As Kiss’s official website countdown approached the zero hour, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer took to the stage for the final time, fittingly, in the band’s home town, at New York City’s fabled Madison Square Garden. And Classic Rock was there to witness it all happen. Was this really going to be the end?
We dispatched intrepid reporter Paul Brannigan to take in the sights and sounds of Kiss’s long-rumoured (threatened?) last stand, and he talked to Gene and Paul about finally hanging up their stack-heeled boots – at least, it turns out, in the physical realm. What we didn’t anticipate is what occurred at the end of the show, hinting at their next chapter. But that, as they say, will be a story for another day.
