Kiss My Ass Tour

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Kiss My Ass Tour
Tour by Kiss
Start dateApril 2, 1994
End dateFebruary 13, 1995
Legs5
No. of shows23
Kiss concert chronology

The Kiss My Ass Tour was a concert tour by American rock band Kiss. It was the last tour to feature drummer Eric Singer as a member until 2004, and the last tour with guitarist Bruce Kulick.

Contents

Background

Kiss opened the tour with a performance at the WWBZ 103.5 Blazefest in Villa Park. [1] In late August and early September 1994, Kiss toured South America as headliners on the touring Monsters of Rock festival alongside Slayer and Black Sabbath. [2] [3]

Following the Monsters of Rock tour, the band toured Japan in January 1995 on their own, and in February 1995 they toured Australia for the first time since 1980. During the Japan leg, the band had established the "Kiss Aid Save The City Fund", raising more than $10,000 for the survivors of the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan. [4] The tour featured props like the Sphinx which returned from the Hot in the Shade Tour, fireworks, lasers, strippers and the giant logo with the band's name. [2] During this tour, Kiss would also go on to host a tour of "Kiss conventions" [5] at various hotels and convention centers to do what other fan-created Kiss conventions had done before. [6] [7] Following the tour, there was an exclusive performance in which the band performed an acoustic set on MTV for their live album Kiss Unplugged , joined by Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. [8]

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

Doing MTV Unplugged was not really to prove anything to anybody or win converts. It really was us, maybe for ourselves, showing how good these songs are. We did them during the Kiss conventions. So many of those songs were written on acoustic guitars; they were written in a much more simple fashion than they're played. The philosophy has always been, "if it doesn't sound good on one guitar it's a shitty song." [9]

Setlist

This is an example setlist performed at a show, but may not represent the majority of the shows on this tour. [10]

  1. "Creatures of the Night"
  2. "Deuce"
  3. "Parasite"
  4. "Unholy"
  5. "I Stole Your Love"
  6. "Cold Gin"
  7. "Got To Choose"
  8. "Firehouse"
  9. "Calling Dr. Love"
  10. "Makin' Love"
  11. "I Was Made for Lovin' You"
  12. "I Want You"
  13. "Domino"
  14. "Love Gun"
  15. "Lick It Up"
  16. "God of Thunder"
  17. "I Love It Loud"
  18. "Detroit Rock City"
  19. "Black Diamond"
  20. "Heaven's on Fire"
  21. "Rock and Roll All Nite"

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueOpening Act(s)
North America [1] [10]
April 2, 1994 Villa Park United States Odeum Expo Center—
April 19, 1994 San Antonio Freeman Coliseum Lita Ford
Snakedance
July 30, 1994 Nashville Riverfront ParkFleetwood Mac
Pat Travers
Mother Station
Gypsy Carnes
Brother Cane
Latin America [10]
August 27, 1994 São Paulo Brazil Estádio do Pacaembu —
September 1, 1994 Santiago Chile Estación Mapocho
September 3, 1994 Buenos Aires Argentina River Plate Stadium
September 5, 1994 Obras Sanitarias
September 8, 1994 Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes Victimas del Dr. Cerebro
September 14, 1994Buenos AiresArgentinaObras SanitariasLogos
September 15, 1994
September 16, 1994
North America [10]
October 21, 1994 Phoenix United States Arizona State Fair —
Asia [10]
January 24, 1995 Osaka Japan Osaka Castle Hall —
January 26, 1995 Fukuoka Kokusai Center
January 28, 1995 Nagoya Nagoya Rainbow Hall
January 30, 1995 Tokyo Budokan
January 31, 1995
Australia [10]
February 4, 1995 Perth Australia Perth Entertainment Centre The Poor
February 6, 1995 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
February 8, 1995 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
February 9, 1995
February 11, 1995 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
February 13, 1995 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre

Personnel

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  9. ↑ (2019). End of the Road World Tour Program, pg. 28.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gooch, Curt; Suhs, Jeff (2002). Kiss Alive Forever: The Complete Touring History. New York: Billboard Books. ISBN   0-8230-8322-5.

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