On December 2, Kiss will bring the curtain down on their 50 year career in the city where they formed back in 1973. And bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons is adamant that the gig at New York's Madison Square Garden which completes the quartet's 253 show End of the Road tour will definitely mark The End for the group he and vocalist/guitarist Paul Stanley have piloted to worldwide fame. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the Kiss story will end when Simmons, Stanley, guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer take their final bow in Manhattan.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Simmons says that "hand to Bible", the December 2 date in Manhattan will be the group's last show, noting "the physicality of being in Kiss says that this is the right thing, at the right place, at the right time."
"You want to go out while you’re on top," he says. "And remember, we introduce ourselves with, 'You wanted the best, you got the best, the hottest mofo band on the planet, Kiss.' At some point, those words are not going to mean very much, when I’m in my rocket-propelled wheelchair with a hot nurse pushing me around."
