Kiss Extends 'Alive 35' Tour

Days after releasing its first studio album in 11 years, Kiss has added several new late-year dates to its ongoing "Kiss Alive 35" tour.

The new stretch begins with a Dec. 8 show in Tulsa, OK, and runs through a Dec. 15 date in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

"We are thrilled that the demand for additional Kiss dates has been so overwhelming," frontman and co-founder Paul Stanley said in a press statement. "We're excited to show off the new pyrotechnics and costumes for our die-hard followers."

"Sonic Boom," the band's first new studio set since 1998's "Psycho Circus," went on sale earlier this week, and is exclusively available at Walmart stores. The $12 album comes as a three-disc set, including a re-recorded greatest hits CD and a live DVD filmed in Argentina during the group's recent South American tour.

The veteran heavy rockers also unveiled their own "Kiss Korner" in Walmart locations nationwide. The special section features merchandise including T-shirts, make-up kits, masks, wigs, candies and collectible Kiss Mr. Potato Head figures, along with "Sonic Boom" and the band's past discography, according to a press release.

The Stanley-produced "Sonic Boom" was recorded in Los Angeles with a lineup also consisting of co-founder Gene Simmons, along with guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, who replaced original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, respectively.

Thanks for the report to Livedaily.com.

Comments

[guitargodwannab]

woohoo got the first post

great to see that the HOTTEST BAND IN DA WORLD is wanted for Alive 35 longer, ive seen them 2times (at Casino Rama and at the ACC lil over a week ago) and they can still kick major ass.

on the other side, they still have to go on tour for Sonic Boom

[guitargodwannab]

sry for double posting

...wich would be even more epic then the current tour

ROCK ON KISS, ROCKK ON!!!

[PSM]

Nice. I hope they come back around this way since I missed them a couple weeks ago. I heard the pyro was pretty sick and they played almost every song from Alive!

[ktulu51]

Sweet. They need to come to raleigh now.

[handbanana78]

I hope to see them live im not a fan; however, they made history and it would be awesome to see them!

[pawnshopguitars]

So is this the farewell farewell tour, or the farewell farewell farewell tour?

[James_Het_Rules]

I saw em when i was 10 with Ted Nugent and Skid Row in Nampa, ID. IT was my first concert, followed by Ozzfest. They kicked ass. They were my childhood heroes lol.

[ryanplaysbass]

James_Het_Rules :
I saw em when i was 10 with Ted Nugent and Skid Row in Nampa, ID. IT was my first concert, followed by Ozzfest. They kicked ass. They were my childhood heroes lol.
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That was the same tour i saw them on. And It was my first concert too! haha But i saw them in Orlando

[PSM]

ryanplaysbass wrote:

James_Het_Rules :
I saw em when i was 10 with Ted Nugent and Skid Row in Nampa, ID. IT was my first concert, followed by Ozzfest. They kicked ass. They were my childhood heroes lol.
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That was the same tour i saw them on. And It was my first concert too! haha But i saw them in Orlando

I also saw that tour, but was pissed because Ted Nugent didn't play that show for some reason.

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[MT in Austin]

I saw them twice on the tour with Nugent and Skid Row. In San Antonio, they played the Alamodome (basically a football stadium without a pro team). It was a HUGE show with amazing pyro, enormous blow up dolls of the band members on each side of the stage and their own jumbo-tron. They then added Austin to the end of the tour. Smaller show but still kick ass. Nugent started flapping his mouth about someting or other (I try not to listen to him talk) and someone hit him with a cup of ice. Ted also brought it in a big way at both shows. Skid Row, well, without Sebastian Bach, they are not really Skid Row are they?

Got tickets for the show in Austin for my son and I. Can't wait...

[mcneelyman98]

i just saw them in boston MA im only 11 and this is my second concert i saw def leppard with poison and cheap trick this was the most amazing thing i have ever seen

[Right-Wing Dick]

Paul Stanley says: ""We're excited to show off the new pyrotechnics and costumes for our die-hard followers." ... and play the same old tired crappy songs. So its a fireworks display and a fashion show. Yippie.

[Victor Escobar]

Seeing them Nov. 25

[wesker888]

Alive 35....
they could at least change the tour´s name.....

[tooliscool]

Saw them in Wellington last year, they are so past it especially Gene. They were literally caricatures of their former selves. All really insincere and got totally blown off stage by Alice Cooper who opened for them.

[druz15_UG]

got to hand it to them they sure know how to market their brand like crazy, freakin promotional geniuses

[thirteenburn]

Actually pawnshopguitars, this is their farewell, farewell, farewell, farewell, farewell, farewell, farewell, etc., farewell tour.

I actuall saw their original farewell tour and to this day, wear the shirt, but not as a rememberence, but as a goof and it usually gets a few laughs.

Simmons has ruined the franchise, as has Stanley, by not only how they market mostly crap made in China, but also by allowing Thayer and Singer, who are great musicians in their own right, co-opt the make-up schemes of Criss and Frehley. To any self-respecting member of the KISS Army as I am, or was, that's blasphemy and that should have been obvious to Stanley, who goes around like he's the high priest of the Almighty rock & roll, spewing religious euphamisims comparing his band to religion.

That being said, I do have the new vinyl and I have to say that it's really good. I didn't know they still had it in them, making it a bit bittersweet - sweet that the album rocks and is probably the best thing theyv'e done since "Destroyer", bitter because this will just egg them on to continue with their "farewell" tours, probably until their in walker's and drool bibs.