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KISS and Def Leppard announce summer tour
Chris Baker | Syracuse.com
It’s time to pour some sugar all night long and party every day.
KISS and Def Leppard announced today they will join forces this summer on the Heroes Tour. The 42-city North American tour includes two stops in Upstate New York.
The bands come to Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Tuesday, August 5. The tour also stops at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Center, N.Y. on Wednesday, August 13.
Tickets for both shows go on sale Saturday, March 22 at 10 a.m. via Live Nation. Tickets for the Darien Lake show range from $32.50 to $149.50. Tickets at SPAC range from $29.50 to $149.50.
KISS will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame this April, just prior to the tour. In an interview with the Associated Press last Friday, Paul Stanley of KISS voiced his displeasure with the Hall for only inducting the original lineup.
The joint tour marks the first time the two classic rock groups have shared a bill together.
Complete tour dates:
- 6/23 – USANA Amphitheater, West Valley City, Utah
- 6/25 – Pepsi Center, Denver, Colo.
- 6/27 – Sleep Country Amphitheater, Ridgefield, Wash.
- 6/29 – White River Amphitheatre, Auburn, Wash.
- 7/2 – Concord Pavilion, Concord, Calif.
- 7/3 – Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Wheatland, Calif.
- 7/5 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Irvine, Calif.
- 7/6 – Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, Calif.
- 7/8 – The Forum, Los Angeles, Calif.
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KISS to Celebrate 40th Anniversary with Vinyl Reissues, Massive Box Set and Two-CD Compilation
KISSonline.com
KISS is set to mark its 40th anniversary and impending Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction with a variety of special releases, including a series of album reissues on high-quality vinyl, a two-CD compilation and a massive vinyl box set.
The LP reissue series will launch on April 1 with the arrival of remastered versions of 10 of the band’s albums on 180-gram heavyweight vinyl. Additional LPs will be released on May 6, May 27 and June 6. Among the reissues will be three albums that never have been available before on vinyl — 1997’sCarnival of Souls: The Final Sessions, 1998’s Psycho Circus and 2006’s Alive: The Millennium Concert, which previously was only available as part of the KISS Alive! 1975-2000 box set.
The double-CD retrospective, meanwhile, is titled KISS 40 and will hit stores sometime in May. The collection will feature 40 tracks, including one from ever major album the band put out. Among the songs are such classic hits as “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “Beth,” “Hard Luck Woman,” “Shout It Out Loud,” “Christine Sixteen” and “Lick It Up.” The compilation also offers four previously unreleased tunes, a 1977 demo version of “Reputation” and live renditions “Deuce” from 2004, “Cold Gin” from 2009 and “Crazy Crazy Nights” from 2010.