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 The Love Gun stage
set looked a lot like the Destroyer set, but there were still plenty of differences in the
show. The differences in
the staging was mostly the lights in the stairs... for the Love Gun tour they were much
brighter than on the Rock And Roll Over Tour, and they could flash in sequenzed patterns
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1. I Stole Your
Love Encores: Other songs additionally
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 Hidden in the stage floor
were two hydraulic lifts (like the one under Peter's drumkit) which could lift  the band members into the air. According to Dale Sherman's book
"Black Diamond, pt. 1" these were already a part of the show in Japan in April
1977, but that is not the case... I can't see them in my copy of the video, anyway!!But Paul would sing Love Gun from several feet above the stage, standing on the right platform (picture 3). Then during Gene's solo before God of Thunder, Gene would command the left platform to levitate him. From there he would make fireball's appear from the stagefloor (thanks to the help of the pyrotechnics crew!!) |
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During his guitar solo, Ace would also use the platform at stage right—at least for
the first few shows of the tour (photo 4). Perhaps, like the dangerous  situation with the stairs, the decision to change this
aspect of the show was  arrived at for safety
reasons. As many KISS fans know, Ace’s balance was a bit off in those days, and some
in the KISS camp may actually have feared his falling from the platform.The platforms would again be used during the finale in Black Diamond (as seen here in picture 5). Gene would stand on the left platform, while Ace and Paul would share the right one. They would go up, together with Peter's drum riser, while all sorts of pyrotechnic effects would explode around them! A spectacular effect... so spectacular actually, that it ended up in the gatefold of Alive II! |
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 Peter's drumriser was also entirely new. During his drumsolo in God of Thunder, the drumriser would forward to the edge of the stage, and during the finale it would rise up as usual, this time revealing no less than two golden cats ready to attack (picture 6). Aside from these new effects the show was the same it had been the previous years: Gene would still drool blodd during the bass solo; Ace's guitar would still smoke and burst into flame; the band would still have a confetti storm during Rock And Roll All Nite etc. |
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logo Gene spitting fire Gene spitting blood Ace's
smoking & burning guitar Paul smashing
guitar smoke bombs drum
riser confetti storm fireworks dragon Firehouse helmet lightning stairs platform
risers
To view the exact
tourdates of the Love Gun and Alive II tours, go to the Tourdates page.
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