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the show would progress just about as usual: Gene breathing fire during Firehouse, Ace
playing a guitar solo after Into The Void, with both the smoking/flying guitar, and the
rocket shooting guitar.Paul would introduce the 3-D screens for Do You Love Me, by reaching out for the audience (easily the best effect used at all!). Before God Of Thunder, Gene would do his bass solo/blood spitting act, and then "fly" into the lighting rig to sing the song. Something new was, that Peter's solo had been moved into a slot of it's own. At most shows he started the solo at the end of Within, with Gene shouting "I wanna see from within"! A new effect had been added for the solo, as you can see in picture 3: Peter's drumkit rose on a platform, that would then "fly" out over the first few rows of the audience! Peter also surprised a lot of people with his solo. In fact I can't remember him doing a solo as good as the one in the Psycho Circus shows... fast-paced and really melodic! |
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Love Gun Paul again asked for his transporter, and then "flew" out to a platform
in the audience, from where he would sing the song.Something new however, was that he during the solo in the song, jumped down and shook hands with fans standing around the platform. Talking about surprising the fans, huh! |
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flame-throwers used on the Reunion tour had disappointed many fans, by not being as
impressive as they had been in the '70's shows!The old gas based flame- 
throwers were put back in action for the Psycho Circus tour. As you can see in picture 5,
the fire columns were extremely massive, with a huge fireball on top! KISS would end the set with Rock And Roll All Nite, which as
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encores ended with Black Diamond, which as usual had Peter's drumkit rising above the
stage. This time there were no cats underneath the set, as he rose into the air.As you can see in picture 7, they also used hydraulic platforms for this part of the show. The platforms were however only used twic  e: the opening show in L.A. on
Halloween '98, and for the pre-game show at the Superbowl '99.The platforms were not used on the rest of the tour. Another thing KISS used only during the opening show were the lasers (seen behind Peter in picture 8). The lasers had not been a part of the Reunion shows, but it was planned to re-introduce them for this tour. But for some reason this was dropped. |
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Also like on the Reunion tour, KISS had giant blow-up replicas of themselves (picture 9a
and 9b) placed at some of the arenas they played in. As you can see the blow-up's were now also in the Destroyer outfits. In Picture 9b you see the Peter and Paul blow-up's. The Paul blow-up at the extreme right, was only on display for the Psycho Circus press conference. As you can see, Paul's blow-up was misprinted... the star was on the right side of the face, instead of the left (and no, I didn't just turn the picture around... note that Paul's left arm is raised on both versions!!!). KISS toured the US in November and December 1998, then
took a break before playing in Europe from late February to early April 1999. The European
tour should have ended with a couple of shows in Russia, but these had to be cancelled at
the last moment, because of NATO bombings in ex-Yugoslavia in March 1999. The
anti-American atmosphere in Russia following the bombings, made touring there unsafe, and
KISS were advised to cancel, which It had been announced that the tour would continue in the fall, and Ace revealed in an interview that this would the the bands Farewell tour. Gene quickly went on the record to say that this was not the case, and by the fall of 1999 no news about a tour had emerged... To be continued in the Farewell Tour section!! |
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logos Gene spitting fire Gene spitting blood Ace's
smoking & flying guitar Paul smashing
guitar smoke bombs flying
drums confetti storm fireworks Ace
shooting rockets from his guitar 3-D
effects big screen behind drums Gene flying Paul flying Ace lightning
guitar huge blow up dolls huge 
Fans had hoped for
it, but only a few had dared to believe in it: another tour/album with the reformed
KISS... but in 1998 KISS announced that they would record an album together called Psycho
Circus, and afterwards they would tour again! 
action
on stage, which had always been the main focus during a KISS show. And many fans wondered
what the point in putting the live performance up on the screens in 3-D was, since you
could get just about the same effect from simply watching the band on stage. Thirdly there
was the old problem, well-known from the 3-D films, that had been so popular in the '50's
and '80's: the 3-D effect was breathtaking at first, but after 2 hours you just didn't
care any more!!
At the entrance
everybody got a free KISS 3-D glasses (see picture 1B), which you had to put on whenever
3-D effects were shown on the monitor.
they did. At least, this was the official
reason... 
To view the exact
tourdates of the Psycho Circus tour, go to the Tourdates page.
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