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February 11, 1985

Details:

Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Palace
Promoter: United Concerts
Other act(s): Queensryche
Reported audience: (13,000 capacity)

Set list(s):

Unknown.

Notes:

- From a local review: "Most of the kids in Monday night's audience were in first or second grade or so when KISS burst into the American consciousness in the mid-1970s with their painted faces, outlandish costumes, fireworks and other stage theatrics. They were a novelty; outrageous, yes, yet in a way endearing enough to earn them an appearance on Paul Lynde's Halloween Special, for goodness sake. The mid-1980s version arrived in Salt Lake City with a new look and a supposed emphasis on music alone. Only a few hints of the past remain -- Gene Simmons' bow-legged stance, with his right index finger pointing over the audience; occasional fire and smoke and a mobile stage. The Kabuki clown makeup is gone, and there's another big change from a decade or so ago -- a lot of empty seats greeted the new KISS Monday... KISS never pretended to be Doug Flutie, but this was too much. The bad-boy lyrics are tolerable on the new KISS album... When it comes to the concert, though, the KISS theory remains, apparently, that the music is not enough... Now that the costumes and theatrics have been toned down, the supposedly important 'stage image' is the responsibility of Stanley and his obnoxious monologues, turning a KISS concert into raunch-rock and its worst... The group managed to squeeze in only 12 songs during a 90-minute pre-encore set, leaving Stanley plenty of time to address the audience. Way too much time, as it were. Unfortunate, indeed, because the music is not all that bad -- which is more than we can say for Stanley" (Deseret News, 2/12/85).

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