Paul Stanley is sure fans will still see the band in some form even after the completion of their End of the Road farewell tour. Stanley stated that, “Kiss is like an army or a sports team, When the MVP is no longer playing or retired, the team doesn’t call it quits. On a battlefield, an army, when they lose soldiers, doesn’t wave the white flag. Somebody else picks up the weapon and runs forward. So in one form or another, I believe there will always be a Kiss. I didn’t invent the wheel, I may have polished it a bit, but what am I, except a combination of all of the people who inspired me? When I added my individuality to it, it became essentially what people know as Paul Stanley. But to believe that I’m the only person who can do that is a bit self-centered and egocentric. Is there somebody else out there who could pick up and wave the flag? Absolutely. I’m not saying there should be a copy of me. I’m not a copy of anybody else. But I’m certainly a combination of many people that inspired me.”
Stanley also previously talked about Kiss having the right to evolve saying, “There are bands touring at this point with one or no original members, and I have no problem with that because it didn’t happen overnight, It was a series of changes over years or decades. If someone were to say, ‘Well, there’s no original members in one of the versions of Yes,’ I’d say, ‘Who cares?’ It sounds like Yes and the pedigree is Yes, so is it Yes? Yes!”
Another bandmate of Kiss, Gene Simmons, also talked about the idea of a tour that would have no original member saying that, “The Blue Man Group and Phantom of the Opera tour around the world with different personnel, There could and should be a Kiss show, kind of live onstage with effects and everything else, but also a semi-autobiographical thing about four knuckleheads off the streets of New York that ends with the last third as a full-blown celebration, a full-on performance.”
Before Paul Stanley and the rest of Kiss consider virtual Kiss events, or other avenues of keeping Kiss alive, they will have to wrap up the shows they are currently scheduled for. Which includes dates through July and Simmons recently said they plan on adding another 100 cities to the schedule. Kiss also recently put out a Creatures of the Night 40th anniversary expanded box set.
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