Kiss - Rock the Nation Live
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Actor: KissBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Double CD, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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DVD Review: Kiss and Divorce Rates
Summary: 5 Stars
Note about this DVD: If die hard Ace/Peter fans were as committed to their wives as they are to these two guys, divorce rates would fall overnight. If your girlfriend/wife gets old and wrinkled, or she's only willing to do a small fraction of the bedroom repetoire you used to do, or she just can't perform well anymore- you'd have no problem with some younger more nimble and talented lady puttin' on her makeup and performing with you. So why, oh why are people STILL sittin' around complaining about Ace and Peter being out of the band?
I'm a fan all the way through and have felt many of the same growing pains other fans have, but just as Gene wants an active direct deposit account, I want an active KISS. The reunion/Psycho/farewell tours were more than enough time to revel in the original four again- and a pleasure it was to see it live (moreso in '96 than as it dragged on years later). We had a new (although misguided) album and got TONS of press and articles and even the Second Coming dvd/vid package to cover and commemorate these four once again. Great.
Now you get to 2004 and Ace and Peter are once again tired of Gene and the whole routine. At one point, Ace and Eric Singer played with G&P in makeup- the reviews (from mature-non bitter fans) were great. Energy was up and they started changing up setlists like a living breathing band might do.
Then for the second Alive 4 (remember the planned first non-syphony alive 4 due out years ago? see end of box set for a few cuts) Tommy played Ace and Peter played plain boring fills. I had to boycott that DVD because the audio cd was so disappointing. Half the arrangements didn't compliment the tunes at all and the few perks (shandi, sure know something) were overshadowed by the weirdness of Tommy/Peter combo mixed with a seated made up kiss for an acoustic set- just didn't feel right, but I digress.
The point is, Kiss is either make up or not, and additionally, original 4 or not. Paying customers have made it clear- make up over non makeup- done. However, if Ace and Peter can't or won't make the experience special anymore, let it be. The rock the nation tour was undeniably akward for any true kiss fan, like calling your step-mom Mommy at Christmas dinner...it just felt weird, but you know what? For all the akwardness, she cooks one hell of a dinner and makes dishes your real mom haven't been able to or willing to make in years so have another drink and sing along, sourpuss.
Gene will never care what any of us think, so stop requesting another reunion. You had one- a big one- for years and, forgive the pun, it Petered out. Aced out, too. I love it for what it was worth, but it's done. Be glad you got you Second Coming and half-decade of original Kiss together again and stop whining.
Additionally, Rock the Nation dvd showcases a tour where Kiss actually put some new production value into the show. Not that the so called 3-D Psycho Circus Tour (what a joke) wasn't a good attempt, but for this tour, Kiss seemed to take a cue from Rush and/or Madonna who both round out their shows beautifully with tons of colorful video/graphics and animation. Add this to the energy, enthusiasm and setlist surprises of this tour and it's bound to please fans of Kiss' music and legacy- not roster.
Finally, this speculative reviewer of the not-yet available dvd can only hope that this incarnation of kiss does a new album together and tours fresh. If you ease up enough to see what a blessing this could be, it might actually excite you. Just think of it: the best of Kiss' live (make up) theatricality and production value mixed with musicianship that can deliver tunes from Love Her All I Can to Unholy. It's the best that Kiss as a band, in any lineup, could offer.
A special note to you die hards who are so bitter you're still posting line-up related threads in the form of DVD reviews: The rest of us had to drink enough so that Ace and Peter's new millenium playing was passable; now it's your turn to booze up enough to enjoy your favorite dinner made by newer-younger step-mommy in mom's old apron. I'm not saying it wasn't lame for Eric and Tommy and don Ace and Peter's makeup, but the Rock the Nation tour gave me more of what I loved about Kiss over the years than any other tour since the Reunion. Just some thoughts, folks...peace.
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