KISS, Motley Crue Take Rock on Tour this Summer
When your among the biggest rock bands in the world, you don’t even have to bother coming up with a name for your tour. At least that’s what Kiss and Mötley Crüe would have us believe.
The two groups have announced a summer trek simply known as “The Tour,” which will consist of around 40 concert dates that will begin in July.
The two bands, which haven’t shared a stage since 1982, announced the dates at a press conference yesterday at Los Angeles’ Roosevelt Hotel. The tour will kick off on July 20th in Bristow, Va. and will run through September 23 when the rock tour concludes in Hartford, Conn. According to Rolling Stone, each band will play 90-minute sets, and Kiss will close every night.
At the press conference, the shows were promised to be “Elvis on steroids.” Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley expressed what he wanted fans to take from the show.
“I want people to leave and go, so this is what rock and roll is,” he said. “It’s dangerous, it’s loose, it’s not perfect. So whatever pop artist you see dancing around on a stage lip synching, that’s a con game and that’s not a live concert. If you want karaoke, go to a karaoke bar.”
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons went a little further in his discussions on the subject.
“We’re sick and tired of girls getting up there with dancers and karaoke tapes in back of them,” he said at the conference. “Leave that to Rihanna, Shmianna and anyone else who ends their name with an ‘A.’”
Mötley Crüe’s bassist Nikki Sixx hopes the tour will be inspiring.
“What I would like to see people take away from it is that if you actually practice your instrument and practice writing songs and put a hundred percent into your show and every aspect of it, from your clothes to your lyrics, if your singers sing, then this is what happens—you have a long career and you get to go out and do the real deal,” he said to Rolling Stone. “It’s real rock and roll.”