Here’s two full discs of the rock’n’roll spectacle known simply as KISS. And what a show it is with a huge stage backed by multiple giant video screens, fireworks exploding everywhere and more flashing lights than the Vegas Strip.
All of which would be for naught if the four cats in the spotlight – this incarnation consisting of guitarist and singer Paul Stanley, drummer Eric Singer, guitarist Tommy Thayer and bass playing tongue-waggler Gene Simmons – weren’t rocking their collective asses off. The band has such a vast catalog that its members can’t play it all even for a lengthy show like this one, but there are plenty of favorites like “Deuce,” “Love Gun,” “Christine Sixteen” and “Shout it Out Loud.”
Simmons busts out the fake blood for “Unholy;” the goo gushing from his mouth while wires send him soaring to a catwalk high above the stage where he sings part of the song. Stanley interrupts “100,000 Years” for an extended “Let’s make some noise!” interaction with the audience who devour the attention like starved wolves.
Use the “power vision” option and you can direct the film yourself, switching between four cameras. These guys seem to have boundless energy, rocking hard right through the appropriate closer, “Rock & Roll All Nite.”
Grade: A
DVD: Music Reviews [KISS: Rock the Nation Live]
KISS: Rock the Nation Live
By Kevin Wierzbicki
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Article posted on 3/21/2006
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