Alive! Tour

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Alive! Tour
Promotional tour by Kiss
Associated album Alive!
Start dateSeptember 10, 1975 (1975-09-10)
End dateMarch 28, 1976 (1976-03-28)
No. of shows91
Kiss concert chronology

The Alive! Tour was a concert tour by American rock band Kiss, in support of their 1975 live album Alive! . The tour began on September 10, 1975 and concluded on June 6, 1976. [1]

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History

At the Cobo Hall show, Paul Stanley began using Pete Townshend's famous ritual of smashing his guitar, employing it after "Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll", until it was eventually done after "Rock and Roll All Nite" in later years.

In the tour program for the band's final tour, Stanley reflected on the tour:

I saw a pattern emerging with us on the road. Every night, I'd ask somebody before the show, "How are we doing?", which meant, "What's the attendance?" One night they said, "It's sold out" and then the next night I'd hear the same thing. All of a sudden it was becoming the norm. For me the first realization that things were on an upswing was when we played the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio. Before the show I went on stage, looked out through the curtain and saw this big crowd and said to myself, "My God, this is really happening!" [2]

Setlists

Information

Tour dates

Date [3] CityCountryVenueSupport Act(s)
North America
September 10, 1975 Chattanooga United States Chattanooga Memorial Auditorium Slade
September 11, 1975 Knoxville Knoxville Civic Coliseum Slade
Gary Wright
September 12, 1975 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
September 13, 1975 Norfolk Norfolk Scope
September 14, 1975 Wilkes-Barre King's College Gym Diamond Reo
Slade
October 2, 1975 Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial The James Montgomery Band
October 3, 1975 Upper Darby Township Tower Theater Fallen Angel
October 4, 1975 Passaic Capitol Theatre Savoy Brown
October 5, 1975 Henrietta The Dome Center Black Sheep
October 6, 1975 Allentown Allentown Memorial Hall REO Speedwagon
October 9, 1975 Cadillac Cadillac High School Double Yellow Line
October 11, 1975 Columbus Veterans Memorial AuditoriumBlack Sheep
October 19, 1975 Orlando Orlando Sports Stadium Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Atlanta Rhythm Section
October 20, 1975 St. Petersburg Bayfront Center
October 22, 1975 Birmingham Boutwell Memorial Auditorium
October 26, 1975 Montgomery Garrett Coliseum Harvest
October 30, 1975 Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Montrose
November 1, 1975 St. Louis Kiel Auditorium Atlanta Rhythm Section
November 2, 1975 La Crosse Mary E. Sawyer Auditorium Brownsville Station
November 6, 1975 San Antonio San Antonio Municipal Auditorium Mott
November 7, 1975 Beaumont McDonald Gym
November 8, 1975 Arlington Texas Hall
November 9, 1975 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
November 12, 1975 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena Styx
November 15, 1975 Rockford Illinois National Guard Armory Rush
November 16, 1975 Flint IMA Auditorium Mott
November 17, 1975Rush
November 18, 1975 Port Huron McMorran Arena
November 21, 1975 Terre Haute Hulman Center
November 22, 1975 Chicago International Amphitheatre Mott
The Leslie West Band
Little Feat
November 23, 1975 Evansville Roberts Municipal Stadium Rush
Mott
November 26, 1975 Huntington Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse
November 27, 1975 Fayetteville Cumberland County Memorial ArenaStyx
Mott
November 28, 1975 Ashville Asheville Civic Center
November 29, 1975 Charlotte Charlotte Park Center
November 30, 1975 Landover Capital Centre
December 2, 1975 Columbus Columbus Municipal Auditorium Styx
December 3, 1975 Dothan Houston County Farm Center
December 5, 1975 Atlanta The Omni Coliseum Styx
The Leslie West Band
December 6, 1975 Jacksonville Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum Styx
Dixie Dregs
December 12, 1975SyracuseOnondaga County War Memorial Black Sabbath
(headliner)
December 14, 1975 Boston Orpheum Theatre Black Sheep
December 18, 1975 Waterbury Palace Theater
December 19, 1975 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena Mott
December 20, 1975 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena Rush
Mott
December 21, 1975 Richmond The Mosque
December 27, 1975 Louisville Louisville Gardens Styx
Black Sheep
Santa Claus
December 28, 1975 South Bend Morris Civic Auditorium Styx
December 29, 1975 Providence Providence Civic Center The Leslie West Band
December 31, 1975 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Blue Öyster Cult
The Leslie West Band
January 23, 1976 Erie Erie County Field House Phillippe
January 25, 1976 Detroit Cobo Arena Back Street Crawler
January 26, 1976 Rory Gallagher
January 27, 1976
January 30, 1976 Mount Pleasant Rose Arena Hot Lucy
January 31, 1976 Trotwood Hara Arena The Leslie West Band
February 1, 1976 Richfield Richfield Coliseum Hydra
February 4, 1976 Milwaukee Milwaukee Auditorium Point Blank
February 5, 1976 Madison Dane County Expo Coliseum
February 6, 1976 Saint Paul St. Paul Civic Center Theatre
February 9, 1976 Salt Lake City Terrace Ballroom
February 11, 1976 Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum
February 12, 1976 Spokane Spokane Coliseum
February 13, 1976 Seattle Paramount Theatre
February 14, 1976
February 16, 1976 Missoula Adams Fieldhouse
February 23, 1976 Inglewood The Forum Montrose
February 24, 1976
February 26, 1976San BernardinoSwing AuditoriumMontrose
Point Blank
February 27, 1976 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena Montrose
February 29, 1976 Honolulu Honolulu International Center Booga Booga
March 4, 1976 Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Hall Mountain Smoke
March 6, 1976 Lincoln Pershing Auditorium Boz Scaggs
March 8, 1976 Tulsa Tulsa Convention Center Mountain Smoke
March 11, 1976 Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center Albatross
March 12, 1976 New Orleans The Warehouse Van Wilkes
March 13, 1976 Mobile Mobile Expo Hall Dr. Feelgood
March 14, 1976 Memphis Ellis Auditorium Target
March 20, 1976 Lakeland Lakeland Civic Center .38 Special
March 21, 1976 Miami Miami Jai-Alai Fronton Arena
March 24, 1976 Philadelphia Philadelphia Civic Center The Rockets
March 25, 1976 Johnstown Cambria County War Memorial Arena Thee Image
March 26, 1976 Harrisburg State Farm Show Arena Artful Dodger
March 27, 1976 Utica Utica Memorial Auditorium
March 28, 1976 Springfield Springfield Civic Center

Box office score data

List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date
(1976)		CityVenueAttendanceGrossRef(s)
March 4 Oklahoma City, United States Civic Center Music Hall 3,200$18,100 [4]
March 11 Huntsville, United States Von Braun Civic Center 9,559$52,944 [5]
March 14 Memphis, United States Ellis Auditorium 4,361$26,166 [5]

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Wilkening, Matthew. "45 Years Ago: How Kiss Finally Hit It Big on the 'Alive!' Tour". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved April 1, 2021.
  2. ↑ (2019). End of the Road World Tour Program, pg. 8.
  3. ↑ Gooch, Curt; Suhs, Jeff (2002). Kiss Alive Forever: The Complete Touring History. New York: Billboard Books. ISBN   0-8230-8322-5.
  4. ↑ "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 88, no. 12. March 20, 1976. p. 35. ISSN   0006-2510.
  5. 1 2 "Top Box Office" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 88, no. 13. March 27, 1976. p. 46. ISSN   0006-2510.

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