Post by Karen™ on May 18, 2008 20:09:36 GMT -5
From KISSONLINE.com
5/16/08 | FURY-Mag.com
KISS DESTROYED VERONA
FURY! attended the KISS concert in the Arena di Verona in Italy and this was probably the most beautiful place they performed in their entire career. Being an ancient roman Colosseum the Arena is still in use, mostly for opera performances. For this performance though the place was packed with 20000 crazy KISS fans.
KISS put on a marvelous show and rocked from beginning to end. And the crowd … well they were already excited on the square in front of the arena when the gates weren't even open yet. They yelled and chanted KISS songs all the time creating a beautiful atmosphere. Inside the arena, right before the show, the crowd started a 'wave' like they were at a football game and during the show at some points the crowd was even louder than the band, standing, clapping and cheering the entire concert. You could tell from their faces KISS themselves loved the sight of it too.
The stagefloor was the floor which is normally being used for opera performances. This gave the band the opportunity to use the sides of the stage too, which they did very often. At one point Paul Stanley even sat down on the ancient stands of stone, right in front of the audience there. Due to this stagefloor they couldn't use the elevators they normally use at the end of Rock And Roll All Nite. And there were some more difficulties which kept them from putting on an entire show with all the effects they normally use. Word got out the trucks with the stage attributes were being held at the border thus arriving at around 2 o' clock. This may have been the cause of them just walking to the stage instead of coming up from the ceiling on a lightning rig. Also the center stage was missing so Paul didn't fly during Love Gun. But this didn't seem to bother the crowd at all. And it shouldn't. This performance was memorable in many ways!
5/16/08 | FURY-Mag.com
KISS DESTROYED VERONA
FURY! attended the KISS concert in the Arena di Verona in Italy and this was probably the most beautiful place they performed in their entire career. Being an ancient roman Colosseum the Arena is still in use, mostly for opera performances. For this performance though the place was packed with 20000 crazy KISS fans.
KISS put on a marvelous show and rocked from beginning to end. And the crowd … well they were already excited on the square in front of the arena when the gates weren't even open yet. They yelled and chanted KISS songs all the time creating a beautiful atmosphere. Inside the arena, right before the show, the crowd started a 'wave' like they were at a football game and during the show at some points the crowd was even louder than the band, standing, clapping and cheering the entire concert. You could tell from their faces KISS themselves loved the sight of it too.
The stagefloor was the floor which is normally being used for opera performances. This gave the band the opportunity to use the sides of the stage too, which they did very often. At one point Paul Stanley even sat down on the ancient stands of stone, right in front of the audience there. Due to this stagefloor they couldn't use the elevators they normally use at the end of Rock And Roll All Nite. And there were some more difficulties which kept them from putting on an entire show with all the effects they normally use. Word got out the trucks with the stage attributes were being held at the border thus arriving at around 2 o' clock. This may have been the cause of them just walking to the stage instead of coming up from the ceiling on a lightning rig. Also the center stage was missing so Paul didn't fly during Love Gun. But this didn't seem to bother the crowd at all. And it shouldn't. This performance was memorable in many ways!
