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The Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour〔(The KISSFAQ - KISS Tourdates Archive )〕 was a concert tour by the hard rock group Kiss in support of their album of the same title. It was the second tour with drummer Eric Carr, his first in his home country, and the first tour with guitarist Vinnie Vincent, (née Vincent Cusano) who replaced Ace Frehley. Wearing a make-up design of an Egyptian "ankh," Cusano was promoted as "Vinnie 'The Wiz' Vincent" who was "even weirder than we are" in the tour's press release. The groups' lucrative record contract with PolyGram required Kiss to be composed of founders Gene Simmons (bass), Paul Stanley (singer/guitarist), and Frehley.〔(Interview with Chris Lendt - Three Sides Of The Coin podcast )〕 The release did not say Frehley had quit, but instead stated Frehley was too injured from a recent car crash to tour, but might make appearances onstage when able. The band used group photos containing Ace Frehley for the tour's press kits and ad material during early dates; these were used by promoters for advertising, so many fans did not realize Frehley was replaced until they came to the venues. Before Vincent was announced, new photos were taken and later dates featured the band with Vincent in show ads.〔(Interview with Chris Lendt - Three Sides Of The Coin podcast )〕 Attendance in North America was abysmal; even though the band had returned to its signature hard rock after several years of pop and disco-influenced music, very few people showed up at the concerts on the tour. Even worse was the fact that the band couldn't drum up interest despite it being their 10th anniversary and their first tour of the US in over 3 years, an unprecedented amount of time for them during that era. Co-frontman Paul Stanley recalled a show in Lexington, Kentucky where he threw a pick that went over the entire audience of 2,500 and hit the floor. They later cancelled the rest of the US leg, and were offered some dates in Brazil, where they played to the biggest crowd of their career at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with over 137,000 people in the audience.〔(KISSONLINE.COM - KISS Chronology )〕 During their North American tour, Kiss was met with accusations from religious groups of promoting Satanism through their music and image, and several protests were held by such groups outside concert venues; however, Kiss politely denied the accusations and the tour continued. 〔( 'Kiss vs Religious Groups: 1982-1983 )〕 This tour is the only tour to feature live performances of "Rock and Roll Hell" and "Keep Me Comin" from the ''Creatures of the Night'' LP, although both would be dropped from the set almost immediately. "I Want You" returned to the setlist for the first time since the Alive II Tour in 1978. The band sang the chant that opened and closed their new main single "I Love It Loud", but by the tour's end, this was changed and only Simmons sang it. When the tour ended, Kiss decided to turn the page...removing their make-up and hanging up their platform boots until 1996. The Plasmatics was the opening act in the middle of the tour while heavy metal band Mötley Crüe opened for KISS early in the tour--but was dropped due to bad behavior. Night Ranger was the opening act for several concerts on the tour, too, replacing the Plasmatics. ==Stage Set== Simmons described the tour's visual effects: "There's some fire-breathing and blood-spitting into the air and we give birth on stage and there's some fire balls that go thirty feet up into the air. And it rains fire and also some rockets take off on stage, and the stage looks like a tank sixty feet wide. You actually feel it in your chest when the tank moves. And then the drum riser, which is on top of the tank, goes forward, moves left and right, and actually fires like a real tank." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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