KISS recently announced the final two shows of their “End Of The Road” world tour. The band appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” where they announced that the lengthy trek would come to a close at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Dec. 1 and 2.
“Those are the last two shows of the band,” said singer/guitarist Paul Stanley. “We’re finishing up where we started. I believe there are 17 shows before that in the States.”
Stanley also recently blasted the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as well as former original bandmates Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. “And for us to go onstage — they were demanding, quite honestly, that we play with the two original guys, Peter and Ace,” Stanley said of the band’s Rock Hall induction.
Stanley went on to say that “would be demeaning to the band, and also would give some people confusion. Because if you saw people on stage who looked like KISS but sounded like that, maybe we should be called P*SS.”
Despite calling the Madison Square Garden appearance the “last two shows,” KISS bassist/singer Gene Simmons revealed in a new interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the band might be open to doing a Vegas residency.
“I actually don’t know because we have been so inundated by people wanting to see us wherever we go,” Simmons said when asked if KISS would ever play a show in Las Vegas again. “I mean, every guy whoever washed my dog or did my dry cleaning is hitting me up for tickets for his entire family, three generations back. Vegas? I don’t know, it would be nice to do a Vegas residency. But I don’t know any of these things.”
When asked if the “End Of The Road” world tour will truly mark the end of the band, Stanley told Yahoo! in January: “I really can’t say. But it is the last of any kind of regular shows or touring. Will we do more shows or one-offs? I really have no idea,” Paul admitted. “But this is a real clear mindset that the touring days and doing those kind of shows, that’s over.”
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