SET LIST SOUND OFF
By: Ron Albanese & Byron Fogle

Byron's Dream Set List
From: Byron Fogle
Based on two things: fan dream list & realistic set list

Fan 1. The Oath 2. Flaming Youth 3. Strange Ways 4. Ladies Room 5. Hide Your Heart 6. Nothin To Lose 7. Rocking In The USA 8. Do You Love Me 9. Dirty Livin [Solo set] 10. It's Alright 11. I'm In Need of Love 12. Living In Sin 13. That's the Kind of Sugar Papa Likes 14. Sweet Pain 15. Rocket Ride 16. All The Way 17. Plaster Caster 18. Magic Touch 19. I Love It Loud 20 2 Timer 21 Lick It Up 22. Childhood's End 23. All Hell's Breakin Loose 24. Uh All Night 25. Psycho Circus

Realistic 1. I Stole Your Love. 2. Parasite 3. Ladies Room 4 Shandi 5. Heaven's on Fire 6. Mr. Speed 7. Christine 16 8. Psycho Circus 9. Hard Luck Woman 10. Hide Your Heart (Ace & Paul) 11. Domino 12. Raise Your Glasses 13. Magic Touch 14. Got To Choose 15. 2,000 Man 16. Mainline 17. Nothing Can Keep Me from You 18. I Want You 19. I Just Wanna 20. I Pledge Allegiance 21 Strange Ways 22.Childhood's End 23. Strutter 24. Rocket Ride 25. Lick It Up 26 I

Most Original Set List
From:Eugene Mathena
Each individual member has their own separate stage, each one made in the character's persona: Ace's a planet, Paul's with lots of purple lace and flowers, Peter's as the "catland" Gene's as a hellish playground. Their stages rise with each member, each member frozen in a pose, Gene as asleep, crunched over, Paul as sipping wine, Ace as frozen in time, Peter sitting on his cat throne. After their own separate stages have risen and it has formed a diamond shape in the arena, the crowed hears a hard crack of thunder, the lights go out for a brief second, then as they come back on the four members of KISS have engaged in their opener "I Stole Your Love". Before the song completely ends it is tied to the next one as Paul breaks into "All American Man" as cracks of thunder roll from Gene's stage with his 3D screen behind him.

Then at the end of the second song all lights go out, except for a red glow around the hellish playground of Gene's. Children's laughter can be heard all around his stage, as the lights get brighter the sound of "Unholy" can be heard. Soon after all lights move to the "Space World" and Paul says: "Lets take a trip to Jendell." As the molten metal globe above Ace's fans crack open to reveal falling confetti and guitar picks, Ace goes into "Rocket Ride". After a great display of explosives and pyro, the lights go out. All lights then appear over each stage as Peter breaks into the next song with his drums as they go into "Strutter." "Dr. Love" comes next, then Peter's stage moves upward then forward with smoke billowing out everywhere as he engages in a drum solo. Right before it ends, at the very last drum beat of his solo, the guys go into "Getaway" from Dressed To Kill.

After the song, once again all lights are out and you hear nothing.... except for the humming of Paul - in the distance - humming "I Was Made For Lovin You." Gene's thunder cracks in the middle parts during the song. After the song all stages are lit as Ace intros his next song, "Shock Me," as smoke and pyro billow out of all four stages. Ace's solo is all fast tricks and special effects. As he shoots his rockets out at his flying guitar, the stages start to merge together slowly and Paul breaks into "Love Gun" after telling the crowed how big his is. Then the sound of children laughing can be heard, as still the stages come closer together forming a complete stage. Now "God of Thunder" has started, then comes "Psycho Circus" and "I Love It Loud."

A blue light hovers over Ace's stage, but he's not there, only the sound of cars and city noise. Then as a crack of rolling thunder crashes from Gene's stage, "New York Groove" begins. After all stages have almost become one, "Beth" is sung from Peter's stage as he sits on his cat throne. Now the lights are out the stages are together as you hear a TV newsman tell of a horrific car accident and hear the sound of keys rattling. "Detroit Rock City" begins - the KISS famous song - with Ace on left ,Gene in middle, Paul on right. Soon after, a lion's roar issues from the cat throne and Paul's purple light gets brighter as he opens "Black Diamond." The KISS logo is now fully lit because of coming together as one stage. Next "100,000 Years is played, followed "Heavens On Fire" as fire blows from each stage. After the song, there is a silence from the stage. As lighting bolts flash over Ace's part of the stage, "Rock and Roll All Night ends the show as Paul breaks his guitar and wishes all good health. THE END.

Runner Up #1
From: DegeneritX@aol.com

This is my dream set list. The costumes would be: Gene-Dynasty/Destroyer; Ace-Love Gun/Dynasty; Paul-Anything from the Asylum tour (ha ha ha)/Love Gun; Peter -Dynasty/Love Gun. Prepare for a long set list! I know they'd never do this, but hey, someone can wish. I'm gonna try to avoid overplayed and overrated songs.

Love Gun-I think this would be a great opener. The drum beat is great. It would have the same laser effects as on the Revenge tour, and then a big blast at the end. Ala AC/DC on "For Those About to Rock..."

Comin' Home-I just like this song. It's great, I'd love to see it live.

I Love it Loud-First Gene song. It would have Gene do the FIRST fire blast of the night. They'd even turn it up louder on the solo.

Hooligan-One of my favorite Peter songs. It would have his drum solo. It'd have a "drum riser type thing", but instead it'd move back and forth and spin around.

Rip It Out-Space Ace's turn. He'd actually move this time (if you want to call that a theatric). He'd share vocals with Gene, to add growl to it.

Heaven's on Fire-Big flames!!! Gene's last fire blast. Paul would get up on a platform, as flames would come up. He'd then glide across a wire, onto a platform.

Black Diamond-This usual closer would be in the middle, like on the H.I.T.S tour. Peter would go forward on the drum riser, above the crowd, then lower him, and have it spin around. Then it'd rise back up.

Unholy-Gene would spew blood on this, instead of God of Thunder, or even 100,000 Years. He'd then rise up on the wires, and then get put out in the middle of the crowd to do this one. (Get what I'm doing here?)

Acoustic Set
Forever-The acoustic set, would be accompanied by lasers. This would be the first song they'd do. Just the simple version, nothing new.

Let Me Know-This is the most underrated song ever! Ace would sing on this, too. Instead of this Peter,Gene, and Paul.

Mainline-This song has never been performed live has it? I just love the rhythm.

Ace Medley/Guitar Solo-It'd go...New York Groove, Hard Times, Two Sides of the Coin, 2,000 Man, Dark Light, Shock Me/Solo. These wouldn't be the whole songs. Anyone remember when Metallica did this for the "...And Justice for All" album?

Intermission-During this vintage clips would be shown. Eric Carr's music would then be played from Rockheads. KISS comes back in different costumes.

Hide Your Heart-Normal version. Nothing great. Just do the best version of this song.

Uh! All Night-Have strippers (or whatever you want to call them) like the video. Just like Take it Off.

Love 'Em, Leave 'Em-This song should've been on the RNRO tour. This would be a sped up version though.

Tossin 'n' Turnin-Favorite song from Pete's solo album. Too bad, on the only recorded on the Dynasty tour, I thought it sounded like crap.

I-Favorite song from the Elder. This is a great foot stomper. I guess you would rank it up for rally songs (not quality of the song) with Rock 'n' Roll Night and Shout it out Loud.

Into the Void-Psycho Circus. Weird effects would go on with the lasers. Ace would design something on his computer so on the screen so it'd look like they were in space on the screen,

Is That You?-Best song off Unmasked! Nothing great, usual effects, pyro.

Spit-Great song. I heard it was supposed to be "S**t" instead of "Spit", but that's probably false.

Torpedo Girl-This would even have the beginning of the song just like off the album.

Move On-Fave. song off Paul's solo. Hopefully he doesn't mess up the words, like he did on the Largo tape.

Encores-
Nothin' to Lose-Ace and Gene would sing on this, with of course Peter's great vocals in the background.

God Gave R 'n' R To You 2-All of them would sing on this.

Rock 'n' Roll All Night-OK, this is the only song I'm gonna include that is overplayed, but hey, if this is gonna be huge, they have to have it. Ok, have every member: Gene, Ace, Peter, Paul, Bruce, Eric Singer, Vinnie, and Mark St. John come out. Have an Eric Carr video on the screen. They'd all jam to this, and at the end 2 huge flags would come down. One saying-25th Anniversary (or whenever this happens) and going 1974-1999, with all of the albums on there. Then the second would have "R.I.P 'Little Caesar Eric Carr"

Runner Up #2
From: Fernando Avendano
A KISS show is the ultimate Rock Concert experience; however, in recent years, we, the core fans, who have been with the band since the 70s have increased our expectations. There is no denying that we would enjoy anything that KISS puts onstage, but since most of us are no longer "naive" fans of Rock and Roll, we tend to be more opinionated and analytical. We are realizing that we may not get the pleasure of seeing our favorite band perform for much longer in it's present "revitalized" form. It is a proven fact that a rock show has a certain formula, which should be followed in order to optimize the audience's participation and pleasure. We are not naive to this aspect nor do we object to this. Songs are chosen and rehearsed, pyrotechnics are choreographed, etc. A rock show is like a theatre performance which is rehearsed and perfected before it gets put out on stage. A lot of hard work goes into preparing a concert and a tour. We are fully aware of what KISS must do to please us; however, KISS is in a precarious position when it comes to deciding what music to play for us. Honestly, I think that we are, basically, "content" with the song selection of the last 2 tours, but we would like some diversity. KISS's goal is to please the majority of the people in attendance: They have to make the die hard fans happy, while not alienating those who just come for the experience and only know a handful of tunes. What I am setting out to do here is draw a formula for the next KISS tour, with the goal being to create a tour set list which spans most of the KISS catalogue, but which allows for some deviation from concert to concert. I had planned to create the ultimate KISS show; however, Jon Law Hastings beat me to it. I'm just taking it a little further. Let's start by classifying the songs which comprise the set list. I also list the songs from the Song Pool, which is listed later on, designated to each classification. You may think that I have too much time on my hands to be thinking about this. I don't care. A song may fit into multiple classifications. It just depends on the set list for the night.

SHOW OPENERS
Of course, this must be a song which gets everybody on their feet and keeps them there for as long as possible. Ideally, no one should be sitting down at a KISS show, which is why the rest of the set list is so important.

*Parasite
*C'mon and Love Me
*Detroit Rock City
*God of Thunder
*I Stole Your Love
*Creatures of the Night

GENE SONGS
A song which has Gene Simmons on lead vocals. Not a very complicated classification, eh?
*Nothin' to Lose
*Deuce
*Goin' Blind
*She
*Watchin' You
*God of Thunder
*Calling Dr. Love
*Ladies' Room
*Rockin' in the USA
*A World Without Heroes
*War Machine
*Within

PAUL SONGS
Yup. That's it.
*Strutter
*100,000 Years
*Watchin' You
*Got to Choose
*Flaming Youth
*I Want You
*Take Me
*Tomorrow and Tonight
*Love Gun
*Psycho Circus

ACE SONGS
You guessed it.
*Shock Me
*Rocket Ride
*2,000 Man
*Hard Times
*Into The Void

PETER SONGS
If you haven't caught on, there's no hope for you.
*Beth
*Hard Luck Woman

ANTHEMS
These have to be strategically placed, since these usually get the audience really excited. These songs tend to be KISS's biggest hits, as well.
*Rock and Roll All Nite
*Shout It Out Loud
*I Love It Loud
*I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll
*Raise Your Glasses

SURPRISE SONGS
I think that KISS should throw in some tunes that we would not expect. At this stage of their career, the hard core fans would be just as excited to hear an obscure tune as they would hearing one of their "hits". Also, these could be tunes from their "Unmasked" days.
*KISSin' Time
*Room Service
*Flaming Youth
*All American Man
*Larger Than Life
*Fractured Mirror
*Tomorrow
*Lick It Up
*Heaven's On Fire
*Forever
*Unholy
*God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II

SHOW CLOSERS
Explosions, Power Chords, Cymbals, and generally lots of noise to get the crowd on their feet and screaming for me as they leave the stage.
*Black Diamond
*She
*Rock and Roll All Nite
*Shout It Out Loud

ENCORE OPENERS
This should be just as effective as the SHOW OPENER, but we're all in a frenzy, anyway, so they don't have to do much work at this point.
*C'mon and Love Me
*Detroit Rock City
*I Stole Your Love
*Creatures of the Night
*Psycho Circus
*I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll
*Raise Your Glasses

ENCORE SURPRISE SONGS
I think it would be cool for them to do a totally unexpected song during the encore. These songs are the same as the SURPRISE SONGS.
*KISSin' Time
*Room Service
*Flaming Youth
*All American Man
*Larger Than Life
*Fractured Mirror
*Tomorrow
*Lick It Up
*Heaven's On Fire
*Forever
*Unholy
*God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II

ENCORE CLOSERS
Like an awesome orgasm......we have to go away wanting to do it again.
*Black Diamond
*Rock and Roll All Nite
*Shout It Out Loud

There are also some "events" that can take place within a KISS show:
1. GENE SPITTING BLOOD/BASS SOLO
2. ACE'S GUITAR SOLO
3. PAUL'S GUITAR SOLO
4. PETER'S DRUM SOLO
5. GENE BREATHES FIRE
6. INSTRUMENTAL JAM - There aren't many instrumentals in the KISS catalogue, but it would be interesting. Maybe they could do a medley of stuff. This could also be a part of the show in which KISS could do some "jamming". They could throw in a guitar duel between Ace & Paul, for instance; Gene could do a "note playing" bass solo, which I know that he probably would not care to do; Peter could do a little drum solo, providing that his arms aren't too sore. Alright. So now that you have all of the classifications and events we can form a template for the show.

1. SHOW OPENER (leading straight into Song #2)
2. GENE SONG (leading straight into Song #3)
3. ACE SONG (leading straight into Song #4)
4. PAUL SONG (leading straight into Song #5)
5. ANTHEM (after the song, Paul can do his greeting banter)
6. GENE SPITTING BLOOD/BASS SOLO & GENE SONG
7. PAUL SONG
8. SONG W/ ACEs GUITAR SOLO
9. GENE BREATHES FIRE & GENE SONG
10. PETER SONG
11. SONG W/ DRUM SOLO
12. INSTRUMENTAL JAM
13. ANTHEM
14. SURPRISE SONG
15. SURPRISE SONG
16. PAUL SONG
17. SHOW CLOSER
18. ENCORE OPENER
19. ENCORE SURPRISE SONG
20. ENCORE CLOSER

Okay, so here is the Song Pool. There are a lot of songs here, which would mean that KISS would have to learn and rehearse all of these, but, hey....they wrote them. How hard could it be to re-learn and rehearse them all? Yes, I may be asking too much here.

1. Strutter
2. Nothin' to Lose
3. KISSIN Time
4. 100,000 Years
5. Black Diamond
6. Deuce
6. Parasite
8. Goin' Blind
9. Watchin' You
10. Got to Choose
11. She
12. Rock and Roll All Nite
13. C'mon and Love Me
14. Room Service
15. Detroit Rock City
16. God of Thunder
17. Flaming Youth
18. Shout It Out Loud
19. Beth
20. I Want You
21. Calling Dr. Love
22. Ladies' Room
23. Hard Luck Woman
24. Take Me
25. I Stole Your Love
26. Shock Me
27. Tomorrow and Tonight
28. Love Gun
29. All American Man
30. Rockin' in the USA
31. Larger Than Life
32. Rocket Ride
33. Fractured Mirror
34. 2,000 Man
35. Hard Times
36. Tomorrow
37. A World Without Heroes
38. Creatures of the Night
39. I Love It Loud
40. War Machine
41. Lick It Up
42. Heaven's on Fire
43. Forever
44. Unholy
45. God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II
46. Psycho Circus
47. Within
48. I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll
49. Into the Void
50. Raise Your Glasses

Now that we have a template for the show and a pool of songs from which to choose, we can put together a sample set list.
1. SHOW OPENER-I Stole Your Love
2. GENE SONG-Deuce
3. ACE SONG-Rocket Ride
4. PAUL SONG-Love Gun
5. ANTHEM-I Love It Loud
6. GENE SPITTING BLOOD/BASS SOLO & GENE SONG-God of Thunder
7. PAUL SONG-Tomorrow and Tonight
8. SONG W/ ACE'S GUITAR SOLO-She
9. GENE BREATHES FIRE & GENE SONG-War Machine
10. PETER SONG-Hard Luck Woman (Maybe this could be done acoustically)
11. SONG W/ DRUM SOLO-100,000 Years
12. INSTRUMENTAL JAM
13. ANTHEM-I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock & Roll
14. SURPRISE SONG-Lick It Up
15. SURPRISE SONG-God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II
16. PAUL SONG-I Want You
17. SHOW CLOSER-Shout It Out Loud
18. ENCORE OPENER-Detroit Rock City
19. ENCORE SURPRISE SONG-KISSIN Time
20. ENCORE CLOSER-Rock and Roll All Nite

Okay, here's another option.
1. SHOW OPENER-Parasite
2. GENE SONG-Goin' Blind
3. ACE SONG-Hard Times
4. PAUL SONG-Take Me
5. ANTHEM-Shout It Out Loud
6. GENE SPITTING BLOOD/BASS SOLO & GENE SONG-100,000 Years
7. PAUL SONG-Strutter
8. SONG W/ ACE'S GUITAR SOLO-She
9. GENE BREATHES FIRE & GENE SONG-God of Thunder
10. PETER SONG-Beth (Maybe this could be done acoustically)
11. SONG W/ DRUM SOLO-Creatures of the Night
12. INSTRUMENTAL JAM-featuring Fractured Mirror
13. ANTHEM-Raise Your Glasses
14. SURPRISE SONG-Larger Than Life
15. SURPRISE SONG-Tomorrow
16. PAUL SONG-Flaming Youth
17. SHOW CLOSER-Rock and Roll All Nite
18. ENCORE OPENER-Deuce
19. ENCORE SURPRISE SONG-Room Service
20. ENCORE CLOSER-Black Diamond

I think that set would take some getting use to. It would be an interesting show, though. I just wanted to illustrate the flexibility the template. Well, that's it. I think I've rambled on for long enough. That 50 song pool is pretty impressive, and a set list consisting of any songs from that list, in any order, would be great. I just think that KISS should expand their tour repetoire (SP?) and throw in a lot of surprises to keep us on our toes, while we're rockin' our feet.

Runner Up #3
From: Joe Spinelli
The Farewell Tour - The Ultimate Experience! Not only will this next tour be very crucial for KISS but it may be the last. Sometimes they don't seem into it anymore. I love KISS and the day they hang up the platforms and turn off the amps is a very sad day for all of mankind. My name is Joe Spinelli, I'm 19 from Rochester New York. Here is some ways that I think KISS should take the stage on the next outing.

The Stage - I would like to see a huge video screen in the back maybe some cool curtains hanging around the sides of the stage, I want the stair cases from the Alive II set but these should be almost like twisty steps and the KISS logo should be one that can change colors, become a strobe light and light up their faces at time in each letter. On each side of the stage should be 2 metal doors that would lift like garage doors (you will find out why soon enough). On with the show . . .

Opening Band - There is a lot KISS can do here (not Jessie Camp). I think hey do the obvious and have Union open, fans would get a kick out of this. Seeing Bruce and everyone on the same stage KISS will take later on, it would e an event. If not KISS has to bring someone who is new and very good, this oncert has to be a big bill and new bands will bring out more people my age who just don't get it - yet

The Entrance - With the huge curtain still over the stage that low steady ass sound (Alive III) begins to come over the arena. I would like to see each member's face projected on the screen one at a time as the thunderous voice introduces The Hottest Band In The World! Explosions go off everywhere and KISS is in full swing (note* let's get back with the loud explosions, not the dinky ones used on the Psycho Circus tour).

Set List -
1. Detroit Rock City - great opening number complete with explosions.
2. Take Me - starting right after DRC a great song to rock the crowd with.
3. God Of Thunder - think about this now . . . would you ever expect when "Take Me" ends and the lights go down that all of a sudden Gene would be standing there with blood drooling out of his mouth? How cool would it be so early in the set? So Gene spits blood and the song starts . . . no flying? fans would be like "What The Hell Is This?" but as the chorus line comes up and Paul sings it Gene extends the bat wings and rises up to the rafter with fountains of fire coming up all over the place . . . the crowd would go insane.
4. Hotter Than Hell - Paul could tell all the women how fine they look tonight and go into a song that should have been on the set list a long time ago.
5. Firehouse - its only natural after "Hotter Than Hell" (alive)
6. Parasite - the spot light shines on ace as he teases the crowd with the opening riff. then the lights go out and the band just explodes into it. After the jam at the ending part Ace goes into his solo . . . Complete with some kind of flying effect and shooting rockets as he plays it. and of course the smoking guitar.
7. Heaven's On Fire - with the classic introduction by Paul it can't go wrong.
8. Jungle - after switching to their dropped D tuned guitars they go into "Jungle" (something they avoided on the PS tour, playing "Within" in regular 1/2 step tuning)
9. Rain - after a huge jam at the end of "Jungle" Paul starts belting out the opening riff to "rain" and the "heavy section" of the set is under way.
10. Within - all Gene has to do is remember the damn words and we are all set . . . Peter then goes into his drum solo levitating over the crowd but moving side to side and moving a lot faster than it did on the PS tour. I like the idea about him landing on the floor somewhere surrounded by fans also.
11. Hide Your Heart - Paul and Ace trade lyrics . . . what more to say? . . .awesome!
12. Forever - after 11 rocking songs its time to slow things down a bit and give all the people a chance to rip out the lighters (like a damn Christmas tree)
13. Raise Your Glasses - a great song from Psycho Circus to remind the crowd as if they need it, that KISS are the champions.
14. Love Gun - there should be some kind of physical meter to measure the crowds noise, when it get to the max it should explode and Love Gun starts and Paul flys to his platform to rock. At the end of the song Paul should use the idea from the 70's with the laser shooting out of his eye.
15. Deuce - incase anyone is getting tired wake them the F*** up with this ass kicker.
16. I Was Made For Lovin' You - a great song to blow up stuff in.
17. Take It Off - bare with me here this would be great . . . as the intro begins 2 giant metal doors open up on the sides of the stage and "The Girls Of KISS" strippers in makeup run out to the poles that rise up form the stage. . . and dance erotic style like the titty bars with the song pumping giving every guy a major hard on and any lesbians too.
18. 100,000 Years - It's crowd participation time.
19. Shandi - with just Paul playing it alone it seemed to go over really well in Australia on the reunion tour and sounded great too!
20. Black Diamond - ending the regular set the way it should be . . . with KISS going up on risers kind of like the ones on the reunion tour but lower and farther out and of course peter with the cats out as the drums rise, the cats eyes should be red search lights. Break Time . . . A 15-20 minute documentary is shown celebrating every phase of KISS and the life of Eric Carr.
Encores - KISS comes down the stair case with no make-up on. . . just the original 4 unmasked and ready to rock somemore kiss sits on the 4 stools that are brought out and plays acoustic versions of . . .
21. Coming Home - start the acoustic session off right with this great song.
22. Beth - after all peter did write the biggest single for them ever!
23. Hard Luck Woman - without drums like the beginning of Double Platinum Break Time #2 - just a quick 5 min intermission.
24. God Gave Rock And Roll To You - Paul reminds people of one of the greatest things on earth that was given to us.
25. Nothing Can Keep Me From You - Paul reminds us that we will always be one. now every KISS fans worse fear . . .
26. Rock And Roll All Night . . . KISS says their goodbye to their fans and tells us that we will always be together and connected somehow . . . so don't ever stop rocking and rolling . . . Paul's breaks the shit out of the guitar blows one last kiss and maybe even sheds a tear . . as the house lights come on "Goodbye" is played over the PA system.

The End . . . KISS walks off the stage as gods . . . the ultimate band .. . the fans leave very satisfied and will never forget the greatest band in the world and will continue to listen to Kiss for all time . . . and wait for the new Alive 4 that was recorded during the tour to come out.

This is just some stuff I have thought about, I personally don't care if they don't do these things . . . Because I know that KISS will knock us out and do things we never imagined on this next tour . . . and we will realize once more that KISS is no doubt the Hottest Band In The World . KISS will always be immortal in my eyes and always stand for everything rock and roll was meant to be.

Runner Up #4
From: John Brocks
Ok Byron. I gotta do two of these and you'll understand why. There will be first the REALISTIC set list and then a FANTASY set list:

Realistic Set list (due to the fact that there are a lot of good tunes that just can't be dropped, there are a handful that can be, but don't expect an obscure song to appear in its place.....so here is the more realistic set that KISS may do):

I Stole Your Love (intense opener, been a while since they opened with this one, a bit of a change)
Deuce
Hotter Than Hell (remove Let Me Go, Rock and Roll)
She (remove Calling Dr. Love)
Parasite (remove Cold Gin, but Gene and Ace split vocals on this one too)
Shout it Out Loud
Nothin' to Lose (this was great on Halloween but why drop it...Peter kicks ass)
C'mon and Love Me (replace Strutter)
Firehouse
I Pledge Allegiance to the State of Rock and Roll(they do need to do some PC songs but not the ones they did over and over)
2000 Man-Ace solo (no Shock Me)
Love Gun (Paul doing the fly over the audience to the platform....still pretty cool)
Hard Luck Woman (why not)
God Of Thunder (with Gene drooling blood and Peter's solo)
Raise Your Glasses (too anthematic not to play)
I Want You
Shandi (do a group version...Paul did it on his own, they can pull it off..and ok why not ONE OBSCURITY LOL)
Black Diamond
Encores:
Detroit Rock City
Beth
Rock and Roll All Nite

FANTASY SET LIST:
Intro-Creatures of the Night (and I've heard this idea and liked it, WITH PETER SINGING)
Room Service
Ladies Room
Anything For My Baby
Flaming Youth
Baby Driver
Hide Your Heart (Ace and Paul trading vocals)
Let Me Know
Rip It Out (Ace's solo)
Love 'em and Leave 'em
FIFTEEN MIN INTERMISSION
Acoustic set (Four guys on stools with acoustic guitars, and some percussion)
See You Tonite (we finally see the gentler side of Gene at a show)
Hard Luck Woman (Peter and Paul exchanging verses)
By Myself
Hold Me, Touch Me
What's On Your Mind
I Will Be There
Back Into My Arms
Beth
FIFTEEN MIN INTERMISSION Band returns with fireworks galore:
The Oath
Hooligan (Peter keeps wailing away which segues into a solo)
Comin Home
War Machine-with Gene solo, blood
Magic Touch
Nowhere to Run
Dirty Livin
Talk to Me
You Wanted The Best
Encores:
Exciter
I Finally Found My Way
In Your Face
Deuce

Ok I'm nuts, but we can always dream...

Runner Up #5
From: Simon Ali
After reading the posts for Sound Off, I realized how much it would mean to me to actually see KISS doing what they should do. And this is what I think.

First off, release merchandise that is relevant and cool, but not just anything with a KISS logo on it. They should release cool items at a lower price like videos from every tour, with backstage footage and the making of the album that the tour is from. Have CD's full of demo's and rare tracks, kind of how Motley Crue just released one. Also dolls and cards are cool, but ceramic figurines and plates are out of the question. Who really cares for things like that.

Second the tour. It would be out of the question to have every member of the band to tour together, the attitudes and ego's would kill it before the tour even started. But I do think that they should have Union or ESP open for them. I think they Gene and Paul owe it to Bruce and Eric to support them in there new project's, beside it would give them a lot of publicity, all the KISS fans that don't really know Bruce and Eric will finally realize how talented these two are. The Union/ESP

Set list could be:
1.Old Man Wise
2.I Walk Alone
3.Love (I don't need it anymore)
4.Strange Ways (Karl Cochran)
5.Surrender
6.Little Caesar (Eric Singer- dedicate it to Eric Carr)
7.Foxy Lady (have Ace come out and jam)

They could run a mini movie about the band that included various footage including a lengthy and long overdue tribute to Eric Carr. The movie could have rare footage of the band as well as what all the members were up to year by year up to and including the present tour. This movie could run for about 30 minutes to forty minutes and then the big event........The final and biggest KISS show ever, and here we go.

The lights go down and the famous opening rumble starts. There is a huge curtain around the whole stage so nobody in the building can see the stage. Spotlights are flashing all over the arena and then all of a sudden darkness and silence, the curtain drops and all four members of KISS are being raised from the bottom of the stage, all without motion with each member's color lit underneath them. The stage has a huge KISS logo in the middle with ramps leading up and around the stage with two screens on each side of the logo. It's about time the band comes up with a cool stage again, the last was Revenge. A mix of the Dynasty and Animalize opening, with them being raised up, you hear the beginning of the album version of "Psycho Circus" and then the famous opening.....All right ___________......You Wanted the Best......You Got the Best.....The Hottest Band in the World.........KISS.............

They kick into "Psycho Circus" full with pyro, lasers, and this time, more passion in the song. Now this should be a cool set list.

1.Psycho Circus
2.Deuce
3.You Wanted the Best
4.Heaven's on Fire-with huge fire bombs all around the stage (like Hot in the shade)
5.Unholy
6.Firehouse-with the fire helmet and trademark firebreathing
7.Domino
8.Parasite-Ace could sing lead!
9.I Was Made For Lovin' You
10.Lick it Up
11.Love Gun-Paul could fly again and lasers would look cool, it did before.
12.Rocket Ride-now Ace could do the traditional solo, but this time, all original solo, nothing from a movie or a classical piece. He could put his guitar down and it shoots up like a rocket, like the Psycho Circus video, as it flies up, he could shoot it in mid air, now that would look interesting.
13.Forever-full with lasers
14.Raise Your Glasses
15.God Of Thunder-now I like the idea of the ring of fire and Gene rising up from it. That whole idea is pretty damn cool, including the Peter solo and floating thing.
16.I Want You-with the huge disco ball
17.Tears Are Falling
18.New York Groove
19.I Love It Loud
20.We Are One-Paul could get the crowd involved, be it clapping singing, whatever, but as the song ends, the lights go down and the members leave. This song is a huge tribute to all us fans and just vanishing from the stage at the end would be a very weird and strange feeling.

NOW THE ENCORES
21.Detroit Rock City-the band just kicks right into it
22.Shout It Out Loud
23.Black Diamond-full with levitating drum riser and the band rising over the crowd.

THEY LEAVE THE STAGE AND COME OUT FOR THE FINAL TWO SONGS, BUT THIS TIME, THEY BRING OUT TWO GUESTS. PAUL ANNOUNCES THAT THE NEXT SONG IS DEDICATED TO ERIC CARR AND BRINGS OUT BRUCE AND ERIC FOR THE SET CLOSERS.

24.God Gave Rock n' Roll To You-the screens can have footage from all eras of the band
25.Rock n' Roll All Night-full of confetti, guitar breaking and crowd sing-a-long.

Now I know that this would never happen, it seems like nowadays KISS like to take the easy way out of things. But for a band with such a great history , end your career with a bang. Be proud of everything and everyone in the band, celebrate the whole legacy. Leave your fans happy and wanting more. Remember that the only reason KISS has had success is because of us. Now I have to leave to put a deposit down on my 24" Paul doll. Now that is commitment and that is the commitment that has built the KISS empire. We are the reason for all your on-going success. Give us what we really want again. The best show with the best songs. A concert with theatrics and mediocre songs will never compare to a concert with theatrics and your best songs (your hits)!

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