fan!
In addition an instant live CD set, consisting of 2 CDs in Collector's Box.
USB wristbands and CDs can be purchased right at the venue of each concert!
YOUR VERY OWN KISS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Concert Online exclusively records each show of the KISS ALIVE 35 Tour in North America. To ensure maximum quality, all tracks are recorded live and are mixed with state-of-the-art recording technology by Concert Online.KISS Live instant USB Wristband and 2-CD-Sets are available now!
Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer und Eric Singer are celebrate the 35 year history of one of the biggest rock bands of all times on a tour across North America.
Most shows of the KISS Alive/35 US Tour 2009 are being exclusively recorded by Concert Online.
The audio recording are be available as a USB leather wristband with a KISS metal buckle. An absolute must-have item for every KISS fan!
In addition an instant live CD set, consisting of 2 CDs in Collector's Box.
USB wristbands and CDs can be purchased right at the venue of each concert!
YOUR VERY OWN KISS LIVE EXPERIENCE
Concert Online exclusively records each show of the KISS ALIVE 35 Tour in North America. To ensure maximum quality, all tracks are recorded live and are mixed with state-of-the-art recording technology by Concert Online.
USB WRISTBAND:
The original leather KISS USB wristband contains the audio recording of the show of your choice in highest MP3 quality (320 kBit/s) and KISS bonus multimedia material. Just plug in your wristband to a USB port on your computer and start the embedded KISS multimedia player to listen to your MP3s and enjoy the bonus features. Of course you can copy your MP3s to your computer, your MP3 player, etc. to listen to KISS ALIVE 35 wherever you want! The wristband can also be used as a standard 1GB USB flash drive.
2-CD SET:
The KISS ALIVE 35 DigiPak contains 2 discs with the complete recording of one concert of your choice in CD quality.
USB wristband and 2-CD Set are available on location at every KISS ALIVE 35 North American Tour show or online right here at Concert Online.
KISS LIVE CONCERT CDS & WRISTBANDS
10/04/2009
SONIC BOOM RELEASE PARTY IN HOLLAND
10/04/2009
KISS IS EVERYWHERE!
10/04/2009
SHOUT IT OUT LOUD CLIP FROM MOHEGAN SUN
10/04/2009
KISS 1976 CLIP OF FLAMING YOUTH
10/03/2009
Sonic Boom release party at Wal-Mart
10/03/2009
SONIC BOOM IN-STUDIO CLIP #4
10/03/2009
ROCKERS REWARD KISS ARMY
Posted By BRIAN THOMPSON
Photo By Terry Wilson
The lights go down. A low and steady tone rumbles from the amplifiers. Legions of fans, known as the KISS Army, leap to their feet as a roar of excitement fills the air at the John Labatt Centre last Tuesday night.
A booming voice says the familiar words that have signalled the beginning of every KISS concert. Words that many fans heard for the first time when they purchased the band's landmark 1975 live album Alive: "You wanted the best, and you got the best. The hottest band in the world -KISS"
KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and lead guitarist Tommy Thayer, rise through the stage floor as white smoke spews over the stage. Drummer Eric Singer is in place behind a massive kit perched atop an eight-foot tall KISS logo. Stanley and Simmons show no signs of slowing down as they approach their 60s. Stanley struts and leaps impossibly high in seven-inch platform boots, and Simmons's gyrations, lizard-like tongue-wagging, and Chesire cat grin make it obvious he's still having a lot of fun.
"Are you getting what you came for?" asks Stanley.Posted By BRIAN THOMPSON
Photo By Terry Wilson
The lights go down. A low and steady tone rumbles from the amplifiers. Legions of fans, known as the KISS Army, leap to their feet as a roar of excitement fills the air at the John Labatt Centre last Tuesday night.
A booming voice says the familiar words that have signalled the beginning of every KISS concert. Words that many fans heard for the first time when they purchased the band's landmark 1975 live album Alive: "You wanted the best, and you got the best. The hottest band in the world -KISS"
KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and lead guitarist Tommy Thayer, rise through the stage floor as white smoke spews over the stage. Drummer Eric Singer is in place behind a massive kit perched atop an eight-foot tall KISS logo. Stanley and Simmons show no signs of slowing down as they approach their 60s. Stanley struts and leaps impossibly high in seven-inch platform boots, and Simmons's gyrations, lizard-like tongue-wagging, and Chesire cat grin make it obvious he's still having a lot of fun.
"Are you getting what you came for?" asks Stanley.
A deafening cheer is the response from just under 9,000 fans, ranging from salt-and-pepper haired veteran fans in the 50s to children, who appear to be as young as five or six. It's a trip back in time for longtime fans, and, for the youngsters, it's quite an indoctrination to the pinnacle of rock 'n' roll showmanship. Four camera operators feed video to a screen the full width of the stage, so there's truly not a bad seat in the house.
The heat from eight columns of flame erupting throughout the evening can be felt at the back of the arena. Lead guitarist Thayer's blistering solo features him shooting down sections of the lighting rig overhead with a thunderous boom and a streak of sparks from the neck of his guitar. Eric Singer delivers a masterful eight-minute drum solo that appears effortless, while his drum kit rises and rotates completely around.
Six huge confetti cannons shower enough paper streamers to rival a New York City ticker-tape parade, as KISS caps the evening of classics with their popular anthem Rock and Roll All Night, Party Every Day. The crowd chants, claps and stomps until the veteran rockers return to the stage for what Stanley calls "the longest encore you have ever seen."
Familiar hits Shout It Out Loud and Lick It Up have the heavy-set, 40-something man in the row behind me singing and shouting, causing more distress to my ears than the banks of amplifiers.
Simmons gets an eerie green spotlight for the primal, haunting grunts of his bass solo. Looking more demonic than ever, he spews theatrical blood and rises high atop the lighting rig to sing I Love It Loud, as the army chants "Gene, Gene, Gene!"
Stanley announces he's "coming out there to see you" and then skims over the floor seats via zip line to a small, rotating platform near the back of the arena to perform Love Gun, before ending the two-hour show with Detroit Rock City.
Musically, the band is tight, faithfully playing their classic hits from decades ago, and off ering up a taste of what's to come this Tuesday with the release of Sonic Boom, the band's first new studio album in 11 years.
The three-disk set will include the new recordings, a new generation greatest hits CD, and a live DVD shot in Argentina. Interestingly, Sonic Boom will be available exclusively at Walmart and Sam's Club, with a KISS Korner in each store also featuring new merchandise, including KISS Mr. Potato Heads.
Stanley tells the audience the band "feels an astounding warmth from the KISS Army in Ontario," and no doubt a new tour will pass this way next year in support of the new album.
The spectacle that is a KISS concert should experienced at least once.
Photo By Terry Wilson
The lights go down. A low and steady tone rumbles from the amplifiers. Legions of fans, known as the KISS Army, leap to their feet as a roar of excitement fills the air at the John Labatt Centre last Tuesday night.
A booming voice says the familiar words that have signalled the beginning of every KISS concert. Words that many fans heard for the first time when they purchased the band's landmark 1975 live album Alive: "You wanted the best, and you got the best. The hottest band in the world -KISS"
KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and lead guitarist Tommy Thayer, rise through the stage floor as white smoke spews over the stage. Drummer Eric Singer is in place behind a massive kit perched atop an eight-foot tall KISS logo. Stanley and Simmons show no signs of slowing down as they approach their 60s. Stanley struts and leaps impossibly high in seven-inch platform boots, and Simmons's gyrations, lizard-like tongue-wagging, and Chesire cat grin make it obvious he's still having a lot of fun.
"Are you getting what you came for?" asks Stanley.Posted By BRIAN THOMPSON
Photo By Terry Wilson
The lights go down. A low and steady tone rumbles from the amplifiers. Legions of fans, known as the KISS Army, leap to their feet as a roar of excitement fills the air at the John Labatt Centre last Tuesday night.
A booming voice says the familiar words that have signalled the beginning of every KISS concert. Words that many fans heard for the first time when they purchased the band's landmark 1975 live album Alive: "You wanted the best, and you got the best. The hottest band in the world -KISS"
KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, and lead guitarist Tommy Thayer, rise through the stage floor as white smoke spews over the stage. Drummer Eric Singer is in place behind a massive kit perched atop an eight-foot tall KISS logo. Stanley and Simmons show no signs of slowing down as they approach their 60s. Stanley struts and leaps impossibly high in seven-inch platform boots, and Simmons's gyrations, lizard-like tongue-wagging, and Chesire cat grin make it obvious he's still having a lot of fun.
"Are you getting what you came for?" asks Stanley.
A deafening cheer is the response from just under 9,000 fans, ranging from salt-and-pepper haired veteran fans in the 50s to children, who appear to be as young as five or six. It's a trip back in time for longtime fans, and, for the youngsters, it's quite an indoctrination to the pinnacle of rock 'n' roll showmanship. Four camera operators feed video to a screen the full width of the stage, so there's truly not a bad seat in the house.
The heat from eight columns of flame erupting throughout the evening can be felt at the back of the arena. Lead guitarist Thayer's blistering solo features him shooting down sections of the lighting rig overhead with a thunderous boom and a streak of sparks from the neck of his guitar. Eric Singer delivers a masterful eight-minute drum solo that appears effortless, while his drum kit rises and rotates completely around.
Six huge confetti cannons shower enough paper streamers to rival a New York City ticker-tape parade, as KISS caps the evening of classics with their popular anthem Rock and Roll All Night, Party Every Day. The crowd chants, claps and stomps until the veteran rockers return to the stage for what Stanley calls "the longest encore you have ever seen."
Familiar hits Shout It Out Loud and Lick It Up have the heavy-set, 40-something man in the row behind me singing and shouting, causing more distress to my ears than the banks of amplifiers.
Simmons gets an eerie green spotlight for the primal, haunting grunts of his bass solo. Looking more demonic than ever, he spews theatrical blood and rises high atop the lighting rig to sing I Love It Loud, as the army chants "Gene, Gene, Gene!"
Stanley announces he's "coming out there to see you" and then skims over the floor seats via zip line to a small, rotating platform near the back of the arena to perform Love Gun, before ending the two-hour show with Detroit Rock City.
Musically, the band is tight, faithfully playing their classic hits from decades ago, and off ering up a taste of what's to come this Tuesday with the release of Sonic Boom, the band's first new studio album in 11 years.
The three-disk set will include the new recordings, a new generation greatest hits CD, and a live DVD shot in Argentina. Interestingly, Sonic Boom will be available exclusively at Walmart and Sam's Club, with a KISS Korner in each store also featuring new merchandise, including KISS Mr. Potato Heads.
Stanley tells the audience the band "feels an astounding warmth from the KISS Army in Ontario," and no doubt a new tour will pass this way next year in support of the new album.
The spectacle that is a KISS concert should experienced at least once.
