KISS - Sydney 1980 - Detroit Rock City / Cold Gin

[leifpaul]

the best version of detroit rock city is from budokan 77. i don`t like the vocal style here and the drumming

[OnkelBermuda]

I love this version of Detroit Rock City. Wish they would do a studio recording of it.

[skatermdq]

The best lineup of the best band in the world : KISS

[THEELDER1]

Best night of my life!!! atmosphere was electric!

[meagainok]

This is the best version I have ever heard of this song. I have been wanting this for A LONG TIME:-)

[grantorino2009]

I've posted here before, but I gotta say this. I'm not a huge Frehley fan. He's often a selfish guy ("I," "me," "my")...That being said, can you imagine if he had done another solo record in late '80 to appease his desire to have a solo career, and then stayed in the band in '81 and forced them to do a back-to-basics rock album with this lineup instead of the Elder? How far could they have taken it? KISS could've remained so big that the non-makeup era in the 80s would've been unnecessary.

[Blastsector]

@grantorino2009

Actually Ace wanted to do a rock album but was voted 2-1 in favor of the concept album since Eric was a member of the band yet and really had no say in what they did. As much as I like some of the songs on dynasty/unmasked/elder I wish they had stayed in just rock music and not trying to follow trends.

[SuperDemonBlood]

KISS ON FIRE! FAV - LINE - UP ALL THE WAY!

[fmocoroa]

maybe the best version ever of this song. I m talking about the way that Paul sing.

La mejor version de esta cancion de todos los tiempos. Lo digo por sobre como la canta paul.



[Kewln00b]

I like how Ace and Gene sing Cold Gin together.

[Mircinoable]

In my opinion, best line up!

[THEELDER1]

I was there!!! eat ya hearts out!

[948tumali]

What voice about Paul!!!

[plokijij7856]

I was there 2nd concert at the show ground

[gabstanace2]

The Unmasked era: God I was (and still am) crazy about this band! KISS are true legends, all I ever dreamed of about a rock band, and much more. Fantasy live onstage!

[TheJigglycute]

ace's legs look bigg from that angle when hes doing the epic solo!!!!!.....p.s. best version of the song its fricking great!!!

[KISShazzard15]

It's not a good idea to go to biebers video & click the dislike button cause every time we go to his video he gets payed a few cents cause his vid's sponsered. Instead we pick songs like this & get as many people as we can to watch so by the 1st of march on biebers birthday all rock videos will be most viewed on youtube charts.This will get the younger audience to listen to good music & might have good rock bands form again.PLEASE SPREAD THIS MESSAGE! THUMBS UP!

[bigwilly711]

the best make-up lineup!

[ChrisVrulez]

I love Pauls vocals on this. So incredible!

[raiderfanatic76]

Most epic line-up:

Space Ace

Star Child

The Demon

The Fox

[KISShazzard15]

@raiderfanatic76 The BEST KISS years in my opinion

[69sulmona]

kiss' best costumes???

[rch9000]

This is my favorite KISS line-up. I guess you can't beat the original four, but I loved Eric Carr on drums. He really had something special.

[dragonskulle]

i had a cup of gordins gin, ice cold, and i feel much better now!!

[1949GeneS]

is it a part of dynasty tour? It's the dynasty-stage! and in 1979 were only 2 concerts!

[NoizeKommando]

@1949GeneS Nope... Unmasked Tour

[cenation2810]

Haha! Ace used to think he was a Power Ranger!!

[44OLDO44]

@cenation2810 hahaha the green ranger..!!!

[ajaxrules1975]

Paul Stanley's best live vocal performance on YouTube !

[FireBreathingBunnies]

this is my favorite version of detroit rock city

[talbott4]

god damn. paul was singing great here, kindda akward how a fucked up mic can sound so great, right?

[Defender78]

KISS - BRING BACK THE DYNASTY-ERA OUTFITS ON TOUR!

[BigBadTonyAznar]

KISS

[vanhalen515084]

love this concert, with eric they are much tighter and not lagging, he added energy to the band, and they sound great,

[ecaravello]

Eric f'in Carr, putting on a clinic of groove and power here. R.I.P. brother...

[aceman7877]

ace is one of the best rock gods of all time....

[aceman7877]

cool stuff...thats classic ace......ace is one of the best rock god of all time...

[romeokid69]

This version was recorded in the studio. Just listen, you can hear Paul's voice double tracked throughout the whole song.

[scarletsdad1]

Detroit Rock City, a song about drinking and driving followed by Cold Gin..Isn't it ironic? Don'tcha think? LOL!!

[Mr8bitgamer]

awesome!

[TheGrunge619]

Back in November 1980 my brothers and I managed to scrape togeather the money to fly down to Sydney from Armidale. Several others from school and one poor mum for a chaparone stayed in a Motel and saw the greatest show from the greatest band.If we could only go back in time to those days.Life was simple then.

[grantorino2009]

This lineup could've been IT. KISS here is everything KISS wasn't during the Dynasty Tour. Losing the coke-head former drummer and enlisting Carr didn't hurt. Eric made the others, especially Ace, really turn it up a notch. Can you imagine this band staying together and not recording the Elder the next year and doing a rock record instead? There might never have been a non-makeup 80s KISS because this lineup was so good. Who knows how far they could've taken it?

[CommercialFreak77]

Ace did cocaine

[grantorino2009]

@CommercialFreak77 Ace also drank ridiculous amount of champagne. It was one of KISS' largest traveling bills while on tour. Read Chris Lendt's book, "KISS and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup" for details. Lendt was their former accountant. The other members of the band said the book was accurate.

[ecaravello]

@grantorino2009 Damn good points torino. I never considered the future of this line-up as a long-term proposition, but it would have been sweet. Unfortunately, I think Ace's time with the band was coming to and end sooner or later, he was/is rather mercurial. That was proven again some 20 years later.

[CrazyUnitedAce]

KISS rocks 4ever even when they´re 100

[TheKissmaniac]

kiss is the best

[FrosredZiggy]

This has to be my all time favorite concert they ever put on, I mean everything sounded great, the energy was through the roof, and Eric brought in the heavey shit. Perfect show, I wish I was there.

[SoulRedentor]

This is the best bass version from Gene I've heard

[robcicca]

This is excellent stuff!  They are playing and singing superbly. This tour seems like it was much better than the Dynasty tour was in North America. And Eric Carr is doing a great job.

[SPOOKSTR]

I was at that show, 19th November 1980. I went home with the body of Paul Stanleys guitar. He broke it, threw it to the security guard who was standing infront of me, who then passed it over the barricade to me. I've since noticed at other shows ive attended, when the guitar is broken, the lights go out and a roadie removes the guitar off stage. I was 15 and Kissteria was MASSIVE, great memories.

[dav5644]

Eric Carr!!!!!!

GREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AT!!!!

[SleazeRoxx69]

the best version I have ever listened to!!!

[Defender78]

wow at the beginnng they look all heroic

[uridium64]

paul is on fire here!!

[KiSSRuL3S]

this version of cold gin is awesome!@!

[vixenfoxx6]

love this version of detroit rock city!! would of loved to see this line-up continue!

[KissandMakeup37]

@vixenfoxx6 for me the best version of detroit rock city pauls vocal range here is immence and ace really rocked in the solo and of course the late great eric carr really fucking rocked

[hambone9119]

THIS WAS A GREAT SHOW MUSICALLY ON FIRE but the theatrics take a big loss probally because of wind BUT FIREWORKS at the end FUCKING ROCK. This is probally the 2nd most determined line up of Kiss Then The 1990 Hot In The Shade Tour when kiss also wanted to prove something with a huge Concert also on kissology volume 2.

[firemage1986]

LOL at 4:29, Ace's cloak looks like Marilyn Monroe's skirt (frm the famous movie scene) hahaha

i just love the way Mr Carr plays; he goes berserk on the drums like there's no tomorrow. hard & fast & joyful, like he's having the best time of his life - which im sure he is.

[edwads74]

This version kicks ass, but paul's vocal is overdubbed over the original vocal. there's certain sections where you can hear both of them.

[frederikolsen]

I think the doubled vocals add to the charm of this version, actually. Sounds different, but great!

[highVoltage1969]

All the vocals sound double tracked (one vocal played over the top of a duplicate layer to fatten the sound and smooth out any rough edges). This concert went out live on the radio via a mobile recording studio.

[Pentatonikus]

This is the best version of this song!!

Kiss rules!

[bAIRSOFTGUYd]

"you wanted the best! And you got the best! The hottest band in the world...KISS!!!"

awesome and best way to open any consert ever

[JimiHendrixFan10]

i am acctually watching this concert on tv right now!!!

[kylej1995]

This live version is so much better than any recorded one.

[dxvolt]

Great quality. Thank you very much

[larry497]

THANK YOU......The good thing about the video clip is they show more Ace and Eric and less Gene & Paul. Look at any video clip from the reunion onwards and you never see much Ace..

[lucakiss70]

This is the best formation of Kiss, in my opinion.

[fhfhfin]

I agrey

[listenbich]

I absolutely agree. Any version with Eric Carr is much better than with the other two drummers. Doesn't matter if one was an original & the other from Paul's shitty solo band. Eric Carr was the best.

[seaeagles64]

Well there was me ... 2 back frtom the front with the big face. Won a ticket to the second night on th radio in Newcastle. Went the first night as well. Had a girlfriend who did a penthouse centrefold and had horses, so after the show took me back to where the Limo came out. Ace through me a towel out the window and said" see ya next year" NOT. Any way couldn't complain. Got the only full set of Kiss cards I know of.. anyone wanna make me an offer? One of the best nights of my life. kiss rock!!!

[davemcque]

it was awesome i was there 11 years old  they swept the nation of its feet everything was kiss

[residentvania]

I love the way Eric carr sounds on this song.

[KISSfan888]

Best version of DRC ever.

i love the melodies Paul does

[Vaekkrinhart]

I was gonna write the same thing! haha- They're ON FIRE here!!!! GREAT version of DRC! Like you said- the best version! too bad they never toured the States during this era- at least, not to my knowledge..

[KISSfan888]

i don't think they did haha. sadly

[listenbich]

They did one show in New York City July 1980 just after Eric joined.

[lordmikies]

KISS Rules

[TrickyTolles64]

KISS

KISS

KISS

One of the Greatest American Rock'N'Roll bands EVER!!

Rock On!!

'YOU WANTED THE BEST AND YOU GOT THE BEST-THE HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD-KISS!!"