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1. Creatures Of The Night Encores: Other
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 The KISS logo used since 1976's Destroyer tour
was still in place behind Eric Carr (as seen in picture 3), and Gene would still breath
fire at the end of "Firehouse", so some of the older effects were still in
place!But gone were the expensive flying rigs Gene had used during both the Dynasty and Unmasked tours. Instead Gene would play Quasimodo (from "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame") during his bass solo. Gene would pound his bass as usual, but then the sound of a large church bell would ring out, and Gene would cover himself from the sound behind his bass (like Lon Chaney, Sr. in the original movie version of "The Hunchback..."). The sound effect would be combined with a lightning effect from above!! During Eric's drum solo, the "gun turret" would move and the "exhaust pipes" around Eric's drum kit, would emit smoke and steam (as seen in picture 4), simulating exhaust fumes from the tank's engine... The drum riser would also steal the show, during the concert's finale... the band would get on top of the "gun turret" at the end  of "Black Diamond", and then the turret would start to turn from
left to right! The cannon would shoot (as seen in picture 5) at the speaker cabinets
hanging above the stage. A fa ke back of the speakers would fall down
(with a lot of confetti) to simulate the speakers had been blown apart! A truly great
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 The show would end as usual with a confetti storm during "Rock And Roll All Nite", and Paul smashing his guitar, and throwing it into the audience (picture 6)! Something new however, were the waterfall pyroeffect (seen in the Lick It Up section). This ended the show, as the band left the stage! |
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logo Gene spitting fire Gene spitting blood moving
drums Paul smashing guitar smoke bombs Firehouse helmet confetti storm fireworks
tank stage shooting tank
The Creatures Of The
Night tour began late in December 1982, and for the attending fans it was a very different
KISS they got to see! Ace and Peter were no longer in the band (they had not toured in the
US since 1979), and the show was scaled downa lot! The stage was made up to look like a
tank, with a gun turret as the drum riser! As you can see in picture 1, the platforms in
each side of the stage were the tanks caterpillar treads, which had running lights in them
to simulate the treads moving!
Picture 2 shows the
drum riser/gun turret in detail.
To view the exact tourdates of the Creatures of the night
tour, go to the Tourdates page.
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