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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