Pics and review to follow.
Rock on and KISS rules!!
UPDATE: 2:32 AM 09//12/10
Yeah they do! What a show! As if I'd expect anything different.
The traffic on I-75 was nuts. Hey, let's hold an event outside of Detroit proper, get thousands of people to attend it, then make them sit in traffic for 20 minutes on the way there so we can do construction. Great idea!But anyways...
We get to the DTE, I of course grab my merch of The Hottest Show on Earth tee-shirt, a baseball cap emblazoned with the iconic KISS logo and a SimfyLive USB recording of the show that I got a card for to redeem after the show. That was $95.00 in total. American. Not to mention a 24 oz. $9.00 beer that was probably the reason we barely got to our seats in time, which we didn't because just as the "You Wanted the Best, You Got the Best" announcement came over the P.A. system and the huge KISS logo curtain dropped, we were still pushing ourselves through the crowd to get to our seats.
I didn't really care for that, since that announcement and the curtain dropping with the opening pyro over the opening salvo of their first song (which happened to be the first single off their most recent album, Sonic Boom) is usually one of the best parts of the show. If it wasn't for that freakin' traffic on 75 (we also stopped to eat, but that couldn't be avoided, we's a hungry, ya know)
But all was well from then on. It didn't even rain as forecast.
The boys came triumphantly down on their platform, swooping over Eric Singer to the opening salvo of Modern Day Delilah, the opening single from their most recent CD, Sonic Boom.
Everything was awesome. From Paul Stanley's belching out the classic hits such as Firehouse (after which, Gene Simmons blew fire) 100,000 Years and I Was Made For Loving You when he swooped over the crowd to his revolving platform just mere meters from where we were. Gene growled his usual fare to classics as Calling Dr. Love, I Love It Loud, Cold Gin and their normal show opener, Deuce. The recent cut, I Am An Animal from Sonic Boom drew positive results as well.
Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer did a jam together that was near brilliance and Singer's rendition of Black Diamond as well as Beth (with Thayer, Stanley and Simmons playing acoustically, off to the side, instead of leaving the stage altogether to have Singer sing it accompanied with a playback of the classic hit) was impressive. Thayer's take on Ace Frehley's old stand alone, Shock Me was surprisingly good too.
So after two and a half hours that seemed like 30 minutes, the show was over. I was more than satisfied, however I did feel a little like someone who works hard all day preparing Christmas dinner, only to have it consumed in five minutes. That is to say all the months of anticipation were fully rewarded, but it was over way too fast.
I got home after the show and listened to half of the show on my new USB stick. I had to wait for 24 hours before I could download the other half of the show with the code I received with it. It's like knowing you were in attendance at one of the Cobo Hall shows that comprised 1975's Alive! LP. Not quite as historic, but just as meaningful all the same.The band says there will be a new album out by next summer, after they take a well-deserved break from touring the last two and a half years. That includes the consecutive Alive 35, Sonic Boom Over Europe and The Hottest Show on Earth tours. They finish off with a few shows in Mexico, a break, then presumably back into the studio for their 20th studio album. Which means another world tour, I'm sure.
I'll be there and I'll be sure to get my seventh KISS tee-shirt. Then again, it may be 10 by the time I see them again. This was my fourth time seeing them and if it was up to me, I 'd see them a hundred more times, as it never gets old and it never gets dull. There's a reason KISS is the premiere live rock and roll band. It's because they are!
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