KISS Budokan hall, Tokyo (JAP), 02 avril 1977

Full show / Concert complet

[@leokimvideo]

Just proves how valuable Ace was to Kiss

[@blachloch1]

Both Ace and Peter were important to the band but sadly like many other bands ego's got in the way. Styx, Journey, The Eagles and many more never reached what they could have had they put aside their egos and just played.

[@mickmarsbar81]

@@blachloch1I don’t think Ace and Peter’s egos were as much of a problem as the other two..

[@geneklongerbo]

​@@blachloch1😅

[@mikeymike-m7o]

@@blachloch1 Truer words have never been spoken.

[@mickmarsbar81]

@spaceace1006 Somebody believes Bert and Chaim’s horseshit. You’re new round here, aren’t ya boy?

[@RichardWorthington-rh7zl]

This is when they all enjoyed playing together they're completely and totally awesome

[@louise_rose]

One of the most underrated (or controversial, even hated) bands of the seventies....many grown-ups didn't realize how much theatre and satire there was about it. Great show!

[@_vixen_4504]

@@louise_rose i wouldn't say underrated they are one of the most famous bands in history. everyone knows what you are talking about if you say kiss.

[@louise_rose]

@@_vixen_4504 I think they were underrated by the media at the time - many people didn't understand how much deliberate theatre there was to their act (and sometimes their lyrics) but preferred to treat them as "cheap ultra-shockers" or even outright Fascists (!)

[@davidhogue4402]

Saw them in Minneapolis 1976... 14 years old, I was hooked for life !!!

[@ot4577]

I was there at this concert on this day when I was just a kid in Japan. Thank you!

[@weedme6919]

MY HONEST OPINION JAPAN GOT THE BEST OF THE BEST WHEN IT COMES TO CONCERTS HAVE A GOOD DAY Weed Me

[@TheBeatles..]

oh yeah, really!

[@liulee-yu7264]

Japan people are very good. Kiss also said that Japan People are very good and respectful.🙏

[@Assarkask]

Must have been loud 😅

[@SuperFlanders123]

That's awesome!!! Happy you got to see them then!

[@jimmyc2895]

When KISS ruled the world 🌎

[@runrunrun6777]

This is when they were still firing on all cylinders- thanks for sharing!

[@michaeldematteis3409]

Makes sense.they were young and hungry.a few years in.not 70 years old

[@mikeanthony8934]

Na, he didn't even sing ladies room right. Fucked it all up

[@kenvance5456]

Thanks for sharing, I always enjoy watching vintage Kiss.

[@stopcrying8114]

Kiss were my favorite right after the King of Rock!

[@williambaird4575]

Been following Kiss since i was 14 l’m nearly 60 now those guys were the best ever saw them do their last show in Glasgow last year they will be sadly missed thanks Kiss for all the great shows over 50 years no one can touch yous one word brilliant. 🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

[@bmelvin1234]

Ace could play and a great showman. He was born for this. Even when Paul was criticizing him in his book he always gave him props for his talent.

[@RedHotHockeyYYC]

@spaceace1006 lol Vinny could play 10x as many notes with 1/1000th of the effectiveness. Ace has rock n roll in his DNA. The heart and soul of Kiss

[@daves_not_here_mannn]

Vinnie was all flash and zero heart and style

[@docbrummer2532]

Whatever it was Ace had we all knew it it.Talent and charisma. He wasnt a classical guitarist and he will be the first to tell you. But he was cool and played tasty licks. Ace was and is the man.

[@KTGHATS]

Dammm Ace’s solo impressed me, he’s no joke

[@huntercraig993]

The goat

[@dvpress4854]

Nice to be reminded how good Paul Stanley's voice used to be.

[@brucew6352]

Those were the days,. no computer,s , cell phones, just. get high. and listen. to. some. Kiss.

[@Christine16425]

​@@brucew6352 yes 💯

[@fundhund62]

His voice was just developing, and got much better in the 80s and 90s.

[@David-wf4ev]

I ion give a shit what Stanley or anyone else says, Peter was kicking ass here ! The real Catman 🔥🤘🥁

[@butcherbabys]

Facts

[@GamezOfWar]

Peter Criss was a beast on them skins, inspired countless drummers…living legend!

[@ドンガバチョ-e1u]

About 46years ago my most favorite band!thanks for giving this video!

[@ima3730]

おおっ！懐かしい。NHKヤングミュージックショーのソースだ！

[@raichosan]

やっぱりそうでしたか。ヤングは１時間に編集されて放送されたんですかね？

[@reubensane5539]

Peter has a swing the other kiss drummers didn’t have.

[@reubensane5539]

@@pietvlanderen5811 out of controller lol

[@sjs1555]

Yeah. Too bad he flushed his career down the crapper.

[@reubensane5539]

@@sjs1555 what are you talking about? There’s no shame In Retirement . He’s living a great life now ,you’re just regurgitating Gene & Paul tropes. Better to retire than drag your legacy through the mud like kiss are doing now,pails singing is an embarrassment.

[@sjs1555]

@@reubensane5539 Lol. Yeah. You’re right. He never had a substance abuse problem. He was never kicked out of the group. He just “retired”. What are you going to say next? The election was stolen?

[@jonr9518]

Peter was a terrible drummer But his biggest mistake was thinking he would win an argument over the 2 dudes who really run the show Screwing up a live show because you're upset is disrespectful to the fans who pay good money to see a good show

[@pyelit2]

All kiss drummers were great. Peter just had more of an uptempo jazz flavor to his drumming which I think gave him his “sound”

[@breakingthelaw7974]

Could not agree more, the only one of the kiss solo albums that i have is Peters just because of his amazing groove.

[@kenshinoriginal1]

@breakingthelaw7974 Yet he doesn't play the drums on any of that album songs. 😀 WOW He trully had groove.

[@breakingthelaw7974]

@@kenshinoriginal1 well that is wrong he plays on most of album except a few songs were another drummer steps in because of a injurie that Peter suffered during the making of the album.

[@kenshinoriginal1]

@@breakingthelaw7974 That's true.

[@oldfriend327]

Thank you and God bless you a million times for posting this great video footage. Concert footage never gets old.

[@djelabass9120]

Detroit rock city 4:25 take me 8:00 let me go rock n'roll 11:35 ladies room 15:25 firehouse 19:30 making love 23:00 I want you 28:50 cold gin 32:00 ace solo 38:00 do you love me? 41:40 nothing to loose 45:35 gene spits blood 47:20 god of thunder (50:00 peter's solo) 55:55 rock n'roll all night 01:01:15 shout it out loud 01:04:40 Beth 01:08:45 black diamond

[@tonystevenson26]

Most impressive performance here? DO YOU LOVE ME...and yes, I'm a fantastic musician

[@idol_stomper]

"45:35 gene spits blood" LOL

[@paullukasik8698]

Was this the last tour that they closed with Black Diamond?

[@j83vfn]

Alive 2​@@paullukasik8698

[@daverain1967]

man ace is awesome at this show

[@knowsmebyname]

He was surprisingly precise player when he was young. He played the songs faithfully

[@daverain1967]

@@knowsmebyname why surprisingly?

[@knowsmebyname]

@@daverain1967 well I am an older guy who has heard stories about Ace's loose living my whole life, so I find it surprising that he plays so tight. Another example of lazy thinking leading to unfair assumptions.

[@daverain1967]

@@knowsmebyname I'm 56, don't believe everything you see, controversy sells albums and books :-)

[@daverain1967]

@@knowsmebyname though with that said, Ace definitely deserves that reputation lol

[@JB-hq7vp]

Man Ace really stole the show with that solo!! Amazing!!

[@tamugrad2007]

Nobody considers them R&B but so much of their music was rooted in it.

[@VincentOfDreamhouse]

...and if anyone is in doubt, just listen to how funky "She" and "Watchin' You" are...!

[@1StinkyFinger]

just noticed - during Making Love, Ace is head banging !!!!

[@britneyspears1932]

ACE AND PETER MADE KISS WHAT THEY ARE NOW!!!!!!🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁

[@David-mn2mp]

I love the haters and their comments. When they obtain the level of success these guys have and they have gold and platinum records I'll be impressed until then keep on hating.

[@gibson7289]

God I wish ace kept his playing this tight.i realize he was much younger and his solo kinda sucks but while playin through the set,he is the Ace we all loved.

[@pensnut08]

Man, when Ace was on his game he was so good, tasteful.

[@davidbeltrandominguez5613]

... KISS!!! ... Sus mejores tiempos ... los 70'S ... pero siempre fiel a ellos! Indudablemente tiempos mejores en todos los sentidos. Salud!

[@Steambull1]

This is the 2nd to last show on the Rock And Roll Over tour (the three final ones were at this same venue, this is the middle night).

[@allentate3760]

I was at the last US show of this tour

[@ajo3085]

The final 4 shows were all in Tokyo on the 1st, 2nd & 4th of April. They played 2 shows on the 2nd and both the afternoon and evening shows were recorded.

[@mikeodonnell6799]

wrong, the destroyer tour

[@ajo3085]

@@mikeodonnell6799 LOL Mike!!!! So those lucky Japanese audiences got to see the Rock & Roll Over stage and 4 songs from the album? Lucky, lucky them.

[@mikeodonnell6799]

@@ajo3085 I saw Kiss in December of 1976. they were still doing destroyer, R N R over came out right before Christmas in 76

[@T.kazuya]

このLIVE見に行きたかった

[@marcocappa3738]

Edited on VHS in 1984 circa Kiss played 2 gigs that day....the former at 3pm,the latter at 7 pm....their first Japanese tour

[@ricrodgers6450]

They were a force to reckon with! They were kickin butt! This is what a concert should sound like!

[@Crowbar381]

It’s totally amazing Paul’s voice lasted as long as it did and he was hitting the tenors holy grail C5s over and over, night after night

[@CorbieFields-rh8jl]

Mr. Ace Frehley didn't let the magnitude of his phenomenal game change his 🧲 magnetic❤😊 personality.🎸👍🤘🎵

[@afghanwhigs01]

Saw this tour at MSG and Spectrum in Philly.

[@johnny-r]

I saw them on this tour at the L.A. Forum in 1977. They were the very best until around 1982.

[@stopcrying8114]

You said right!👍

[@mickmarsbar81]

Damn right. The REAL Kiss.

[@ajjy1110]

no you didn't this isn't the love gun tour or the alive 2 tour

[@Christine16425]

​@@mickmarsbar81oui ils avaient faim love Kiss forever 😍

[@docbrummer2532]

Coincidentally 1982 was when Ace left

[@dalej6987]

I like Kiss, and love the song Parasite, but never really got them like most fans... Until seeing this video. They put on an awesome show here, and the crowd was totally into it. I was expecting a Japanese crowd to be more reserved. Boy was I wrong! Other people may have played in Kiss, and maybe they had more talent(then again, maybe not), but no lineup showed more passion than the original group did!

[@Snid917]

Damn they sounded good in this video…

[@scottanchelowitz9774]

Yeah, this is classic Kiss👍

[@lysaarvideo]

I think "Alive!" was really a milestone for Kiss. It seems strange to hear the oldest songs from the first albums in the same show as the "Destroyer" and "RARO" songs. Post "Alive!" Kiss changed a lot.

[@PeterLo-cz1ig]

I recorded this concert on VHS February 1981 on a special presentation of Rock Arena. Still have that video cassette in 2024..

[@reubensane5539]

As much as I love the love gun tour and some tours after I think kiss were at their blistering best up to Rock and Roll over .

[@obrapro]

Eddie Kramer should have been Kiss' George Martin. Kramer knew how to produce them and Rock N Roll Over is the best produced studio Kiss album, Love Gun a close second. They never should have moved away from him. His connection with Ace, Ace loved and respected him, may have gone against Paul and Gene's micro managing the music. Everyone knows: Ace wrote the best Kiss songs and so did Eddie Kramer. Ace's solo album will always be the best and Kramer had a hand in that one too.

[@psugrowler1]

Love this band. They had some hard cutting, deep tunes!!! Black Diamond!!!

[@荻野泰央]

この頃のキッスは最高😊

[@Pustekuchen-bh8wy]

Yeah! Rock and Roll over Tour🤘

[@joeanthony8755]

🎉this was the HBO show

[@josephlinney5925]

Surprised more KISS fans don't realize this. Having HBO in the late 70's wasn't like it is today.

[@肉ジャガー]

この時のライブの客席にいたのが、当時は小学生でクラシック少年だったYOSHKI。

[@yokohamakuromori]

前座はVOWWOW　コンサートは一日2回公演

[@Mtl3944]

A modern day man of steel

[@everettmarshall3098]

raw......what we loved

[@CarlosPerez-cr7mv]

Lo mejor de KISS

[@Christine16425]

Kiss forever 🎸💜💙❤💚

[@nazareschwenck5340]

It was a great concert! It was awsome! 🎸🎸🎸🥁🔥🔥🔥🔥🎵🎵🎼🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@unioner1981]

Ja vorgestern im Berlin, immer noch auf der grossen Bühne. Kiss Forever.

[@MontserratCruz-l3i]

Todos los músicos de Kiss q han tenido buenísimos 😮

[@doogboy]

WOW!

[@jamesspella8548]

KISS at its zenith!

[@maryannmoran-smyth3453]

Best version of Detroit rock city live… Keep on rockin

[@Louis-gu3ke]

This was a HBO special presentation

[@josephlinney5925]

I'm surprised more fans don't realize this fact.

[@ajo3085]

@@josephlinney5925 It was actually an NKH presentation in Japan first for their "Young Music Show". I'm pretty sure it didn't screen in the US until 1979.

[@Louis-gu3ke]

@@ajo3085 you are correct but it was broadcast on HBO

[@angiewilson3192]

I was there!!🔥🔥❤️❤️

[@willchew4040]

ACE FOREVER !!!

[@荻野泰央]

エースかっこいい😮

[@梶原啓弐]

この頃の日本のライブは客が立ち上がったりは危険な行為とか言う寝言を行っていた。 今では考えられない決まりがあったのを覚えている。

[@jimmycosta8248]

How?

[@seijuro_1111]

1966年のビートルズ(The Beatles)来日公演では、客席での立ち上がりは禁止、もし立ち上がったら警備員が強制的に退場させたとか・・・

[@richardgarnos6715]

Two words...Ace Frehley!!🤪💭💭

[@imabigfanshow783]

A. Black Diamond is definitely the best KISS song. B. Ace is killer! C. Can you imagine paying for a concert these days and the headliner plays for barely over an hour?

[@tommilitello198]

That’s usually the case

[@美文宮脇]

❤KISS❤最高❤

[@thomasaronson6482]

CLASSIC KISS WHEN THEY RULED THE WORLD 🌎 🎉🎉🎉MAGICAL

[@wyattblackwood3927]

I love the haters, especially when you find out they fashion themselves as so called musicians, and they are just jealous because they will never be what these guys were and still are

[@jomojojo6603]

Plot twist...5,000 audience members were thinking to themselves... "Wow, this Kabuki theater sure is louder than usual."

[@mariopalos9238]

When they marginalized Ace and Peter, we all lost.

[@MontserratCruz-l3i]

Madre mia q conciertazo mas heavy 🎉🎉🎉😊😊😊Kiss Forever...😮😮

[@Kiss16877]

Setlist : Detroit Rock City Play Video Take Me Play Video Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll Play Video Ladies Room Play Video Firehouse Play Video Makin' Love Play Video I Want You Play Video Cold Gin Play Video Guitar Solo Play Video Do You Love Me Play Video Nothin' to Lose Play Video Bass Solo Play Video God of Thunder Play Video Drum Solo Play Video Rock and Roll All Nite Play Video Encore: Shout It Out Loud Play Video Encore 2: Beth Play Video Encore 3: Black Diamond Play Video Note

[@MENFUSSMIKE]

Alive tour 1975/76 was their prime.

[@sjs1555]

What? So this tour was Kiss on the down slide? Put the crackpipe down.

[@MENFUSSMIKE]

@@sjs1555 yes and it started with Destroyer tour

[@sjs1555]

@@MENFUSSMIKE Run along, junkie.

[@erics9754]

@@MENFUSSMIKE I agree knowledgeable Kiss fans know they were still good here but 75 to 76 was their peak. By 77 the drugs and egos were out of control and it did affect them in a negative way but it was a decline.

[@joeyhumphrey4536]

@@erics9754 You are so right, saw them in 76'. They were a machine then. All four played incredible. 77' was great but their ego's and drugs got the most of them after that.

[@scottduyser1222]

They were it. Bk in 77 when I was a kid..

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

This is a great concert. But I don’t carne for the RARO filler songs. The Love Gun set list is better, IMO.

[@matts1364]

Gene bass was like loose rubber bands.

[@juanmolina9544]

Sin Ace Frehley kiss no hubiera sido nada

[@tonystevenson26]

Genes grabber tone sounds like it was strung with Large rubber bands, ha ha

[@ЕкатеринаНакалюжная-ч2л]

хочу на живой концерт

[@ericcurry-pitcher5493]

Their last shows would have really benefited from Ace and Peter. Mar the show Paul said, he's the last to talk he's not even a small percentage of what he was.

[@brucehanna9473]

This should have been released as the base track of Alive 2. The raw material is powerful even without touch ups. I really believe this would have made a better live album.

[@Duck_Dodgers]

If you gotta touch it up it's not live

[@brucehanna9473]

@@Duck_Dodgers very few live albums would fit your definition. I think the industry would disagree with you.

[@brucehanna9473]

@@hailholyqueen I thought Take Me was one of their better songs in a live performance.

[@gregwong1899]

Kiss was at their apex in 1977 I was at the forum show in Los Angeles for the recording of alive 2 and it was magical when I saw them in 1979 they were sluggish and the magic was gone😔

[@ajjy1110]

nothing from the forum ended up on alive 2 alive 2 isn't live

[@metalhead-mf2zf]

Are we sure this is 1977? The stage and costumes are clearly from destroyer? Also the drum set is not the love gun kiss alive 2 drum set that was used on that tour that began in 77. And there are no songs from love gun which is what came out in 77 🤘🏻🍻

[@mikederrico6776]

This is definitely April 77...the end of the Rock and Roll Over Tour. The 77 Japan shows are the only shows of their kind for several reasons. 1.) They were premiering the new stage that would be used on the Love Gun tour beginning later in the year, although they still kept the Destroyer/Rock & Roll Over logo here, and there were elements to the Love Gun stage that obviously weren't added yet. So the stage is really a hybrid...this combination used only in Japan 77. 2.) Japan 77 is also the only time we see Kiss wearing the Destroyer costumes on this particular stage. It was a unique visual overlap of three different albums. In other words, they're on the Rock and Roll Over tour, wearing the Destroyer costumes and they're using 3/4 of the brand new Love Gun stage (though Love Gun wouldn't even be recorded for another month or two). They were turning out so many albums at such a fast pace between 74-77, that the albums and tours often overlapped.

[@bradleyramondpierce133]

Rock and Roll over tour

[@MontserratCruz-l3i]

Viendo en 2 023😢

[@paulwortman483]

Where's Aces guitar right now????

[@mikeskillings4437]

Is this the afternoon or evening show

[@davidames1746]

How does Acr get such good feedback control??

[@russbroda7207]

Don’t get , never have , the enthusiasm.

[@richardschmidt8787]

I believe it’s the enthusiasm that all four kiss members put out to their OWN audiences. It’s like their first three albums. They were okay good songs not great, but when the came out with Alive it showed how their music and their stage shows how much better a Live band they were. I just happened to get the KISS bug after that album can out. Hard edgier, Better sounding as they went on. I seen them in 77 at Madison Square garden. Their 1st night home in NY. The crowd and the band were explosive that night. They are a show Rock Band! Get your monies worth if you ever seen them. Seen Led Zeppelin few months later. Favorite band. But a totally different kind of show. So many shows I’ve seen with bands and their concerts and audience’s reactions all differ. It’s one’s flavor for whom they like. Take Queen in Wembley Stadium for live Aid . That band Erupted for their 4-5 song show. They captivated and audience with a day of so many great acts playing. That was showmanship and talent highest level IMO. Rock on Brother! Enjoy ain’t too much around anymore but these old videos. Bless

[@jonstreng7850]

What is stunning to me is that 45 years later, with a few exceptions, the set list is nearly the same. My God I wish they would have changed it a little bit. Although I will say I am damn happy that Take Me wasn't included in the show. The music is okay but the lyrics and chorus are nasty. Oh my god was Peter high. You tell me. Sure seemed that way.

[@lucasvieira8885]

Paul is a great singer but he play with your guitar off i m sure 😅

[@Jaake-my2rq]

Further proving my long held belief that 'Rock and Roll Over' is the greatest post-ALIVE studio album of the halcyon days. It's beyond obvious that the material was meant to be played live and unlike 'Destroyer', not one song loses it's impact in transition to the stage.

[@DaveTaylor-zg2bx]

Loved Eric Carr

[@tkr7193]

この客席のどこかに、当時小学生だったYOSHIKIがお母さんと一緒にどこかに居たのでしょうか？

[@carmenrodrigueznaranjo9462]

Avril no se escribe con v, Abril es con b, y en inglés sé dice April.

[@joeparks5701]

Started to watch it , but I'd rather wash dishes.

[@ratchet779]

Unless you were a kid in the 70’s. You probably can’t understand how extremely big kiss was worldwide.

[@Christine16425]

At 60 Kiss was my passion finished, no more parents, my animals finished too, my children❤ remain but are grown up - No more Kiss I don"t believe it, luckily the americains you can buying objects see them for autographs , in France Amazon nothing just tee shirt, stickers, Redbubble. /John 5 has a superb collection at home on Kiss-Yes I cry this group it was the best in the world and the youth leaves 😪 Mc ghee shed a tear. My favorite song will remain DEUCE.

[@UseYourIllusions78]

ACE WAS ALSO PIGEON TOED

[@UseYourIllusions78]

THAT MY FRIENDS IS NIT ACE .. LMAO LOOK AT SIDE PROFILE,IT WAS TOMMY THAYER WHO WAS KISS ROADT AT THE TIME AN FILKED IN WHEN HE WAS IN SPACE 😂😂. FACT TOMMY THAYER

[@erics9754]

No, that was Ace he looked nothing like Frankin Ace.

[@johnmarshall3903]

Fake Frehley was back in the states playing with his dick.

[@Semo1969]

Vinnie Vincent rockin it

[@johnmarshall3903]

Keep dreaming kid.

[@ladyhonor822]

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN🔐

[@TightLinesFLA]

All these years later...still unimpressive.