Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Proclaims KISS Appreciation Day
July 20, 2007Michael Purvis of The Sault Star reports: KISS will take to the stage tonight at Kewadin Casino in front of thousands of fans. But before they do, Bauer, a Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., city commissioner, will hand over the keys to the city to Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and the rest of the band.
As a child of the 1970s, Bauer said he remembers well the days when the makeup-clad shock rockers "were considered to be very dangerous."
"I'm old enough that I've got a lot of KISS on vinyl," said Bauer, 42.
He recently came across a newspaper article he clipped as a child, which essentially proclaimed "how bad KISS is, how all their songs are about sex, very bad for the younger generation."
That it's OK, 30 years later, for a rural northern Michigan city such as the Sault to proclaim today as "KISS Day" is a testament to how the times have changed, Bauer noted.
"You've got to hand it to them, that they could write lyrics and sing about adult topics without actually coming out and using the F-word," said Bauer. "It seemed blatant at the time, but it was not 100 per cent completely blatant."
Read the entire article at The Sault Star.
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