Last week, KISS appeared on “The Howard Stern Show” where they performed some of their classic tunes and also discussed the final dates of their “End of the Road” world tour.
KISS will wrap up the lengthy tour on Dec. 1 and 2 at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
“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.”
“Some people have kind of snickered and said, ‘This ‘End Of The Road’ tour has gone on for years.’ Yeah, we lost two and a half years to C*VID,” Stanley added. “We would have been done already. Yeah, this is the end. When you come to see the show, it’s awesome. It’s the most high-tech show out there, and yet it’s clearly a kick-*ss rock and roll show. It’s not Vegas; it’s not something that loses its balls, so to speak. It’s everything KISS, just amped up and ramped up.”
During the interview, Stanley also took aim at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for their treatment of the band when they were inducted.
Stanley said of current members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer not being inducted: “The hypocrisy is that we’re not a band they like. They purposely kept us out for 15 years. And other bands that they embrace, they induct people’s moms and songwriters and all these people. And with us, it truly was unfair.”
Stanley said the Rock Hall wanted the original four KISS members to perform, but that was never going to be in the cards.
“We had too much pride in this [current] lineup, which is KISS, and has been KISS for 20 years,” he said. “It’s not newcomers — this is the band. We’ll be back in the stadiums of South America next month. We were there five months ago. We were in Japan. This is the band that has carried the flag and taken it, really, to another level. This is the band I always dreamed it would be.”
Stanley also threw a dig at original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss saying: “And for us to go onstage — they were demanding, quite honestly, that we play with the two original guys, Peter and Ace.”
Stanley said 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.”
Simmons added: “We’ve been all over the world, through decades, with this present lineup. It bears noting I’ve never seen a single banner or sign that mentions any other lineup.”
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