Dave opening for KI$$...

[Seshmeister]

Yeah backing vocals are piped in for sure... Just like Paradise chorus never sounded that good live... ever...

Yeah actually better now than live in 1988.

I don't think I could bring myself to pay to watch Ki$$ mime though if they bring it to Europe.

The stage setup is ludicrous - they have given him nothing, not even a backdrop?

[Seshmeister]

I'd say he's improving a ton. He still should drop Dance The Night Away. Just not his range anymore at all. Paradise was decent. I don't love the backing track vocals much but whatever. Maybe they help to keep Roth reeled in ? I don't even hate the pink coat. LOL ! He'll be fine singing like this. A few more songs would be nice. If Van Halen goes out again Dave seems up for it again singing a ton better than 12/15.

Actually even DTNA is OK - I think we now just expect it to go badly and listen for it.

[Terry]

I'd agree the Manchester show shows the band - and Dave - improving.

Still, just over half an hour seems plain odd in some fundamental way...although to be frank, at Dave's age maybe 30 minutes is best in terms of him not wearing himself out. Even so...like Sesh said, in terms of the stage...in an odd way, Roth opening for KISS stage-wise feels like when Autograph opened for Van Halen in 1984: a very short set, and the band crammed in front of an oversized drop cloth in order to keep the KISS stage set covered until Kiss starts performing.

I could hear more of the Roth and Michael Anthony pre-recorded backing tapes in those background vocals than I could anybody else in the band onstage mouthing into their mics.

[Figs]

Fuck it... I'm going to see Kiss-lite and DLR with a VH tribute band. The tatters of all that remains. It will be fun enough!

[Seshmeister]

I'd agree the Manchester show shows the band - and Dave - improving.

Still, just over half an hour seems plain odd in some fundamental way...although to be frank, at Dave's age maybe 30 minutes is best in terms of him not wearing himself out. Even so...like Sesh said, in terms of the stage...in an odd way, Roth opening for KISS stage-wise feels like when Autograph opened for Van Halen in 1984: a very short set, and the band crammed in front of an oversized drop cloth in order to keep the KISS stage set covered until Kiss starts performing.

I could hear more of the Roth and Michael Anthony pre-recorded backing tapes in those background vocals than I could anybody else in the band onstage mouthing into their mics.

Dave chose to use maybe 8 minutes of that limited time on a Blues jam/cover thing so I guess he wasn't too concerned about playing as many classic songs as possible.

[Jetstream]

I give up, I just cannot put a bead on this guy. Sounds like total hog wash opening night in Vegas, shows marked improvement the next two shows and now for his first two shows with Kiss is almost on par with his 2007/2008 Van Halen tour... fucking bat shit crazy Dave, which is him in a nutshell and I do stress the word nut though a fun one lol

[Nitro Express]

I'd agree the Manchester show shows the band - and Dave - improving.

Still, just over half an hour seems plain odd in some fundamental way...although to be frank, at Dave's age maybe 30 minutes is best in terms of him not wearing himself out. Even so...like Sesh said, in terms of the stage...in an odd way, Roth opening for KISS stage-wise feels like when Autograph opened for Van Halen in 1984: a very short set, and the band crammed in front of an oversized drop cloth in order to keep the KISS stage set covered until Kiss starts performing.

I could hear more of the Roth and Michael Anthony pre-recorded backing tapes in those background vocals than I could anybody else in the band onstage mouthing into their mics.

Get everyone in the band singing backup and give Dave some digital vocal enhancement and Dave can do 20 minutes worth of dance moves before that gets too boring. Ah it’s like my dad taking me to see The Glen Miller Band live. My dad played clarinet and saxophone and had his own swing band in high school and early college years. He would complain that there were no good bands anymore (sound familiar?).

So we go off to see Glen Miller and he’s like oh what a dissapointment. The swing bands were better in the 40’s. You had to be there.

[Nitro Express]

Seeing Dave now is the same deal. It’s not 1984 anymore.

[FORD]

Yeah, but KISS isn't really KISS anymore either, so in that sense, it's a perfect double bill.

[Nitro Express]

Pretty much

[Romeo Delight]

Any more than 30 minutes of 1/4 Halen and it becomes obvious to even KISS fans that their music is wanting. Never understood the appeal

[Seshmeister]

This is damn good. Even the YouTube comments are 90% excellent.

[Baby's On Fire]

This is damn good. Even the YouTube comments are 90% excellent.

You think that's good? You need to get to some AA meetings.

That was absolutely unbelievably awful.

How can anyone say that was good?

[cadaverdog]

How can anyone say that was good?

They had the volume turned off.

Is it just me or does anyone else see a resemblance?

[silverfish]

Review of the 2/5 Buffalo show:

https://buffalonews.com/2020/02/06/at-keybank-center-show-a-kiss-is-still-a-kiss/

"Roth let the band carry the songs, while he clowned with the crowd like some kind of
demented Rat Pack extra, and this was smart – his voice is not what it once was, and
he had trouble hitting the highest notes, so sticking to his lane was a wise move."