KISS Concert Ad Advert Hot In The Shade Tour 1990 The Stone Pony NJ Vintage Kiss Tishna Rollo Benefit

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KISS Concert Ad Advert Apr 14 1990 The Stone Pony NJ Tishna Rollo Benefit Vintage Kiss in fantastic condition from smoke free pet free home. Asbury Park, NJ
The Stone Pony
Promoter: Tishna Rollo Foundation Corp / Jersey Artists for Mankind
Other act(s): The Red & the Black, Saraya, Joe Lynn Turner, The Good Rats, The Young Rascals
Reported audience: ~800 **SOLD-OUT

Set list(s):
I Stole Your Love
Deuce
Heaven’s On Fire
Fits Like A Glove
Rise To It
Betrayed
C’mon And Love Me
Calling Dr. Love
Hide Your Heart
Love Gun
Detroit Rock City
I Love It Loud
Black Diamond

Notes:
– One of three benefit concerts for eight-year-old Tishna Rollo, the daughter of producer/engineer John Rollo, who was suffering from a relapsed Wilms’ tumor of the kidney and was denied treatment by her medical insurance provider (the case went to court and a judge ultimately ruled in the parent’s favor). At the first benefit Jon Bon Jovi performed along with Bobby Bandiera, the Diamonds, Cats on a Smooth Surface, and E Street Band members (Billboard, 4/21/90). The Red & the Black were actually members of Blue Oyster Cult.
– Eric played a half-electronic drum set for this gig. Recordings (AUD & VID) from the show circulate though Gene’s bass and Eric’s drums are brutally loud. Gene’s bass eventually blew his amp at the beginning of the fourth song and he ended up being re-routed through a Marshall. With the amp issue resolved Paul played a bit of “Oh Susannah,” and then took on the first verse of “Fits like a Glove” before Gene took over for the rest.
– “Little Caesar” is often appended to bootlegs of this show, though it comes from the later Reseda concert. Regardless, the show marks the live debut (by KISS, since Paul had already performed “Hide Your Heart” during his solo tour) of three songs from the “Hot in the Shade” album.
– From a local review: “The last time KISS played a club this small, with a stage this tiny, Richard Nixon was in the White House. The band had only just begun to learn how to apply makeup, and they rehearsed in a loft on 23rd Street in Manhattan, eating cold turkey sandwiches on stale white bread… Squeezing themselves into the landmark Ocean Avenue club — the smallest venue they’ve played since 1973 — KISS topped a six-hour show… it was clearly back-to-basics time as they dusted off songs that were staples of their mid-’70s shows, and the audience licked it up. Hundreds of fists pumped roofward throughout ‘Deuce,’ a track from their debut album as bassist Gene Simmons growled his way through the verses, and fans screamed ‘Do it!’ in unison during the chorus. After teasing the animals with a few bars of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Heartbreaker,’ guitarist Paul Stanley launched into ‘Fits like a Glove.’ But Simmons’ microphone and amplifier wouldn’t work, and after singing into a dead mike with a major league frowny-face one, he simply stopped playing. While technicians scrambled to find the problem, Stanley, Kulick and Simmons played a heavy metal version of ‘Oh Susannah.’ While Simmons’ microphone conked out again on the second try, Stanley simply took over the lead vocals himself, and finished the song. He had to do the same on their finale, ‘Black Diamond,’ when microphone problems silenced what would have been Carr’s only lead vocal. But Carr was a demon on the drums all night, bashing away with a ferocity and a crispness that powered each song” (Asbury Park Press, 4/16/90).