KISS Paul Stanley Asks Oshawa Audience - "Did You Really Believe We Weren't Going To Come To See You?"
October 8, 2009, 14 years ago
Nick Patch from The Canadian Press is reporting:
KISS delivered on its promise to Oshawa, ON, on Wednesday with a supersized show that spared no flair, flames or facepaint.
Even playing to 6,134 fans within the relatively cozy confines of Oshawa's General Motors Centre, the classic rockers seemed to manage to pull off every extravagant stunt of their reliably over-the-top show.
And they didn't miss an opportunity to pay respect to Oshawa, the town that won the right to the concert by pouring votes into an online contest hosted by KISS.
"We've been to Moncton, we've been to Sudbury, we've been to Saskatoon - we've never been to 'Shwa," singer-guitarist Paul Stanley bellowed from the stage, using a popular local nickname for the town that he would repeat again and again. "Tonight, we change all that."With a nearly two-hour performance, the Detroit rockers captivated a grateful crowd with a set drawn mostly from their 1970s output, with a specific focus on their 1974 double-LP breakthrough, Alive!
While the venue was significantly smaller than the arenas KISS typically visits, the band showed no signs of having downscaled their show.
There were the rising, rotating stages, the confetti streaming from the sky and the relentless pyrotechnics, more plentiful here than the jet-black hair strewn across Stanley's chest.
Tongue-wagging bassist Gene Simmons dribbled blood from his mouth and performed menacingly from a platform high above the heads of the audience, while Stanley used pulleys to zip over to a round platform located in the middle of the crowd during "Love Gun."
The crowd roared appreciatively with each increasingly flamboyant stunt.
"Did you really believe we weren't going to come to see you?" Stanley asked the audience.
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