![]() ![]() This tour started before the pandemic, and just the fact that we were saying that this is the end of us as a touring band made it celebratory and certainly brought out the anticipated response from the audience. “And you appreciate things more, I think. ![]() But at this point I think people know what the opportunities are and what the risks are, and you can weigh them out and do something comfortable. A year and a half ago, when this pandemic first start, we were virtually in the dark about the virus, so it was smart for people to stay home. I can’t say that it’s much of a change from where we were, but it does make you aware that if you think you’re going to evade COVID, the virus has a different idea.”īut after almost 50 years of adhering to a Show Must Go On ethos - with more than 75 million records sold worldwide and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2014 -Stanley, 69, adds that Kiss never wavered from wanting to get back out on the road as soon as possible. At this point we’re that much more cautious. I can’t fathom what it would have been like without that - dangerous would be one way to put it. “I’m over it and glad I was vaccinated and got out of the hospital. “That was sobering because we found ourselves going, ‘What else could we have done?’ “Y’know, we were very tight in terms of the bubble around the band - more so now, and we’re doing everything possible to stay healthy,” Stanley, who acknowledged on social media that COVID “kicked my ass” while Simmons had a milder case, says via phone. The group’s current End of the Road farewell tour is already a nod to that.īut running headfirst into COVID-19, which forced Kiss off the road during late August and early September, proved that even rock ‘n’ roll superheroes aren’t invincible. Kiss co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons didn’t really need a reminder of their mortality.
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