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finally saw kiss
4 years ago
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Finally saw kiss in person yesterday. About 45 years too late to the party but at least I got reheated leftovers with sprinkles on top.
The facepaint (at least Gene’s) is really fun to do though mine was a crusty mess since I used expired $1 target crap and ended up kinda bottom-heavy and King Diamond-y on the wings because I don’t have nearly as much forehead real estate as the real deal lol The design moves really well on your cheeks when you make dumb faces though. I really want to play with it more especially if I get some stuff that doesn’t totally suck lol
The actual music was okay, ironically a lot of the songs I’m not as fond of sounded better live and some of the ones I love the album version of did not translate well (I Was Made For Lovin’ You partly because like half the members hate that song). And of course most of my favorite songs are deep cuts they never play but I’m very well aware of that lol Honestly though they’re old farts and I’m just glad I got to see them so I kind of don’t care
The visuals are very nice though. Very very shiny costumes that look really good on them considering how old and/or ugly they all are that make me want to make some mirror plate monster of my own. Tommy and Paul switch guitars like half a dozen times at least and they’re all very pretty and shiny. Lots of fun lighting and effects. The video screens had lots of saggy old man chins and hands from constantly zooming in on them waaay too close with way too high definition for my liking. Gene is just as disgusting looking irl as in pictures but the makeup makes it work somehow and he just looks like a snapping turtle or Victorian dino or other big nasty cold blooded thing. He moves more than most people made it sound like he did even if he looks like a goofy grandpa going rawr rawr godzilla and jokingly flirting with people. Paul lip-syncs most of it and some of his stage raps get a bit too corny but his little dance and dumb antics are funny enough I don’t really care. Tommy (space guitar guy who replaced Ace) is extremely aesthetic even if a little boring. The cat guy does a couple subtle funny cat things that made me laugh (cleaning himself during the drum solo and just. sitting there watching Tommy’s guitar solo in the dark while the other two presumably went to pee)
Dunno if non-kiss fans would enjoy but I had fun.
Admittedly my mood crashed hard after moving but hopefully this gives me some ideas to play with in my head and get out of it. I definitely need more living disco balls and scalies/amphibians.
The facepaint (at least Gene’s) is really fun to do though mine was a crusty mess since I used expired $1 target crap and ended up kinda bottom-heavy and King Diamond-y on the wings because I don’t have nearly as much forehead real estate as the real deal lol The design moves really well on your cheeks when you make dumb faces though. I really want to play with it more especially if I get some stuff that doesn’t totally suck lol
The actual music was okay, ironically a lot of the songs I’m not as fond of sounded better live and some of the ones I love the album version of did not translate well (I Was Made For Lovin’ You partly because like half the members hate that song). And of course most of my favorite songs are deep cuts they never play but I’m very well aware of that lol Honestly though they’re old farts and I’m just glad I got to see them so I kind of don’t care
The visuals are very nice though. Very very shiny costumes that look really good on them considering how old and/or ugly they all are that make me want to make some mirror plate monster of my own. Tommy and Paul switch guitars like half a dozen times at least and they’re all very pretty and shiny. Lots of fun lighting and effects. The video screens had lots of saggy old man chins and hands from constantly zooming in on them waaay too close with way too high definition for my liking. Gene is just as disgusting looking irl as in pictures but the makeup makes it work somehow and he just looks like a snapping turtle or Victorian dino or other big nasty cold blooded thing. He moves more than most people made it sound like he did even if he looks like a goofy grandpa going rawr rawr godzilla and jokingly flirting with people. Paul lip-syncs most of it and some of his stage raps get a bit too corny but his little dance and dumb antics are funny enough I don’t really care. Tommy (space guitar guy who replaced Ace) is extremely aesthetic even if a little boring. The cat guy does a couple subtle funny cat things that made me laugh (cleaning himself during the drum solo and just. sitting there watching Tommy’s guitar solo in the dark while the other two presumably went to pee)
Dunno if non-kiss fans would enjoy but I had fun.
Admittedly my mood crashed hard after moving but hopefully this gives me some ideas to play with in my head and get out of it. I definitely need more living disco balls and scalies/amphibians.
