There's a huge difference using pyros in arenas and in nightclubs. Most arenas employ unionised workers and have stricter standards of safety than in nightclubs.I've never heard of an arena burned to the ground from pyros.
666mathew Thats also because arenas often have high ceilings, alot of space, made of steele and concrete, where nightclubs are often small venues made of wood construction 2X6 wood framing, and either wood plank, 1930's and older, Plywood 1940's to 1980's, OSB 1990's to present. Nightclubs are often small spaced and may appear to have hogh ceilings to us patrons, but 2 storey high ceilings are still too low for pyrotechnics.
True...and somehow I can't believe Kiss was using "licensed technicians" in their early club gigs can 1973-74, when they were still carrying their own equipment. They were using pyrotechnics very early into their career. And Gene has caught his hair on fire a number of times. P.S. I commented before I watched the whole video... they addressed the things I mentioned
@ Jamie Hanley, I am very sorry for your loss. It was very careless. I totally agree. Like Gene said, common sense. A small club like that shouldn't have been subjected to pyro. Just plain carelessness.
Ty grew up in my hometown. His dad and sister still live here. There was a huge memorial service here.... it was a sad sad time. This could have been avoided.
Gee, I'm a stage manager. The ceiling is eight inches above my head. So I say, "Yeah, sure, set the fucking fire flash pods up right here!!" Are you KIDDING ME? That guy should NEVER get out of jail...
One of the issues with KISS is fans running onto the stage during their shows. Not only is it disrespectful (intruding their work environment), it is also deadly. They know when and where it is going off. That fan doesn't.
Yeah.. Breathing fire is fine when the roof is 200 feet above you. Setting off a flash pot and fireworks when the roof is thatched bamboo and 12 feet above you?.. Not so good!!. And not something you want to hang around for to watch grow in intensity when the nearest exit is 40 people away.
@@redgringrumboldt8983 This is exactly right. There's actually a map of the club with the number of bodies found in each area of it. If you add the numbers up, you get 96 people, meaning the remaining 4 died later in a hospital. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Stationvictims.png/1024px-Stationvictims.png
he also employed bouncers who told people frantically trying to escape the fire that night that "you cannot exit from this door. It is for the band only." A total loser, who probably.caused people to die that night.
No exits were chained. The bar door acted chained briefly, but that was from a suction created as the fire approached the east side of the club. Strong men threw themselves against the bar door, with no effect. Then when a bar window got broken people almost got sucked out.
I was on tour with my band when this happened. I've seen a lot of bands do stuff like this. I'm really surprised that something like this hasn't occurred before or since then.
Overcrowded club, no sprinklers, fire alarms that took at least 30 seconds to go off (most of the crowd noticed the fire before the alarms went off, that's how crappy the alarms were), narrow main entrance (which many of the patrons rushed toward out of instinct) that got blocked by fallen bodies, ceiling material that produced toxic gas and melted and scorched the people below, and firefighting equipment getting blocked by all the cars in the parking lot.
Oh, Paul... I just wish more people would have listened to your advice. A band just burned down a club in Brazil because they used some pyro stuff they couldn't handle...
This is a self-serving interview if I've ever seen one. Kiss hardly used licensed pyro technicians in the early 70's, by their own admission. There were a number of shows in small clubs, where they said everyone was lucky that that no one was hurt/killed.
Were the safety standards as stringent then as they are now? If they acknowledge that what they did was messed up back in the day, I think that's more than enough. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, and no one died so they can make these comments. As they progressed in their careers and pyro became more prevalent, of course they tightened up safety.
the guitarist that died that night didnt deserve death.negligence and having pirotechnics in a shitty little club in rhode island is just a fucking idiotic idea. R.I.P guitarman :(
I saw one of KISS first concerts in a club with lots of lit candles around. I just can't imagine what would have happened if only one of those candleholders had fallen down on the floor.
I was at a club and there was a hard rock bank and they were using electric lighting that look like pyrotechnics. It was like fireworks with no fire. All electric lighting. Everyone was safe and no fire. Rock groups can do what these guys did. And it was a small club so real pyrotechnics wouldn't work there.
many years ago I saw kiss play at the boston garden and when gene simmons did his famous fire trick, he almost started a fire in the air filters in the roof of the garden. now kiss is a professional band who has the resources to take all the proper precautions to ensure safety in case something does go wrong, the damage is minimal. unfortunately, there are lower scale bands out there and club owners of much smaller venues who do not have the funds or the personnel to make sure safety is paramount. great white was on the down side of their careers when they played the station and a simple stage effect went horribly wrong. and they didn't take into account what could happen in case something did go wrong. I only hope that the people who perished in this fire did not die in vain and we are now much more protected from disasters like this from ever happening again. this may have been the most irresponsible act of callousness I have ever witnessed. please don't let this happen again
I think its the Owners fault and they should have had fire fighters there just in case or 2nd option should have been for the band not to use it...As long as I have been going to see bands play in Clubs back in the 80's and 90"s pyro tech stuff was not aloud.. I saw Great White in Concert as well and they didn't use Pyro stuff but just had alot of lights...Its sad and unfornatley a lesson had to be learned and took 100 lives with it...
Kiss knows what they're talking about because they've got the biggest pyro for the longest time AND they have ALWAYS been beyond safe in their ways they do it
They are both very well spoken....they are both very stuck up as well and they have just been lucky that nothing bad ever happened with all the foolishness on stage!!!
Great white Pryor guy asked the daytime bartender if it was ok to use pyrotechnics. I don't think the bartender made it. The Dedarian brothers bought foam consolation as a temp. noise defused because local residents complained.
I am the ex wife of the drummer... my home was home to a hundred plus grey pyro canisters stacked to the ceiling. ..why? because they were given to gw by another band just off tour who had them as left overs ..I remember the sun shining into the room and demanding those canisters be moved out of my home
@@infoguy1978... they wouldn't have had the pyros They couldn't get the license to use pyros... I don't know who lit the canister BUT IF PAUL DIDNT JUST HAND THE LEFTOVERS TO GREAT WHITE... THOSE PYROS WOULD NEVER HAVE ENTERED THAT CLUB
Great White were focused on their music and their show. It's not reasonable to expect them to investigate the constituent of the sound-proofing in every venue they play at when they might be playing at dozens for a tour. How the managers of the club allowed pyro in their own club is beyond my comprehension.
I was at a KISS concert back during the Psycho Circus tour, during one of the songs something started burning around the roof of the stage. Not a huge fire, looked like some sort of curtains kind of burning. It didn't appear to be anything that could have spread or gotten out of control. Some stagehand scrambled up some scaffolding with a fire extinguisher and put it out while the band members were pointing up laughing at it. But always in the back of my mind was the thought what if they couldn't have put it out? What if it had spread? This was a arena holding at least 20,000 people. Imagine the panic and the amount of people who would have been crushed trying to escape. We all want to see the pyro's, we want to see the exciting show. They use them everywhere now, from concerts to pro wrestling to baseball to monster truck shows, the list goes on. Eventually something will happen that will make The Station look as minor as a fender bender in McDonalds parking lot.
it seems we are treading the same path on the internet tonight friend. ps: dont see the full video from the event discussed here - it tore a rift in my soul...
Ironically I saw Kiss in concert in Ohio back in the late 1990s, their pyros set off a small fire on stage that night. A curtain near the top of the stage started burning, Peter Criss kind of looked up at it and pointed at it in between songs-it slowly burned itself out and the show went on. Everyone just kind of laughed about it. it was nothing serious, but hey. It could have been.
The curtain was probably treated with a fire retardant. The reason the Station stage lit up so quickly was because the soundproofing foam behind the stage was highly flammable.
There was a band called The Snowmen. Actually several bands have used that name. But the one I'm talking about was a hard rock dressed in white with whiteface makeup 80's combination cover and original material club band. They used pyrotechnics too. But they were very well controlled and they never exceeded reaching the halfway point to the ceiling.
Paul and Gene are astoundingly intelligent here regarding cause and effect! Their stage personas portray them as reckless idiots which they are clearly not. I am massively impressed by them, though I was already a Kiss fan.🤘
They are not "Knights In Satan Service". They're all Christian, they're just in the world of Rock for a living. I have met the band personally, with Tommy and Eric. I can tell you, the entire band, especially Paul and Gene, are some of the most down to Earth people you will ever have the honor of meeting. Their team works for the fans, not the money. They gave my mom a deal for $200 to escort me out in case something like this happened in the show we were at so that I wouldn't get trampled.
And they DO, go to their Website. They're always saying "Our hearts and prayers are with....", not the other way around. Yes, Paul and Gene are Jewish, but I think Paul is Christian while Gene is otherwise, goes to show how opposite they are!
Jewish people pray. TO GOD. One God! They believe in The First Testament. They both follow the Jewish religion. I have read their books and they never claimed to change religions. They thanked GOD on the stage when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of fame. That being said, if you are looking for Christians in the KISS line-up, both former drummers Peter Criss & the late Eric Carr are (was). Peter wears his mother's rosary beads and has since she passed away. Don't "think", when I know the fact. Paul, as you mentioned, made sure that he'd not be on tour for his oldest son's Bar Mitzvah. Gene was moved to tears as he re-visited his home in Tirat Carmel, Haifa. They believe in GOD, isn't that good enough to make your point.
Even the arena and stadium have to be up to code other wise it would be just like what happened with Great White will happen again to someone else. So first and foremost safety and communication with the building owner have to come first.
jdrose1000 Actually he had a close friend in the club and ran back to save his friend. The guitarist was found near his friend and far from where his destroyed guitar was.
Gene made a good point.what happened to the safety authorities.where were they when they installed these dangerous pyros in the Station show.unacceptable to what happenned at the Station.where were at the safety authorities to supervised the installation of the pyros.?
Haa the funny thing about this is i remember in Bremen where KISS were told they were aloud to use no pyro what so ever and at the end of the show in the finale they let all of it off!
In the wake of the Rhode Island Tragedy..I certainly hope that bands playing in clubs as well as Club owners get permission from the Local Fire Marshall when it comes to using Pyrotechs ...ALSO...make sure they have fire exit doors that are open and easy to find in the wake of a fire...If I recall, one of the reasons so many people tied in the fire is that some of the emergency exit doors were locked and people could not get out.
In almost all entertainment venue fires, emergency "exit" doors are often locked or chained shut because management is tired of people sneaking into the venue without paying. You'd think building inspectors would fine the hell out of a place that would do that, but in many areas minimal inspections are done.
Yes I agree with both Paul and gene pyrotechnics are very dangerous especially when rammstein uses pyro I mean I like watching pyrotechnics but I don't wanna get close to it if I were you
I remember tbat the some sic news showed the actual film of the tragedy on tv right after it happened ..i saw it for a second got freaked and changed the station..not knowing if it was real or not..
Definitely influential. Definitely groundbreaking. Paul Stanley, especially, came across as the "gentleman" of this interview. Gene was just pissed off, period. This is also how you look when you snort a few lines and hold it together for a press review or interview. Maybe these guys are over it, maybe not, but they did make a huge impact on me when I was 16/17 years old........
TheTVisions That's because nothing about them is genuine. Everything they do and say is scripted. Even the part where they butt fuck each other. Bunch of fuckin douche bags
@@TempoDrift1480 How do you know that they are ingenuine? Are they inhuman psychopaths? I doubt it. I’d say that about Travis Scott, after his infamous Astroworld disaster and head rubbing “apology”.
@R8NBLZ Listen to his Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross. He just seems to have a real d-bag personality. But I've never met him myself, so don't take my word for it. ;)
@creepshowcrate I've Had Enough (Into the Fire), Burn Bitch Burn, Firehouse, Trial By Fire, Burning Up With Fever, All Hell's Breakin' Loose.....Sorry.....
Morale of the story from Gene and Paul: "We have enough money to do this right. Great White didn't."
But Paul did say it’s Common Sense at the end of the day that should’ve prevented this. That’s free
ya I got that too$$$$$
i think that's all Gene thinks about,well maybe the second thing.
yeah which still translates to, dont do it if you cant afford it
There's a huge difference using pyros in arenas and in nightclubs. Most arenas employ unionised workers and have stricter standards of safety than in nightclubs.I've never heard of an arena burned to the ground from pyros.
666mathew Thats also because arenas often have high ceilings, alot of space, made of steele and concrete, where nightclubs are often small venues made of wood construction 2X6 wood framing, and either wood plank, 1930's and older, Plywood 1940's to 1980's, OSB 1990's to present. Nightclubs are often small spaced and may appear to have hogh ceilings to us patrons, but 2 storey high ceilings are still too low for pyrotechnics.
True...and somehow I can't believe Kiss was using "licensed technicians" in their early club gigs can 1973-74, when they were still carrying their own equipment. They were using pyrotechnics very early into their career. And Gene has caught his hair on fire a number of times.
P.S. I commented before I watched the whole video... they addressed the things I mentioned
Arenas are built with steel-reinforced concrete. The Station was a small building made of solid wood.
Paul and Gene are so well-spoken.
Especially Paul.
Boethius: I thought the exact same thing :)
@@peppersander2457, Great minds think alike.
@@boethius9173 :)
My cousin died in that fire, you can see her in the front row. It was just very careless.
I am sorry for your loss....
I'm so sorry *hugs* my prayers for you and your fam
@ Jamie Hanley, I am very sorry for your loss. It was very careless. I totally agree. Like Gene said, common sense. A small club like that shouldn't have been subjected to pyro. Just plain carelessness.
Deepest condolences Jamie
jamie Hanley: I'm so sorry jamie, this is so tragic, may your cousin rest in peace.
Ty grew up in my hometown. His dad and sister still live here. There was a huge memorial service here.... it was a sad sad time. This could have been avoided.
Gee, I'm a stage manager. The ceiling is eight inches above my head. So I say, "Yeah, sure, set the fucking fire flash pods up right here!!" Are you KIDDING ME? That guy should NEVER get out of jail...
One of the issues with KISS is fans running onto the stage during their shows. Not only is it disrespectful (intruding their work environment), it is also deadly. They know when and where it is going off. That fan doesn't.
extremely good point.
Yeah.. Breathing fire is fine when the roof is 200 feet above you. Setting off a flash pot and fireworks when the roof is thatched bamboo and 12 feet above you?..
Not so good!!. And not something you want to hang around for to watch grow in intensity when the nearest exit is 40 people away.
thank you both for everything!!!!!
Kudos to Connie Chung for being respectful and refraining from the usual dirt digging tactics most journalist types try.
Alienart Yeah, that's a good observation.
In other words, this was a "puff piece"
I love the guys, BUT LIES!! Gene's hair has caught fire a couple of times and then the ceiling fire in the place they were rehearsing in!!
96 people weren't killed. Piece must have been done soon after the Station Club Fire because the Death Toll was ultimately an even 100 people
I think the descrepency is 4 victims remained anonomous as requested by their families..so their names remain off the victims list..
No, there are 100 people, all with photos... possibly, people died 'later' because of their injuries, bringing the final total to 100.
I think the other 4 victims died later on from their injuries.
@@redgringrumboldt8983 This is exactly right. There's actually a map of the club with the number of bodies found in each area of it. If you add the numbers up, you get 96 people, meaning the remaining 4 died later in a hospital.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Stationvictims.png/1024px-Stationvictims.png
@@EvilTim1911 The death total was zero. It was all a hoax hahahah!
I was waiting to here if anyone was going to mention the club owner having the fire exits chained.
he also employed bouncers who told people frantically trying to escape the fire that night that "you cannot exit from this door. It is for the band only." A total loser, who probably.caused people to die that night.
No exits were chained. The bar door acted chained briefly, but that was from a suction created as the fire approached the east side of the club. Strong men threw themselves against the bar door, with no effect. Then when a bar window got broken people almost got sucked out.
Almost 20 years on and people still remember the fire at the station. It sure makes one look at every building for exits and sprinklers.
One guy standing by with a fire extinguisher for five minutes at the beginning of the show in Rhode Island and everyone survives.
I was on tour with my band when this happened. I've seen a lot of bands do stuff like this. I'm really surprised that something like this hasn't occurred before or since then.
Pyrotechnics of any kind in a small dimly lit pub with a low ceiling and 400 odd people packed into it is never a good idea.
Overcrowded club, no sprinklers, fire alarms that took at least 30 seconds to go off (most of the crowd noticed the fire before the alarms went off, that's how crappy the alarms were), narrow main entrance (which many of the patrons rushed toward out of instinct) that got blocked by fallen bodies, ceiling material that produced toxic gas and melted and scorched the people below, and firefighting equipment getting blocked by all the cars in the parking lot.
Oh, Paul... I just wish more people would have listened to your advice. A band just burned down a club in Brazil because they used some pyro stuff they couldn't handle...
It's one thing having pyrotechnics at a massive great stadium when Kiss are playing - quite another when you are at a little club for 300 people.
This is a self-serving interview if I've ever seen one. Kiss hardly used licensed pyro technicians in the early 70's, by their own admission. There were a number of shows in small clubs, where they said everyone was lucky that that no one was hurt/killed.
Were the safety standards as stringent then as they are now? If they acknowledge that what they did was messed up back in the day, I think that's more than enough. Hindsight is 20/20 of course, and no one died so they can make these comments. As they progressed in their careers and pyro became more prevalent, of course they tightened up safety.
Yes they have just been lucky that nothing bad ever happened with all the foolishness on stage!!!
the guitarist that died that night didnt deserve death.negligence and having pirotechnics in a shitty little club in rhode island is just a fucking idiotic idea.
R.I.P guitarman :(
I saw one of KISS first concerts in a club with lots of lit candles around. I just can't imagine what would have happened if only one of those candleholders had fallen down on the floor.
I was at a club and there was a hard rock bank and they were using electric lighting that look like pyrotechnics. It was like fireworks with no fire. All electric lighting. Everyone was safe and no fire. Rock groups can do what these guys did. And it was a small club so real pyrotechnics wouldn't work there.
Everytime paul stanley blinks I get pissed off. I got pissed off 200 times
LMAO! What was up with that? Blink blink blink blink.....
Lol
many years ago I saw kiss play at the boston garden and when gene simmons did his famous fire trick, he almost started a fire in the air filters in the roof of the garden. now kiss is a professional band who has the resources to take all the proper precautions to ensure safety in case something does go wrong, the damage is minimal. unfortunately, there are lower scale bands out there and club owners of much smaller venues who do not have the funds or the personnel to make sure safety is paramount. great white was on the down side of their careers when they played the station and a simple stage effect went horribly wrong. and they didn't take into account what could happen in case something did go wrong. I only hope that the people who perished in this fire did not die in vain and we are now much more protected from disasters like this from ever happening again. this may have been the most irresponsible act of callousness I have ever witnessed. please don't let this happen again
I think its the Owners fault and they should have had fire fighters there just in case or 2nd option should have been for the band not to use it...As long as I have been going to see bands play in Clubs back in the 80's and 90"s pyro tech stuff was not aloud.. I saw Great White in Concert as well and they didn't use Pyro stuff but just had alot of lights...Its sad and unfornatley a lesson had to be learned and took 100 lives with it...
Hey they were at Melbourne that's when they were shooting the Kiss symphony show
Kiss knows what they're talking about because they've got the biggest pyro for the longest time AND they have ALWAYS been beyond safe in their ways they do it
Instead of Paul saying “thankfully, there were no injuries or loss of life.” he says “thankfully, we got away with it.”
They are both very well spoken....they are both very stuck up as well and they have just been lucky that nothing bad ever happened with all the foolishness on stage!!!
Exactly!! 😒
Great white Pryor guy asked the daytime bartender if it was ok to use pyrotechnics. I don't think the bartender made it. The Dedarian brothers bought foam consolation as a temp. noise defused because local residents complained.
I am the ex wife of the drummer... my home was home to a hundred plus grey pyro canisters stacked to the ceiling. ..why? because they were given to gw by another band just off tour who had them as left overs ..I remember the sun shining into the room and demanding those canisters be moved out of my home
amcqueenboxing
- in private did your husband think the band was at least partly responsible for the fire?
@@infoguy1978... they wouldn't have had the pyros They couldn't get the license to use pyros... I don't know who lit the canister BUT IF PAUL DIDNT JUST HAND THE LEFTOVERS TO GREAT WHITE... THOSE PYROS WOULD NEVER HAVE ENTERED THAT CLUB
That sure is a lot of blinking.
How bizarre that it was a club called KISS in Brazil where at least 233 died today January 27, 2013. How strange & tragic.
Great White were focused on their music and their show. It's not reasonable to expect them to investigate the constituent of the sound-proofing in every venue they play at when they might be playing at dozens for a tour. How the managers of the club allowed pyro in their own club is beyond my comprehension.
It's nice when you hear a band say that they want to work with authorities and officials, instead of thumbing their noses at them
Someone needs check on this mysterious pastor.
Pyro’s better in large venues. Common fucking sense not to do that in a small club.
That was a hoax. Nobody died in the fire. Kiss probably even knew that was a hoax.
I was at a KISS concert back during the Psycho Circus tour, during one of the songs something started burning around the roof of the stage. Not a huge fire, looked like some sort of curtains kind of burning. It didn't appear to be anything that could have spread or gotten out of control. Some stagehand scrambled up some scaffolding with a fire extinguisher and put it out while the band members were pointing up laughing at it. But always in the back of my mind was the thought what if they couldn't have put it out? What if it had spread? This was a arena holding at least 20,000 people. Imagine the panic and the amount of people who would have been crushed trying to escape.
We all want to see the pyro's, we want to see the exciting show. They use them everywhere now, from concerts to pro wrestling to baseball to monster truck shows, the list goes on. Eventually something will happen that will make The Station look as minor as a fender bender in McDonalds parking lot.
are you on adderall or something?
Sorry, but "we all" don't want to see "the pyro's" (sic)! I don't want to see it EVER!
Dracula and Michael Jackson doing an interview
Richard Spitz Or Dracula and Aunt Wilma, harharhar
well then they can do a Monster Mash remix of Thriller....LOLOLOLOL!!1
Anybody remember the Metallica pyro incident in 1992?
true professionals right here
YES!!
it seems we are treading the same path on the internet tonight friend. ps: dont see the full video from the event discussed here - it tore a rift in my soul...
Two great entertainers right there
Actually Gene was a teacher before KISS became big.
I like how paul kept saying they have enough money
Paul and Gene could have mentioned that Eric Carr survived and was a hero of the nightclub fire at Gullivers in 1974, another mass death.
That fire was arson. A thief set the fire to cover up a robbery in an adjoining bowling alley. The band had nothing to do with it.
Ironically I saw Kiss in concert in Ohio back in the late 1990s, their pyros set off a small fire on stage that night. A curtain near the top of the stage started burning, Peter Criss kind of looked up at it and pointed at it in between songs-it slowly burned itself out and the show went on. Everyone just kind of laughed about it. it was nothing serious, but hey. It could have been.
The curtain was probably treated with a fire retardant. The reason the Station stage lit up so quickly was because the soundproofing foam behind the stage was highly flammable.
There was a band called The Snowmen. Actually several bands have used that name. But the one I'm talking about was a hard rock dressed in white with whiteface makeup 80's combination cover and original material club band. They used pyrotechnics too. But they were very well controlled and they never exceeded reaching the halfway point to the ceiling.
I've met gene hes such a smart dude and very well spoken
Paul and Gene are astoundingly intelligent here regarding cause and effect! Their stage personas portray them as reckless idiots which they are clearly not. I am massively impressed by them, though I was already a Kiss fan.🤘
They are not "Knights In Satan Service". They're all Christian, they're just in the world of Rock for a living. I have met the band personally, with Tommy and Eric. I can tell you, the entire band, especially Paul and Gene, are some of the most down to Earth people you will ever have the honor of meeting. Their team works for the fans, not the money. They gave my mom a deal for $200 to escort me out in case something like this happened in the show we were at so that I wouldn't get trampled.
godzarmy11 Paul & Gene Are Jewish. Do your homework before you post comments.
They're Jewish, but ALL FOUR band members are Christian. Paul is VERY open about it!
Christians believe in Christ. They are both Jewish and do not, by religion, believe in Christ.
And they DO, go to their Website. They're always saying "Our hearts and prayers are with....", not the other way around. Yes, Paul and Gene are Jewish, but I think Paul is Christian while Gene is otherwise, goes to show how opposite they are!
Jewish people pray. TO GOD. One God! They believe in The First Testament. They both follow the Jewish religion. I have read their books and they never claimed to change religions. They thanked GOD on the stage when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of fame. That being said, if you are looking for Christians in the KISS line-up, both former drummers Peter Criss & the late Eric Carr are (was). Peter wears his mother's rosary beads and has since she passed away. Don't "think", when I know the fact. Paul, as you mentioned, made sure that he'd not be on tour for his oldest son's Bar Mitzvah. Gene was moved to tears as he re-visited his home in Tirat Carmel, Haifa. They believe in GOD, isn't that good enough to make your point.
Kiss has pyro in stadiums or buildings that pass codes and indoor venues that hold alot of people and don't have foam ..
Is Gene selling Kiss fire extinguishers yet?
Even the arena and stadium have to be up to code other wise it would be just like what happened with Great White will happen again to someone else. So first and foremost safety and communication with the building owner have to come first.
To be in particularly bad taste, they should have used "Hotter Than Hell" as the background music. Or "Flaming Youth."
I don't think rock stars should be allowed to use the word 'prudent'. :-)
When they first started Gene used to throw the flashpaper and threw it into a front row fan. He got free tickets from then on.
That guitarist did make it out, but went back in to get his guitar and never made it back out! 😢
jdrose1000 Actually he had a close friend in the club and ran back to save his friend. The guitarist was found near his friend and far from where his destroyed guitar was.
@@MegaBallPowerBall He alive the whole thing was a hoax.
@@johnellizzstop spreading false and fake news man. Have some respect
interesting they didnt mention destroying the ceiling at cardiff natiional ice rink in '92. They cooked it during heavens on fire
Gene made a good point.what happened to the safety authorities.where were they when they installed these dangerous pyros in the Station show.unacceptable to what happenned at the Station.where were at the safety authorities to supervised the installation of the pyros.?
Yeah bc you gave the pyros to great white instead of disposing the legal way
Haa the funny thing about this is i remember in Bremen where KISS were told they were aloud to use no pyro what so ever and at the end of the show in the finale they let all of it off!
Did she call him Pete Simmons?
In the wake of the Rhode Island Tragedy..I certainly hope that bands playing in clubs as well as Club owners get permission from the Local Fire Marshall when it comes to using Pyrotechs ...ALSO...make sure they have fire exit doors that are open and easy to find in the wake of a fire...If I recall, one of the reasons so many people tied in the fire is that some of the emergency exit doors were locked and people could not get out.
In almost all entertainment venue fires, emergency "exit" doors are often locked or chained shut because management is tired of people sneaking into the venue without paying. You'd think building inspectors would fine the hell out of a place that would do that, but in many areas minimal inspections are done.
Theres no better spokesmen when it comes to ovens than gene & paul..
Tragedy :'(
I love Paul favorite member of Kiss then Ace Gene then Peter
Yes I agree with both Paul and gene pyrotechnics are very dangerous especially when rammstein uses pyro I mean I like watching pyrotechnics but I don't wanna get close to it if I were you
pity they couldn't pay music as good as there fire works display lol
I remember tbat the some sic news showed the actual film of the tragedy on tv right after it happened ..i saw it for a second got freaked and changed the station..not knowing if it was real or not..
Definitely influential. Definitely groundbreaking. Paul Stanley, especially, came across as the "gentleman" of this interview. Gene was just pissed off, period. This is also how you look when you snort a few lines and hold it together for a press review or interview. Maybe these guys are over it, maybe not, but they did make a huge impact on me when I was 16/17 years old........
I went to an Iron Maiden concert and the singer had a flame thrower, silly really
@6:49 Speaking of fire and brimstone our next guest is Pat Robertson
"I learned from a magician"
4:32 YES IT IS ON HERE!!! look for the video of gene's hair on fire...
Paul Stanley annoyingly blinks way too much.
side affect of plastic surgery
Ty went to help people.
YourMusicMistress No, they said he went back in to get his guitar, not to help people...
Sad....
I read he grabbed his guitar and was spotted by a survivor using it to try to smash open a window
Same here, man. I wish I hadn't watched it.
Gene just looks pissed lmfao.
They speak robotic...
TheTVisions That's because nothing about them is genuine. Everything they do and say is scripted. Even the part where they butt fuck each other. Bunch of fuckin douche bags
@@TempoDrift1480 You would know.
@@TempoDrift1480 How do you know that they are ingenuine? Are they inhuman psychopaths? I doubt it. I’d say that about Travis Scott, after his infamous Astroworld disaster and head rubbing “apology”.
kiss were one of the first to do this stuff,,,true pros and groundbreakers,,,kiss remains one of the most influential bands of all time.
Uh, Gene caught fire way way back, but only once.....
Therefore, they shouldn't have done it.
Hard work talks and small talk walks
5:28 “see Connie we can afford” by the way dats a lot black hair in da interview
Gene Simmons said that the original name of their band was kiss deez.....
Savety first in every thing you do
Gene grosses me out, as a person. But the message here is pretty solid.
@R8NBLZ Listen to his Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross. He just seems to have a real d-bag personality. But I've never met him myself, so don't take my word for it. ;)
Dangerous "chemicals"?
Fire is a chemical reaction.
Von Arkesh Exactly!
No reason for fireworks, just play instruments and sing!
UM. OK. JUST FOR YOU 😂
HE HAS A DEEP VOICE!!!!!
MJ used pyrotechnics
I think paul was lip syncing here
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Come off it. Mooch is right
it killed 100 people Connie
April Dannette Gosa sounds like 4 people succumbed to their injuries after this interview
Good music. Fireworks, too? Looks stupid.
@creepshowcrate I've Had Enough (Into the Fire), Burn Bitch Burn, Firehouse, Trial By Fire, Burning Up With Fever, All Hell's Breakin' Loose.....Sorry.....
and you do too! hahahaha
Licensed doesn't mean a fucking thing except that they paid somebody to let them do something. Having a license doesn't make you good at something.
maybe kiss should have properly disposed the pyrotechnics instead of just giving them away to a non arena ba
amcqueenboxing ..dont blame kiss for the fire.because kiss gave them pyro
@@davejones9577the law says you can't just give left over pyros to anyone