I think there was generally a downward trajectory in record sales for KISS after Animalize up until Hot In The Shade...basically, KISS were struggling to make platinum sales with Asylum and Crazy Nights.
I believe there was a slight uptick in sales for Hot In The Shade, and Revenge sold well, but then Alive 3 pretty much tanked.
I mean, there was a reason KISS were doing those conventions in 1994 and 1995, and it wasn't because they were selling albums and filling concert halls like they were in the mid to late 1970s.
I'd imagine the band might have picked up a few new fans in the 80s, but by the time Lick It Up rolled around and the greasepaint came off, KISS were old hat. The band had trouble getting financing and production start-up costs to mount a tour and stay on the road and there were a lot of half-filled halls on those 1980s KISS tours. I mean, the band went into a structured bankruptcy in 1989, resulting from a combination of bad business deals, advances on albums that didn't end up selling well and shrinking tour guarantees.
That reunion tour in 1996 came along at just the right time...and not just for Ace and Peter, either.
I believe there was a slight uptick in sales for Hot In The Shade, and Revenge sold well, but then Alive 3 pretty much tanked.
I mean, there was a reason KISS were doing those conventions in 1994 and 1995, and it wasn't because they were selling albums and filling concert halls like they were in the mid to late 1970s.
I'd imagine the band might have picked up a few new fans in the 80s, but by the time Lick It Up rolled around and the greasepaint came off, KISS were old hat. The band had trouble getting financing and production start-up costs to mount a tour and stay on the road and there were a lot of half-filled halls on those 1980s KISS tours. I mean, the band went into a structured bankruptcy in 1989, resulting from a combination of bad business deals, advances on albums that didn't end up selling well and shrinking tour guarantees.
That reunion tour in 1996 came along at just the right time...and not just for Ace and Peter, either.
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