Kiss concert in Prague | REVIEW

Californian band Dirty Honey broke into the sold-out hall first. Formed in 2019, the band immediately topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs singles chart as the first in history without a signed record deal. Although her energetic hard rock does not push the musical development anywhere, the catchy songs make you stomp to the beat.

Just before the twenty-first hour, Rock and Roll by Led Zeppelin sounded from the equipment (just like last time), on the mammoth screens it was possible to watch (just like last time) the arrival of the musicians through the corridors of the dressing rooms, and then there was an explosion of fire and the traditional opening track Detroit Rock City from the album Destroyer.

It was followed by more years of proven certainty, the songs Shout It Out Loud and Deuce. Guitarist and singer Paul Stanley tested the audience’s vocal dispositions with the usual competition for which side of the hall would be louder.

Even after half a century of existence, the Kiss concert was not a fossilized retro party, but a full-fledged rock and roll spectacle. The program was built on songs from the band’s strongest period, i.e. from the seventies, and there was no shortage of the usual pieces, i.e. fire-spitting, artificial blood from the mouth of bassist and singer Gene Simmons, or Stanley’s rather narcissistic call for the audience to call out his name (this time noticeably shorter than last time).

Drummer Erik Singer also appeared with solo vocals on The Black Diamond and on the first encore Beth, in which he sat behind the suddenly emerging white piano. The last bit of the evening was Rock and Roll All Nite followed by the reproduced anthemic God Gave Rock’N’Roll To You II. She escorted a three-generation audience, including apparently preschool children and entire families, from a full-fledged rock concert.

If it is true that Kiss’ active activity is ending after half a century, it is also true that their unique phenomenon is here and will remain.