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On this day in KISSTORY - September 18 1987, KISS released their platinum album 'Crazy Nights.' Here are two of the music video released from the album.

Here are a few photos from yesterday's celebration at the lasted Rock & Brews in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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By Kim Vallez

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS were both in Albuquerque on Tuesday to help open their newest Rock & Brews location on Montgomery near San Mateo.

The pair mingled with patrons and dignitaries and were proud to visit.

�I�ve been coming here for decades, so the attitude that only big cities should have great, cool places to go to is a fallacy,� said Stanley. Nobody chooses where they�re born and every city is a great city. It�s what you make it.�

Part of the grand opening included an event to raise money for New Mexico veterans.

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On this day in KISSTORY - September 16, 1985, KISS released their platinum album 'Asylum.'

On this day in KISSTORY - September 16, 1985, KISS released their platinum album 'Asylum.' Here are the three music video released from the album.

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By: Elizabeth Reed, KOB.com

KISS frontmen Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are taking over the Duke City Tuesday for the grand opening of their restaurant, Rock & Brews.

Rock & Brews opened to the public last week, but tonight, the restaurant will host a special VIP party and fundraiser event.

A percentage of the proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit the New Mexico VA Health Care System's recreation programs, including the Adaptive Sports Program, National Games (Winter Sports Clinic, Wheelchair Games, Senior Games, etc.), veteran craft kits and recreational outings for veterans.

Stanley and Simmons got up dark and early to talk to KOB Eyewitness News 4's Nikki Ibarra about their newest venture.

"The truth is that Albuquerque has always been a rockin' town. We've been coming here and playing concerts longer than you've been alive," Simmons told Ibarra. "It's always been a place, you know, people stop in if they don't live here and they love the community because it's one million, so it's just big enough to be a city, small enough to still care about your neighbor."

Rock & Brews will honor wounded warriors with a luncheon before the fundraising event at 6:30 p.m. The tickets for the party are sold out, but Stanley and Simmons said they want Albuquerque residents to come check out the craft beers and signature dishes the restaurant has to offer.

The restaurant is located at 4800 Montgomery NE just west of San Mateo.

By David Greenwald / http://www.oregonlive.com/music/index.ssf/2014/09/kiss_oregon_military_museum_concert.html

Where would KISS be without their makeup and electric guitars, without the arena fireworks that still draw tens of thousands to their shows?

On Sunday night, the answer was Lake Oswego. To raise money for the renovation of the Oregon Military Museum, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame quartet shed their makeup for a rare acoustic set, performing at a charity gala at Rick and Erika Miller�s Jantzen Island estate.

The event was the third �All Star Salute� that members of the group have been involved in � though the first that�s been graced with a KISS performance. The $15 million museum is a project close to KISS lead guitarist (and Oregon native) Tommy Thayer�s heart: It�s set to be named after his father, Brigadier General James B. Thayer, now 93, a World War II hero who liberated a Nazi death camp in 1945. As Mike Francis has reported, his actions may have saved KISS bassist Gene Simmons� mother, Flora Klein, who survived one such camp at the same time � which, exactly, has been lost to history.

KISS and the Historical Outreach Foundation had hoped to raise $1 million at the intimate event, a number they beat on Sunday after a successful charity auction that saw Paul Stanley selling off one of his beloved guitars, played since 1989, for $20,000, among other prizes. Tickets to the evening ran $2,500 a person.

The Museum broke ground at Clackamas� Camp Withycombe earlier this year, and is now halfway toward its $15 million fundraising goal.

Before the festivities and during the show, KISS spoke of their commitment to the military and the �obligation� of supporting the Museum�s cause, but it was hardly a somber evening: drinks flowed and Stanley beckoned the small crowd to the front of the stage � and then onto it � in between tossing out an endless supply of guitar picks to the crowd. The band�s gone acoustic before, most famously in an MTV performance released in 1996, and Sunday�s set ran through rambunctious renditions of many of their �Unplugged� songs, including �Comin� Home,� �Plaster Caster,� �Beth� and, of course, �Rock and Roll All Nite.�

Here�s the band�s full set list below. Look for interviews with Tommy Thayer and more shortly.

1. Comin� Home
2. Hard Luck Woman
3. Calling Dr. Love
4. Do You Love Me?
5. Plaster Caster
6. Shout It Out Loud
7. Got to Choose
8. Christine Sixteen
9. Lick It Up
10. Goin� Blind
11. Love Her All I Can
12. Hide Your Heart
13. Beth
14. Rock and All All Nite