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God Made Rock And Roll For ThemFrom: Sydney Herald Posted: March 22, 2008 A FADED T-shirt that reads "Loud and proud since 1975" strides past. Then another boasting "30 years of rock: 1976-2006". This tour is titled "Alive 35", claiming KISS (finally correctly) have been going since 1973. Diddling the dates to make a tour an "anniversary tour" is one ingenious way to keep a career going - especially one that involves a band doing the stuff they do every time, only bigger, brighter and louder - but you can't argue with the spectacle of a KISS show. There are fireballs, fireworks and fire-breathing; wires to make everything fly, including the bassist GENE SIMMONS and his preposterous tongue; and enough blinding lights to power John Butler's next couple of carbon-neutral tours. The band, of course, are a spectacle in themselves with their black-and-silver outfits and make-up. Singer-guitarist PAUL STANLEY is the most comfortable when it comes to gyrating and shimmying around in ludicrous platform boots. Between attempts to engage the crowd with a bad Australian accent and boo-inducing claims about the great audiences in Melbourne and Brisbane, Stanley even operatically bellows some tunes. Deliberately or not, the songs, as the acronym has it, Keep It Simple (and) Stupid with big, dumb, anthemic choruses, ear-bleeding riffs and racing, pulsating rhythms. And, um, it's all pretty good fun. I'm not sure whether anyone needs to see it ever again but I'm not going to complain. Especially when KISS have probably got another historic anniversary coming up next year. |
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