Wednesday
Oct102012
KISS To Appear ‘Live On Letterman’ Tonight
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 12:01AM KISS are set to perform “Live on Letterman” at New York’s historic Ed Sullivan Theater tonight!
The KISS concert will air live on CBS.com and VEVO, with an audio stream available through Radio.com, starting at 8 PM EST tonight.
This will be the 50th webcast of “Live on Letterman.” Presumably KISS will perform a song or two from their new album Monster, which just came out yesterday. The band also promises classic tunes, too. I'm not exactly sure how long the performance will last - but CBS is touting the event as something significant.
Reader Comments (40)
How bout we put our political crap on the message board if we wanna go there.
Like Ace said stripped down, really highlighted the music especially for those of us who've seen the visuals 1000x - HOH rocks at least as hard as anything on Sonic and kinda has that I Stole Your Love feel to it, though not THAT good of a song!
Oh, and MB - Corabi would be a great idea for Jake especially since they've both got RATT in common.
Here's the set list...
KISS Live Webcast, Ed Sullivan Theatre, NY, NY, 10/10/12:
1) Hell Or Hallelujah
2) Shout It Loud
3) Calling Doctor Love
4) I Love It Loud
5) Detroit Rock City
6) Got To Choose
7) Christeen 16
8) Strutter
9) Lick It Up (with extra guitar parts stuck in the middle including a huge lead, a piece of "Baba O' Riley" and a quick visit of the riff from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded"! An Amazing, Totally Showstopping Performance!
Encore:
10) Deuce
Ladies and Gentlemen, just like Aerosmith's new song, "Street Jesus", this is another prime example of a big comeback for 70's GLAM!
As re: politics, I guess I am a bit perplexed. Allyson asks us to avoid them all the while offering up her opinion just before. That is her right. She runs this site. This site is about music. But that is a point complicated by the fact that musicians, and those that love them, speak out on politics (Stanley's comments on this point a week or so back are applicable here).
As an example: Allyson posts a note about this band's performance. At least one of the members of this band has views that diverge from the views of Allyson. I have to assume that she likes the band. I also have to assume that she disagrees with the views of at least one member of this band. So where are we?
KISS isn't U2. They aren't Bon Jovi (the band or the man). And some of the things I dislike about them relate to what some of the members of the band choose to do. So where does that leave me? Do I listen to groups I like or to those that I agree with on other issues? Am I still a WASP fan even if Lawless is now an evangelical Christian? Do I stop listening to Cooper because of the same issues? How about Mustaine? Or, alternatively, do I run full tilt towards Lamb of God? Can I like music and hold political views that are different (often from members and not from songs . . . given that songs have no volition save from the motion provided by the writer, the performers, and the listeners)?
I get it. Ace and Kevon are more conservative. Metalboy! and Allyson are more liberal. That has no impact on our love of music. So we have to choose to play our cards, be honest about them, and let the responses roll in. But that isn't the same thing as assuming that the cards we play aren't scripted by the biases we bring to the table.
With all due respect, Allyson, you can't call for an end to politics after asserting you own. And if you are going to assert that there is a link, you have to allow for some discussion thereof.
I don't agree with $immons' politics but I LOVE his music. Mustaine is a Nutter. I still like a handful of Megadeth tunes. Same with Nugent.
Just as Johnny, a Republican, and Joey, a Democrat, could be in the same band, The Ramones, all those years, so can we all get along.
p.s. Kevon! I am a centrist. And did it ever occur to you that it's also wearing rose colored glasses to think we can pay for all these wars without increasing taxes especially with the lollipops being supplied by Halliburton.
Hilarious.
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It may sound like hyperbole, but it isn't: this is the site where I go after my work day is done. I enjoy reading other sites. But I actually want to respond here. You have created a place where Metalboy!, Fletch, Sweet Lou, and others can write and react to music that matters to us. There are boasts. There is bravado. But that is nothing without you. Count me as a fan and a promoter of what you do because you love it, because I love it too.
I was only try to point out that music transcends our differences (in trivial and not so trivial ways). People who can't agree on matters of faith or politics can agree on how incredible it was to first here "I Want To Be Somebody." Or how hearing "I'm Eighteen" meant that you were alone, but were connected to a galaxy of others spinning albums or playing cassettes. Your site gets at all of that, and reaches all of us, who were scrappy enough (or lucky enough) to catch those feelings. But we aren't all the same even if we are are all the same.
When attacked, we strike back. When provoked, we respond. I don't expect you to hold your tongue on your site. You are right to respond (as if you needed me to tell you that). That isn't political; it is human.
But our humanity is so much more than our politics. And our politics is so much less than our humanity. Hence, a paradox. In moments of rapture, music has inspired regret, killing, saving, living, and dying. A song that saved a life could actually end one. A person who made us care could actually lead us not to.
I live off of my past. I thrive on facts, fictions, and fantasies that form my present and shape my future. I go into each workday happy in the knowledge that I am bound to a vibe, a feeling, that will never fail me when so much else will.
But that arena is filled with people. With passions. With beliefs. With ideas about issues that they care about. The one thing I share with them is a love for music, of a certain vintage, of a specific time, of a memory.
Allyson, our politics matter much less than our music does. If we can respect differences in the former and debate issues regarding the latter, we are closer to acting like we care about both. You have provided a spot where one of these ideals can flourish. Perhaps that can give rise to other venues where passions can spread.
I apologize for ever making you defend yourself. But I stand by my argument: if music admits of politics, then you must admit of dissent.
And with that and Ronald Reagan whispering in my ear, "There you go again", I, for one, will feel proud of Barack Obama, when he bestows The Kennedy Honors statues to the remaining living members of Led Zeppelin, as well as the Bonham Family, after his re-election.
It will be reassuring to know our President will do so as someone who is actually aware of the band and their music as opposed to Rumpney who, odds are, has never heard of them, nor cares.
Reagan, by the way, would probably not be elected in today's political climate unless he shed some of his moderate stances in the Primaries, which he probably would have done in a heartbeat, just as most Republicans would and just like Rongney had to do.
Of course, it's all neither here nor there, since it will be our great President Obama presenting to The Greatest Hard Rock Band of All Time.
What a wonderful and proud moment it will be for all Americans who regard Led Zeppelin as the one band, more than any other, who has provided the soundtrack to their lives as they grew up in the good ol' US of A!
It's just great to know someone who's actually cool will be giving Zep their well deserved Honors.
Just to clarify, Obama will be giving Kennedy Center Honors to Led Zeppelin, Buddy Guy, David Letterman, Dustin Hoffman and ballerina Natalia Makarova.
Peace Out, my BROTHER!
. . . and I am sorry about the "here" instead of "hear."