KISS audio - Melbourne and Sydney shows from the Farewell tour!

KISS

The Farewell Tour - Australia 2001

KISS have recently completed the Australian leg of the Farewell tour. Fans
lucky enough to see it witnessed some spectacular shows - Eric Singer has
certainly revitalised the band and the shows are looking and sounding great.

On the Japan/Aussie leg of the tour we got a few changes in the setlist from
the established US run, and some cities in Aussie saw some rare classic songs
being jammed - songs that haven't been played anywhere else on this tour!

We have audio of all three of the Melbourne shows from the Rod Laver Arena
and the first Sydney show from the Sydney Superdome, and they are now made
available to the fans. We are burning the shows to compact disc since that's the
format everyone has been asking for - each show is a 2 CD set. The audio has been
split up into separate tracks properly, Pauls raps being at the end of each track as
opposed to the start of the new one, no 2 seconds of silence between tracks like
some boots, etc ... In other words we took our time to do it properly.

Shows available are ...

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Melbourne, Australia. 3rd April 2001. Quality EX-
Melbourne, Australia. 4th April 2001. Quality VG. A little muddy soundwise.
Melbourne, Australia. 5th April 2001. Quality EX+
Sydney, Australia. 7th April 2001. Quality VG+/EX-

All shows are approximately 120 mins in duration, and setlists
and details of the bonus tracks that fill the CD's are listed below.

We are really pushing the 3rd Melbourne show as the one to get if you just want a
single show due to it being the best overall in terms of sound, setlist and performance.
Obviously different people have different scoring regimes for audio quality, but it
is certainly an excellent sounding audience recording.

Melbourne Night One Setlist

Disc One

Detroit Rock City
Deuce
Shout It Out Loud
Talk to Me
I Love It Loud
Firehouse
Do You Love Me?
Calling Dr. Love
Heaven's On Fire
Let Me Go, Rock n Roll
Shock Me (Ace Frehley solo)
Psycho Circus
Lick It Up (Gene Simmons solo)

Disc Two

God Of Thunder (Eric Singer Solo)
Cold Gin
100,000 Years
Love Gun
I Still Love You (Paul solo performance)
Shandi (Paul solo performance)
Black Diamond
I Was Made For Lovin' You
Jam - Parasite, Makin' Love, NY Groove, She, Got to Choose
Rock And Roll All Nite

Bonus Tracks

Goin' Blind

Strutter

Mr Speed

Rocket Ride (All from 3rd Melbourne show)

I Love It Loud (1st Sydney show). Gene doesn't sing any of the lyrics
in the right places and throws in some new stuff as he's going along.
A trademark Gene lyric screwup!

Additional :

Ace is having guitar troubles for the first few songs .. during the start of
"Talk To Me" he sings "My guitaar" to get things fixed.

During Gene's bass break in "Let Me Go Rock n Roll" he experiments a little, and sings a
cool little adlib several times during the song (this is also in every other show except Melbourne 3).

Gene doesn't have a spotlight on him for the start of "100,000 Years".
Angry Demon - "Yeah .. over here genius .. Einstein..."

During his rap for "Love Gun" Paul switches to a cordless mic, which wasn't being relayed
to his earpiece - "Get this mutha-fucker on in my earpiece - NOW!"

During Black Diamond Eric sings the second verse twice - the first time where the first verse should be.

Eric is slow returning to the stage after the bow ... "Oh no - we've lost another drummer!" - Paul.

Ace's guitar pyro for "Rock and Roll All Nite" doesn't work.

Melbourne Night Two Setlist

Disc One

Disc Two

God Of Thunder (Eric Singer Solo)
Cold Gin
100,000 Years
Love Gun
I Still Love You (Paul solo performance)
Hard Luck Woman (Paul solo performance)
Shandi (Paul solo performance)
Black Diamond
I Was Made For Lovin' You
Jam - NY Groove, She, Makin' Love, Parasite
Rock And Roll All Nite

Bonus Tracks

Got to Choose (1st Melbourne show)

Goin' Blind

Strutter

Rocket Ride

Mr Speed (All from 3rd Melbourne show)

Additional :

Ace's guitar pyro during "Rock and Roll All Nite" didn't go off, his roadie came out and switched
it on after he had finished playing it and Ace promptly started chasing Gene around with it going off.

Ace's scissor lift for "Rock and Roll All Nite" doesn't go up so he just shrugs and waves
at Gene who is up on his.

Eric is wearing what seems to be an arm brace ...

Melbourne Night Three Setlist

Disc One

Disc Two

God Of Thunder (Eric Singer Solo)
Cold Gin
100,000 Years
Love Gun
I Still Love You (Intro riff - Paul solo performance)
Forever (Paul solo performance)
Hard Luck Woman (Paul solo performance)
Shandi (Paul solo)
Black Diamond
I Was Made For Lovin' You
Jam - NY Groove (just the intro riff), Goin' Blind, Parasite,
NY Groove (chorus), Strutter, She, Rocket Ride, Mr Speed
Rock And Roll All Nite

Yep - the first time Goin' Blind and Mr Speed have ever been performed live in makeup!

Bonus Tracks -

- I Still Love You (1st Melbourne show). On the third night Paul just
played the intro ... here's the first nights performance of around about
half of the complete song.

- Makin' Love (1st Sydney show). This was generally included in the jam,
but not at the 3rd Melbourne gig, so here it is.

- Got to Choose (1st Melbourne show).

- I Love It Loud (1st Sydney show). Gene doesn't sing any of the lyrics
in the right places and throws in some new stuff as he's going along.
A trademark Gene lyric screwup!

Additional :

The audio quality dips a little bit during the first song here and there,
unfortunately thats just the way it was recorded. Otherwise things are fine.

Ace had guitar problems during the first song, and the first break where Gene and Ace play
and then Paul joins them has just Gene and then Paul joining as Ace was talking to his guitar tech.

Ace is a little late switching guitars for "Talk To Me" (his guitar for that song is in a different tuning) and
Paul says that Ace will introduce the song but then starts to himself. Ace says that he thought he was
going to introduce the song and Paul says he didn't want the audience to fall asleep - Ace reassures
the crowd that they "Fuckin' rock!".

After his guitar smokes and flies up to the ceiling Ace says that his guitar is only three years old
and "fuckin' smoking! ... urgh.."

When Ace sings the second verse on "Cold Gin" he sings half the second verse and half
of the first .. Gene corrects him.

When the band come out for their bow Eric screams "Yeah!" into the microphone in quite a high pitched
voice ... Gene (from memory) screams a high pitched "Yeah" in the mic to mock him.

Someone throws some panties on stage with what seems to be a phone number in them. Paul jokes
that they say "Dear Gene, my name is Steve".

Ace starts the majority of the songs in the jam, making Gene ask "What does the Ace Frehley
Band want to do next?" .. which starts Ace playing Rocket Ride, which Gene and Paul
don't have a clue how to play.

Sydney Night One Setlist

Disc One

Disc Two

God Of Thunder (Eric Singer Solo)
Cold Gin
100,000 Years
Love Gun
I Still Love You (Paul solo performance)
Hard Luck Woman (Paul solo performance)
Shandi (Paul solo)
Black Diamond
I Was Made For Lovin' You
Jam - NY Groove, Parasite, She, Makin' Love
Rock And Roll All Nite

Bonus Tracks

Got to Choose (1st Melbourne show)

Goin' Blind

Strutter

Rocket Ride

Mr Speed (All from 3rd Melbourne show)

Additional :

Ace says that he has a question - "Talk to Me!"

Gene completely screws up the lyrics to "I Love It Loud" .. he mixes things around
and makes up some new stuff as he goes.

Gene's lyrics to "Let Me Go Rock and Roll" are a little iffy ... he skips the first verse
in lieu of singing the second and then the third twice.

When Gene flies to the top of the platform he throws in a "Gidday Digger" between "Oh Yeah?" 's.

There you go then.

Like it says above, if you want to get just a single show from Aussie and are unsure
which to pick then we really recommend the 3rd Melbourne gig as the one to have.

Ordering details

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One show : USD $25 / AUD $35 / NZD $50

Each subsequent show : add USD $10 / AUD $20 / NZD $20

This price includes postage anywhere in the world - extra handy for all the
rockin' KISS fans at the North Pole.

We feel this is a really good price - there is someone in Australia selling
copies of the Sydney show for AUD $65 each.

Each 2CD set comes in a jewel case with a full colour cover.

Please email for payment options.

Thanks for your interest!