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Daily Archives: July 17, 2013
Decibel Geek Podcast 93 – Rock for a cause
Chris Czynszak | Decibel Geek
A new KISS tribute album is coming out in August. Many KISS fans will let out a collective yawn when they hear this news. But, this time it’s different; for many reasons.
Good friend of the Decibel Geek Podcast and a podcast personality in his own right (Dropping the Needle and Three Sidesof the Coin), Mitch Lafon joins us to discuss project he’s put together that is nearing completion that helps celebrate 40 years of the Hottest Band in the Land. The kicker? It’s all done for a good cause; and the KISS Army has supported it in droves.
A World With Heroes features professionally recorded performances from many artists that warm the hearts of Decibel Geek listeners everywhere. The artists involve donated their
Review: It’s a formula that still works for Kiss
Jeff Dedekker | The Leader-Post
REGINA — In surviving and thriving after 40 years in the music business, Kiss continues to live by one simple rule — if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
Kiss figured out years ago exactly what works for them and their fans and that’s precisely what the Brandt Centre crowd received on Tuesday night.
Although slightly less than a sellout — some seats in the upper bowl were empty — the large crowd featured a wide demographic of fans that already believed that Kiss was, as their introduction pointed out, “the hottest rock band in the world.”
So let’s take a quick look at the checklist of expectations:
Did Gene Simmons breathe fire? Check.
Did Gene also wiggle his ridiculously long tongue too many times to mention, sometimes with the additional excitement of spitting blood? Check.
Did hundreds of fire balls and flash points explode during the show? Check.
Was the band loud, and I mean really loud? Check.
Was the staging outrageous? Given the tour includes a metallic giant spider-like contraption that hovers over the stage, that would definitely be a check.
Throw in some additional gags like Simmons being lifted up into the rafters to finish his bass solo, drummer Eric Singer firing a bazooka-like device at the audience from his elevated drum kit and Paul Stanley soaring over the audience to a small stage at the back of the venue and the show had everything and more for the Kiss faithful.
Simmons, Stanley and Tommy Thayer opened the show by descending to the stage on the back of the robotic spider contraption with Singer already safely ensconced behind his drum kit.
While Psycho Circus, the opening number, grabbed the attention of many, it was the