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the fact that the "Hot In The Shade" tour was an enormous success, it's really
odd, that so few good pictures from the tour exists!! It's actually been really hard just
to find the ones seen here! In fact KISS almost did not go on tour with Hot in the shade.
The album was not doing that well at the beginning when it came out in September 1989, but
when "Forever" became a TOP 10 hit in early 1990, the interest was there and
they went on tour im May 1990 with 2 good opening acts (most of the time Slaughter were
opening, who had a huge hit album back then and another second big band like Faster
Pussycat for instance) The new stage  set were the most
amazing thing KISS had used since the '70's. The stage was dominated by a large Sphinx
(like on the cover of Hot In The Shade, and seen behind the band in picture 1!), that was
nicknamed Leon The Sphinx. As the houselights dimmed, the humming sound would be heard from the speakers, while Leon opened his mouth, and let hundreds of thin laser beams out. The laser curtain had already been developed for the Dynasty show, but it had not worked proberly, and was discarded after the first show. On this tour it worked perfectly. As Leon's mouth opened fully, KISS would be revealed standing in silhouette, in the mist of laser beams! There was no "You wanted the best, you got the best" introduction on this tour; KISS would just walk down on the stage and open the show with "I Stole Your Love" and an amazing firework display. |
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sounded better than they had for years on this tour. It helped a great deal that there
were no solo's this time around... well, not at first that was.Eric was so unhappy about this decision, that he eventually got permission to do a solo. And he didn't disappoint this time. The solo has to be heard, but I'll do my best to describe it: The solo came in the middle of "God of Thunder", just like in the good old days, and started with Eric playing along to some Egyptian themed choir (played via the electronic drum pads). It sounded awesome. This was followed by his usual drum/electronic tune drum part, and then ended with Eric playing some disco styled stuff, which actually sounded good, too! But as I said, it has to be heard! Just before the solo, Leon's eyes had lit up, and searched the crowd, and just as KISS kicked into the song again after the solo, he would shoot rockets from his eyes, just like Ace and Gene had done on previous tours. And then came the biggest surprise: Leon sang the verse that came after! The effect was done, by having the laser cannon displaying the vocals as an oscilloscope readout on a small screen inside Leon's mouth (see picture 4). It might sound silly, but it really looked like Leon was singing!   At the end of the last song, Detroit Rock City, Leon would
collapse, amidst a giant fireworks display. The first encore would be I Want You, which
started with Paul and Bruce playing the intro while a big mirror ball was hanging over the
stage bathing the entire arena in thin purple light beams. As the heavy part of the song
started, a big, metallic KISS logo would come up (as seen in picture 2 and 3). The logo
looked a lot like the one used from 1976 to 1984, but it was not the same. Look carefully
at the K, and you will see it had a wrong shape. This version of the logo was last seen in
the concert segment of the "Detroit Rock City" movie! Picture 3 here also gives
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