The rock group kiss announced that on December 2, at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York, the city where they were born and where they will end their live performances after fifty years of history. The group announced it via its official network.
More than three years on the road with the tour End of the street the band has released details of the latest leg of the tour which will kick off at the end of October and includes 19 concerts in different cities of Canada and the United States close the tour with two consecutive concerts on two nights that promise to be memorable at the Madison.
“December 1 and 2 at Madison Square Garden will be the band’s last two concerts. We are finishing where we started. I think there are 17 concerts first in the US and Canada. Some people laughed that the tour End Of the road it’s been going on for years. Yes, but remember we lost two years to Covid. This is the end”, ratified the guitarist and singer Paul Stanley, in charge of officially breaking the news.
For his part, in statements to the press, bassist Gene Simmons recalled: “Kiss was born on 23rd Street; it only took us fifty years going to the last two concerts ten blocks from where we were born, on 33rd Street, where Madison Square Garden is.
There’s a whole history of great Kiss concerts at Madison; memorable shows such as those of the mid-seventies from which songs were taken for two of the band’s emblematic lives, Alive I and Alive II.
“I’m sure I’m going to cry like a nine-year-old being stepped on by a foot,” said Simmons, a musician who takes on the role of a demon when it comes to his usual characterizations.
The long Kiss tour stopped in Argentina on April 23, 2022, at the Campo Argentino de Polo, but there will be a second chance to see the band live for the Argentinian audience before their last goodbye, as they will perform on April 28, at Parque Rock, in the 2023 edition of the Monster of Rock festival, which will also be attended by Deep Purple and Scorpions, among others.
Kiss emerged on the music scene in January 1973 and Stanley and Simmons remained from their original lineup.; at that time the quartet had guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss. For about thirty years, the group consists of Tommy Thayer on guitar, Eric Singer on drums who replaced Frehley and Criss.
There was some suspense regarding the announcement of the final show because there was speculation that the two musicians who were part of the original project could be present instead, the constant media attacks over the years between the two sides, Stanley and Simmons and Frehley and Criss, suggest that the chances of this historic reunion are particularly low.
In their 50-year career, Kiss has released 20 studio albums and 8 live. There are among the first Love gun (1977), Unmasked (1980), Psychocircus (1998) and sonic boom (2009).
Source: Clarin
