KISS - SHE - Live at the Agora Ballroom - Cleveland, OH - APRIL 1, 1974

KISS performing "SHE" at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland Ohio, April 1, 1974
* SETLIST*
1 Deuce
2 Strutter
3 Cold Gin
4 She
5 Firehouse
6 Nothin' To Lose
7 100,000 Years
8 Black Diamond
- Dates 4/1 - 4/4 were publicized in Billboard Magazine (4/6/74).
- Peter was asphyxiated at the end of the show when the drum riser got stuck up by the ceiling, in the residual fumes from the show effects, resulting in him passing out. He ended up in the Vincent Charity Hospital. Club owner Henry LoConti Sr. recalled, "It was a night I'll never forget. All of a sudden, the drums stopped. I look up, and I see this hand dangling off the edge of the platform. The other guys just kept playing" (Plain Dealer, 2/26/06)!
- Gene also recalled this show in Cleveland's local Scene magazine, "We opened for Rory Gallagher. And the audience was not ready to see us. When the announcer started introducing us he got as far as 'Now from New York,' before everybody started booing. They wanted to see Gallagher and not some rock 'n' roll band that they never heard of before. But after we were done, they called for two encores" (The Scene, 6/20/74).
- "Nights Out At The Agora" was a collaboration between the Agora and local radio stations, in Cleveland's case, WMMS 101-FM, that recorded live sets from artists and offered those shows to partner radio stations for broadcast. "If a radio station wants to put on the hour, we send the tapes weekly and the station makes a commitment giving the show a certain amount of promos... plus they give the network three spots in the body of the show which the network can either use or sell. The station benefits because they keep three spots. And in Cleveland it's WMMS jocks that emcee our shows. And we tend to advertise on the stations that are running our shows" (Radio Report, 11/23/78). The operation eventually developed into a local TV broadcast, "On Stage at the Agora," also simulcast on radio, through which mostly new acts were featured (early on). The show ran 1974 - 84.
- This show circulates as a pre-FM SBD (in other words copies from the station reels versus copies from a broadcast of the reels); unfortunately, at some point most of the raps during the show were edited out. Of those that remain, Gene does somewhat embarrassingly address the audience at one point asking, "How many people we got here? A hundred? Are you ready to rock?" in an unconvincing and rather awkward manner.
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