Kiss plays its last live performance. Has the band indeed arrived at the "End of the Road," though?

Kiss plays its last live performance. Has the band indeed arrived at the "End of the Road," though?



Kiss has given the world sing-along hits like “Detroit Rock City,” “Crazy Crazy Nights,” and “Beth,” as well as live performances complete with fire-breathing, blood-spattering, pyrotechnics, and gobs of cartoonish stage makeup, in the fifty years since the band first kicked and thrashed its way onto the New York rock scene.

According to music journalist Joel Selvin, who has written multiple books about rock musicians such as Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, and Sly and the Family Stone, “their schtick lifted them up to the absolute top,” NPR said.

As Kiss's members perform what they are promoting as the last show of their aptly named, four-year "End of the Road World Tour" at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday, the iconic stagecraft that helped make Kiss one of the hardest-selling hard rock bands in the world will come to an end. Live streaming of the concert will be offered via Pay-Per-View.

"It has nothing to do with personalities in the band or tensions or a difference of opinion or musicality. It's purely practical," said Kiss co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and vocalist Paul Stanley in an interview with the music publication Ultimate Classic Rock of the band's reasons for bringing five decades of Kiss to an end. "You can play beat the clock, but ultimately the clock wins."

In the days preceding the event, the city seemed to have gone completely crazy for Kiss, as evidenced by the emergence of pizza boxes, Metro cards, and taxis with Kiss themes. The New York Rangers had a KISS Game Night on Wednesday, complete with Kiss-themed events and "limited-edition KISS x Rangers merchandise." On Thursday, band members appeared at an Empire State Building lighting ceremony. An event honoring Kiss's farewell song took place at Empire State, where the band's colors—silver, red, purple, green, and blue—were projected.

All the fanfare aside, this might not be Kiss's last kiss. Over 20 years ago, the band embarked on a prior "farewell tour". It resumed its intermittent touring in 2003 following a brief break. From then on it was all live events and album releases.

Members of the band have discussed in interviews carrying on in one form or another following their performance at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. Stanley and fellow frontman Gene Simmons each maintain their own bands and claim their goal is to at least keep performing in those capacities.




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