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November 30, 1985 |
Municipal Auditorium
Promoter: Sound Seventy Productions
Opening act(s): Black 'N Blue
Reported audience: 9,379 / 9,900 (94.74%)
Reported gross: $134,854
Set list(s):
Detroit Rock City
Fits Like A Glove
King of the Mountain
Cold Gin
Uh! All Night
Any Way You Slice It
War Machine
I Still Love You
Under The Gun
Tears Are Falling
I Love It Loud
Love Gun
Rock and Roll All Nite
Heaven's on Fire
Oh! Susanna
Lick It Up
Notes:
- Footage from the show was used on a WSOC (TV Channel 9 in Charlotte, NC) feature covering the start of the tour. Additionally Howard Marks filmed segments of the show for advertising footage purposes. 5 minutes of that footage, poorly synced with audio from the Charlotte show, circulates. Roughly an hour's worth of pro-shot multi-cam silent film, paired with audio from Little Rock, started circulating in July 2022.
- From a local review: "Eleven years of thundering across auditorium stages and 20 albums worth of thundering across teenagers' turntables have cemented KISS in kids' minds as the fun hard rock outfit of America. KISS may be rock establishment, but it has lost none of its ability to stun and stupefy the youth of Nashville. The Kabuki/devil makeup may be gone, but KISS has lost nothing in the style department. Saturday night, they were spectacularly clad in state-of-the-art spangled rock & roll sorcerers' garb. But the satin, fringe, sequins and stitching took a back seat to the deafening roar of the show... As KISS performances go, Saturday night's was par for the course. Many of lead vocalist Paul Stanley's screamed 'rock raps' were familiar incitements to 'party.' The music was, as always, completely brutal... Up in the balcony they were throwing firecrackers. Down on the floor they were swooning. And your boys in KISS, of course, were the ringleaders, exploding and posturing all over the place" (The Tennessean, 12/2/85).
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- From a local review: "Eleven years of thundering across auditorium stages and 20 albums worth of thundering across teenagers' turntables have cemented KISS in kids' minds as the fun hard rock outfit of America. KISS may be rock establishment, but it has lost none of its ability to stun and stupefy the youth of Nashville. The Kabuki/devil makeup may be gone, but KISS has lost nothing in the style department. Saturday night, they were spectacularly clad in state-of-the-art spangled rock & roll sorcerers' garb. But the satin, fringe, sequins and stitching took a back seat to the deafening roar of the show... As KISS performances go, Saturday night's was par for the course. Many of lead vocalist Paul Stanley's screamed 'rock raps' were familiar incitements to 'party.' The music was, as always, completely brutal... Up in the balcony they were throwing firecrackers. Down on the floor they were swooning. And your boys in KISS, of course, were the ringleaders, exploding and posturing all over the place" (The Tennessean, 12/2/85).
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