The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Moo., May 5, 1>75 Rock Band Kiss: Delicacy of Godzilla Devastating Tokyo they started lighting fires in stage anarchy can have weird By Bruce Meyer ping bat-like feather wings rooms. Kiss got its first we even apply our own make- the place." CHICAGO (UPI) — On and leering at the audience. "real" gig — fourth on the up," says Frehley. effects on an audience. With three albums under stage, a member of the Kiss During the course of each bill at New York's Academy "Even before we got the "Baltimore — we played in their collective belts, general- road crew reaches over his show, Simmons shoots a 20- of Music on New Year's eve. name," adds Simmons, "we Baltimore," says Criss, with a ly good reviews and excellent head to adjust a microphone. foot flame from his mouth, But by the start of 1974, they had the whole concept pretty look of quizzical awe. "And ills in the cities theyve "Wow," says someone lead guitarist Ace Frehley had found their "angel". much formulated — our ap- the people dug it so much plaved - plus an apparently down the third row. "What fires little exploding rockets proach to the stage as thea- when Gene spit the fire, they endless supply of new tricks are they, eight feet tall?" over the crowd from his gui- Ad Blitz ter. We used to put on make- lit a part of the place up, — the members of Kiss think Not quite. The members of tar, Paul Stanley destroys his He was Neil Bogart, a for- up and play in front of mir- started burning it, to show they're holding all the cards rock band Kiss really average amplifier ' and innumerable mer head of Buddah records, rors." they were digging it. Insani- they need to play the rock 'n flash-pans keep the hall filled As for their music, it's the about seven feet tall, includ- now out to make it big with ty." roll game and win. ing their custom-built, eight- with drifting smoke. his own Casablanca records most basic brand of rock 'n' As Stanley puts it, Kiss is Simmons grins. "They inch-high boots and their label. Kiss was his first act. roll — no fancy lyrics, spar- the kind of concert I always freak-frizz hairdos. They look Levitate Drummer Bogart flooded the band ing with the solos, heavy on were so Into the show that wanted to see - it's 45 min- like a gang of demented Japa- The finale comes as drum- with money for equipment, the powerful chords. It is, as they saw fire, and they said, utes of controlled chaos." nese kabuki dancers on pat- mer Peter Criss is levitated, costumes, props. He pulled Simmons put it, "basically •Wow. Fire. More fire.' And ent leather stilts — and they drum kit and all, over the Kiss from the ranks of the impact stuff." smell. heads of the band, aboard unknown with an ad blitz in And the impact; of Kiss' on- In unwashed, steel-studded "Flying Bertha", a concealed the trade magazines that pro- black leather, they smell of contraption resembling what duced rumors they were a 1st RUN DOUBLE FEATURE rancid sweat, gunpowder and Harry Houdini and Rube "manufactured" group — ru- ozone. The total effect is in Goldberg might have pro- mors they've been fighting "LINDA LOVELACE keeping with their music: duced had they collaborated ever since. FOR PRESIDENT" "WARD SEX" Loud, electric, laden with on building a fork lift. "Everything we do on stage ALSO fuzz-tone and played with all To a young audience jaded is us — we wrote the music, the delicacy of Godzilla dev- by the showbiz approach of we designed the costumes, "FEMALE VACUUM"^ astating Tokyo. Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull and . With the stage in darkness, the like, Kiss represents th IN COLOR a voice booms out the intro- state of the shock-rock art i duction, punctuated by ex- 1975. And whatever one ma RATED XXX plosions that dazzle the eyes think of the show itself, . and fill the air with acrid must be conceded that th smoke. Kiss approach works: Th kids love it. IOWA Visual Approach 364-3412 Gene Simmons of Kiss The band has been togeth "Are you ready to rock?" er barely two years — an NOW (Blam!) was virtually unknown ou "A TIME FANTASTIC JOHN SENSURROUND "Are you ready to roll?" side the New York area onl WAYNE TO RUN" (Blam!) one year ago. "EARTHQUAKE" "Then welcome — Kiss!" "It's really kind of crazy, "BRANNIGAN" COLOR Theater Times For Monday A six-foot-high electric says Simmons. "We reall COLOR "Kiss" sign blazes and the don't realize how quick! PARAMOUNT — "Time EASTOWN 2 — "Escape to band blasts into its opening things have happened. I To Run" — 7, 9:15. Witch Mountain" — 7:35, song, "Strutters". The crowd May of 1973, we played fo 9:35; cartoons — 7:15, 9:15. is on its feet as if pulled by free in a loft." KMART IOWA — "Brannigan" — COLLINS — "Caged Heat" wires. After a few months of stag WEST 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. — 8:20; "Big Bust Out" — In a band whose approach ing their own dances in var DOORS OPEN * MON.-TUIS. •» 7P.M. 10. is uniquely visual, bassist Sous run-down hotel bai: 2ND ELECTRIFYING WORLD — "The Great 2 OF THE FINEST TWIN WEST' — "White Gene Simmons is the most FILMS EVER ON ONE WEEK! "BLAZING "HARRY & Waldo Pepper" — 1:30, 3:25, startling: Black greasepaint (PGJ PROGRAM 5:20, 7:20, 9:20. Lightning" — 8:35; "Mr. Ma- SADDLES" STA6E4 TONTO" jestyk" — 10:35. flames rise from his eyes, * BURT REYNOLDS * 366-7381 black lips are surrounded by TIMES — "The Reincarna- TWIN EAST — "Blazing a mime's whiteface, fuzzy tion of Peter Proud" — 1:30, Saddles" — 8:35; "McQ" — hair tied into a floppy top- FOODS 4 CHARLES BRONSON A FUN HIT OF '75 ALL 3:20,5:15,7:15,9:15. 10:25. knot. Simmons strides about EVERY MR. HAJESTYK" WARREN ENGLISH MARION — Features at the stage in a half-crouch like TUESDAY BEATTY DIALOGUE PLAZA — "Earthquake" 11,1,3,5,7,9. a huge tarantula, knees bent and 'EMMAHOELIE" — 7:30, 9:50. CINEMA X — Features at and legs spread, thrusting "SHAMPOO" RATIO THURSDAY COLOR 11,1,3,5,7,9. out a long red tongue, flap- X STAGE 1 — "Blazing Sad- dles" — 7:50, 9:40. Sot. Nile * MON.-TUE5. 2ND BIG WEEK NIGHTLY-MEETING PLACE STAGE 2 — "Harry and "COMBO" A FUN-FUN COMEDY ROBERT Tonto" —7:45, 9:35. Fri. 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