KISS IS EVERYWHERE!

Our friend Frank Fritz, one of History Channel's "American Pickers," is also a big KISS fan. He and partner Mike Wolfe recently picked the storage lockers of Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen! Check out what happened when Frank discovered Rick's set of KISS solo albums... in an envelope addressed by Gene!

At the end of the episode, Frank says that the albums are priceless to him, and they're going in his own private collection, never to be sold. Here's a clip!

PLAYING to a packed-out arena sure makes you hungry.

Something of a party started on Sunday night at East Sydney seafood staple Blue Angel when the four members of KISS and their entourage rocked up for a late feed following their Allphones Arena gig.

Fellow diners tell Confidential the band - who feasted on 10kg of King Island crab, platters of lobster sashimi and south pacific oysters - racked up a bill of more than $5000. They also left a $500 tip for the staff, we hear.

While long-time owner Marcello Marcobello would not discuss numbers yesterday, he was surprised at the amount of wine on the table.

"For rock stars they were unbelievably tame," he said.

Here's KISS performing "Outta This World" - at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Also includes Tommy and Eric's solo jam.

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Here's KISS and the Brisbane KISS Army in the packed Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night.


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Here is Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, and currently Bruce Springsteen guitarist) with KISS at the Brisbane meet and greet yesterday.

Excerpted from a review by Adam Lewis

CLICK HERE to view KISS Sydney Photo Gallery

ADAM LEWIS ventures to Sydney’s Olympic Park to discover what happens when you put two of the world’s most decadent rock ‘n’ roll bands in a room together. Photos by DEXTER CORNELIUS.

A six-year-old Gene Simmons picks at nuggets outside the Olympic Park McDonalds. A procession of balding Paul Stanleys in polo shirts trudge from the train to the arena, several metres ahead of an attractive female Eric Singer. Inside the stadium nature has called, and a middle-aged Tommy Thayer awkwardly deconstructs his elaborate spaceman costume in the middle of the bathroom.

KISS are almost as famous for their fans as they are for their music, a fact that becomes exceedingly obvious before the Lidcombe-Olympic Park train even reaches the station. Entire families are decked out in the band’s signature makeup, and KISS shirts are everywhere. If they aren’t the most popular band in the world, a couple of hours among their fans certainly makes them feel like the biggest.

KISS Rock Out On Sydney's Allphones Arena Stage In Their Major 2012-2013 World Tour

Excerpted from a review by Holly Williams / Contact Music

KISS venture to Sydney, Australia midway through their latest world tour.

Hard rock four-piece KISS hit Sydney, Australia midway through their expansive 2012/2013 world tour.

As part of their highly anticipated tour, seventies rock band KISS played a seminal show at the Allphones Arena in Sydney on Sunday (March 10th 2013). The tour celebrates their latest album release, 'Monster', which came out in October 2012 and has peaked at an impressive number 3 spot on the US and Canada charts and number 2 in Norway. It's a follow-up to their 2009 record 'Sonic Boom' which was their first album to be released in nearly ten years after a dramatic change of heart from Simmons and Stanley. This new world tour began only weeks after they finished their July to October North American string of shows called 'The Tour' which their co-headlined with Motley Crue, but rather than looking exhausted at the prospect of some major gigging, this group of fifty-plus year old rockers are looking more vibrant than ever.

Excerpted from a review by Kiel Egging

Photos by Anwar Rizk

CLICK HERE to view MusicFeed's KISS Photo Gallery.

Despite having ticked off a good chunk of iconic bands on my ‘see before I die list’, until last Wednesday I was yet to have a night of grandiose partying with the genre’s most famous face-painted rockers.

And although I wasn’t too familiar with their back catalogue, when the opportunity came to see KISS, I felt compelled to go along and see what the fuss was all about. And damn, did I receive an education…

KISS descended down from the top of the arena on two different platforms with a shower of fireworks behind them, starting opener Detroit Rock City mid-air. It kicked off an old-school rock extravaganza with all the bells and whistles.

Whether it was fireworks or flames during nearly every song, gigantic flashing signs and bright lights, the countless rock star poses (Gene Simmons never gets sick of wagging his tongue or spitting fire) or rockin’ out on elevated platforms at all sorts of angles, I was literally blown away by the grandiose nature of the show. Sure, KISS fans have probably seen it all before, but for someone who hadn’t seen them live until tonight, I found it incredibly impressive.

The interacting-with-the-crowd-at-the-back quota was also fulfilled in a mega way, with frontman Paul Stanley clipping himself onto a flying fox and performing Love Gun on a revolving stage high above the sound desk at the back of the General Admission area. This was followed up by a gigantic white confetti shower during timeless hit Rock and Roll All Nite – and a casual ride on some sweeping platforms above the crowd.

Here's KISS performing "Lick It Up" at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia.

Here's KISS performing "Black Diamond" in Allphone Arena - Sydney, Australia on March 9,2013.

_{Filmed by Keith Leroux for KISSONLINE.com}

He rose to fame in the '70s as the blood-spurting, fire-breathing bass player from fantasy-rock visionaries Kiss. Along the way to selling an estimated 100million albums with the band, Gene Simmons has become an astute businessman, author and reality-television star. He reportedly renounced his renowned groupie-hunting ways after marrying his long-time partner, Shannon Tweed, in 2011. He has long dismissed flak for continuing to tour with a band that held its ''farewell tour'' more than a decade ago, pointing to the continued enthusiasm of the band's fans. Two of its original members have since been replaced by others using the same make-up. In October, Kiss released its 20th studio album, Monster. The band marks its 40th anniversary this year.

I'm listening to …

The Black Keys. A good kick in the pants for all of us to get back to basics. Meat and potatoes.

The last film I saw was …

Django Unchained - a tour de force. Edgy. Violent. Funny. Pure Tarantino.

Here's KISS and the Sydney KISS Army last night at the SOLD OUT Allphones Arena.

Here's KISS performing "Deuce" in Melbourne during their Monster Tour 2013.

Filmed by Keith Leroux for KISSONLINE.