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11/21/2018

40 years after accident keeps him from KISS concert, school custodian is given tickets

BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS
 
Custodian David Farris dressing in full KISS attire and performing the band's music on his guitar is the students' favorite part of the annual Lafayette High School's Beta Club battle of the bands, Principal Bryne Jacobs said.
 
When the Lexington school staff recently collected money to buy Farris and his family tickets to the KISS farewell tour in Louisville in March, Farris shared with the faculty why he is more than just an average fan.
 
"His story is awesome," Jacobs said.
 
It began one day in 1979 when Farris was 9 years old and he heard that his favorite band KISS was coming to Lexington.
 
"I have always been the biggest KISS fan, and I got a call from my buddy down the road who had been to a previous KISS concert two years earlier. He was going to share his experience of the previous concert, and in my excitement, I hopped on my three-speed bike,"  Farris wrote in an email to his co-workers.
 
At the end of his driveway, Farris said he collided with another neighbor's car. I hit the windshield and bounced off the hood.
 
The accident put him in St. Joseph Hospital where he was treated for multiple injuries including a brain stem bruise, broken ribs, and he was in a coma for two months.
 
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11/16/2018

Paul Stanley: this IS it folks

By Cameron Adams, National music writer, Herald Sun

AS soon as KISS announced their farewell tour, frontman Paul Stanley knew there would be cynics.

Because The End of the Road tour, starting next year, is actually KISS' second goodbye.

The original KISS line-up reformed for a farewell tour that ran from 2000 to 2001, but lost drummer Peter Criss before it finished and guitarist Ace Frehley soon after.

“The first farewell tour was almost 19 years ago,” Stanley says. “Cynics be damned. Those people will always find something to say. That (reformed) line-up of the band was dysfunctional. People in the band weren’t showing respect to the fans or the band itself. We decided to put the horse down. The truth is we’ve carried on for 19 years (since the first farewell) because we realised people still wanted to see KISS, we just had to have a tyre change.”

For this farewell tour, dubbed The End of the Road, KISS will again be Stanley, Simmons and “new boys” Tommy Thayer (15 years in the band) and Eric Singer (27 years).

Stanley insists this will be it, despite bands regularly receiving raised eyebrows when they announce they’re splitting for good — Motley Crue had to sign a pact in public to prove to fans that their final tour was indeed the last goodbye.

“Not to take away from anybody else, but you can make up any piece of paper that makes people believe one thing or another,” Stanley says.

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