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December 20, 1985 |
The Centrum
Promoter: Gemini Concerts
Other act(s): Black 'N Blue
Reported audience: (9,600 capacity)
Set list(s):
Unknown.
Notes:
- From a local review: "The war paint may have been flushed down the pipes three years ago for the members of KISS, but these guys could put on a show that's anything less than histrionic metal melodrama only if a house fell on them. Bassist Gene Simmons, guitarists Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick, and drummer Eric Carr turned egotistical metal bombast and Vegas theatrics into an overblown and thunderous package measuring 8.5 on the Richter Scale In their show last night at the Worcester Centrum. A suspension of aesthetics is immediately necessary at any KISS show. It doesn't matter if their lyrics are primordial and the rhythms a step below that, songs like 'Cold Gin' and 'Lick It Up' rocked with a brutal and uncompromising force.
A 30-foot-high KISS sign and more airplane lights than Logan may be fun, but the strength of the band's rock was severely diluted by excessive self-indulgence. The corny lechery, hokey posing and showy instrument solos makes me think they've been reading their press kit too much... Gullibility can be stretched only so far. Next time KISS should leave the burden of thick-skull theatrics to clowns like Twisted Sister and give more attention to the powerful potential their music presents" (Boston Herald, 12/21/85).
- An average AUD recording circulates from this show.
Of Interest:
A 30-foot-high KISS sign and more airplane lights than Logan may be fun, but the strength of the band's rock was severely diluted by excessive self-indulgence. The corny lechery, hokey posing and showy instrument solos makes me think they've been reading their press kit too much... Gullibility can be stretched only so far. Next time KISS should leave the burden of thick-skull theatrics to clowns like Twisted Sister and give more attention to the powerful potential their music presents" (Boston Herald, 12/21/85).
- An average AUD recording circulates from this show.