Kiss announces final tour dates ever; Gene Simmons says he will ‘cry like a 9-year-old’

It actually is the tip of the highway for Kiss.

Most possible. We assume. So they are saying.

But this time we’ll consider Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons once they introduced Wednesday on Sirius XM’s “The Howard Stern Show” that the band’s final  concert events will be Dec. 1-2 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

“We’re finishing up where we started,” Stanley advised Stern, flanked by his bandmates in full make-up. “When you come to see the show, it’s awesome. … It’s clearly a kick-ass rock ‘n’ roll show. It’s everything Kiss – just amped up and ramped up. We’re giving it everything we have.”

Simmons added that he was positive he would “cry like a 9-year-old girl whose foot is being stepped on” throughout Kiss’ final moments on stage.

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The closing location is sensible for the venerable rockers, who burst out of New York 50 years in the past.

Tickets for the final dates of The End of the Road Tour will be obtainable at 10 a.m. March 6 for a Kiss Army presale at kissonline.com/tour. The basic sale begins at 10 a.m. March 10 at livenation.com.

The band’s goodbye tour kicked off in January 2019 and had been set to finish at Madison Square Garden in July 2021. But COVID-19 postponements resulted in delayed dates that weren’t resumed till August 2021.

This final leg will start Oct. 29 on the Moody Center in Austin and roll via Canada, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Baltimore and different cities earlier than the profession finale.

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Despite a few personnel adjustments on guitar and drums all through the years – Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer deal with the respective duties on this tour – Kiss has at all times soldiered on.

The pioneering rockers have been lauded as a lot for his or her ingenious stage personas – Stanley stays the Starchild and Simmons, along with his depraved tongue, the Demon – as their astute enterprise acumen, promoting every thing from Kiss-branded lunchboxes to caskets throughout their five-decade profession.

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And, with greater than 100 million albums bought worldwide, a list of guitar-crunching hits (“Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It Out Loud” “Calling Dr. Love,” “Lick It Up” and “Rock and Roll All Nite” amongst their mindlessly enjoyable fist-pumpers) and a place within the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Kiss legacy will reside on past their final bows.

Where is Kiss taking part in its final reveals?

Oct. 29, 2023      Austin, TX                    Moody Center

Nov. 1, 2023      Palm Springs, CA        Acrisure Arena

Nov. 3, 2023      Los Angeles, CA         Hollywood Bowl

Nov. 6, 2023      Seattle, WA                 Climate Pledge Arena

Nov. 8, 2023      Vancouver, BC             Rogers Arena

Nov. 10, 2023    Edmonton, AB             Rogers Place

Nov. 12, 2023    Calgary, AB                 Scotiabank Saddledome

Nov. 13, 2023    Saskatoon, SK             SaskTel Centre

Nov. 15, 2023    Winnipeg, MB             Canada Life Centre

Nov. 18, 2023    Montreal, QC              Centre Bell

Nov. 19, 2023    Quebec, QC                Videotron Centre

Nov. 21, 2023    Ottawa, ON                 Canadian Tire Centre

Nov. 22, 2023    Toronto, ON               Scotiabank Arena

Nov. 24, 2023    Knoxville, TN              Thompson-Boling Arena

Nov. 25, 2023    Indianapolis. IN          Gainbridge Fieldhouse

Nov. 27, 2023    Rosemont, IL              Allstate Arena

Nov. 29, 2023    Baltimore, MD             CFG Bank Arena

Dec. 1, 2023      New York, NY             Madison Square Garden

Dec. 2, 2023      New York, NY             Madison Square Garden

This article initially appeared on USA TODAY: Kiss tour 2023: Band announces final reveals ever in New York City