KISS Lunchbox Set!

We added this new KISS Lunchbox Set to our collection!
This set includes a Lunchbox with images of the original line-up, a Travel Mug with KISS logo all over & a 4 Coaster Set with icons of the current line-up!

It's a cool set...

Gene Simmons Heart Plaque In Berlin!

During our recent trip to see KISS live in Berlin, we visit also the Bridge Of Hearts on the Isle of Youth (Treptower Park)

A copple of days earlier Gene Simmons received a blue heart for all the childrenprojects he's involved in worldwide!
This star is placed in the pad to the Bridge Of Hearts and we had to see it...

Paul & Gene KISS Hello Kitty USB Sticks!

We visit the metal market when KISS headlined Graspop in june and bought these Paul & Gene KISS Hello Kitty USB Sticks!
Each are 8 GB and my lovely wife find these so cute...

KISS Metal Hammer Magazine!

During our roadtrip to see 4 KISS shows in Germany, we bought a copy of the special 40th Anniversary KISS Metal Hammer Magazine.
We chooced for the Gene one...

KISS & Ace Frehley European Tour Overview!

The KISS & Ace Frehley European Tour has ended!
And what a blast we had with all those shows! After 3600 KM driving to 3 different countries (Holland, Belgium & Germany) we saw 6 KISS shows & 3 Ace gigs!
We started with the Rock im Revier festival in Gelsenkirchen, followed by Hamburg, Berlin & Leipzig, all in Germany. Than Ace Frehley took over and we saw him in live in Amsterdam & Zoetermeer, both in Holland and in Bochum, Germany. Our roadtrip ended with 2 more KISS shows in Amsterdam (NL) and @ Graspop, Belgium!
We still in are KISS & Ace mode, we still float about it all. Especially when we did our KISS Meet & Greet in Berlin as a special 5th wedding anniversary gift to ourselfs!
There were many highlights for us during all the gigs, first we were front row at all the 3 Ace shows and almost at all the KISS shows we went to! Second, that Paul Stanley recognized us during the M&G and later at the show, he pointed at us, such a great moment that we'll never forget! Third, all the KISS guitarpicks we caught and what about Gene Simmons Blood Cup in Gelsenkirchen! Also we caught several Ace Frehley guitarpicks, drumstick and he even gave us his towel in Zoetermeer! Unbelieveble!
Also it was great to see old friends and make some new friends at all the shows, people came up to us and gave their compliments about our KISS Blog!
And let's not forget what a pleasure it was to watch all those shows, seeing KISS live is a experience, a adventure! Nothing can compare with the mighty KISS! It's maybe weird, but everytime we'll see them live, we become a little bit more fan! Also Ace Frehley was awesome, he played really, really good, had a great band and we loved to see him perform!
As I said before, it's not easy to come to earth, with all the usually daily common things you used to, like work and everything else when you still are in a KISS & Ace mode - and we still floating.
We hope they'll tour Europe once again in the future, because this tour was quite succesfull for them and before they do, we're looking forward to the KISS Kruise V in october...

KISS Live @ Graspop!

On Friday june 19th we closed the KISS 40th Anniversary World Tour off for us with show #6, KISS live @ Graspop! KISS headlined this festival for the third time!
When we arrived @ the festival we checked out the metal stands who sold all kind of items, records, figures, shirts and more. We took our time, because most of the bands playing there weren't our thing.
KISS would hit the stage @ 10:30 PM, so we had the time. But still we wanted to have a good spot and we couldn't resist to go for it, so around 7 PM we went to the stage to try to get a good spot. And with some patient and luck we got in front at Gene's side!

And at 10:35 it was showtime for our band: KISS, playing for 65.000 people!
And when we leave around 65.000 people behind us we knew we did it again. After all those shows during their Euro tour KISS still kicked ass tonight! The setlist was the same as the one in Amsterdam. A funny thing was that Gene, when he was up above the stage during God Of Thunder, he said "Godverdomme, Ohhhhhh & Goed"! So funny and he got all the laughs from the fans below him! This time Paul flew quite a long way to the stage in the field during Love Gun.

As I said before this was our last show of their Euro tour (we saw them in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig & Gelsenkirchen) and we wanted to see it all for 1 last time, so we did and had a awesome time again. We even managed to catch 4 Guitarpicks that night!
KISS ended the show, of course, with Rock And Roll All Night together with a hugh confetti storm and pyro's and bombs!

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KISS Live In Amsterdam!

It has been a long wait, KISS played for the last time in Holland on june 18th 2010 in Arnhem! And today, exactly 5 years later their back in Holland in the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam!
We arrived early at the venue, because we wanted a good spot at the show and we knew there were around 30 fans who had early entry tickets. Lucky enough around 10 fans waited there when we arrived. We talked with fans and before we knew it the doors went open. We had to run like hell to try to got a good spot and we did, front row between Paul & Tommy!

At 9:30 PM it was time with this announcement: "You Wanted The Best, You Got The Best, The Hottest Band In The World...KISS"!!!
With a lot of smoke, pyro and bombs KISS opened their show with Detroit Rock City followed Deuce, Psycho Circus & Creatures Of The Night, 4 show openers at a row and they just got started!
This was show #5 for us (we saw them in Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Berlin & Leipzig) and we still got the goose bumbs! Everytime we see them it is a party all over again and tonight it's no different! Especially when you're front row, it's like you're sucked into the show and nothing beats a KISS show!
Gene spit fire and did his bloody bass solo, flew up to the little platform above the stage to play God Of Thunder. Tommy shooted off rockets, Eric pounded the drums like a Cat and Paul flew over the crowd to the little stage in the middle to perform Love Gun, we almost could touch him went he flew over us!
When Paul announced Hell Or Hallelujah he announced it as a Kliss-classic, he said: "what the hell I'm saying, a Kliss-classic?", lol.

They dropped Parasite and played Cold Gin instead. This was the setlist: Detroit Rock City, Deuce, Psycho Circus, Creatures Of The Night, I Love It Loud, War Machine (Gene spits fire) Do You Love Me, Hell Or Hallelujah with Guitar and Drum Solo, Calling Dr. Love, Lick It Up, Bass Solo (Gene spits blood and flies) God Of Thunder, Cold Gin, Love Gun (Paul flies out to the crowd) Black Diamond. Encore: Shout It Out Loud, I Was Made For Lovin' You & Rock And Roll All Nite.

It was great to see KISS in our home country again! The band was awesome tonight and there's so much to see at a KISS show, it's a adventure! All we can say we had a blast again!
Here's a selection of the many photo's we took from tonights show, enjoy...

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Ace Frehley Live In Bochum!

After seeing Ace Frehley live in Amsterdam & Zoetermeer last week, it was now time for show #3 in Bochum, Germany today (june 15th)
Only a few fans were waiting when we arrived at the venue. So we had a good chance to get a good spot at the show. As soon as the doors went open we took a good sprint and...yes we did it again...front row!

Ace took the stage at 9:45 PM and from start to finish we had a awesome time! Ace enjoyed playing and singing his songs. This time he played Strutter & 2 Young 2 Die, who weren't performed earlier in Amsterdam or Zoetermeer.
We we're lucky to get another Ace guitarpick and when he did his smoking guitarsolo, he did it right in front of us and we can tell you, there was a lot of smoke, lol. I could even touch his guitar when he was playing, so cool!
This was the setlist tonight: Rocket Ride, Gimme a Feelin', Toys, Parasite, Love Gun, Breakout, Space Invader, 2000 Man, Strutter, Snowblind, Rock Soldiers, Bass Solo, Strange Ways, New York Groove, 2 Young 2 Die, Shock Me with Ace Frehley Guitar Solo, Cold Gin, Rip It Out. Encores: Detroit Rock City & Deuce.

We had a great time again at this third show and all we can say is that Ace played really good and it was fun to watch him perform, also he had a great band with him, so if you didn't see a show you really missed something!
Here's a selection of the photo's we took of tonight, so enjoy...

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Ace Frehley Live In Zoetermeer & Amsterdam!

After seeing our first Ace Frehley show in Amsterdam 2 days ago, it was time to see show #2 in Zoetermeer today! After a hot car drive we arrived @ the Boerderij and we were the first, lol. We met Richie Scarlet again and talked a bit with him about the Hamburg gig last night. The show tonight was sold out, so it would be packed in there!

As soon the doors went open we got in and got the best spot in the house, right in front of Ace!
At 9:45 PM the Spaceman walked on the stage and from the first song Rocket Ride till the last Rip It Out, we had a blast! We could see everything Ace did, we could feel his sweat on us!
As in Amsterdam, Ace was in a good spirit, he shooked hands and you could see that he loved to play here!
Ace gave a guitarpick to us and to our suprise also his towel, we're so happy with it and will get a great spot in our KISS collection!
Here's a video of Shock Me with his smoking guitarsolo...

Setlist was almost the same as 2 days ago (see slideshow) and he played for about 90 minutes.
As we said before, we had a blast tonight and we think the shows we saw so far were better than the shows in 2009, Ace is really, really good these shows!
We're looking forward to show #3 in Bochum in a copple of days.
Here's a selection of photo's from tonight, enjoy...

2 days earlier, after seeing 4 KISS shows last week in Germany, we saw our first (out of 3) Ace Frehley show in Amsterdam!
When we arrived @ the Melkweg there were only a few fans waiting, so we knew we'll get a good spot tonight. The bus of the band was parked right in front of the venue, not sure if Ace was on board, but we found out that he was on the way from the airport. But guitarist Richie Scarlet came out of the bus and he was very nice to take a copple of photo's with us!

Around 7:15 PM the doors went open and as soon we were in, we went straight to the stage and yes, front row!
The "oude zaal" is not so big and you could also watch the show from a standing balcony. Around 9:25 PM it was time for Ace and all we can say is that he was in a good mood, making jokes and smile a lot. They started with Rocket Ride followed by Gimme A Feelin'.
A lot of Ace classics were played, as Break Out, Rip It Out & Space Invader...

Also some KISS tunes were played, like Love Gun, Deuce & 2000 Man, (see the photo slideshow for setlist) the band played great but the sound was loud!
There was a funny moment in the show when Ace was hiding behind a curtain, so funny! We had a great spot and had a awesome time at the show and loved every minute of it. Ace & Richie gave us a guitarpick in our hands, so cool!
Around 11 PM it all was over and we're looking forward to see Ace in Zoetermeer again.
Here's a selection of photo's from the show, enjoy...

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Our KISS Meet & Greet Experience in Berlin & Report on Hamburg & Leipzig!

After a 5 hours drive by car we arrived at our hotel in Hamburg on june 2th. After we've checked in we went to the O2 Arena. Lucky enough there were not many fans in line waiting. Talked to fans as we were waiting untill the doors went open and as soon they did we took a sprint to the stage and...yes we did it again, front row on Gene's side!

Around 9:15 PM it was time for our band KISS and as 2 days before @ Rock Im Revier we enjoyed every minute of it.
This time the whole stage was set up and indeed it was the same as we saw in Las Vegas last year, a great stage with big screens on, behind and on the top, great light show and of course many bombs and pyro's, we could feel the heat of them were we stood!
The band played tight and sounded great! They played the same set as Rock Im Revier but it didn't matter to us, we cann't get enough, lol. Still got chills when Gene gives us his demon look! The arena was almost sold out and the vibe was good. KISS played for 100 minutes and before we knew it, show #2 was over. After the show we got a drink with some fellow Dutch fans and had a great time.

Next up was Berlin, we arrived at our hotel around 2 PM, checked in and relaxed a bit, enough time for a relax diner and sightseeing. We had time because it was a special day for us! We celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary with a Meet & Greet with KISS! What can we say about it? It's always awesome to meet the band and we had blast doing it and are so happy with our photo's!!!

When we got back in the venue we decided to take a spot @ the small stage, were Paul will come over during Love Gun. A moment later we saw Shannon walking by and she had a place on the special stage right in front of us. We waved to her and she said hello to us. Before we knew it, it was time for KISS to hit the stage.
With a spot from the middle of the field, we had a different view on the stage we don't see often, lol. Now we could see how the stage and light show looks from here and we must say, it looked awesome and we enjoyed the show even from this spot! Gene didn't fly during God Of Thunder because of technical problems, but Paul flew to us at the small stage during Love Gun and we had a great view at him!
Again the show was great and we had a good time! Here's a video of Parasite...

Next up, show #4, Leipzig. When we arrived at the arena we saw that there were 2 entries, a west and east entry. Which would we choose? We went for the east entry and it was the right choice because fewer people were waiting there. This arena was smaller that the O2's and we hoped for a good spot. Lucky enough we did, front row @ Tommy's side! We saw Doc walking by a few times and Danny aswell who welcomed us to the show.

Before we knew it, much earlier as we expected, @ 8:45 PM it was party time again! And from the start to end there was a awesome vibe, this was the best show we saw so far! Everyone was jumping, singing along with each song, incredible to be there!
We had a blast and loved every minute of it, especially when Paul came over and was right in front of us! He recognized us and pointed to us, this was such a special moment that we'll never forget!
This was the setlist for all 3 shows:
Detroit Rock City, Deuce, Psycho Circus, Creatures of the Night, I Love It Loud, War Machine (Gene spits fire) Do You Love Me, Hell or Hallelujah, Calling Dr. Love, Lick It Up, (Bass Solo, Gene spits blood and flies) God of Thunder, Parasite, Love Gun, Black Diamond. Encore: Shout It Out Loud, I Was Made for Lovin' You & Rock and Roll All Nite.
We had a incredible time at the shows and are in such a KISS mode that we would go to more shows if we could. Can we wait 2 more weeks to see them in Amsterdam again? We have too!
Next up: Ace Frehley in Amsterdam!
Here's a selection of photo's from the 3 shows, enjoy...

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KISS Live @ Rock Im Revier!

We arrived @ the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen around 2 PM for the Rock Im Revier festival, with KISS as headliner.
And...we did it again, front row at Gene's side!
What we could see of the stage is that there wasn't no spider, but a part of the Las Vegas stage. We had a few hours to kill, but around 9:15 PM it was time for the Hottest Band In The World!
From the start of the show it was party time again for us! They started with Detroit Rock City and all the classics were played. Gene aswell Paul said "hello Dusseldorf", but we're in Gelsenkirchen, lol.
During Hell Or Hellalujah there was kind of a new thing, a kind of drumsolo followed by the solo from Parasite!
Gene spit fire during Warmachine and did his bloody bass solo. I managed to get Gene's Blood Cup and was so happy to finally got this! This will be a eye catcher in our collection!
Gene did flew during God Of Thunder but Paul didn't fly during Love Gun. Tommy did his guitarsolo with firework, but shortened. But it didn't matter to us because we had a great time and we'll see their whole show during the upcoming shows we'll attend.
KISS played over 90 minutes, but's that's normal for a festival. But our hunger is not stilled and we're looking forward to the other 5 shows the upcoming weeks!
This was the setlist: Detroit Rock City, Deuce, Psycho Circus, Creatures of the Night, I Love It Loud, War Machine (Gene spits fire) Do You Love Me, Hell or Hallelujah, Calling Dr. Love, Lick It Up, (Bass Solo, Gene spits blood and flies) God of Thunder, Parasite, Love Gun, Black Diamond. Encore: Shout It Out Loud, I Was Made for Lovin' You & Rock and Roll All Nite

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KISS 40th Anniversary World Tour 2015 - Update!

KISS will return to Europe for their 40th Anniversary World Tour in 2015!

Just only 1 week to go untill we see KISS live again @ Rock Im Rivier in Gelsenkirchen, Germany!
We're getting more and more excited now!
We'll see 6 KISS shows during their upcoming European 40th Anniversary Tour!
We've our tickets in for the shows in Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Graspop!
So, we'll be KISSED again in:

Gelsenkirchen, Veltins Arena, Rock Im Revier - Germany may 31th 2015!
Hamburg, 02 World - Germany june 2th 2015!
Berlin, 02 World - Germany june 3th 2015!
Leipzig, Arena - Germany june 4th 2015!

Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome - The Netherlands june 18th 2015!

Dessel, Graspop - Belgium june 19th 2015!

"Our past shows, reputation and legend says it all and you can expect nothing less from us. Bombast, spectacle and great Rock & Roll? Guilty as charged. I'm ready."- Paul Stanley.

“Prepare yourself for the greatest show on earth as KISS are coming to OWN Europe. People have missed us? Of course they have. We are coming to set that straight. This KISS show will blow your mind!"- Gene Simmons.

"Are you ready for KISS? We're ready to rock.”– Eric Singer.

"We're really up for this in a big way. Just coming off tours of Japan and Latin America, the band is on fire and ready to bring it."- Tommy Thayer.

KISS Calendar 2016!

Today we got the new KISS Calendar 2016 in!

7 Years Ago Today!

It's been exactly 7 years ago today when we did our first Meet & Greet with KISS!
We meet the band during their European leg of the Alive! 35 tour in Oberhausen (Germany) and you can read our experience here...

New Gene Simmons Book Is In!

Here's my lovely wife holding a new book: Gene Simmons Is A Powerful And Attractive Man, that we just got in!

KISS Mugs!

New in our collection are these 2 cool KISS Mugs!
One has a "live" design and the other one has all the 4 faces of the bandmembers on the mug...

KISS Monster Wine & Destroyer Beer!

My lovely wife suprised me with a bottle of KISS Monster Wine & Destroyer Beer for my birthday! What a great gift!

KISS Hard Rock Café Pins!

We've collect these KISS Hard Rock Café Pins including some of the cities who we've visited, like Las Vegas and Miami...

KISS Kruise IV DVD!

Finally we've the KISS Kruise IV - Dressed To Kruise DVD in!
We had such a awesome time last year on the KISS kruise IV and now we can re-live it all...

KISS Hello Kitty Mints!

Latest addition to our KISS Collection are these KISS Hello Kitty Mints Tin Set & KISS Logo Shot Glass...

KISS Ugly Dolls Set!

Finally we got our KISS Ugly Dolls Set complete now!
We bought the Gene one in Las Vegas and the other 3 came in last week.

New KISS CD-Single "Samurai Son" Came In Today!!!

The new Japanese KISS CD-single Samurai Son came in today!!!
It's great to hold some brand new KISS music in your hands!
We love this song, it's awesome and already a #1 in Japan!
This Cd-single (a collaberation by KISS vs Momoiro Clover Z) contains 6 tracks:
1. Yume No Ukiyo Ni Saitemina.
2. Rock And Roll All Night.
3. Samurai Son.
4. Yume No Ukiyo Ni Saitemina (instrumental)
5. Rock And Roll All Night (instrumental)
6. Samurai Son (instrumental)
It's also a cool package, with a slipcase and fold-out booklet.

KISS 40 Anniversery CD Variants!

Today we got the latest variant of the KISS 40 Anniversary CD's in: the Japanese Best Of KISS 40!

This Best Of KISS 40 is a CD/DVD set and comes with a postcard.
Tracklist is:
CD: Samurai Son (US Mix), Rock and Roll All Night, Shout It Out Loud, Beth, Hard Luck Woman, Detroit Rock City, Calling Dr. Love, Christine Sixteen, Love Gun, I Was Made For Lovin' You (Single Edit) Shandi, I'm a Legend Tonight, Lick It Up, Heaven's On Fire, Tears Are Falling, Crazy Crazy Nights, God Gave Rock n Roll To You, Psycho Circus, Modern Day Delilah & Hell or Hallelujah.
DVD: Psycho Circus, Shout It Out Loud & Hell Or Hallelujah live from Budokan Japan 24-10-2013.
Earlier we got these variants in:


The German Steelbox edition 2-CD set comes in a steelbox and includes a larger booklet, a KISS patch and 3D cover image!


Above you see the front and back of the European new greatest hits album.
Below you see the Japanese release with extra bonus track Hell Or Helleluja (Live Bodukan 2013)

This 2 CD-set includes 40 tracks and have also some never before released live tunes and a demo!
Tracklist is:

CD 1: Nothin To Lose, Let Me Go, Rock ‘N’ Roll, C’mon And Love Me, Rock And Roll All Nite (Live), God Of Thunder (Demo), Beth, Hard Luck Woman, Reputation (Demo) – Previously Unreleased, Christine Sixteen, Shout It Out Loud (Live), Strutter ‘78, You Matter To Me (Peter Criss), Radioactive (Gene Simmons), New York Groove (Ace Frehley), Hold Me, Touch Me (Paul Stanley), I Was Made For Lovin’ You (Single Edit), Shandi, A World Without Heroes, I Love It Loud, Down On Your Knees, Lick It Up, Heaven’s On Fire.
CD 2: Tears Are Falling, Reason To Live, Let’s Put The X In Sex, Forever (Remix), God Gave Rock ‘N’ Roll To You II, Unholy (Live), Do You Love Me (MTV Unplugged), Room Service (Live), Jungle (Radio Edit), Psycho Circus, Nothing Can Keep Me From You, Detroit Rock City (Live), Deuce (Live 2004) – Unreleased Commercially, Firehouse (Live – 1999/2000), Modern Day Delilah, Cold Gin (Live 2009) – unreleased commercially, Crazy Crazy Nights (Live 2010) – unreleassed Commercially & Hell or Hallelujah.

KISS Gund Snuffels!

We got these KISS Gund Snuffles in today!

The Demon & Starchild are about 10" high and super soft.

KISS Berlin Concert Poster!

I got this cool KISS Berlin Concert Poster in last week and it's now hanging framed on our wall! A nice look-out to the upcoming shows in june next year!

Paul Stanley's Booksigning Las Vegas!

During our stay in Las Vegas to see 3 KISS shows, we had finally the opertunity to attend our first booksigning ever!
And to top it all...we went to the signing of Paul Stanley's book Face The Music - A Life Exposed!
The event was hold @ the Hardrock Hotel & Casino in the special pop-up KISS store on november 8th, we made sure we were there early, we were number 5 & 6 in line. Around 1 pm Paul arrived and we got excited.
A few minutes later we got in, bought the book and we had our meet & greet with him. He was in great spirit and very friendly to us, as he was when we meet him on our first day in Las Vegas! He took time enough for our photo's and these turned out awesome!
This first booksigning was such a great experience for us and we hope we'll get the chance to attend some more in the future...

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Our Visit To The KISS Monster Mini Golf!

When we were in Las Vegas for the KISS Las Vegas Residency, we also visiting the KISS Monster Mini Golf a couple of times! It was great to see this place now for real!
On the evening when we've arrived in Vegas we went to the KMMG to check it out, Eric Carr's Porsche was right in the entrance and of course we took pics of the car. All around the place were display's with all kind of KISS merchandise (looked like our home, lol) and posters and T-shirts on the walls. The golf erea was big and we could see some of the KISS statues on the play field. But it was late and we decided to play some golf the next day.
There was also a shop located with a lot of KMMG items for sale as well KISS Merchandise and as a collector myself I was like a kid in the candy shop, lol. We looked around and of course we bought some items.

Besides play golf and get married on the Love Gun stage, you could also put on Gene's or Paul's Boots on and take some photo's as you wear them. I always want to walk in Gene's Destroyer Boots, so I put them on and I can tell you it isn't easy to walk around in them!

The next morning it was time for us to play some KISS golf. Every hole had a KISS theme as big guitars, big heads of the Demon, Starchild, Spaceman & Catman, boots and more. We enjoyed playing and had a lot of fun.

After our KISS Golf experience, we had to check out the KISS Love Gun Wedding Chappel, were you can get married or renew your vows. We had the desire to have a photo with us on that Love Gun stage and we now have it!

After our last KISS show in Las Vegas we went back to the Monster Golfto play golf one last time and we loved it!

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Our Trip To See KISS Rocks Las Vegas!!!

Right after the KISS Kruise IV we took a flight to Las Vegas to see KISS for 3 shows at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino!
We landed in the evening, so in the darkness we could see all the lights from the Strip. We arrived at the HRH and when we checked in we got some cool KISS room keycards and when we took the elevator to our room the doors had KISS images all over them! later when we walked through the hotel, we saw KISS everywhere, on slotmachines, pokertables, behind the incheckdesk there was a rotating KISS display, we had KISS don't disturb tags, KISS cards, KISS menu's, KISS cocktails, a special KISS store, staff was in KISS shirts. There were KISS pokerchips, KISS displays, huge KISS banners in and outside the hotel and even on big bilboards around the city!
Outside the HRH was the Hard Rock Cafe, even they had KISS displays and more. That evening we also visit the KISS Monster Mini Golf that was located near the HRH, they had a huge shop with cool items for sale, ahhh that's what a collector needs, lol. The place rocks and we decided to play golf the next day (our KMMG report will be coming soon!) and went back to our hotel to get some dinner.
When we had placed our order in the restaurant, I saw suddenly Paul Stanley sitting 2 tables from us, having dinner too! OMG we could believe this! So try now to eat something! There weren't any more KISS fans there, so when Paul was ready to leave the place, we asked him for a photo and it was no problem at all! We'll never forget this moment! What better way for us to start our KISS Las Vegas Residency this way?

The next day after our visit to the KISS Monster Mini Golf we took the KISS Bus to the strip to check out all the happenings there. All we can say, Vegas is a great city! We had to come back to the HRH early because KISS would arrive in a helicopter in front of the HRH to kick of their shows.
We got a good spot and when the KISScopter landed we almost blew away from the roters, lol. Soon after it was landed Gene, Paul, Tommy & Eric stepped out and posted for press pics. Than they came our way and everyone there went nuts. This was so cool to witness, what a way to start the residency, with KISS there's never a dull moment!

After this it was time for us to get ready for show 1. We had GA stand tickets for this show, we made sure we were early to get a good spot and Lucky we did. The Joint isn't that big and where ever you stand our sit, you could see the show perfect. There wasn't any support act and around 8:20 pm, lights went out and it's time for KISS!
When the show started big lightdisplays-doors slide to each site and there they were, Eric on his drumriser coming down and Gene, Paul & Tommy on the stage! They had a brand new stage design, special made for these 9 shows, with big screens around the stage and even on the ceiling. A brand new light show with lasers! They started with Creatures Of The Night:

With the new lighthows, lasers and screens, the show was so much cooler to watch, you didn't knew where to look, lol. During Love Gun Paul flew to a little stage on the right balcony. But he stayed much longer as usual on that stage and when the song was over he started with the intro of Black Diamond. Suddenly he grab the flying stick and he flew through the venue, above us, to the left balcony to a second stage and continue with Black Diamond and than returning to the main stage! This was new and very welcomed by us!
KISS played for 100 minutes or so and we had a great time, we liked the new stage with the light/laser show, big screens and there was more pyro and bombs than ever before!
This was the setlist: Creatures Of The Night, Psycho Circus, Parasite, Tears Are Falling, Let Me Go, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Lick It Up, I Love It Loud, Hell Or Hallelujah, Bass Solo, God Of Thunder, Detroit Rock City, Love Gun, Black Diamond, Shout It Out Loud, I Was Made For Lovin’ You & Rock And Roll All Nite
Here's a selection of the photo's from the 3 shows:

The next we check out Las Vegas, the Strip, to check out all the beautifull big hotels, all the stores and also visited the Pawn Stars Shop. In the evening we visit the Freemont Street Experience (we had a great time there) and we went back to the Strip to see it all again in all the lights! We had such a great time to see all those famous hotels, casino's and all the action on the Strip!

On Friday it was time for our second KISS show, but first we took a trip to the famous welcome to Las Vegas sign and went back to the strip. After we had some dinner at Vince Neil's restaurant Tatuado we returned to our hotel.
Around 7:30 pm we got to The Joint for KISS show 2, this time we had a seat at Gene's site. Suddenly a lot of people looked up to the middle of the venue and when we looked we saw Gene & Tommy get ready on the platform. This time the show had a new beginning and yes, when the show started they came down on the little platform to the big stage. So cool beginning of show 2!

The setlist was the same and this time we could feel the heat of the pyro's intenser!

During Love Gun, when Paul came flying to the little platform on the right side of the venue, we noticed that now he would walk around, instead of flying to the second platform! He had a lot of fun doing this, walking left and right high up in The Joint!

So cool to see another change in the show! We had luck to got a guitarpick from Gene this time and of course we had a blast!

On saturday we got to Paul's booksigning and this was so awesome for us to finally experience this!
Later we went to the Hard Rock Cafe to had some dinner and for we knew it, it was time for KISS show 3, our last show in Vegas for us.
This time we went earlier to The Joint, we want to make sure we got a good spot again with our GA standing tickets and we got, right behind the bars, we could see everything perfectly! This time the show started as the first one and they dropped I Was Made For Lovin' You and played Deuce.
When Paul flew over, we had a great view at him and we such a great time! We enjoyed this third show as much as we did our first! When it all was over for us, we want to stay, see more shows, see more KISS!
But it isn't over, till it's over! So right after the show we went to the KMMG to play golf, for the last time and we finished our trip with some KISS cocktails at the HRH, not thinking at our flight back home the next day at 8 am!
What can we say about this trip? Nothing more than that we had a awesome time with 3 great KISS shows, meeting Paul, visiting the KMMG and of course Las Vegas!!!
Here's a selection of our photo's:

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KISS Kruise IV - Dressed To Kruise!!!

On october 29th we landed in Miami for our 3th KISS Kruise, checked in at the Holliday Inn and then we saw Lydia Criss in the hotel lobby. We went over to say hi to her, get our photo's signed from last year and took some new ones.
After some diner we went to the pre-party at Grand Central were we saw Tigertailz & Jack Russel's Great White live, we had a great evening.
The day after it was time to sail again with KISS. This year we had a extra day on the ship, so now we're 6 days Kruisin' with KISS instead of 5! Cheap Trick was special guest on the pre-party and they gave a great show. Then it was time to got some Kruise merchandise and we bought a couple of T-Shirts, Hoodie and more cool items.

The next day the Kruise really starts with KISS coming on board, we saw Gene, Tommy, Eric & Paul (with their families) when they arrived, so cool again!

In the evening we went to Tommy Thayer's Halloween contest, first row and we saw some cool creations coming by.
Saturday KISS would perform live for the first time on this Kruise. But because of the "rockin" sea, the beach show on Great Stirrup Bay was cancelled and now they would play on the pooldeck. This was fine with us, we see them rather play here than on the beach. So we were early enough to get a good spot, 4th row.
At 1:30 pm it was time for the KISS Unplugged show, the band was in great spirit, joking and laughing all the time. They played only a few rare tunes as "See You Tonight"! We had a blast and were lucky enough to catch some guitarpicks.

This was the setlist: Comin Home, Plaster Caster, Got To Choose, God Of Thunder, Hide Your Heart, Christine Sixteen, Nothin To Lose, Love Her All I Can, See You Tonite, Hard Luck Woman, All The way, Shock Me, Hotter Than Hell, Firehouse, C´mon And Love Me, Cold Gin & Do You Love Me.
After diner it was time for the KISS Q&A and we had almost the same spot on the pooldeck as with the unplugged show. Amoung the questions that have been asked to the band, was what the fans could expect at the Las Vegas shows? A brand new stage, specialy designed for the Joint. Also they announced a European tour in 2015!
Later we checked out some other bands out, 1 of them was the Pat Travisband and suddenly Eric & Tommy came on stage and played some songs with them, later also Paul's son Evan played with them and Paul was in the audience and watch it all.
Later that evening we've meet Evan and he was very cool to us and it was no problem to take photo's with him.

The next day we got up early to get our Paul cabo wabo cup, we already had the ones from Eric & Tommy, these are going fast and on 11 am they hadn't any left. Tomorrow we've to be sure to get our Gene one too, to complete our set.
Also we had a stop in Nassau (Bahama's) we got of the ship and went to visit this town. Not so great as Key West.
Today it was also for us to see KISS live again for the second time! The first indoor show at the Stardust. We went early to get a good spot, left standing area, at Gene's site.
Around 9 pm it was time...KISS came on stage, in their Dressed To Kill suites! A huge applause was to hear from all the fans! Man...this looks so awesome, we knew we'll never see this again! This was so unique, one of a kind experience, this was KISStory in the making and we were there!
They started with Creatures Of The Night and the whole place went nuts!

We saw Shannon & Sophie rockin'and dancing on the upper level and everybody had a great time! This was the setlist: Creatures Of The Night, Psycho Circus, War Machine, Plaster Caster, Tears Are Falling, Let Me Go Rock And Roll, Lick It Up, Calling Dr. Love, Hell Or Hallelujah, I Love It Loud, Detroit Rock City, Love Gun, Black Diamond, Shout It Out Loud, The Oath & Rock And Roll All Nite

Again the band enjoyed themselves and we think they know also how rare and unique this Dressed To Kill theme show was! And for we know it, the show was over! And all we could think, we want more, lol!

After the show we went straight to the Tigertailz show and they gave a great performance and a perfect closing of this day!

On monday november 3th it was a day for us with a lot of KISS activities, but first we had to get our last Cabo Wabo cup, the Gene one to complete or set, and we got him!
Than it was time for our first bandmember activity: Gene's guitarpick throwing contest, he didn't win this time. Also Shannon & Sophie came on the stage and were throwing picks, we got some cool ones from Gene!
After this, Paul's bookreading was next, he spoke about certain things from his book and this event was much appreciated by us than the belly flop contest he did in the past years, also Evan watch it from the back.

The Doc Mc.Gee Q&A was up next and he also confirmed there'll be a European tour next year and that the Las Vegas shows will be taped. About KISSology IV...next year. Doc also asked us what be thought about the setlist, fans make sure that they didn't liked it and wanted more rare songs! He said he would pass this to the band.

After the Q&A it was time for us to get ready for our KISS photo shoot. Because it's Dressed To Kill theme we decided to go in style! Around 7 pm our photo with the band got taken and we were so curious how the photo would look. But we could not hope for a better result, the photo looks so awesome to us, because we weared the same as on our wedding day, it's our "second wedding photo"!
Next up was KISS indoor show 2, we watched it on a big screen in the Atrium. They played some other songs than the first night, such as Parasite. When the show was over we stayed there to see the Big Rock Show and this performance finished this day.

Tuesday november 4th (excact 30 years ago I saw my first KISS show in Zwolle, The Netherlands during their Animalize world tour in 1984!) was our last morning on the Pearl. KISS Kruise IV was over for us, but we had such a great time, again a unique experience for us and we had blast!
But we were not sad at all. Because we went straight over to the airport to see 3 KISS shows in Las Vegas...

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KISS Love Gun Deluxe Edition Is In!

When we got home from our trip to see KISS in Las Vegas our copy of the new KISS Love Gun Deluxe Edition was waiting for us!
This 2-CD digi-pack set includes, besides the normal tracks, a lot of demo's and even 3 live tracks!
This is the tracklist:
Disc 1 – Original Album: I Stole Your Love, Christine Sixteen, Got Love For Sale, Shock Me, Tomorrow And Tonight, Love Gun, Hooligan, Almost Human, Plaster Caster & Then She Kissed Me.
Disc 2 – Demos, Interview & Live: Much Too Soon (Demo) Plaster Caster (Demo) Reputation (Demo - previously released on KISS 40) Love Gun (Teaching Demo) Love Gun (Demo) Gene Simmons Interview (1977) Tomorrow And Tonight (Demo) I Know Who You Are (Demo) Love Gun (Live 1977) Christine Sixteen (Live 1977) & Shock Me (Live 1977)
It's a nice edition to their music catalog and we hope more deluxe editions will follow...

Gene Simmons Book: Me Inc. Is In!

Today I got Gene Simmons new book Me Inc. in!
I'll read it very soon...