KISS PERFORMS ACOUSTIC SET AT FAN MEET-AND-GREET IN JAPAN
KISS fans who paid for VIP tickets on March 3rd at the Tokyo Dome in Japan were able to watch the band perform a small acoustic set during soundcheck which included a version of the 1962 blues song You Shook Me. Video footage of the performance can be seen below.
KISS Ultimate Experience acoustic live set list was:
1. Comin’ Home
2. Christine Sixteen
3. Hard Luck Woman
4. If I Fell (The Beatles)
5. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles)
6. Calling Dr Love
7. Sukiyaki (Kyu Sakamoto)
8. Got to Choose
9. You Shook Me (Led Zeppelin)
10. Beth
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Oh, this is swell… during “You Shook Me” Gene actually walks over to Paul and gives him the “This-is-horrible-please stop” slash-across-the-throat signal. Paul continues, and Gene says INTO HIS MIC’ “You’re gonna kill your voice!”. Paul replies, “This is easy!” (?!?!) Was really enjoying the Beatles covers until during “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” Paul screws up and then blames Tommy, sarcasticsally calling him “Mr. Know-It-All”!
Imagine yourself having paid what for some might be peanuts and for others a month’s pay for the Meet & Greet package, and then you find your heroes behaving like amateurs during rehearsal. I mean, is it not totally unprofessional to critisize your band mates in public? Should that not be an issue to be discussed and solved behind the scenes? Could no one have forseen that Paul would embarrass himself in certain tunes? This is low … so why pay an extra 1000 dollars to once more witness your once favourite singer croaking when you can have that in the regular show for less than 100?? Seems to me, that everyone in and around the band knows that Paul is no longer able to really sing (Eric doing all the high notes for him now), including the majority of Kiss fans, except for Paul himself, and if he knows, he just does not want to realize it. Well, he is making big money still, that might be the answer … So as long as fans still accept this behaviour and pay their hard-earned dollars, they will continue. Gene, on the other hand, seems healthy and his voice is in good shape. The comment you mentioned (into the mic) he made about Paul’s performance clearly shows that they all know what is going on. That is why Gene has more songs on the setlist than he’s had in a very long time, which I personally like. Paul is so high on his horse that he is seeing other people’s shortcomings (including Ace’s and Peter’s) in order to not see his own, which is sad but typical of people who are used to be applauded for whatever they do. They also abandoned the much appraised (mostly by Paul himself, who had “designed” it) Spider stage without posting a single word on their website, hm … That stage I thought was just too simple for a band that would call their show outstanding. Just a bunch a of trussrods with troupers. Actually quite inexpensive. Sad for me as a long time fan to witness this decline, they could have ended on a high note (no pun intended, of course) and left the world something really great and unique to remember …
Wow, negative comments about Kiss?! What a surprise!
Not an original thought in this thread. The band gives a once in a lifetime experience for those fans, and this is all that can be said? I don’t know of ONE other band that gives this level of return for the VIP investment (which by and large is a scam of epic proportions, if you ask me). Is it what it was in ’76? No, but it’s still pretty damn good. I’d much rather listen to chestnuts in an intimate setting like this at 90% than most bands at 100%.
I find it amazing that everyone just ignores the fact that Paul simply can not sing and hasn’t been able to for a long time. For someone who preaches about getting out when you can’t cut it I find that ironic.. When you can’t sing over acoustic then it’s getting really bad. Sad, he was one of the great to me vocally for a long time
Because people feel strongly about the bands they love, beyond all reason. As long as there’s a Product to sell, which is all Kiss really is, they’ll continue to drag along, and people will eat that crap up.
Kiss was over years ago, but like many bands still hanging around past their expiration date, the don’t get the memo. It really cheapens what they used to be.
Not ignoring it at all, just don’t think it is as big a deal as everyone says it is. I just saw the Kiss/Def Leppard show this past August, because I wanted my kid to see them once before it was over, and she sent an Instagram the next day of a picture of the final spectacle (RnRAN) with the caption “Greatest night of my life!” and that is really what is important to me.
Great for your kid, honestly – but factually all wrong. But: as long as people are satisfied with second best, why would they want to stop the ride and the money from coming in in spades?
You should hear Paul do the wail at the beginning of Heaven’s On Fire. I swear it sounds like someone’s strangling a cat.
Bill… was not commenting on the event itself, as KISS has always given bang for the buck. I was merely commenting that Gene actually made a statement directly into his microphone about Paul’s vocal. And, as I said in my original post, I was really enjoying the Beatle stuff until the mistake; it bothered me that Paul automatically assumed the mistake was someone else’s.
You are right, people, fans, customers, they pay a lot of money to get this once-in-a-lifetime experience – and then all they are offered is a lead singer whose voice is worse than that of any cover band out there? For comments over the mic that he should stop singing? For mocking his employee to draw the audience’s attention away from hos own failures? For his desperate attempts at making it seem normal? This truly IS a unique experience that I for one would not want to have again. So you are right, people had a unique experience, but different from what they rightly expected and different from what they paid for. Now what do we do if we don’t get what we paid for? We go buy somewhere else. So people should just stop buying tickets, especially M & G packages. Then Paul will soon realize.
Bill: Correction, Kiss gave those fans less than half of a once in a lifetime experience. Ace and Peter aren’t there and Paul can’t sing. Nobody in that audience 20 years from now will be going on and on about what a technically great drummer Eric is. Trust me on this one.
Yeah
Ace sounds way better live and his material on Space Invader and Abnomaly is light years ahead of Live to Win , ***hole and, anything off of Monster or SB.
Now if we can just get Ace to be at the mic when he is suppose too. lol
These guys are finished in the States unless they want a Theater Tour with Ace, Only option now is a full reunion with Ace in his old makeup and Tommy in the Creatures Ace outfit/makeup. Bring back Vinnie in his makeup and stick Peter on the drums with Eric Singer beside him or rotating every couple on songs in Eric Carr makeup.
One thing Paul and Gene cant do …is blame Ace and Peter for this debacle…..though im sure Paul will try
Ace and Peter sure do not have that much money left, and they might regret certain things they did, but I guess looking at this debacle going on they are happy they are not part of it. They may have f***d up a few shows back then for the audience to see or notice, but Paul has been delivering below-average performances for a long time now. Without Eric’s help on vocals (for a fraction of his own share in the profits) we would have many chorusses of many songs on the setlist without proper leadvocals. Paul just leaves these parts to Eric, he cannot even sing through a whole show, bad or not. He should follow his own rules and quit, ie. dismiss the band as he is no longer able “to give the fans 100%”.