Kiss News

On this day in KISSTORY - September 21, 1980 - the KISS 'Kids Are People Too' episode aired on ABC TV. The band introduced Eric Carr during the show.

Thanks to Elmar Göbel for sharing his first KISS concert ticket from Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany - 1980 Unmasked Tour. The show was originally scheduled for June but moved to September.

Do you still have your first KISS ticket, KISS ARMY? Show us on the letters page.

On this day in KISSTORY - September 18, 1983 -KISS appeared without their make-up for the first time ever during MTV's KISS special.

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Visit www.sixstringsalute.com for full details & info on where to watch Six String Salute, the virtual concert to benefit Crew Nation

KISS' longtime stage manager is getting ready to share his best backstage stories for a good cause.

Steve Roman - who has overseen the band's flame-, blood- and stunt-filled concerts for more than a decade - will take part in the Six String Salute online benefit Thursday at 8PM ET on Live Nation's "Live From Home" YouTube channel. (An encore screening will take place at the same time the next day on the Six String Salute Facebook page.)

The event will also feature live performances by Steve Vai, Tommy Shaw of Styx, the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson, Joe Satriani and former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, among others.

Roman tells UCR that Kiss are a "great bunch of guys" who hold themselves and their crew to a high standard. "They are the consummate professionals," he says. "They've been doing it so long. Basically, when you're working with Kiss, you've got to be on top of your game because they're on top of their game. If there's a mistake, they wanna know what's going on and why it happened. Doing a show as big as Kiss, there's a lot of gags - people flying across the stage in the air, pyrotechnics going off, they're spitting up blood, they're shooting up rockets in the air at things. There's a lot of stuff to do during the show."