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Gene Simmons spoke to ET’s Kevin Frazier about KISS‘s “Finish Of The Highway” farewell tour, which launched in 2019 and is scheduled to finish someday in 2023, 50 years after the band’s formation.
“We begin taking part in the outside stadiums of South America, actually inside two weeks, and proceed on to Europe and Australia and finally North America, Japan, all that stuff. Mexico,” Simmons stated. “And that is going to be the final tour. We’re carried out.”
“We’re approaching 50 years of doing this, which is unbelievable as a result of we by no means thought we might final various years,” he added.
Gene went on to say that he and fellow KISS co-founder Paul Stanley are in settlement that it is time to retire from the highway.
“The very last thing that you just wish to do is be a man that stays within the ring too lengthy and will get his ass beat,” Simmons stated. “Get out of the ring if you’re a champion.
“You bought to know — we love [Mick] Jagger and Bruno Mars and Bono and anyone else, they’re all nice, however in case you put these guys — Beyoncé, put Beyoncé in my outfit with seven-to-eight-inch platform heels, dragon boots that every weigh as a lot as a bowling ball, your complete outfit, studs, leather-based and armor is about 40 kilos,” he defined. “The guitar and the studs is 12 kilos by itself. Then, you bought to spit hearth, fly by way of the air and try this for 2 hours. They might move out inside a half hour.”
“We’re the hardest-working band on the market and take pleasure in it,” Gene added. “And never each band ought to be on the market too lengthy. You have to have some pleasure and never keep too lengthy. At all times preserve them wanting. I am essentially the most blessed and grateful man on the earth to have the ability to be in a band the place I can put on extra make-up and better heels than your girlfriend.”
KISS launched was compelled to place its farewell trek on maintain in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
Final October, Stanley stated that the ultimate live performance of the “Finish Of The Highway” tour will doubtless occur by early 2023.
“Finish Of The Highway” was initially scheduled to conclude on July 17, 2021 in New York Metropolis however has since been prolonged. The trek was introduced in September 2018 following a KISS efficiency of the band’s basic tune “Detroit Rock Metropolis” on “America’s Obtained Expertise”.
KISS‘s present lineup consists of authentic members Stanley and Simmons, alongside later band additions, guitarist Tommy Thayer (since 2002) and drummer Eric Singer (on and off since 1991).
Fashioned in 1973 by Stanley, Simmons, drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley, KISS‘s first “farewell” tour in 2000 was the final to characteristic the group’s authentic lineup.
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