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February 17, 1985

Details:

Long Beach, CA
Long Beach Arena
Promoter: Avalon Attractions
Other act(s): Queensryche
Reported audience: 15,819 / 22,534 (70.20%) **both nights
Reported gross: $202,498 **both nights

Set list(s):

Unknown.

Notes:

- From a local review: "Contrary to the claims of a few carcass-beating fundamentalist crusaders, the rock group KISS has never stood for the worship of Satan -- just the worship of self. When a young Pete Townshend used to smash his guitar at the end of Who concerts, it was an angry and devastating act. When a not-so-young Paul Stanley smashed his guitar at the end of KISS' show Sunday at the Long Beach Arena, it was show business as usual, and the final, pathetic gesture of a band willing to do anything to get an ovation. Or nothing to get an ovation, as the case may be. In a mammoth display of professional insecurity, a good portion of the set was taken up by rest periods in which the musicians would stop playing, preen, raise their arms and plead for more fervent adoration. We're not talking pregnant pauses here -- we're talking pauses with time to give birth and send a kid through college. The thunderous response this protracted posing engendered among the new guard of the KISS Army had less to do with real admiration than fantasy role identification -- which used to be easier for tolerant grown-ups to take when these guys were campy cartoon characters" (Los Angeles Times, 2/19/85).

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