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Flashback: Kiss and Conan O’Brien Announce the Band’s 1996 Reunion
By David Browne
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The press conference had barely begun when Gene Simmons weighed in with typical bluntness. “This tour and the whole event,” he said, leaning into a microphone, “it is a culmination of more than a decade of our fans being on top of our asses saying we have to do it.”
The “it” was the fantasy of Kiss fans across the globe: a reunion of the original quartet, in full makeup, reviving the songs and stage costumes that had made Kiss one of the all-conquering bands of the Seventies. And on April 16th, 1996 , the fantasy became reality when the band announced its plans for such a tour at a media event aboard, of all places, the U.S.S. Intrepid, docked on the west side of Manhattan.
“Last week when they asked me to introduce Kiss,” deadpanned Conan O’Brien at the start of the press conference, “I had just two questions, two questions: what time, and what aircraft carrier ?” (In his memoir Kiss and Make-Up , Simmons said the idea was inspired by an event his ex-girlfriend Diana Ross had held aboard that same ship in 1981.) And with the opening of a curtain and the blaring of one of their deepest and raunchiest cuts (“Take Me” from 1976’s Rock and Roll Over ), there they were again: Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley, in full rock-kabuki look, to announce a worldwide tour launching in Detroit that June.
The roar of Kiss Army fans who had invaded the Intrepid made it clear that the reunion idea was a smart one. By 1996, Criss and Frehley had both been out of the band for about 15 years. In 1983, Kiss, still run by Simmons and Stanley, had wiped off the face paint and revealed their actual mugs on stage and on album covers. Thanks to hits like “Tears Are Falling” and “Heaven’s on Fire,” Kiss had intermittently proven they could endure in the hair-metal era.
But something was missing, which became all too apparent one day in the summer of 1995. Toward the end of a taping of their episode of MTV Unplugged , the band — which by then included guitarist Bruce Kulick and drummer Eric Singer — introduced Criss and Frehley. The reconvened foursome played several songs, including “Beth,” and the fix was in. Although he’d long been reluctant about working with Frehley or Criss again, Simmons, ever the savvy businessman, heard the cheers for himself and sensed an opportunity. And months later, a tour that few thought would happen again was announced to the world — literally, since media reps from more than two dozen countries were aboard the Intrepid.
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There, Simmons assured their base that Kiss would give the fans what they wanted, and the tour more than lived up to that promise. The set list focused entirely on the band’s Seventies repertoire; nothing from the post-Criss/Frehley years was played. In another return to their days of peak mystique, the band ordered road-crew members to leave the venue during soundchecks so that workers wouldn’t see them without their makeup.
But would a Kiss reunion tour work during the waning days of grunge and the early days of boy-band pop? As Simmons probably calculated for himself, it would. The indie and alt kids then dominating rock had grown up with Kiss , and opening acts on the Alive/Worldwide Tour included Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, and the Verve Pipe. Shows immediately sold out, and additional dates were added. According to the concert-industry publication Pollstar , Alive/Worldwide went on to become the top-grossing tour of 1996, pulling in $43.6 million over the course of its 92 shows that year before continuing into 1997 (and earning a total of about $150 million). In second place for 1996? The then-massively popular Garth Brooks, with $34.5 million.
While lauding its financial success, Simmons would look back on the tour with mixed emotions, often frustrated with Frehley and Criss: “Now that the band had reunited and I was spending more time with Peter and Ace,” he wrote in Kiss and Make-Up , “I was starting to see the effect 20 years of drug and alcohol use had had” on them. (Talking about the reunion era to RS in 2014 , Criss countered, “I wanted to prove to the fans that I was cool, I was better, I wasn’t on drugs anymore, I was a new man.”)
But for those Kiss cultists, who weren’t aware of any of the backstage drama, the tour could be an emotional experience (or, if the band were marketing it in their usual over-the-top manner, a “Katharsis”). “In 1996, when they put the makeup back on for the reunion, I went 10 times and I cried every night,” Anthrax’s Scott Ian told writer Doug Brod in his recently published They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith and Starz Remade Rock and Roll . The concerts announced 25 years ago were pure show business, but that was the point: They were a ticket back to the pre-grunge days of flashier, larger-than-life rock spectacle, when demons, not despair, ruled the world.
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25 Years Ago: Kiss Preview Their Blockbuster Reunion Tour
Kiss shook off some rust two weeks before the first date of their 1996 reunion tour, overcoming a brief onstage fire during an hour-long preview show in Irvine, Calif.
The full-length June 28 concert at Detroit's Tiger Stadium marked the official kick off of their full-makeup original-lineup reunion tour. Paul Stanley , Gene Simmons , Peter Criss and Ace Frehley dedicated entire chapters of their autobiographies to the intense preparation, pre-show jitters and onstage jubilation they experienced before and during that performance.
But only Criss makes any reference to their June 15 appearance at the KROQ Weenie roast, briefly mentioning "a warm-up gig in California" in 2012's Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of Kiss .
You can watch the entire concert below. This set was released in 2007 as a bonus disc on first-run printings of the Kissology Vol. 3 home-video collection.
"We were finishing up rehearsals," Stanley says at the start of the show, "and we thought maybe we come down, give you a little taste of what we've got on tour this time."
Clearly, there were a few bugs still to be worked out: Sirens that were supposed to go off during "Firehouse" instead wailed throughout the opening "Deuce." Frehley's guitar seemed to cut out for most of "Love Gun." Near the end of the performance, unexpected flames briefly shot above the stage.
"We've got a fire up there. Something tells me that wasn't supposed to happen," a bemused Stanley informed the crowd. "Maybe we'll burn this place down. ... As you can see, we're just testing a lot of stuff out tonight."
The Alive Worldwide tour was a huge success, though personality conflicts once again resulted in Frehley and Criss departing in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Kiss has continued to use their famous makeup and costumes ever since.
Watch Kiss' June 15, 1996 Weenie Roast Performance
Kiss June 15, 1996 KROQ Weenie Roast Set List 1. "Deuce" 2. "Love Gun" 3. "Cold Gin" 4. "Calling Dr. Love" 5. "Firehouse" 6. "Shock Me" 7. "100,000 Years" 8. "Detroit Rock City" 9. "Black Diamond" 10. "Rock and Roll All Nite"
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Set list: (First US leg):
1. Deuce 2. King Of The Night Time World 3. Do You Love Me 4. Calling Dr. Love 5. Cold Gin 6. I Stole Your Love 7. Shout It Out Loud 8. Watchin´ You 9. Firehouse 10. Shock Me (incl. guitar solo) 11. Strutter 12. Rock Bottom 13. God Of Thunder (incl. bass- and drum solos) 14. New York Groove 15. Love Gun 16. 100.000 Years 17. Black Diamond Encores: 18. Detroit Rock City 19. Beth 20. Rock And Roll All Nite
Other songs occasionally played: Nothin' to lose
Set list (Europe '96)
1. Deuce 2. King Of The Night Time World 3. Do You Love Me 4. Calling Dr. Love 5. Cold Gin 6. Watchin´ You 7. Firehouse 8. I Stole Your Love 9. Shock Me (incl. guitar solo) 10. Let Me Go, Rock ´n Roll 11. Shout It Out Loud 12. I Was Made For Lovin´ You 13. C’mon And Love Me 14. God Of Thunder (incl. bass- and drum solos) 15. New York Groove 16. Love Gun 17. 100.000 Years 18. Black Diamond
Encores: 19. Detroit Rock City 20. Beth 21. Rock And Roll Nite
Set list (Lost Cities Tour/Europe '97)
1. Deuce 2. King Of The Night Time World 3. Let Me Go, Rock ’n Roll 4. Do You Love Me 5. Firehouse 6. Watchin’ You 7. Shock Me (incl. guitar solo) 8. Calling Dr. Love 9. Shout It Out Loud 10. Love Gun 11. Cold Gin 12. I Was Made For Lovin’ You 13. God Of Thunder (incl. bass- and drum solos) 14. New York Groove 15. 100.000 Years 16. Black Diamond
Encores: 17. Detroit Rock City 18. Beth 19. Rock And Roll All Nite
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REUNION TOUR BY KISS TOPS '96 CONCERT DRAWS
Blast from the past is a big moneymaker.
NEW YORK, DEC. 25 -- It wasn't a particularly good year for people in the concert industry, unless they happened to breathe fire, spit blood and wear a lot of greasepaint.
The Kiss reunion tour was the top money-earner for 1996, taking in $43.6 million and surpassing a number of performers, including singers Garth Brooks, Neil Diamond and Rod Stewart, the concert trade publication Pollstar reported today.
Consumers spent an estimated $1.05 billion on concerts during 1996, Pollstar said. That's up slightly from $950 million in 1995 but not approaching the $1.4 billion record set in 1994.
The increased dollar volume largely was attributed to higher ticket prices. It masked a particularly weak showing for many veteran artists out on the road, Pollstar editor Gary Bongiovanni said.
Kiss was the spectacular exception. The band reunited its original members, donned their trademark elaborate costumes and used truckloads of special effects for 92 dates, leaving sellouts in their wake. "Probably everybody except {Kiss member} Gene Simmons was surprised by how strong that was," Bongiovanni said.
The summer's other high-profile rock reunion, that of the Sex Pistols, didn't even register in Pollstar's top 50 concert draws.
The concert circuit was flooded this summer with stars of the 1970s, among them Styx, Kansas, Steely Dan, Steve Miller, Chicago and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Unlike Kiss, many played to a lot of open seats.
"The '70s acts didn't work, except for the Eagles and Kiss," said Jim Koplik of Metropolitan Entertainment, one of the Northeast's top concert promoters. "The '70s, I think . . . are over. There were a lot of '70s acts out last year and I think most promoters will stay away next year."
Artists demanded increased guaranteed payments to perform this year, Bongiovanni said. That forced promoters to raise ticket prices, turning off all but the acts' most fanatic followers, Bongiovanni said. In General, it has been a ho-hum year for the music industry. Compact disc sales are flat and many in the business wonder whether a crop of new artists will emerge to lift them out of the doldrums.
On the plus side, a number of acts established themselves as solid, if not spectacular, concert draws this year: Alanis Morissette, Oasis, Bush, Smashing Pumpkins, Phish and Tori Amos in particular, Bongiovanni said.
Phish made a bigger and bigger splash in 1996: The rock quartet's "Clifford Ball," where 70,000 fans overran an abandoned Air Force base in upstate New York, was the summer's biggest event.
The H.O.R.D.E. festival, led by entertainers such as Blues Traveler and Natalie Merchant, supplanted Lollapallooza as the summer's biggest traveling festival. H.O.R.D.E. took in $18.1 million, compared with Lollapallooza's $15.9 million, Pollstar said. CAPTION: ROCKIN' IN '96 ESTIMATED CONCERT REVENUE Kiss $43.6 million Garth Brooks 34.5 million Neil Diamond 32.2 million Rod Stewart 29.1 million Bob Seger 26.3 million Jimmy Buffett 26.2 million Reba McEntire 26.1 million Alanis Morissette 23.2 million Hootie & the Blowfish 21.4 million Ozzy Osbourne 21.3 million Source: Pollstar, Associated Press CAPTION: Gene Simmons of Kiss performs at USAir Arena in October.
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