KISS' Gene Simmons On Current Tour - "You're Going To See The Kind Of Show You've Never Seen"
October 3, 2009, 14 years ago
Jillian Follert from Newsdurhamregion.com is reporting:
Until recently, Gene Simmons had never heard of Oshawa.
And as far as the tongue-wagging KISS bassist is concerned, that's a great reason to play here.
"We noticed that a lot of cities feel like second-class citizens. The Torontos and New Yorks of the world get first dibs and there are cities that we've never heard of that people still live in," he said during a phone interview with This Week. "That doesn't mean that people there aren't as cool as someplace else ... where you're born is where you're born."Simmons said reaching out to smaller locales was the reason behind an online contest that let fans vote to land their city on the KISS Alive 35 Tour, which kicked off in Detroit on September 25.
Oshawa snagged the top spot and the '70s glam rockers will be taking the stage at the General Motors Centre for a sold-out show October 7.
Simmons said Oshawa fans can expect much more than the fireworks and tall boots that have become pillars of the KISS stage show,
"You're going to see the kind of show you've never seen, there's millions of dollars of technology and special effects that we've put into the show, brand new outfits ... new flying gags," he said. "The screen that you're going to see in back of us ... it literally spans from one side of the stage to the other, there's not a bad seat in house. You'll be able to see my nose hairs sticking out my nose."Read more here.
On October 1st, KISS performed at the Bell Centre in Montréal, Québec. BraveWords.com Photo Galleries can be found below:
