Kiss: A low-octane "Detroit Rock City," Minnesota State Fair 9/4/10...what, no puppet show?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNkPChCQun0

:toast:

[Ahpook]

1. Never know what to say about them :)

Low musicianship, good theater. Ace was the only feature of the band that was tolerable for me :)


You just got to love the guy? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOD6YCvbB5k

[MilesColtrane]

2. They look so...very...tired...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. They are trying the Allmans / Grateful Dead / etc. concert marketing scheme...

...go on tour, sell EVERY show as individual MP3 "albums" online. I have one that a friend gave me, "KISS Sonic Boom Over Europe Tour 2010 Live In Arnhem, Netherlands on June 18th"...

...and "tired" is definitely the word. Detroit Rick City is supposed to smack you upside the head with that riff, but it's now simply a snoozefest, and maybe Stanley has been screaming too loud and too hard for too many years, but he hits a LOW plateau early in the show and never rises above it.

[mikeytherat]

3. The drums sound like someone tossed a set of encyclopedias down a flight of stairs.

mikey_the_rat

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. ...

:spray:

DUzy worthy!

:toast:

[TZ]

6. Interesting. Rush's first tour was with Kiss.

Back in the 70's. They are still touring and playing at large scale venues and pulling good crowds. Who knew that three geeky musicians from Canada would go on to outlast the much more eye catching Kiss....

[jmowreader]

7. I think I know why...

Rush concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVXMTNKIEak

Kiss concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LdiaLMLM-Q

[HughBeaumont]

8. Christ, Gene looks like Divine in Kabuki get-up.

Saw the original line-up 14 years ago on the Psycho Circus tour. Thank God I got to see them before they became this. Sheesh. Time to end it, guys. You've milked this cow long enough.