totally agree. the crue destroyed the kiss. played a hell of a set. they came out walking through section 100 and 200 dressed in robes and beating drums with smoke and then went onto to the stage. nice.
kiss was good and it was awesome to actually see them live and see the mixture of fans. rednecks everywhere, i felt right at home, and some very good looking guys, oh my. too much fireworks sounding like sonic booms and sometimes vince's voice was screechy and yes paul does come off as a little flamey of the four members and yes the roller coaster tommy lee drum thing was cool and fuck these venues that try to get away having only coors light / budweiser and charging eleven dollars for a big can. no other options? what, if you had starr hill or something, would you charge fifteen a beer? i saw this one guy near me, that after counting his beer cans, he must have spent almost ninety bucks on beer. but getting out was super easy if you left right when you knew kiss would play what they always close the show with. all in all . . . an awesome show from start to finish, even the opening band that sounded just like hair band nineteen eighties all over again. and being first show of the tour, they totally screwed up the timing of bands and setups. kiss had to rush through their set and paul said from the start they would cram in as much as possible.
in the boxes they had $11 yuenglings big cans and $13 heinekens.. can't remember what else..corona..
i couldn't spend $11 on bud light if you paid me.
never have had it so easy getting there.. took me about 40 minutes from arlington.. zipped in to parking lot no problem.. a very rare case of me driving to a show.
I loved seeing the show just cause I'd always wanted to see KISS... I love Paul Stanley's accent.. I just think of it as a Queens/forest hills thing I guess?
I went to see KISS but I was really glad I caught almost all of Motley Crue because they put on a good show.. when you put Motley Crue/KISS together I thought that was a good value..
I don't understand how setting up the first night of the tour is any excuse.. but I guess it happens.. I just think they are professionals and they have to know how long things will take.. if anyone should have shortened their set it shoudl have been the Crue but they kept going on and on.. I was surprised.. they played probably til 9:30 and you knew that was going to be a problem.. I'm surprised they didn't tell THEM to wrap it up as they had to know it would take a while to turnaroudn the stage for KISS.
my guess is KISS was only too happy to play a shorter set!
I was pleased with show... but something about big venues really turns me off.. I probably won't be back for a few years... I think this was my first show there since Pearl Jam...
at 9:44 we were heading to the bathrooms and asked a staff member when KISS would go on.. she said "945". .obviously that was the plan...if KISS had gone on at 945 they could have played 3 more songs but that didn't happen... even 945 seems late to me.. I was thinking they'd go on at 915.. .for them to start at 10 was just weird..
