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December 16, 1985 |
Madison Square Garden
Promoter: Ron Delsener Productions
Other act(s): Black 'N Blue
Reported audience: (20,000 capacity)
Set list(s):
Detroit Rock City
Fits Like a Glove
Cold Gin
Uh! All Night
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
Won't Get Fooled Again
Lick It Up
Notes:
- From a local review: "Before there was punk-rock, KISS was putting out what might be called junk-rock -- loud, pummeling songs with lyrics about antisocial behavior. A decade and 20 albums later, KISS is still blasting away, minus the makeup that concealed its members' faces through the 1970's.The current KISS, which includes two of its four founders -- the guitarist Paul Stanley and the bassist Gene Simmons -- played Monday at Madison Square Garden. Even without makeup, KISS remains a cartoon of a rock band, with every word from the stage and every motion gleefully exaggerated. The band revels in lowest-common-denominator machismo, swaggering around and singing about rocking and rolling and partying all night long, plus the occasional transparent double-entendre -- a fantasy of naughty behavior for its primarily male and adolescent audience.
KISS had worked up a minimum of material for the show. Every few songs, three-fourths of the band would take a break while the remaining member twiddled on his instrument, ran around and grimaced at the crowd until fireworks -- a shower or three of sparks -- signaled the end of a solo and another song or two. But rousing the crowd, not delivering songs, is what a KISS concert is all about. And rouse the crowd they did, with roars for every burst of pyrotechnics, handclaps and sing-a-longs on such lyrics as 'unh!' and, in another tune, 'unh! unh!' Mr. Simmons also briefly breathed fire. The sound and fury of the concert signified, mainly, that adolescents have fun blowing off steam" (New York Times, 12/21/85).
- An audience filmed VID from this show circulates, and while not quite as good as the quality as the previous night's show, it is shot from the opposite side of the stage offering a different perspective.
Of Interest:
KISS had worked up a minimum of material for the show. Every few songs, three-fourths of the band would take a break while the remaining member twiddled on his instrument, ran around and grimaced at the crowd until fireworks -- a shower or three of sparks -- signaled the end of a solo and another song or two. But rousing the crowd, not delivering songs, is what a KISS concert is all about. And rouse the crowd they did, with roars for every burst of pyrotechnics, handclaps and sing-a-longs on such lyrics as 'unh!' and, in another tune, 'unh! unh!' Mr. Simmons also briefly breathed fire. The sound and fury of the concert signified, mainly, that adolescents have fun blowing off steam" (New York Times, 12/21/85).
- An audience filmed VID from this show circulates, and while not quite as good as the quality as the previous night's show, it is shot from the opposite side of the stage offering a different perspective.