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

Landmarks PresentsKISS frontman Paul Stanley at present is making ready to launch the debut album by his Soul Station facet challenge in March, but a small about a month in the past, he and his popular band were being ringing in 2021 by playing a massive livestreamed live performance at a Dubai lodge.

Stanley tells ABC Audio that actively playing the display, dubbed Kiss 2020 Goodbye, “was a extremely odd knowledge,” partly for the reason that his band hadn’t performed live given that the previous March because of to the COVID-19 pandemic, and partly for the reason that of how the function was staged to make matters secure for absolutely everyone.

“It was brilliant,” Stanley notes. “It was just variety of strange to be on this just magnificent mammoth stage and having a swimming pool in entrance of you, and then…a thousand individuals or so. And then, they had fairly considerably marketed all the rooms in the hotel for viewing the live performance, so, in essence, we had been playing to the hotel. But it was excellent.”

Reflecting on KISS’ preparation for the globally livestreamed occasion, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer describes, “We invested months rehearsing. We took it very seriously and, actually, you never want to go from zero to 60, and that is mainly what we did. We went from not actively playing, not becoming on tour, to allowing it all hold out, so to talk, with no redos. But it was enjoyment, and incredibly novel. And who better than us to do it?”

Amongst the intriguing elements of the present was that its large pyrotechnic exhibit established Guinness Entire world Data for the best flame projection at a new music live performance -– about 180 ft — and the most flame projections launched at the same time at a live performance.

As beforehand documented, Stanley and Soul Station’s debut album, Now and Then, will be introduced on March 19, and can be pre-ordered now.

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By Matt Friedlander
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