Non-makeup shows that I attended:Tommy2Tone84 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:21 pmrisingfarce wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:33 amSorry you missed that one.Shinerrox wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 5:31 am I had a ticket for a Soundgarden/PJ show in early 92 playing an old grocery store. I missed it for work.. I still kick myself for missing that one.
Also, I had a chance to see KISS on their Revenge Club tour also in 92. I'm not much of a KISStard but I really liked that era of KISS..
I saw the "Revenge" club tour in Boston. KISS in a club. Totally insane. One of the best things KISS ever did.
Set list and set length criticisms aside, I don’t think KISS had bad tours in the 80s. I would loved to have seen Unmasked, Creatures, LIU, Animalize and Asylum. Revenge club tour would have been wicked too. Unmasked, HITS and Revenge had the best set lists and running time.
Had Paul put more of an effort into the set lists by including change ups to the classic 70s material instead of relying on the same old, giving some nods to S4/A2, P&G’s 78 Solo albums, The Elder and Killers albums, Eric Carr singing Beth though I know he hated the idea he did a solid job on it, along with averaging between 5-7 new songs off current 80s albums they were promoting, that would have been hard for fans of any era to consistently stay home and not check out atleast once.
The fanbase would have been abuzz had they consistently pulled out songs in the 80s that they hardly or never played before.
It more than likely would have pushed catalog sales too.
"Lick It Up"
"Animalize"
"Asylum"
"Crazy Nights"
"Hot In The Shade" (3 shows)
"Revenge" (club tour and arena tour)
KISS Konvention
I also saw Paul Stanley's 1989 solo tour.
It was great that they started to play for 2 hours starting with the "Hot In The Shade" tour. Good mix of makeup and non-makeup songs. On the "HITS" tour there were more non-makeup songs played, a few which hadn't been played in years. Prior to "HITS", those 90 minute sets with drum, guitars, and bass solos were really lacking.
I missed out on seeing the "Creatures Of The Night" tour, because my local show got cancelled due to low ticket sales.
"Lick It Up" - I heard 5 new songs. They played "Exciter" on parts of the tour, but that was dropped at my show and we got "Gimme More". I'd rather have heard "Exciter". (6 total new songs played during the tour.)
"Animalize" - I heard 2 new songs. They dropped 3 new songs before my show and they played "Thrills In The Night" after my show. (6 total new songs played during the tour.)
"Asylum" - I heard 2 new songs. They dropped 2 new songs before my show. (4 total new songs played during the tour.)
"Crazy Nights" - I heard 4 new songs. They dropped 2 new songs before my show. (6 total new songs played during the tour.)
"Hot In The Shade" - I heard 3 new songs. They dropped 2 new songs before my show. (5 total new songs played during the tour.)
"Revenge" - At the club show I heard 3 new songs. At the arena show I heard those 3 new songs plus 2 additional new ones. (3 total new songs played during the club tour and 5 total new songs played during the arena tour.)
KISS Konvention - At this show they played 16 songs (full or partial) that I hadn't heard in concert before. 6 songs from this setlist had debuted during the Konvention tour. (There were other songs either played in full or in part that debuted during the Konvention tour at other shows.)
Paul's 1989 solo tour - 2 new songs, 1 cover, 3 from his solo lp, and several that I hadn't heard KISS play yet. (9 songs total that I hadn't heard yet.)
It was stupid of them to create MTV videos of some songs and they never played them live.