KISS @ Great American Music

by Michael Brandvold | Feb 18, 2007 | Uncategorized | 2 comments

I was organizing my photos this morning, uploading a bunch to my Google Picasa page, http://picasaweb.google.com/mikebrandvold, and came across these photos of a in-store appearance that KISS did at Great American Music in Bloomington, MN on September 27, 1979 during the Dynasty tour. I remember arriving around 3 or 4 pm with my friend Jeff Ruggle and finding hundreds of fans already in line. By the time the band arrived there were over 2-3 thousand fans. In fact there were so many that the band was told to stop signing autographs about half way through the line, and just shake hands. This happend just as I got up to the band. Ace was real cool and said he was going to sign my Dynasty album.

KISS Great American Music In Store

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Kenny Zellner on August 22, 2012 at 7:13 am

Gosh, I remember this like it was yesterday! I walked over to Great American with my buddy Chuck right after school and got there at around 2:45. We were about 15-20 people from the display where the band’s meet and greet was. Got all of the band’s signatures on the Dynasty album and still have it to this day. Will NEVER part with it. Great memories! Thanks for posting the photos Mike!
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Rick on May 29, 2015 at 5:35 pm

There was a local station recording this for tv and I actually made it on. Not sure if it was a bloomington channel or one of the big local stations. I never got in the building but was interviewed.
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