Return to Forever is playing in Austin tonight, but I have to miss it...maybe next time if they ever do it again.
I wasn’t a Kiss fan growing up. They were so overexposed. And they had wimpy ballads like “Beth” that were considered “acceptable” for things like the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
Then there was they hype about the makeup. And fans who tried to pretend that they were “different” from everyone else by wearing the SAME outfits and joining the Kiss Army.
Gotta say that it was good merchandising though. Probably not seen as effectively since the days of the Beatles and Elvis. New Kids On The Block would later hit similar levels of marketed crap. But unlike NKOTB, Kiss memorabillia still sells as does Elvis and Beatles crap (old and new stuff, from cookie jars to ties to posters).