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The Kissology dvds features enough material to satisfy most Kiss fans but for the more die-hard fans there always more to search for. This rare black and white footage is one of those rare and important discoveries in the last years and it has been restored and remastered as well as possible with today’s technology. The show took place at the Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey on the 10th of July 1976, during the bands Spirit Of 1976 tour, in front of nearly 14,000 fans. The J. Geils Band, Point Blank and Bob Seger opened for them this night making a very long day and the problem that day was not the hours but the heat, as it was 95 degrees at show time. So the general admission crowd, already agitated by the long admission lines and oppressive heat and humidity was surly and impatient. In an effort to help alleviate the discomfort of the crowd, stadium officials sent employees throughout the park to distribute free bottles of chilled orange juice. A preemptive strike against the rising tension in the crowd, the effort backfired as several fights erupted when angry concert goers began throwing the glass bottles at one another. Back in July of 1976 this was a band that were still on the rise to becoming one of the biggest rock bands in the world. The set features the then-new Destroyer stage and costumes and these were the costumed that would become permanently embedded into the history of popular culture. Simmons reflections on the Spirit Of 1976 tour: With the special effects and staging we use, whether it was the Kiss sign, the Tesla coil on the Destroyer tour, the columns of fire, the lighted stairs or the drum riser, we reacted intrinsically to what we thought was cool. We went back to all the stuff we react to, 4th of July fireworks shows and things exploding. We wanted to go where no band had gone before. So even the picture is in black and white true fans will still be glad to get their hands on this hard-rocking document of the band’s early days. And the rarest thing of all is that it features a never-before-seen performance of the song Flaming Youth a song they hardly ever performed live. If you’re from New Jersey then you might even enjoy the fact that its from the famous stadium, named after Franklin D. Roosevelt, that were opened in 1937 and demolished in 1985, a stadium famous for holding sporting events ranging from baseball, boxing, and football games, some of which are as legendary as this Kiss show. As a bonus to this 50 minute concert we have footage from Kiss first national TV appearance, the Mike Douglas afternoon talk show. Included is the complete historic interview with Gene Simmons and Kiss performing Firehouse for a stunned and chocked studio audience. Even though the band was young, the familiar Kiss pyrotechnics were on display in 74, with flash explosions, smoke and light effects – complete with Gene Simmons spitting fire into the air. The TV audience had never seen anything like this before. Also included as a bonus feature is an instrumental video from a band called The Kieselhorst Experience. The video is set to a montage of Kiss footage from the performance on the Mike Douglas Show to footage from their reunion tour in 96. Nothing incredible, but a nice touch. If youre a Kiss fan this is a must have, sure the Anaheim Stadium show has a larger, better crowd and tons more energy but this has Flaming Youth, and thats huge.

Track list:
1. Cold Gin
2. Do You Love Me
3. Watchin’ You
4. God of Thunder
5. Flaming Youth
6. Firehouse
7. Black Diamond
8. The Kieselhorst Experiment -Flame Thrower
9. Mike Douglas Show 1974
10. Biography (In Spanish)
11. Discography (In Spanish)