KISS Goes To Cadillac High School

[@babywah3290]

Love the group photo that exists of the band sitting with small kids and Ace is holding a baby. That baby is about 50 years old now.

[@Magnus2131]

One of the coolest rock stories ever.

[@christopherpotter6650]

Kiss performed in the gymnasium of Cadillac High School with no blood spitting, fire breathing and flaming flash pots. Well they still had some fog machines, Ace Frehley’s firework guitar effect, a few explosions with sparks, and Peter Criss’ levitating drum riser. Kiss’ 1975 high school concert was on the Alive! Tour (1975 to 1976)! ROCK ON AT CADILLAC HIGH SCHOOL IN 1975, WOAH!!!!! 🤘🎸

[@guthyranker1724]

This would make a great movie.

[@billbelzek6748]

I remember MTV did a short special on it a long time ago

[@Artstar2]

I am from Michigan and have been to Cadillac. This is a really small town out in the middle of nowhere. It is in the middle of Northern Michigan closer to the Upper Peninsula than Detroit. That was a very rural town in the 1970s (and still is). For a New York based band that was getting national attention in 1975 to go there makes no sense...unless that band is KISS.

[@straightmalecaucasian1453]

I definitely wouldn't consider a rural town (now at least.) There is A LOT to Cadillac, I remember riding my bike through Cadillac into the heart and listening to the bands that would play at the pavillion behind the movie theater

[@Ranger_boi_]

My aunts and uncles went to that concert

[@leokimvideo]

I knew of this story, but the extra details here were excellent Ace Rules

[@shellieblack528]

What a great memory!!!!!! I was a Cadillac Viking and passed by their plaque everyday!!!! Wow what a great memory!!!!!

[@RastaSaiyaman]

Gene Simmons was a teacher before Kiss got going, so he knows a thing or two about motivating students. Gene is great in that aspect.

[@johnpatterson4272]

KISS put Cadillac Michigan on the map. A marriage made in rock and roll heaven, I'm still waiting for the alleged documentary that was said to be made in the 00s about this monumental event. KISS and Cadillac Mich. will live forever together.

[@GrandFunker]

Best Rock Band Ever.

[@rainyday4970]

I heard about this. It made me love 'em even MORE.

[@dianacastillo6286]

Diana Castillo Rojas

[@klmullins65]

In Paul's book, he said that the helicopter flew them only to the school parking lot, where it landed and they got in a car...they couldn't afford a flight any farther! Lol. This was just as they released Kiss Alive, and hit it big...in fact, this story was the very time I'd ever heard of Kiss, when Kasey Kasem talked about it on American Top 40!

[@jacobm5167]

I'm surprised Ace and Peter got out of bed to go to that breakfast in the morning!!

[@ZeeboLaywicker]

thank you kiss! this is one of the reasons you rock!! fans from detroit rock city salute you

[@zee3499]

Rest In Peace, Milissa Codden-Holmes 1959-2021

[@SteveBello]

Oh that's too bad :(

[@LauraSkellington21]

They are so lucky I wish they had visited us in NJ for class of 2020 where he had to be in covid times literally in high school. I wish they did and other schools but it man for us was hard

[@timswartz4520]

I actually tear up every time I watch this, integrity matters?

[@kennygarcia5694]

That would have been so epic

[@micheleaday3902]

Beautiful Sweet Precious Awesome❤

[@XeroSanity]

Thats my hometown! im younger than that but can remember some stories lol. thats my friends grandma 42 seconds into the video with KISS. Ive only ever seen the pic from the newspaper, this video was excellent!

[@kekmajomT1G]

I currently go to Cadillac HS and people still talk about this

[@ZeeboLaywicker]

all i gotta say is fuck yeah! kiss and cadillac you rock!!!!

[@pammccarthy907]

+ZeeboLaywicker I was there! woot!

[@davidbrucemusicvideo]

Watch 4:27-4:37 where Gene says a 5 year old said Gene didn't do his makeup right and Gene thought the kid wasn't qualified to say that, and then he realized the 5 year old was right. Ha!

[@christopherpotter6650]

They said that Kiss wasn’t allowed to have flames and fake blood on stage in the high school gymnasium. I understand the school’s concern about the risk and the graphic content. So Kiss just had fog machines, flash pots, it’s lighted logo, the levitated drum riser, and Ace’s smoking guitar and his firework effect during his solo. It was fair enough.

[@johnmagill7714]

This show in the gym was also the first time they used confetti.

[@k197829b]

I wish I was living up here in Cadillac then, But I am glad to say i live there now....before i was living in Birch Run.....*yawn*

[@jaydenssquishiesslime7035]

I am gonna go to Birch run some time and go to the mall

[@davidj.7227]

Sad news from Cadillac. Gene's favorite cheerleader Milissa Codden has passed away.

[@timruskowski4923]

My dad was on the opposing team during that game.

[@tonyajw85]

Who won?

[@jennybh08]

@ hj7397.... Agree 1,000,000%!! After '78, they lost their way! But before that, they ROCKED!!!!

[@karllux-d6g]

The only thing i can compare Kiss's Cadillac Michigan episode to, is the Sex Pistols' Huddersfield Christmas Day in 77. It's more than promotion , it must have turned into a radiant holiday of intense human experience. One of the good things Rock and roll has brought into this ball of confusion.

[@jasonziter]

Great story. Class of 93'.

[@stimpeee]

Inspirational story.

[@ijustventhere6460]

0:42 my great grandma with then

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

SETLIST FOR MINI CONCERT: DEUCE, HOTTER THAN HELL, 100,000 YEARS AND BLACK DIAMOND.

[@DiaFeliz96]

Amazing!

[@boathead38]

Wow Big Rapids gets shown up by Cadillac in more ways than one!!!!! I never knew about this.

[@joekowalski182]

Kids today at Cadillac highschool listen to hip hop maybe that's the problem . Play some rock and roll in locker room instead of hip hop. Soon it will be forgotten today's kids never heard of kiss . Sad go hip hop woo woo

[@tulllguy]

great story

[@762459]

I think they're gonna make a movie about KISS' visit to cadillac

[@jennybh08]

Damn.... Great vid!! Thanks for the post!!

[@ipligomeni_pezonaftria8085]

Kiss💗💙💛💜❤

[@josecarlosalbarracinsato9504]

3:08 this is one of the most gene simmons line i have ever heard

[@johnoliver189]

Wonder what one of those flyers is worth in the KISS merchandise market ?? Anyone know ?

[@dreaming_x3645]

OMG I WAS THEREEEEE

[@Ruby-po9up]

It be nice to if they did it again :)

[@pbrdrinkinman1138]

Yes and it is a lot like it sounds.

[@Chippewas54]

yes it is.

[@jones420of88]

yes there is

[@therealCamoron]

My senior year Cadillac whooped your butts and became district champs dude! That was 2006 though.

[@01artist]

This is way cool. . .

[@31wozza]

really good vid loved it

[@tonydegn9570]

TCB ⚡️😎

[@billtrepkowski527]

+Edward Przydzial I seem to recall, way back when I was in high school, some 30 years ago, there was a story on YOU in the Detroit Free Press (maybe Detroit News) about your obsession with KISS and how you bilked photo and wire services out of items for your own personal collection, pretending to be from different magazines, looking to "borrow" items with no intention of giving them back. The headline said something like, did a fan's obsession with this rock band go too far...I still have the paper somewhere. You look exactly the same as the picture they ran of you, too, minus the 'stache and glasses.

[@sherisaskatchewan1579]

et

[@Yahnahsa]

Nice!

[@Atreyufolife]

what if they all revisited :D

[@carmelastearns3893]

I do Not LIKE this I LOVE IT!!!!

[@Chicano51714]

You guys think gene simmons nailed the 16 year old cheerleader

[@rainyday4970]

Nope. Cop Dad.

[@mariehelenajmahn3791]

Christine Sixteen???

[@billbelzek6748]

He prolly snuck in a few licks when the Dad wasn't watching

[@10mannyman]

what year

[@EdwardJacobDiggory17]

I wish they would come to my school but I would probably be the only one in my school who knew who they were...I hate my school.

[@cobapl5987]

This video is at 666 likes. I was going to hit the like button, but I shall leave it at 666 for the sake of this video. Rock on 🤘

[@JENDALL714]

Gene hitting on a 16 year old girl, LOL! Maybe that is where he got the inspiration for Christine Sixteen?

[@HellhammerSS]

Gene and the cheerleader.....probually inspired Christine Sixteen lol.

[@michaelhembree4167]

On the full final farewell tour if they do one.. They should play there

[@Wyrmwould]

Paull asked if the mayor would get re-elected after wearing KISS make up. Does anyone know if he won re-election?

[@Chippewas54]

I live in Gaylord, MI and my freshman team just beat Caddilac's team 52-6 and my coach on Gaylord uses the KISS method for defense

[@johnmarsh2608]

Of course Gene gets into an argument with a 5 year old 😂

[@spacewithace1997]

I don't understand why this vid doesn't have as many views as justin gayber's baby vid has. People of my generation turn from your stupid ways and join kiss in the world of true rock and not bubblegum pop imposters.

[@shikarifox4337]

Stop it, us gays don't want him!

[@rubenick]

wait a minute... so a 5 year old perfected Gene's make-up O.o

[@jadej.8099]

Why does this sound like a Pokémon intro narration...

[@guitarlad89]

Fuckin rad story. Gene picking up 16 year olds....not so much.

[@sixxsabre68]

75

[@shikarifox4337]

5 year old putz

[@reb41666]

Exactly! lol

[@bodavis7745]

Leave it to Gene to argue with a 5 year old about makeup

[@nicolaslinares9491]

Nicolas kiss polo

[@kenobi99]

Is there really a city called Gaylord?

[@jaydenssquishiesslime7035]

Yes

[@lionfan3k330]

Yes

[@nedward9809]

And after that, Cadillac became filled with meth and heroine. Nice.

[@rainyday4970]

Yes. Heroine= heroic girls. So yes.

[@carolross-durborow6230]

KISS NEVER DID DRUGS - TO THIS DAY !!!!!!

[@jones420of88]

i have a year book from when they did this i will sell it msg me!

[@ricksuarez2357]

Kids nowaday wouldn’t even know who they are.