Revenge tour
| Presentation album | Revenge |
|---|---|
| Beginning of the tour | April 23, 1992, San Francisco , USA |
| End of the tour | December 20, 1992, Phoenix (Arizona) , USA |
| Total concerts (by continent) |
2 |
| Concerts in total | 77 70 in North America 7 in Europe |
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Hot in the Shade Tour (1989/1990) |
Revenge Tour (1992) |
Convention Tour (1995) |
|---|
Revenge was the title of the 1992 tour of the hard rock group Kiss . It was the first tour with the drummer Eric Singer , who had replaced Eric Carr, who had died on November 24, 1991 .
background
The group had released the album Revenge in May 1992 and had great success with it. Up until then, the band had been in an unsuccessful economic phase and had not had much luck with their releases since 1985, because the group had repeatedly approached pop with albums like Crazy Nights and Hot in the Shade was guided by musical trends. Revenge marked the end of this phase, which was also evident in the 1991 single God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II , which appeared as part of the soundtrack for the film Bill & Ted's Crazy Journey into the Future , was and was an international success Kiss moved back into the focus of fans and radio listeners.
- Number of concerts: 77
- Start of tour: April 23, 1992, The Stone , San Francisco ( California )
- Tour ended: December 20, 1992, America West Arena , Phoenix (Arizona)
- Countries visited: Canada , England , Scotland , United States , Wales
- Supporting acts: Danger Danger, Faster Pussycat, Fortress, Trixter, Jackyl, Great White, Shooting Gallery, Vesuvius
- Average number of visitors: 5029 (without club tour)
- Additional musicians: Gary Corbett ( keyboards , club tour and UK tour), Derek Sherinian (keyboards, US tour)
Club tour
In order to introduce the successor to the late Eric Carr to the US audience , the group embarked on a 13-day tour of clubs in the US and Canada before the album was released. The mini tour began in San Francisco, California on April 23, 1992 and ended in Brooklyn on May 10, 1992, two days before Revenge was released . For the club tour, a smaller version of the stage was used, which had already been in use during the Hot in the Shade tour in 1990 . The clubs where the band appeared, were indeed small: While the highest visitor capacity in the Ritz in New York City was in 2500, the smallest venue, took Doug Weston's World Famous Troubadour in Hollywood , only 410 visitors. All concerts were sold out; the show at The Ritz even within 90 seconds of the start of advance sales.
- particularities
- The concert on April 23, 1992 was the first concert that Eric Singer performed as a member of Kiss.
- At this concert, the tracks 100,000 Years and Parasite were played for the first time since 1976.
- May 4, 1992 was declared "Kiss Day" in Baltimore , and the mayor presented the band with the keys to the city.
UK tour
Revenge was released on May 12, 1992 . On May 16, 1992, the band embarked on a short tour of Great Britain that once again used the Hot in the Shade stage, although the stage designed for the Revenge tour was already finished. The UK tour included seven dates and began in Glasgow ; it then went to Birmingham via Whitley Bay, Sheffield , Cardiff , London and Plymouth .
It was noteworthy that the venues had very different capacities. Only 3000 fans could see and hear the band play in Whitley Bay, in London the band was booked for the Wembley Arena and played in front of 11,000 visitors. The opening act for the UK tour was Danger Danger .
- particularities
- On the afternoon of May 20, 1992, the group visited the HMV record store in Cardiff and gave an autograph session .
- On May 21, 1992, a so-called Kiss Convention took place in the Astoria Theater in London. Kiss participated for a short time.
PhD in Europe
Following this short tour, the group embarked on a trip across Europe to introduce their new album to the media. This tour began on May 28, 1992 in the Netherlands , on May 29, 1992 the group appeared in the television program Countdown , which was produced in Hilversum . In this Unholy and God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You ( playback ) played. On May 30, 1992 the band gave an autograph session at Fame in Amsterdam . In the further course of the trip, the group visited Munich , Cologne , Berlin and Hamburg between June 1 and 6, 1992 . After further visits to Italy , Sweden and Norway , the group returned to the USA on June 12, 1992.
US tour
The start of the US tour was originally scheduled for July 31, 1992, but has been postponed for almost two months. On July 7, 1992, Gene Simmons was the father of a daughter, on July 28, 1992 Paul Stanley married the actress Pamela Bowen. In the last week of September, the group began to rehearse for the tour, which began on September 30, 1992 with a dress rehearsal in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to which representatives of Mercury Records and other guests were invited.
On October 1, 1992, the actual US tour began in the Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, with Faster Pussycat and Trixter signed as opening act. Faster Pussycat were there until October 31, 1992, from November 5 Great White took over the position.
The Statue of Liberty served as the stage decoration . Her head and the raised right arm were positioned behind the drum kit . Before the last third of each show, the statue lost its face, which gave way to a grinning dead skull , the arm lost its skin, and the remaining bones no longer held the torch, but the middle finger in the air.
The set list included 26 songs from both Revenge and older albums: Creatures of the Night, Deuce, I Just Wanna, Unholy, Parasite, Heaven's on Fire, Christine Sixteen, Domino, Watchin 'You, Hotter Than Hell, Firehouse , I Want You, Forever, War Machine, Rock and Roll All Nite, Lick It Up, Take It Off, Strutter, Cold Gin, Tears Are Falling, I Love It Loud, Detroit Rock City, Shout It Out Loud, God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II, Love Gun and Star Spangled Banner.
A highlight at many concerts was the use of strippers during the title Take it Off , which took place at the first concert in Bethlehem. The production manager of the Stabler Arena was friends with a stripper, and so it happened that strippers came on stage at this concert and undressed. As a result, Kiss production manager Tim Rozner was commissioned to visit the relevant strip clubs in the respective city during the tour and to ask the striptease dancers whether they would be interested in being part of the show. He then brought around 20 women with him, three or four of whom were chosen by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley and allowed to perform at the concert.
At the concert on November 10, 1992, Paul Stanley's voice failed because the singer was ill. Gene Simmons tried to compensate for this by singing Stanley's songs, which failed completely. Stanley immediately sought medical treatment after the concert, the concert on November 12, 1992 took place without Kiss, but the opening acts Great White and Trixter appeared.
The concerts on November 27, 28 and 29, 1992 were recorded by music producer Eddie Kramer for use on Alive III , the band's third live album . The tour ended on December 20, 1992 in Phoenix, Arizona. Individual shows on the tour were canceled due to insufficient ticket sales; a second tour section planned for January 1993 was not even booked.
swell
- Curt Gooch, Jeff Suhs: Kiss Alive Forever - A Complete Touring History ; Billboard Books 2002, first edition; ISBN 0-8230-8322-5
- The Kiss album Focus - Hell or High Water, 1983-1996 ; Julian Gill; 4th edition, KissFaq.com 2005; ISBN 978-098225370-0