Glen Schaefer at The Province recently caught up with KISS frontman Paul Stanley. An excerpt from the story is available below:

No need for the exercise gear on the road, Stanley says.

"The show is the ultimate workout, I can't even replicate that in a regular workout," he adds. "What I do onstage is fuelled by adrenalin, you'll do things in front of an audience you'd find impossible to do on your own or with a trainer."

All that while strutting in five-inch platforms, a trick he's mastered over the decades. "Once you get used to the thin air up where we are, it's what I've done my whole life, it really is second nature."

A KISS show involves loud, simple songs, big pyrotechnics and Simmons spewing blood and flying over the stage, ingredients that KISS crowds have come to expect over the years. If the show has changed, says Stanley, it's in the craft applied to everything, particularly the pyro, which seems hot enough to roast marshmallows in the front row.

"We have the best people working with us," Stanley says. "When we first started doing it, it was crude to say the least. There were no licensed pyrotechnicians, you had some guy who liked to blow stuff up and you put him on salary. It's come a long way since then."

Stanley says the band draws an allages crowd these days. Even entire families come to hear "Love Gun" and "Lick It Up."

"The great thing about a KISS audience is it's really more of a tribal thing than a rock concert. You have people of all ages. Most rock concerts are very age-specific, where you don't want to see your little brother or your father there.

"I think it's great. People want to share it with their children -it's a rite of passage that they went through."

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SoundSpike photographer Kirk Stauffer attended KISS' summer tour kick-off show on June 23rd at the Comcast Arena in Everett, WA. He has posted a photo gallery at this location.

As previously reported, A review of the show, as well as some more photos, can be found at HeraldNet.com.

KISS performed the following setlist:

'Modern Day Delilah'

'Cold Gin'

'Let Me Go Rock 'N Roll'

'Say Yeah'

'Deuce'

'Firehouse'

'Do You Love Me'

'Calling Dr. Love'

'Shock Me'

'God Of Thunder'

'Love Gun'

'100,000 Years'

'I Love It Loud'

'Black Diamond'

'Detroit Rock City'

'Beth'

'Lick It Up'

'Shout It Out Loud'

'God Gave Rock And Roll II You'

'Rock And Roll All Night'

Check out some fan-filmed footage below: