KISS - Setting Up The Reunion Tour Stage & Interviews - 1996
This is f*cking awesome. I have no clue how I've never seen this particular video before. I would have figure that I would have accidentally stumbled upon it by now, which is in fact how I came to find it today. Because of the words in the title, it really doesn't lend itself to getting hits if using the common words like KISS, Full, Concert, etc.... I was just going deeper and deeper in the rabbit hole, seeing what I could find and after about 10 minutes, this popped up.
As for the actual video (45 minutes long), it's damn good. It starts off with behind the scenes stuff of the Stage Show. But it's the interview that I really liked. You have
Ace, Peter, Gene and
Paul, all in good spirits getting along and having fun and joking around. There was and is sincerity in their words and actions here. What a long time ago that was. With the whole
RARHOF debacle and the daily insults flying from each person directed at each other these days, it just makes this video all the more priceless to see. Better times indeed.
There's a definite 'holy sh*t' moment that comes directly after the interview ends. When the band is being ushered into the tent, keep an eye out for some little "kid" at the tail end of the posse. Seeing
Tommy Thayer, closed crop haircut, looking like some surfer dude wearing a walkie talkie headset is just.....bizarre. You can totally get what's going through his head when he's staring at
Ace. "That's gonna be MY gig one day! I just need to serve a few more cups of coffee and my dream will come true!". Check it the entire clip. It's awesome.