This is the Kiss article I probably read most times during the early 80′s. Anders Tengners article about the Scandinavian part of the European tour in 1980. Anders have graciously give me permission to post a English version of the article (translated by me). Be sure to check out Anders book “Access All Areas – Mitt liv med hårdrockens giganter”. Reviewed here by me. – Nils
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On Tour with Kiss – By Anders Tengner
All stories have a beginning and this one started a long time ago, back in 1975. It was then I discovered the phenomena KISS. Earlier I had been a hot-blooded Alice Cooper fan. Suddenly there were something better. Four guys from New York who had a dream. The dream was to become stars. And becoming stars were something they had real talent for.
They wore grotesque make-up and stage outfits made of leather and studs, so there were no way one could ignore this band. Even if they already had a couple of albums released, it was “Alive!” that got me hooked!
It was a record that the world had never seen alike before. Well played, even if not to complicated, great and powerful hard rock! From “Deuce” to “Black Diamond” I was in “heavy metal heaven”. Even the 33d time the record was playing. There is no band that have beaten Kiss with a better live record to this day. I was dreaming about seeing the band on stage already then. Dreaming about seeing the most spectacular show in the rock world. Already in May 1976 it was time for the first Kiss tour outside the USA, with the bestseller “Destroyer” just released. Gröna Lund in Stockholm, Olympen in Lund and Scandinavium in Gotheburg got to see what Kiss called “budget” concerts, because the stage equipment were scaled down. The fans came in great number and went wild. Specially the Gröna Lund show was wild. 20 000 people were a great Kiss concert “richer”, and one of them was me.
Kiss grew bigger and bigger during the following years. Japan went “Kiss crazy” and got visits in both 1977 and 1978. Here in Europe we had promises about tours all the time, but nothing happened. Not before this year. The year 1980 when Kiss has 15 records behind them, Kiss went out on a 26 show long European tour. POSTER followed Kiss around Scandinavia. Continue reading
During the winther, you could find many rumours on the internet or in the newspapers about KISS quitting the game. And finally the news came, KISS was going to do a last tour, the Farewell Tour. But the impossible was going to happen; The tour was supposed to just be in America, they were not coming to Norway and Europe!! The thought of never seeing them live one more time was heartbreaking, and I can imagine that we weren`t the only ones sitting late one night drinking some cold beers, dreaming about a last Kiss in America… In this case, it was more than just some foolish talk forgotten next day. It was real for us.
We decided to travel to New York and see KISS at Madison Square Guarden (MSG) the 10th and 11th of july. These dates were not confirmed, but we took the chance. After many hours of work, tickets to the flight was arranged, and a hotel on Manhattan was booked for six persons. The company who was going besides myself and my girlfriend Mari Sandnes, were Lars Petter Strand, Henrik Engebretsen, Gry Thorsen and Håkon Glenne. 
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For many of us the Unmasked period was the time we really grew up to become huge Kiss-fans, and we spent hours looking at the album cover and poster.