First off, this has to be one of the lamest bills to look at on paper.\u00a0 I mean, we all know that Kiss kicks ass but Great White AND Trixter in 1992?\u00a0 Yeah, it was as lame as it sounds.\u00a0 First off, what can you say about Trixter other than the fact that they were laughable and totally forgettable.\u00a0 My friends and I just stood there in awe at how bad these guys sucked.\u00a0 They were so lame that the guitarist threw pick, it landed on the floor and nobody went for it so I picked it up.\u00a0 I figured it made him feel good.\u00a0 After their shitty forgettable set, bring on yet another band to play an uninspired forgettable set.\u00a0 It\u2019s sad because I was a Great White fan before this and even saw them do some great shows but this time, they were just terrible.\u00a0 Matter of fact, one of my buddies and I went out to check out shirts and merch we were so bored.<\/p>\n
When the house lights went down for Kiss, the place was electrified!\u00a0 The screaming, roaring crowd was so stoked and as the curtain dropped to show this huge ass stage set, we lost it as Kiss opened with \u201cCreatures of the Night.\u201d\u00a0 I remember thinking that they sounded so fucking good and for the first time since the makeup days, they looked like a bunch of bad motherfuckers.\u00a0 The set list was full of killer songs and even the songs from \u201cRevenge\u201d like \u201cDomino\u201d and \u201cUnholy\u201d sounded kick ass.\u00a0 We were pressed against the barricade as we just rocked out with Kiss song after song but it was during \u201cGod of Thunder\u201d that the most awesome thing would happen.\u00a0 I was leaning over the barricade singing the lyrics back to Gene and he was watching me as I sang along with him.\u00a0 After the song was over, he motioned for me to lean up to the stage and when I did, he stuck his guitar pick to my forehead.\u00a0 Goddamn I was freaking out!\u00a0 I still have that pick to this day along with a Bruce Kulick pick.\u00a0 I also remember being really psyched that they played \u201cI Want You\u201d and \u201cParasite.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kiss was really pulling out all the stops musically and visually as well.\u00a0 The stage was fucking huge and looked like an apocalyptic New York City complete with bust of the Statue of Liberty and trashed streets.\u00a0 It was so awesome and at the end of \u201cBlack Diamond\u201d the statue crumbled to expose a skeleton and the hand\u2019s middle finger raised as high in the air to a thunderous roar.\u00a0 What an amazing show this was yet it was sad that this was one of the Kiss\u2019 more poorly attended shows.\u00a0 Leave it to Kiss fans to flock to see them on the Crazy Nights tour yet abandon them at the top of their game.\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad it was captured and then released as part of the Kissology DVD set and I\u2019m glad I got to witness it in first hand.\u00a0 I wanted the best that night and I fucking god it!\u00a0 It was even worth sitting through Trixter and Great White.<\/p>\n
\u201cCreatures of the Night\u201d
via THE GREAT SOUTHERN BRAINFART \u2013 Blast From The Past: Kiss\/Great White\/Trixter \u2013 November 5, 1992 \u2013 Atlanta, GA<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I need to post this recap I just came across for the KISS Revenge tour. It pretty much sums up my exact feelings of that tour as well. Totally original, kick ass stage. Killer setlist that mixed new tunes with classic oldies and the band looked bad ass. Look at the setlist… opening with Creatures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,51],"tags":[170,92,41,350],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kiss-2","category-music","tag-bruce-kulick","tag-gene-simmons","tag-kiss","tag-revenge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>When tickets went on sale for this show at the Omni, my friends and I were destined to get the best seats we could get.\u00a0 There were four of us and one of us drew the coveted \u201cX\u201d ticket in the lottery.\u00a0 This means that the \u201cX\u201d got to enter ahead of the line and get first pick at tickets.\u00a0 What we ended up with was 4 FRONT FUCKING ROW tickets.\u00a0 Don\u2019t believe me, just look at the stub chump.\u00a0 We were so stoked to be seeing Kiss for what we all (and many others) felt was their greatest album in many years.\u00a0 Rumor also had it that this show was going to be bigger and badder than \u201cHot In The Shade.\u201d\u00a0 This couldn\u2019t have pumped us up any more and we were ready!<\/p>\n