From: Joe D.
KISS brought the house down at the Myriad in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night. My first mission was to score one of the LTD KATT KISS shirts that the station printed up, but by 6:30 but they were all gone. I saw it & it's a R&R OVER design with Katt heads with makeup on.

We walked in & tried to find the backstage area to get info. on shooting the show, etc.. I went through a blue curtain on stage right & ran right into PETER CRISS! He was standing looking out at everyone coming in & sipping on something, very calm, I asked for an autograph, he signed my pass & I told him Dallas was a killer show, then EVERY security guard & cop standing next to him asked for autographs, at first I don't think they knew it was Peter until I approached him. These cops went crazy, it was worse than most KISS fans when WE meet the band.

We missed most of Skid Row from talking to a friend backstage. We caught Remember You & Youth Gone Wild & the crowd (who were there) seemed into their show.

Ted set the tone for chaos with his set. OKC is a 2nd home to Ted, people here welcome him like the president so it's no wonder the crowd was insane for the whole set. (STORMTROOPIN, PARALYZED, WANG DANG SWEET POONTANG-RED HOUSE, FREE FOR ALL, DOG EAT DOG, CAT SCRATCH, STRANGLEHOLD & encore GREAT WHITE BUFFALO where he shot his flaming arrow to his guitar at the end. This time I was up close & noticed there were holes all over the back of his guitar & he actually does shoot it!

By the time Ted was dragged off, the Myriad was full-completely sold out & completely filled with anticip-p-psayitsayit-PATION!

I located the rest of the photographers & heard "We Don't Get Fooled Again" & the curatin falling/crowd cheering, we were taken to stage left to shoot after the curtain was out. When it was out we entred the pit. ,The lighting rig was landing & the band looked great upclose. (2 days earlier I watched em from the general admission part of Starplex) so this as always, was cool for photos, but also something that blows your mind as a fan as well. During DRC Ace broke a string & switched guitars without much notice. DEUCE was next & after that I went to our seats to fully enjoy & absorb this farewell show.

Other songs included: SHOUT IT OUT LOUD, I LOVE IT LOUD(a highlight), SHOCK ME, PSYCHO CIRCUS, Paul did a rap mentioning the times KISS have played OKC & only mentioned the 3 shows at the Myriad, the tourbook has many OKC dates missing as well, so the KISS ROCKS OKC shirts only had 4 dates & skipped 6 others. (76/77/79/83/86/87). The KISSTORY film played over DO YA LOVE ME is the first real sign that this is the end, it plays parts of different eras of KISS live, etc.. & says "We Love You" on the sceen at the end, this did fit the song perfect but is one hell of a tearjerker. FIREHOUSE had sirens smoke, Gene spitting a huge ball of fire & a cool screen shot of a skull climbing up ladder on fire. HEAVEN'S ON FIRE went over great with huge flames shooting up. 2000 MAN was another highlight, Ace's solo seemed cleaner than Dallas & he played NY Groove a bit longer. GOD OF THUNDER emitted much blood & the demon flew straight up & drooled some more through a hole in his sky platform. LICK IT UP sounded quite natural, with a new slower part in the middle that brings in Ace's solo really well. 100,000 YEARS had a short solo from Peter & a longer than usual rap from Paul over it. On LOVE GUN Paul flew right over us. BLACK DIAMOND was killer with the cats on Peter's riser spitting smoke out. BETH was cool, but we all know the real party song is ROCK & ROLL ALL NITE & there was a huge confetti storm all through it. Paul got pretty emotional on this one saying 'if some band comes here & doesn't give you your moneys worth, you remember that once upon a time there was a band that would do anything for you.." Paul broke his guitar as a riser on Gene's side went up (like the cherry pickers), while Ace's side didn't go up. Not sure if this was a mistake or not.

In all KISS rocked OKC & I thought it was much better than Dallas, mainly from being an indoor show.

ONCE UPON A TIME CALLED RIGHT NOW!

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