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Kiss(Continued From Page 5)visual event,” says Simmons. “You are there to see something happen, whether it’s as simple as Elvis Presley gyrating his hips, or seeing Kiss do the remarkable and amazing things that Kiss does,” he smiles. “The group is made up of four musicians, but the music must come first. But we are also actors in the sense that we get to do things on stage that we couldn’t do in the street; our show has another dimension that makes us more than a musical unit.“And the point is that putting on makeup like this is a whole lot of fun to do—and it’s fun to see a bunch of weird-looking people on stage doing weird things. That’s the key word: wherever we go, whatever we do, it is a tremendous amount of fun for us,” he says, and you realize that the members of Kiss are just four rock ’n rollers from New York having a good time at it and hoping to show everyone else a good time too.“We’re not through exploring the visual part yet,” says Criss. “We’re already thinking of laser beams, of appearing out of nowhere and disappearing. But the important thing is that it works. We think you should have your money’s worth when you come to hear music: good music a show for your eyes too. And that’s what we’re givin’ out.”“We were playing with Rory Gallagher once,” Simmons says, “and the people were there for a night of Da Biooze— which is fine. But the gay introducing us just got out, £And now, from New York . . and they started booing. First time that had ever happened to us. Well, at the end of the night, we got two encores. That’s all we care about, man. If you’re there to see somebody else and we’re playing on that bill, you’d better believe you’re not going to forget Kiss.”
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Jacksonville Chanticleer
Jacksonville, Alabama, US
Mon, Sep 16, 1974
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