After a 45-year career, KISS announced they will embark on their final word tour, during their appearance on NBC’s America’s Got Talent on Wednesday.
The band performed their hit Detroit Rock City to launch AGT‘s season finale episode before announcing the news. “This is going to be our last tour,” they announced onstage. “It will be the most explosive, biggest show we’ve ever done. People who love us, come to see us. If you’ve never seen us, this is the time. This will be the show.”
The band has not yet revealed tour dates, but they said in a statement that their final shows will be part of a multi-year End of the Road world tour and that they’d announce updates on their official website in the coming weeks…
…“All that we have built and all that we have conquered over the past four decades could never have happened without the millions of people worldwide who’ve filled clubs, arenas and stadiums over those years,” Kiss said in a statement. “This will be the ultimate celebration for those who’ve seen us and a last chance for those who haven’t. KISS Army, we’re saying goodbye on our final tour with our biggest show yet and we’ll go out the same way we came in… Unapologetic and Unstoppable.”
additional source: rollingstone.com
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That mass tapping you hear is the sound of all the die-hards who are typing in unison that if Ace and Peter aren’t included in this tour, then they have no interest in attending.
(…although something tells me they will attend anyway!)
Not me, RT, not me! Not even for free!!
Yep. That would be myself included.
so well said 🙂
I said this in reply to one of Eddie’s tweets: I saw Peter on that last tour with Aerosmith, and frankly, I have no interest in watching that whiner phone it in again, with the lame-o “tear drop” on the makeup. Kiss isn’t about any one member, and Peter (especially) never understood that. I want to see Kiss deliver 110 percent, whatever that is. If Paul’s voice isn’t what it once was, so be it, there are plenty of singers that aren’t at the top of their powers anymore, but they deliver 110 percent each night.
I saw them in Hartford on the Def Leppard/Kiss tour, and the show started a little soft, and during Gene’s spot, his hoist didn’t work (he got about five feet off the stage and it froze). He got down and chewed the SHIT out of the roadie, and went over to Paul and barked something at him, too. Whatever he did, it lit a fire in that band, and by the time they got to the last third or so of the show, they were untouchable. I’ve seen them 8, 10 times, and that was about as good as I’ve ever seen them (maybe not quite as good as MSG on the first leg of the reunion tour but close).
Bill,
How was Def Leppard?
D 🙂
I hear you, Bill. I saw that tour, too, and Peter was on his last legs at that point…
Funny, but I have been re-reading Peter’s autobiography the past week. I keep finding myself laughing out loud at some parts of his book. Truly pathetic at times, but of the 4 bios, probably my favorite.
I am a huge KISS fan and if you enjoy reading about the band, one of my favorite books is one that came out in 1996 around the time of the Reunion Tour by CK Lendt called, “KISS And Sell.” Lendt was their former tour accountant during most of the ’70’s and until the mid ’80’s and it is a fascinating read. I bought it when it first came out and maybe you can still find it online. Interestingly enough, Lendt said in the book, “Peter was actually the most fun to be around IF you knew how to handle him.”
The last time I seen them was the original Farewell Tour. I’ve been with them since the beginning, but after the 2000 tour I had enough. I also had the pleasure of seeing John Cougar open the Dynasty tour, I’m guessing Priest was going over too well by the time they made it to Duluth MN. I think the last show they play is when all past members will be brought out.
Kiss should play a free concert in Central Park as part of the tour.
When does Kiss Menudo begin?
Did I just see Paul lip-synch while the others played live? There was a great difference between him “singing” okay here (as opposed to recent live performances you can witness on YT) and still sounding familiarly hoarse when talking to the crowd. If it is true and it’s the biggest show they have ever done, that would, no, must inlcude Ace and also Peter in some way. That would at least to some point let it end on a high note instead in yet another tour with miserable and embarrassing performances. But I doubt it. Why would Paul’s super-inflated ego suddenly change?