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Kiss’ members are finally saying goodbye to their shiny platform boots for good. P H OTO : B R I A N LOW E
End of the Road
Kiss’ farewell tour will “lick it up” at Wright State University’s Nutter Center in Dayton BY A L A N S C U L L E Y 32
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MAY 4, 2022 - MAY 17, 2022
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s Kiss delves further into a farewell tour that was interrupted by the pandemic, lead singer and guitarist Paul Stanley knows what he’ll miss most about the band he co-founded with bassist/singer Gene Simmons in 1973 in New York City. “There’s nothing really that can compete or come close to the combustive emotional nature of what we do on stage and the connection to the fans,”
he says in a phone interview. “That’s something that’s irreplaceable. That’s something that there’s nothing to compare it to.” But fans won’t have to worry that they’ll see a mopey or overly sentimental Stanley on stage as he grapples with the reality that this is the final Kiss tour. In fact, Stanley — in typical fashion for a band that has never been short on bravado — says this last outing, billed
