Today in KISStory - 1995
US leg of the official KISS Convention tour begins in LA, with Peter Criss joining the band onstage for an acoustic performance.During the 1995 KISS My Ass Downunder Tour, KISS started a series of official KISS Konventions, put together by the band themselves.
One of the biggest surprises at these conventions were KISS playing an unplugged set! The band had appeared on radio and TV through the years playing bits and pieces acoustically, but this was the first real acoustic concerts, something fans thought they never see KISS do!
The original plan was to go on stage and just take requests from the audience, but KISS quickly realized that fans wanted to hear songs that the band never played live before, and not just the regulars.
When the Konvention Tour hit the American shores in the summer of 1995, the band had rehearsed a set of rarely heard songs... to the fans delight! Each show would last around 2 hours, and the last 30 minutes or so, a microphone would be passed around in the audience, so that audience members could sing lead while KISS played their favorite songs!
There wasn't much of a stage set for these show, except a backdrop saying Worldwide KISS conventions 1995-96.
KISS had many surprises up their sleeves for this tour, but the biggest one unfolded at the opening night in Los Angeles, when Peter Criss suddenly appeared on stage with his former pals, singing lead on Hard Luck Woman and Nothin' To Lose. After years of hostilities between members and ex-members of the band, there finally seemed to be peace, or at least a truce!
