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AWESOME...you music snobs might laugh but I seriously don't give a fuck...these guys know how to put on a FUCKING SHOW...so many classics...Love Gun, Cold Gin, one of my faves 100,000 years...so many...

Fucking Gene spitting fire, blood, the hatchet bass, fucking awesome...just awesome

KISS gets eternal props for blowing my mind when I was an 8 year old watching the Donny and Marie Show. Now I watch the video of their 70s shows and their act is comical. But to me at the time, having never seen Iggy, Alice or Bowie, they were the freakiest things I could possibly imagine. That and they scared the shit out of my parents. That's always cool.

I saw KISS for free in 2000 when I volunteered to usher their show at Van Andel Arena. It was cool at the time. It's lame now.

Screw_Michigan wrote:I saw KISS for free in 2000 when I volunteered to usher their show at Van Andel Arena. It was cool at the time. It's lame now.

So... you like "outgrew" KISS since 2000?

Saw 'em at Kemper arena in 1978 or so. It was cool then, it was lame by 1980.

War Wagon wrote:

Screw_Michigan wrote:I saw KISS for free in 2000 when I volunteered to usher their show at Van Andel Arena. It was cool at the time. It's lame now.

So... you like "outgrew" KISS since 2000?

Saw 'em at Kemper arena in 1978 or so. It was cool then, it was lame by 1980.

he's talking about the "kitsch" factor. the life-span of kitsch is pretty short.

as a kid, they were OK. by the time i was 9 or 10 i already had a copy of Help!, Revolver, DSOM, Best of Cream and Begger's Banquet from my dope smoking uncle. the spectacle was cool and some of it was fun (my buddies were sure as hell into it)....but, didn't really seem like "music" to me.

King Crimson wrote:didn't really seem like "music" to me.

It's never been "music." Simmons has admitted from the start that KISS exists for no other reason than to extract as much money as possible from the public. EOS.

Toddowen wrote:That, and observing the Kiss lunchboxes kind of put me off.

Reminded you of some of your victims?

The guitarist is a friend-of-a-friend, so KISS gets a ZycloneRACK for that at least.

Dins...Tommy Thayer? Cool...he did a awesome job on Shock Me...

yeah I know you music snobs don't like them...but I grew up with KISS and had to see them once...they still put on a great fucking show...

buckeye_in_sc wrote:Dins...Tommy Thayer?

Sunset High grad.

I could rattle off a few more that you're heard of in the music industry, too... used to be almost like a music-trade-school in the Old Days.