REVIEW: KISS delivers a rock and roll spectacle one last time at the Hollywood Bowl
By PETER LARSEN | Orange County Register
Photo by Trevor Stamp, Contributing Photographer
Fans turned out in face paint and costumes modeled after the Kiss characters as The End of the Road Tour plays Los Angeles for possibly, maybe the last time.
Two songs into the night the legendary hard rock band Kiss got booed by the sold-out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Friday. Not, mind you, because the show wasn’t already the ridiculously over-the-top spectacle that Kiss has perfected in its 50 years on the road.
The curtain dropped for “Detroit Rock City” to reveal Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Tommy Thayer on hanging platforms 30 feet above the stage, fireworks flashing around them, and drummer Eric Singer at the back of the stage as flame cannons blasted around him.
Then “Shout It Loud,” with lasers bouncing inside the bandshell, bright blurs of fireworks shooting off its top, our face-painted, costumed heroes — Stanley the Starchild, Simmons the Demon, Thayer the Spaceman and Singer the Cat – like characters inside a colorful and very, very loud video game.
No complaints at all — and then Stanley started to speak.
“Man, so here we are,” he said as fans whooped and hollered. “And this is the last time we’ll be playing Los Angeles.”
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