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At the time, the tour was referred to under the headline "Kiss tour", not "Alive! Tour" or "Destroyer Tour". The August 20 Anaheim, California show was the most famous show of the tour, the band played to over 42,000 people, the biggest US crowd the band had played to.
January 25, 1976 Detroit: Cobo Arena: Back Street Crawler: January 26, 1976 Rory Gallagher: January 27, 1976 January 30, 1976 Mount Pleasant: Rose Arena: Hot Lucy January 31, 1976 Trotwood: Hara Arena: The Leslie West Band February 1, 1976 Richfield: Richfield Coliseum: Hydra: February 4, 1976 Milwaukee: Milwaukee Auditorium: Point Blank ...
Kiss also performed in Japan for the first time on this tour. They played Budokan Hall four nights in a row, breaking an attendance record set by The Beatles . On December 12, 1976, Ace Frehley suffered a severe electrical shock on stage.
Kiss is regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of all time, [1] [2] as well as one of the best selling bands of all time, claiming to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, [3] including 21 million [4] RIAA-certified albums. [5] Kiss has also earned 30 Gold albums, the most of any band from the United States.
Kiss took most of August off from the tour to record their follow-up album, Hotter than Hell. In the tour program for the band's final tour , Simmons reflected on the tour: Being in Kiss in the very first year and touring around the United States, we felt like we were taking off.
A Charleston Gazette reporter who had attended the June 22 performance in Charleston had given a mixed review however, and said: "Next to Kiss, Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls make sense. This group of four men, thinks the concert is a costume party and they come dressed to kill. Kiss is weird, but its music is solid rock 'n' roll...
The first Kiss performance took place on January 30, 1973, for an audience of fewer than ten people at the Popcorn Pub (renamed Coventry shortly afterward) in Queens. [1] The band were paid $50 for performing two sets that evening, following a cold-call Simmons had made to the venue, convincing them to hire the new band for a three-night stand.
On November 11, 1976 Destroyer became the first Kiss album to be certified platinum. [34] The album was re-certified at the double platinum level on September 9, 2011 and is the band's best selling in the post-1991 Soundscan era, selling 726,000 copies in the United States from 1991 to March 4, 2012.