07/16/2009
KISS ARMY AT BLUESFEST
Kiss News
07/16/2009
KISS SETS ATTENDANCE RECORD AT BLUESFEST
07/16/2009
KISS DESTROYS OTTAWA!!
07/16/2009
KISS JUGGERNAUT BLOWS 'EM AWAY!
07/16/2009
FANS HOOKED FOR LIFE
By Zev Singer
Six-year-old Mackenzie Durocher, her face painted perfectly like KISS's Paul Stanley, sits on her father's lap before the show. Well-drilled for years by now, she can name several KISS songs. At home, she likes to pretend to smash a guitar to the band's music. Her other favourite act is SpongeBob SquarePants.
This is life in the KISS Army, where kids are drafted into service barely out of the womb.
Mackenzie's father, Patrick Durocher, 36, beams at his daughter as she sticks her tongue out ferociously like Gene Simmons.
This is his seventh KISS concert, but her first.
"Once you go, you're hooked for life," he says, explaining, as most of the KISS soldiers do, that the show is simply like no other.
By Zev Singer
Six-year-old Mackenzie Durocher, her face painted perfectly like KISS's Paul Stanley, sits on her father's lap before the show. Well-drilled for years by now, she can name several KISS songs. At home, she likes to pretend to smash a guitar to the band's music. Her other favourite act is SpongeBob SquarePants.
This is life in the KISS Army, where kids are drafted into service barely out of the womb.
Mackenzie's father, Patrick Durocher, 36, beams at his daughter as she sticks her tongue out ferociously like Gene Simmons.
This is his seventh KISS concert, but her first.
"Once you go, you're hooked for life," he says, explaining, as most of the KISS soldiers do, that the show is simply like no other.
Bob Nicholson passes the same type of heritage to his children. Nicholson, 42, is dressed in one of the most eye-catching Gene Simmons demon outfits at the show. Mobbed by fellow fans begging to take a picture with him, the Carleton Place chef has his four kids in tow, two girls and two boys, ages 11 to 17, all with painted faces.
They�ve been brought up on KISS, with a room in the house dedicated to the band. Every Halloween, their father dresses up in his costume. Karissa, 17, and at her first KISS concert, says it�s a bit strange to see all the other people who have the same hobby as their dad.
For some people in the crowd, KISS goes a bit beyond being just a hobby.
Marc Theriault, 50, wears a Paul Stanley costume that is no amateur piece of work. The boots alone cost him more than $3,000. This show is his 13th over the years.
�It started out with some shoe polish in 1977 on the Love Gun tour. From there it evolved.�
Theriault says that despite the facepaint and on-stage stunts, he actually finds in KISS something very real. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, the only two original members from 1972, don�t smoke or drink, he says, and he has a great respect for that.
He even says that sometimes, when he�s out on a call as a vacuum salesman, he gets into the zone by thinking about the way Paul Stanley communicates with an audience. Other people might find it funny, he says, but he feels great about what the band has meant to him over the years.
Meanwhile, KISS, a band that has claimed to be the loudest in the world, did not cause the bylaw noise complaint nightmare that had been feared. Long-known for their volume, KISS said this before their 1983 show at the Civic Centre: �We�re going to come into Ottawa and we�re going to melt your faces off.�
In a 1977 concert review in the Citizen, writer Bill Provick talked about leaving the concert with an �80-percent hearing loss.
But bylaw officers, stationed both at the venue and roving in nearby neighbourhoods to measure the decibels outside of people�s homes, said there were no noise complaints after the band took stage, at least not in the first half-hour.
Scott Campbell, the bylaw manager in charge of noise complaints, said that even at the stage, where Bluesfest has imposed a 90 dB ceiling, KISS went only slightly over at 92 dB.
Whatever the volume, KISS fans were just happy to be there
Six-year-old Mackenzie Durocher, her face painted perfectly like KISS's Paul Stanley, sits on her father's lap before the show. Well-drilled for years by now, she can name several KISS songs. At home, she likes to pretend to smash a guitar to the band's music. Her other favourite act is SpongeBob SquarePants.
This is life in the KISS Army, where kids are drafted into service barely out of the womb.
Mackenzie's father, Patrick Durocher, 36, beams at his daughter as she sticks her tongue out ferociously like Gene Simmons.
This is his seventh KISS concert, but her first.
"Once you go, you're hooked for life," he says, explaining, as most of the KISS soldiers do, that the show is simply like no other.
By Zev Singer
Six-year-old Mackenzie Durocher, her face painted perfectly like KISS's Paul Stanley, sits on her father's lap before the show. Well-drilled for years by now, she can name several KISS songs. At home, she likes to pretend to smash a guitar to the band's music. Her other favourite act is SpongeBob SquarePants.
This is life in the KISS Army, where kids are drafted into service barely out of the womb.
Mackenzie's father, Patrick Durocher, 36, beams at his daughter as she sticks her tongue out ferociously like Gene Simmons.
This is his seventh KISS concert, but her first.
"Once you go, you're hooked for life," he says, explaining, as most of the KISS soldiers do, that the show is simply like no other.
Bob Nicholson passes the same type of heritage to his children. Nicholson, 42, is dressed in one of the most eye-catching Gene Simmons demon outfits at the show. Mobbed by fellow fans begging to take a picture with him, the Carleton Place chef has his four kids in tow, two girls and two boys, ages 11 to 17, all with painted faces.
They�ve been brought up on KISS, with a room in the house dedicated to the band. Every Halloween, their father dresses up in his costume. Karissa, 17, and at her first KISS concert, says it�s a bit strange to see all the other people who have the same hobby as their dad.
For some people in the crowd, KISS goes a bit beyond being just a hobby.
Marc Theriault, 50, wears a Paul Stanley costume that is no amateur piece of work. The boots alone cost him more than $3,000. This show is his 13th over the years.
�It started out with some shoe polish in 1977 on the Love Gun tour. From there it evolved.�
Theriault says that despite the facepaint and on-stage stunts, he actually finds in KISS something very real. Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, the only two original members from 1972, don�t smoke or drink, he says, and he has a great respect for that.
He even says that sometimes, when he�s out on a call as a vacuum salesman, he gets into the zone by thinking about the way Paul Stanley communicates with an audience. Other people might find it funny, he says, but he feels great about what the band has meant to him over the years.
Meanwhile, KISS, a band that has claimed to be the loudest in the world, did not cause the bylaw noise complaint nightmare that had been feared. Long-known for their volume, KISS said this before their 1983 show at the Civic Centre: �We�re going to come into Ottawa and we�re going to melt your faces off.�
In a 1977 concert review in the Citizen, writer Bill Provick talked about leaving the concert with an �80-percent hearing loss.
But bylaw officers, stationed both at the venue and roving in nearby neighbourhoods to measure the decibels outside of people�s homes, said there were no noise complaints after the band took stage, at least not in the first half-hour.
Scott Campbell, the bylaw manager in charge of noise complaints, said that even at the stage, where Bluesfest has imposed a 90 dB ceiling, KISS went only slightly over at 92 dB.
Whatever the volume, KISS fans were just happy to be there
07/15/2009
PAUL ON ART, AMERICAN IDOL & KISS
by Dave Cohen - Insite Magazine
With KISS having recently come off of a huge stadium tour across South America, Paul Stanley continues to keep busy. About ten years ago, as the result of a divorce, a friend suggested he try painting as a cathartic way of helping to express his emotions. He went and purchased brushes and canvasses and he's been at it ever since. Stanley has never been one to stand on the sideline. In the past he's played the lead in the Phantom of the Opera in Toronto and toured on his own in support of his solo release "Live to Win." He's currently producing the forthcoming KISS album, the band's first release of new material in eleven years, and continues to show his art work at Wentworth Galleries across the country. He recently took time out of his hectic schedule to speak with us.
Between touring with KISS, producing the new album, your growing family, your artwork, you've got a lot going on.
It�s been busy. Four months ago I had a little baby girl. Other than that we just finished a stadium tour of South America playing to anywhere from forty to sixty thousand people a night. Before that we did our biggest, most successful tour of Europe playing seven weeks, thirty shows to over four hundred thousand people. Then, I've got my art shows, which are normally once a month in different cities and I�m about a week from completing the first KISS album in eleven years which should be out in early October. Other than that, I�m taking it easy!
by Dave Cohen - Insite Magazine
With KISS having recently come off of a huge stadium tour across South America, Paul Stanley continues to keep busy. About ten years ago, as the result of a divorce, a friend suggested he try painting as a cathartic way of helping to express his emotions. He went and purchased brushes and canvasses and he's been at it ever since. Stanley has never been one to stand on the sideline. In the past he's played the lead in the Phantom of the Opera in Toronto and toured on his own in support of his solo release "Live to Win." He's currently producing the forthcoming KISS album, the band's first release of new material in eleven years, and continues to show his art work at Wentworth Galleries across the country. He recently took time out of his hectic schedule to speak with us.
Between touring with KISS, producing the new album, your growing family, your artwork, you've got a lot going on.
It�s been busy. Four months ago I had a little baby girl. Other than that we just finished a stadium tour of South America playing to anywhere from forty to sixty thousand people a night. Before that we did our biggest, most successful tour of Europe playing seven weeks, thirty shows to over four hundred thousand people. Then, I've got my art shows, which are normally once a month in different cities and I�m about a week from completing the first KISS album in eleven years which should be out in early October. Other than that, I�m taking it easy!
With regards to your artwork, having begun to paint as a way to express emotions from the divorce ten years ago, with that now well behind you, has your approach changed with so many positive things going on in your life?
Any creative outlet will come from whatever inspiration or desperation happens to be going on. Certainly as life evolves you hopefully draw from other experiences. My life, it couldn�t be a better story if I wrote it myself, so there�s no shortage of inspiration. I tell people; "If you�re not inspired every day when you wake up then you should either go back to sleep or change your life."
You titled some of your early paintings relevant to where you were emotionally at that time (Starting Over, Scream, Alone), but that has changed as time has moved along (Celebration, What Lies Ahead, The Angel).
No doubt that there are bound to be some gloomy days, although I haven�t experienced them in quite a while. I seem to find myself painting from a different vantage point. There are paintings like What Lies Ahead, The Mirrors Image, things that are reflective of where I am today and where I see me headed. The great thing about it, I think the other pieces, is that other people relate to it. It�s not something that I have a monopoly on or something that is solely mine. I�ve always found that the beauty of abstract art in particular is that it really illicit its own unique response in each person and that�s what makes it valid. That�s why I tend to tell people, �I can tell you what a painting means to me but ultimately it�s much more important what it means to you.�
I�ve always liked what you�ve said with regards to listening to other people�s opinions when it comes to art: �If you yourself like something, that�s all that matters. Other opinions are not necessary.�
I think that�s all a part of snobbery and elitist propaganda, which is designed to intimidate you into needing someone else to tell you what�s good and bad. The problem with that is you�re basing your opinion on what somebody else decides is credible or not credible, worthwhile or not worthwhile. If you love steak and somebody else is a vegetarian, what good is either opinion to the other? You just respect them as individual and as separate. Some people have talked to me about the �Art World.� I don�t really want to be a part of the art world. Anything that cuts itself off and identifies itself as separate is the antithesis of what I want to be. When I did Phantom of the Opera, hopefully I brought people into the theater besides the regular theatergoers, who, up until that point, may have been intimidated into thinking that theater is a while glove affair for snooty people. Theater didn�t begin like that! Theater was done in public squares. So if my art or my theater is an introduction for somebody to how much great creativity there is in this world, then I�m doing a great service.
Two of the more interesting pieces you�ve worked on were your updates to the Statue of Liberty and the Mona Lisa. Those were pretty cool.
Yeah, I like those a lot. They mean a lot to me, particularly the Statue of Liberty, having grown up in New York and my mother having come here from Germany and my grandparents coming from Poland. The idea of people pulling into the harbor in New York with these great dreams of anything being possible and working towards a success they hadn�t known in their previous countries is something that makes America so unique. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of it and my success is a symbol of it. I am a product of the American dream. This is a great country that makes it possible for anybody who works hard to succeed. It doesn�t mean it�s easy, it just means you can judge how much something means to you by how hard you�re willing to work to acquire it and America gives you that opportunity. The Mona Lisa, on the other hand, is something that we�ve all seen and it is iconic. I just remember seeing it when they brought it to the States when I was a little boy and I was surprised how small it was. It�s beautiful in its original form. I just thought, how about we give her an extreme makeover and pull her kicking and screaming into the 21st Century?
You�ve also begun to work with sculpture a little. Tell me about your interest in that?
I�ve always wanted to do large metal sculpture, and my introduction into it is the pieces that I�ve been doing, which are fairly organic. They�re over-spill from bronze casts of sculptures that I�ll find and then have welded together and buffed to a patina as I see fit. That will lead next to some other sculptures, but for me the door is wide open. I am a person who tries to define myself by the challenges that I take on and
I�m constantly excited and inspired.
The band is obviously going very strong. How cool was it for KISS to be a part of the recent finale on American Idol?
American Idol was terrific. When you realize that the biggest shows on TV get a viewership of around nine million people a show and American Idol gets between twenty-four and thirty million, it�s a phenomenon, unlike regular television! Just being on that show is a wake-up call and an eye opener to a lot of people of what rock can be. We are a spectacle proudly, and when we hit the road again on our U.S. tour we�ll have a great new show, a terrific new album� easily the best new album we�ve done since the �70s� and we�re fired up. It never ends.
Any chance you�ll be designing the cover of this forthcoming KISS album?
I have overseen the cover from a sense that I had a direction that I wanted to see it going, and that�s what we followed, although I didn�t do it personally. I produced the album. This is an album where I had a very keen sense of what I thought it should be and shouldn�t be, and it�s turned out to be exactly what I had in mind. The band�s never been more �up� about something, and rightfully so. It�s a terrific album.
KISS is scheduled to play shows in Canada before returning to tour the States. Having done the huge stadium shows in Europe and South America, are you looking forward to a U.S. tour?
We will hit the Atates. There�s actually a fun little diversion going on right now where people get to vote for us to come to their city by going to www.kissonline.com. There�s a button you can press where you can vote for your city, and the cities with the highest vote per capita are sure to be on the itinerary.
With KISS having recently come off of a huge stadium tour across South America, Paul Stanley continues to keep busy. About ten years ago, as the result of a divorce, a friend suggested he try painting as a cathartic way of helping to express his emotions. He went and purchased brushes and canvasses and he's been at it ever since. Stanley has never been one to stand on the sideline. In the past he's played the lead in the Phantom of the Opera in Toronto and toured on his own in support of his solo release "Live to Win." He's currently producing the forthcoming KISS album, the band's first release of new material in eleven years, and continues to show his art work at Wentworth Galleries across the country. He recently took time out of his hectic schedule to speak with us.
Between touring with KISS, producing the new album, your growing family, your artwork, you've got a lot going on.
It�s been busy. Four months ago I had a little baby girl. Other than that we just finished a stadium tour of South America playing to anywhere from forty to sixty thousand people a night. Before that we did our biggest, most successful tour of Europe playing seven weeks, thirty shows to over four hundred thousand people. Then, I've got my art shows, which are normally once a month in different cities and I�m about a week from completing the first KISS album in eleven years which should be out in early October. Other than that, I�m taking it easy!
by Dave Cohen - Insite Magazine
With KISS having recently come off of a huge stadium tour across South America, Paul Stanley continues to keep busy. About ten years ago, as the result of a divorce, a friend suggested he try painting as a cathartic way of helping to express his emotions. He went and purchased brushes and canvasses and he's been at it ever since. Stanley has never been one to stand on the sideline. In the past he's played the lead in the Phantom of the Opera in Toronto and toured on his own in support of his solo release "Live to Win." He's currently producing the forthcoming KISS album, the band's first release of new material in eleven years, and continues to show his art work at Wentworth Galleries across the country. He recently took time out of his hectic schedule to speak with us.
Between touring with KISS, producing the new album, your growing family, your artwork, you've got a lot going on.
It�s been busy. Four months ago I had a little baby girl. Other than that we just finished a stadium tour of South America playing to anywhere from forty to sixty thousand people a night. Before that we did our biggest, most successful tour of Europe playing seven weeks, thirty shows to over four hundred thousand people. Then, I've got my art shows, which are normally once a month in different cities and I�m about a week from completing the first KISS album in eleven years which should be out in early October. Other than that, I�m taking it easy!
With regards to your artwork, having begun to paint as a way to express emotions from the divorce ten years ago, with that now well behind you, has your approach changed with so many positive things going on in your life?
Any creative outlet will come from whatever inspiration or desperation happens to be going on. Certainly as life evolves you hopefully draw from other experiences. My life, it couldn�t be a better story if I wrote it myself, so there�s no shortage of inspiration. I tell people; "If you�re not inspired every day when you wake up then you should either go back to sleep or change your life."
You titled some of your early paintings relevant to where you were emotionally at that time (Starting Over, Scream, Alone), but that has changed as time has moved along (Celebration, What Lies Ahead, The Angel).
No doubt that there are bound to be some gloomy days, although I haven�t experienced them in quite a while. I seem to find myself painting from a different vantage point. There are paintings like What Lies Ahead, The Mirrors Image, things that are reflective of where I am today and where I see me headed. The great thing about it, I think the other pieces, is that other people relate to it. It�s not something that I have a monopoly on or something that is solely mine. I�ve always found that the beauty of abstract art in particular is that it really illicit its own unique response in each person and that�s what makes it valid. That�s why I tend to tell people, �I can tell you what a painting means to me but ultimately it�s much more important what it means to you.�
I�ve always liked what you�ve said with regards to listening to other people�s opinions when it comes to art: �If you yourself like something, that�s all that matters. Other opinions are not necessary.�
I think that�s all a part of snobbery and elitist propaganda, which is designed to intimidate you into needing someone else to tell you what�s good and bad. The problem with that is you�re basing your opinion on what somebody else decides is credible or not credible, worthwhile or not worthwhile. If you love steak and somebody else is a vegetarian, what good is either opinion to the other? You just respect them as individual and as separate. Some people have talked to me about the �Art World.� I don�t really want to be a part of the art world. Anything that cuts itself off and identifies itself as separate is the antithesis of what I want to be. When I did Phantom of the Opera, hopefully I brought people into the theater besides the regular theatergoers, who, up until that point, may have been intimidated into thinking that theater is a while glove affair for snooty people. Theater didn�t begin like that! Theater was done in public squares. So if my art or my theater is an introduction for somebody to how much great creativity there is in this world, then I�m doing a great service.
Two of the more interesting pieces you�ve worked on were your updates to the Statue of Liberty and the Mona Lisa. Those were pretty cool.
Yeah, I like those a lot. They mean a lot to me, particularly the Statue of Liberty, having grown up in New York and my mother having come here from Germany and my grandparents coming from Poland. The idea of people pulling into the harbor in New York with these great dreams of anything being possible and working towards a success they hadn�t known in their previous countries is something that makes America so unique. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of it and my success is a symbol of it. I am a product of the American dream. This is a great country that makes it possible for anybody who works hard to succeed. It doesn�t mean it�s easy, it just means you can judge how much something means to you by how hard you�re willing to work to acquire it and America gives you that opportunity. The Mona Lisa, on the other hand, is something that we�ve all seen and it is iconic. I just remember seeing it when they brought it to the States when I was a little boy and I was surprised how small it was. It�s beautiful in its original form. I just thought, how about we give her an extreme makeover and pull her kicking and screaming into the 21st Century?
You�ve also begun to work with sculpture a little. Tell me about your interest in that?
I�ve always wanted to do large metal sculpture, and my introduction into it is the pieces that I�ve been doing, which are fairly organic. They�re over-spill from bronze casts of sculptures that I�ll find and then have welded together and buffed to a patina as I see fit. That will lead next to some other sculptures, but for me the door is wide open. I am a person who tries to define myself by the challenges that I take on and
I�m constantly excited and inspired.
The band is obviously going very strong. How cool was it for KISS to be a part of the recent finale on American Idol?
American Idol was terrific. When you realize that the biggest shows on TV get a viewership of around nine million people a show and American Idol gets between twenty-four and thirty million, it�s a phenomenon, unlike regular television! Just being on that show is a wake-up call and an eye opener to a lot of people of what rock can be. We are a spectacle proudly, and when we hit the road again on our U.S. tour we�ll have a great new show, a terrific new album� easily the best new album we�ve done since the �70s� and we�re fired up. It never ends.
Any chance you�ll be designing the cover of this forthcoming KISS album?
I have overseen the cover from a sense that I had a direction that I wanted to see it going, and that�s what we followed, although I didn�t do it personally. I produced the album. This is an album where I had a very keen sense of what I thought it should be and shouldn�t be, and it�s turned out to be exactly what I had in mind. The band�s never been more �up� about something, and rightfully so. It�s a terrific album.
KISS is scheduled to play shows in Canada before returning to tour the States. Having done the huge stadium shows in Europe and South America, are you looking forward to a U.S. tour?
We will hit the Atates. There�s actually a fun little diversion going on right now where people get to vote for us to come to their city by going to www.kissonline.com. There�s a button you can press where you can vote for your city, and the cities with the highest vote per capita are sure to be on the itinerary.
07/15/2009
KISS DYNASTY IS ALIVE, NEW ALBUM COMING
07/15/2009
KISS MONTREAL CONCERT CLIPS
07/14/2009
KISS 35 rocks Montreal? NO! KISS 2.0 blasted Montreal!!
KISS!!
The Bell Center in Montreal will never be the same again! 15,000 plus KISS soldiers (the place was sold out!) witnessed KISS 35, or should I say the amazing birth of KISS 2.0! I have seen KISS seven times along the years with many different line-ups and to be honest, I kind of expected a little bit of the same, but man, did the band have a surprise for me!
A leaner, meaner, stronger and musically superior KISS rocked the crowd for over 2 1/2 hours non-stop. You have to see it to beleive it. The band has been upgraded, yes, and it's for the best. They have never been happier or better on stage. And that vibe makes for a party like they have never thrown before.
I'm sure that Tommy will remember for a long time the warm welcome us Montreal fans were waiting to give him. He's just great and no doubt, he truly has KISS blood running in his talented hands.
Can't wait to hear the new album with the improved KISS 2.0 ! That'll be another tour I will not miss, just to make sure that the Montreal show was not a dream!
Even if you've seen KISS live before people, trust me - You've never seen KISS like this! You are in for a shock.
Montreal thanks you - Gene, Paul, Tommy and Eric for the great time we had.
KISS 2.0 lives forever!
Best,
Copain 36KISS!!
The Bell Center in Montreal will never be the same again! 15,000 plus KISS soldiers (the place was sold out!) witnessed KISS 35, or should I say the amazing birth of KISS 2.0! I have seen KISS seven times along the years with many different line-ups and to be honest, I kind of expected a little bit of the same, but man, did the band have a surprise for me!
A leaner, meaner, stronger and musically superior KISS rocked the crowd for over 2 1/2 hours non-stop. You have to see it to beleive it. The band has been upgraded, yes, and it's for the best. They have never been happier or better on stage. And that vibe makes for a party like they have never thrown before.
I'm sure that Tommy will remember for a long time the warm welcome us Montreal fans were waiting to give him. He's just great and no doubt, he truly has KISS blood running in his talented hands.
Can't wait to hear the new album with the improved KISS 2.0 ! That'll be another tour I will not miss, just to make sure that the Montreal show was not a dream!
Even if you've seen KISS live before people, trust me - You've never seen KISS like this! You are in for a shock.
Montreal thanks you - Gene, Paul, Tommy and Eric for the great time we had.
KISS 2.0 lives forever!
Best,
Copain 36
The Bell Center in Montreal will never be the same again! 15,000 plus KISS soldiers (the place was sold out!) witnessed KISS 35, or should I say the amazing birth of KISS 2.0! I have seen KISS seven times along the years with many different line-ups and to be honest, I kind of expected a little bit of the same, but man, did the band have a surprise for me!
A leaner, meaner, stronger and musically superior KISS rocked the crowd for over 2 1/2 hours non-stop. You have to see it to beleive it. The band has been upgraded, yes, and it's for the best. They have never been happier or better on stage. And that vibe makes for a party like they have never thrown before.
I'm sure that Tommy will remember for a long time the warm welcome us Montreal fans were waiting to give him. He's just great and no doubt, he truly has KISS blood running in his talented hands.
Can't wait to hear the new album with the improved KISS 2.0 ! That'll be another tour I will not miss, just to make sure that the Montreal show was not a dream!
Even if you've seen KISS live before people, trust me - You've never seen KISS like this! You are in for a shock.
Montreal thanks you - Gene, Paul, Tommy and Eric for the great time we had.
KISS 2.0 lives forever!
Best,
Copain 36KISS!!
The Bell Center in Montreal will never be the same again! 15,000 plus KISS soldiers (the place was sold out!) witnessed KISS 35, or should I say the amazing birth of KISS 2.0! I have seen KISS seven times along the years with many different line-ups and to be honest, I kind of expected a little bit of the same, but man, did the band have a surprise for me!
A leaner, meaner, stronger and musically superior KISS rocked the crowd for over 2 1/2 hours non-stop. You have to see it to beleive it. The band has been upgraded, yes, and it's for the best. They have never been happier or better on stage. And that vibe makes for a party like they have never thrown before.
I'm sure that Tommy will remember for a long time the warm welcome us Montreal fans were waiting to give him. He's just great and no doubt, he truly has KISS blood running in his talented hands.
Can't wait to hear the new album with the improved KISS 2.0 ! That'll be another tour I will not miss, just to make sure that the Montreal show was not a dream!
Even if you've seen KISS live before people, trust me - You've never seen KISS like this! You are in for a shock.
Montreal thanks you - Gene, Paul, Tommy and Eric for the great time we had.
KISS 2.0 lives forever!
Best,
Copain 36
07/14/2009
KISS ROCKS MONTREAL, CANADA!
