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KISS Plays Rare Unplugged Concert In California; Video Available

April 4, 2014

KISS played a rare unplugged concert last night (Thursday, April 3) at Highland, California's San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino. According to The Pulse Of Radio, the show, which came only one week before the band's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, is notable seeing as how co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have ruled out KISS performing in any configuration at the induction ceremonies in Brooklyn. The casino gig was dubbed "An Acoustic Evening And Stories With Kiss", which recalled not only the band's impromptu performances at past KISS conventions, but the original lineup's legendary 1995 reunion as part of "MTV Unplugged".

The setlist was as follows:

01. Comin; Home
02. Calling Dr. Love
03. Hard Luck Woman
04. Christine Sixteen
05. Hide Your Heart
06. Goin' Blind
07. Cold Gin
08. Do You Love Me
09. Nothin’ To Lose
10. Love Her All I Can
11. A World Without Heroes
12. Plaster Caster
13. Take Me
14. See You Tonite
15. Rock Bottom
16. You Shook Me (LED ZEPPELIN cover)
17. LED ZEPPELIN Medley
18. Mississippi Queen (MOUNTAIN cover)
19. Got To Choose
20. Shout It Out Loud
21. Rock And Roll All Nite

The acoustic show was filmed by AMC as part of the upcoming reality show based around the AFL football team the LA KISS, which is part owned by Simmons and Stanley.

Gene Simmons told The Pulse Of Radio that attending a KISS concert should be viewed as nothing less than a religious rock experience. "There's something else going on, that somehow words don't really get to — in the same way that, perhaps, when you think about a Southern Baptist church revival," he said. "Your spirit is lifted when you walk out of there. You feel glad to be alive another day. I'd like to think that when you leave our show, you feel exhilarated -- physically exhausted, but there's something to talk about."

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