KISS’ Paul Stanley suggests band’s livestreamed New Year’s Eve display was “very odd” and “awesome”

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February 9, 2021


Landmarks PresentsKISS frontman Paul Stanley now is preparing to release the debut album by his Soul Station aspect project in March, but a minor above a month ago, he and his renowned band had been ringing in 2021 by taking part in a large livestreamed concert at a Dubai hotel.
Stanley tells ABC Audio that enjoying the show, dubbed Kiss 2020 Goodbye, “was a quite odd experience,” partly for the reason that his band hadn’t executed live due to the fact the prior March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and partly because of how the occasion was staged to make things safe and sound for everybody.
“It was amazing,” Stanley notes. “It was just sort of strange to be on this just spectacular mammoth phase and owning a swimming pool in entrance of you, and then…a thousand men and women or so. And then, they experienced fairly considerably sold all the rooms in the lodge for viewing the concert, so, in essence, we were participating in to the hotel. But it was excellent.”
Reflecting on KISS’ planning for the globally livestreamed occasion, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer points out, “We spent months rehearsing. We took it severely and, actually, you really don’t want to go from zero to 60, and that is generally what we did. We went from not actively playing, not staying on tour, to letting it all hang out, so to converse, with no redos. But it was pleasurable, and really novel. And who much better than us to do it?”
Amid the intriguing factors of the exhibit was that its massive pyrotechnic exhibit set Guinness Earth Data for the highest flame projection at a tunes concert -– about 180 ft — and the most flame projections introduced simultaneously at a live performance.
As previously reported, Stanley and Soul Station’s debut album, Now and Then, will be launched on March 19, and can be pre-requested now.
By Matt Friedlander
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