KISS - Kitchener, Ontario, Canada 7/16/77 - Memorial Auditorium 8mm film

47th Anniversary World Premiere!!
KISS
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada 7/16/77
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium
Thanks to "The Genesis Museum" for the 8mm film restoration.

[@leokimvideo]

Incredible footage, Kiss in their 1977 Prime, this is the timeframe of Kiss thats always seen as the best time to see the band. This is what the Kiss Avatars need to be modelled around.

[@BeatleRick84]

@@leokimvideo They have to fix there live show at the summit in 77. Released that in 4k and remix the sound.

[@1968spikey]

The real Kiss!!! You can't top the original 4 from 76 - 78. Amazing footage!

[@1wickedgroove]

As far as guitar solos go, i can't imagine anything cooler than Ace's smoking guitar! I was fortunate enough to see it live in 77 at 10 years old.😶‍🌫️ Awesome!!

[@spaztekwarrior]

You’re lucky. I was 11 in ‘77. Wish I could have seen them during that time.

[@1wickedgroove]

@spaztekwarrior Yeah, I had a cool mom. She also took me out of school one day a few years before this to see Elvis in concert.

[@ivaningratta5964]

It's amazing to see the Love Gun tour starting with DRC. The change of position in the setlist of I Stole and Calling Dr Love. Incredible images man, thank you!

[@ajjy1110]

Canadian dates all started with DRC

[@garyconway6769]

I was at the show jumped the ice rink boards and ended up right in front of Ace. Fantastic show! I was lucky enough to see them in 1974 at WLU.

[@uziforyoutosay1749]

Remember the WLU, worked the show, and later for Joni Mitchell, Roxy Music, Strawbs, BTO, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Neil Young, Rush, good times to be in university.

[@HOFNetminder35]

Saw this tour in Vancouver B.C. $5 ticket price. Thanks for posting

[@mikewestfall827]

Gene was such a badass on stage.

[@friedtomato9475]

I've seen several other videos from this era and I think the is my favorite. It captures the look and feel of the live shows. Thanks for sharing!

[@coldacre]

killer crowd footage. and the fact that its super short 8mm footage edited together makes it surprisingly modern in presentation.

[@DougGoodwin]

This is like a Time Machine! Awesome song clips - it’s amazing this footage was captured from the crowd. Gene with Sam the Serpent is epic!!

[@ericnelson7524]

Love it!! I just wish there were more full complete shows on film from this tour. The "Love Gun/Alive II" era is my favorite classic KISS time period. The Houston and Largo shows are cool,but i wish there were more.

[@phosphorescentscotsman]

the picture quality on this is thoroughly awesome. Looks like they were having a good show too. Ace's tobacco burst Les Paul, and Paul's black flying V have both long since been stollen. lol. this was worth every second. rare KISS super8mm THIS is what you-tube is for!

[@eaaivazian]

WOW! The quality is stunning. (One thing amateur-shot shows like this have that the pro-shot videos don't have is the REAL HD QUALITY. The detail is startling!) THANK YOU!!🙂

[@charlesbronson4282]

The fire on top of Sam the Serpent is AMAZING!!

[@darrelldetwiler4773]

Some Donruss cards are pictures from this show!

[@MatChew75]

You're exactly right I've got a crap load of those cards still left

[@Goodboy0953]

Wow, I remember them well in 5th grade!!!!

[@darrelldetwiler4773]

And some of the Tourbook pictures as well. And the Alive II songbook!!

[@josephandrews8483]

WTF,, just when you think you've seen all the earlier KISS footage,, amazing,, looks better than most videos out there. Damn this is cool!

[@thunderfootpower]

i went to the January 21st show same tour in detroit at olympia but ive never seen any footage from that show online thanks for posting

[@ruedigerlubricht4409]

Cool...1977 best Show ever...my first kiss time with 13 jears..greets from germany

[@BeatleRick84]

This is awesome. Quality looks better than most kiss videos that kiss officially released. Imagine if Ace and Peter stayed sober. They were on top of the world in 77 next to Led Zeppelin 🤟🏼

[@MySundin13]

slow down...lol. there was Still Deep Purple, Sabbath, and others In 1977 that were MILES more talented and sold more records than Miss did.

[@michaelaunsholt]

Yeai! New ones coming up! Thank you! Looking forward to seeing them.

[@luvbasses5487]

Summer of ‘77: I was going into the sixth grade this coming September. KISS is ALL I cared about at this time. Aerosmith Rocks and Frampton Comes Alive were huge albums during this time. Foreigner Double Vision too. Once I discovered Zeppelin a couple short years later, that was it. I was finished. Great job on the synch-up audio to footage here!

[@thedude3423]

I was a huge 'Smith fan at this time too. Had just gotten into them during the winter. My older brothers had no kiss records or tapes, so no kiss till late '78 through my cousin. Also late '78 AC/DC "If You Want Blood...You've got It" was huge in the house. None of my friends had a clue! We gotta be close in age too. Sixth grade fall of '77...👍💯😊🎶

[@tm4333]

Incredible footage! Around 4:47 Paul jumps in the air. I swear it’s the pic in the tourbook from the Alive 2 tour.

[@user-fh4fn5pm5q]

I thought the same thing when I saw him jumping around.

[@mauricee39_m59]

You start watching and you get sucked into what it was like in the 70's... Unfortunately I never got to experience it. The real KISS! There is no doubt about that💪

[@careymuck7060]

I waz there !!

[@petermickus8688]

Me too! Guelph here!

[@stevemyers2093]

Wow! Great quality!

[@perberglund5874]

Makes me happy to see this. Thanks for sharing

[@bramez71]

Magical stuff! It’s the first Love Gun tour footage I see where Paul is not using his Ibanez guitar, at all. 😮

[@darrelldetwiler4773]

@@bramez71 Yeah from memory I don’t think it was delivered at the start of the Love Gun tour (Can-Am)

[@tylerarnfinson5774]

Very very Cool! Thank you for uploading this!

[@DougGoodwin]

Peter Criss on the effing drum solo!! These clips are so great.

[@fidoflint]

Thanks so much for uploading--a year was too long to wait, but the clarity of this one is amazing! I feel like I'm 7 years old again when I watch this channel. We'd love to know who shot this, because I especially love the personal ephemera stuff at the end. Can't wait to see the next two uploads! ❤️🤘🏻

[@RonaldWilliams-lp3bg]

Man I wish you had the full concert of this !

[@VoodooCosmonaut]

Utterly amazing. This really checks all that boxes. It reminds me what it was like to be a Kiss fan in the 1970s. Thank you for uploading.

[@blakesoutherlandLasVegas]

i saw them the week before this--- August 7, 1977. Billings, MT Yellowstone Metra

[@malone6005]

Gene had a variation in his makeup. If you look closely, the points on the top of the bridge of his nose are gone, like the back cover of ALIVE II

[@alcloss3916]

I was there my first concert. Front row in front of Gene,Cheap Trick opened ticket was 8.00$ blew my grade7 mind

[@zandig666]

Man you were lucky I was 12 then and never saw them back in the day 🍻

[@gregmahaffey907]

Epic. Funny I thought the Love gun started always with ISYL

[@robertduncombe7684]

For the first seven shows on the Love Gun tour starting in Halifax on July 8th until Winnipeg on the 21st they opened with Detroit which was then changed up on July 21st in Vancouver to ISYL for remainder of tour. I saw them in Calgary on July 31st with a largely unknown and unappreciated Cheap Trick opening, Bun E did play his big sticks however! 6.50 for the ticket! Cheers 🇨🇦

[@TommyMorningstar-w9t]

Thanks so much for this 🤟 It was almost like being there again 🤘

[@Jaytheredman]

Sam Loomis lives!!!!

[@darrelldetwiler4773]

And Gene didn’t wear those boot tops for very long so even better to have video!

[@diegosauco2565]

Kiss forever!!! Thanx!! They were on fire!!!!

[@MatChew75]

This was an amazing show I've heard about it but I've never actually got to listen to it and the 8mm footage is on point thank you to whoever put this out and giving us an opportunity to see this magic in this diamond in the rough

[@azzamzamzam1822]

"The Original the True the Magik and the Great KISS"

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Awesome!! Thanks for sharing.

[@GenXParanormal]

HOLY SHIT, I WAS THERE!!!

[@hockeyeverything4339]

So was Ace, but he doesn't remember this decade

[@Snid917]

Rare! Great seats, damn

[@timmackenzie8145]

One week after I saw them on the 2nd show of the tour, 07/09/77 in Moncton, NB.

[@hockeyeverything4339]

Reminds me of my Kiss cards

[@MrZaufi]

Love Gene's original love gun boots !!!

[@roderickray8386]

I love to see more of any of their 70s tours besides the one that have been shown for years. I hope the new video is clear & not to dark or to small like 8mm.

[@fabianmonte7134]

Amazing 🤩 thanks for sharing 🤘

[@davidr6320]

thanks for sharing!

[@Randy-ul5hy]

This was the 1977 Love Gun Tour. It was a very short Tour that started in Halifax, NS on July 8th, 1977. I was right up front for that show at the old Halifax Forum. I still have my Ace guitar pick from that show framed in my man cave. Cheap Trick was one of teh opening acts here in Halifax. Prior to that show I had seen them in April of 1976 at the same venue for the Destroyer Tour show. Quite sure I sustained hearing damage from those shows...LOL!

[@hugnroll]

Cool aah!!! 🤗 Saw KIZZ 10 Times Tru The Years First Time 1980 In Sweden With Eric Carr. First Time With Peter 1996 In Sweden Also! 🙂 And Eight Times Here In Finland. KIZZ Fan Since 1976. KIZZ Forever! 🤘😝🤘

[@MySundin13]

they played Kitchener!!??.... wow. not a big town back then. I've been several times. it's in my Province of Ontario 🇨🇦

[@maopedals4415]

Incredible footage at their pinnacle. And equally impressive camera work considering you weren't allowed to even take photos back then. If caught snapping a pic, the "bouncers" would literally take the film out of your camera. take another and you were thrown out. Ask me how I know :0) Well done!

[@karllundmark8886]

Where's the audio from?

[@bjrnsjohnsen1278]

I wondered that too! It’s great! Would love the whole show to listen to.

[@dimebagdave77]

Looks great! 🤘💥

[@eddienotvanhalen]

AMAZING!!

[@RockAndDrone]

The Best Times!

[@spiritualhammer392]

Original Love Gun costumes! Very rare!

[@ajjy1110]

😂😂😂

[@roderickray8386]

I never got to see the original KISS live on any of the tours from the first decade because I didn't get to know them till 78 when they were almost approaching the deep tensions within the group that wasn't know yet but just about to be within the next two years..

[@arjenmusic3360]

Awesomeness!

[@charliereussner1513]

Excellent!!

[@jjmag3107]

Very cool. Thanks for posting it.

[@mudbone3276]

Awesome!!!

[@mikehowey4869]

The real and only KISS.Saw them on this tour in Louisville KY. They were on fire 🔥

[@DefendersofMetal]

Awesome! 🎉

[@mikaellofgren7]

KISS Magic

[@VoodooCosmonaut]

7:05. Heck yeah. This is epic.

[@randygingrich2161]

I was there in the aud,opening band cheap trick .i was the ripe age of 15.Hard working band

[@robertalsup6959]

How long before KISS removes these?

[@rickculpepper709]

That is some great footage

[@crisscat2006]

Do you have any earlier tape? mean 73 or 74

[@MagnumOpus007]

WOW!!!!!!!!

[@atomic1430]

Awesome❤

[@booklogic-w9r]

Saw this tour in Edmonton. Cheap Trick was the opener.

[@erikthefox]

❤

[@RichardFish-jo8ov]

very cool ,thanx for sharing ,at their prime

[@alanhusband9422]

Seems to me they played there again for the Dynasty tour in 1979

[@majadutrieux3569]

KISS awesome 🎇

[@mooch514]

Kiss on fire here

[@luisjaramillo2349]

Like a time machine

[@MENFUSSMIKE]

I feel like im in the crowd

[@MatChew75]

Can-Am tour they were absolutely on fire and I believe this might have been when they were touring with ACDC I'm not too sure though

[@Johnsmith-fh4mt]

Their pinnacle.

[@darrelldetwiler4773]

3:46 😮

[@petermickus8688]

OMG! I saw this concert, but hardly remember any of it! I was only 12 at the time. I remember it was hotter than hell! LOL I live near Kitchener, Thx for the vids!

[@tomngerrycatnmouseproductions]

They only opened with DRC the first couple nights of the tour

[@ajjy1110]

all Canadian dates

[@willchew4040]

It's cool that Gene's wearing those alternate dragon boots with the studs, instead of the disco mirror ball looking ones. Why did he stop wearing those anyway? They looked cooler.

[@tylerarnfinson5774]

Do you have Calgary, AB July 31, 1977?? That would be amazing if you do.

[@charlesbronson4282]

DETROIT ROCK CITY!!!

[@Emanater]

This is sick as, thanks for the upload

[@toekevin]

It’s actually way better with the sound off.

[@MatChew75]

That's one thing I wish they did more of on the Can-Am tour the rock and roll over tour and love gun was play more the older stuff like got to choose parasite cold gin hotter than hell rock bottom and she. That always kind of was ironic to me that these guys wouldn't play a late show and an early show back then I mean the one show they played was just a little over an hour long. I mean these guys back then could have played two shows a night. there was plenty of musicians that were doing that back then. Like they should have done a show with all the new material and then the second show with a bunch of the older material

[@stanleysimmons]

Is this Jason G from Toronto?

[@hockeyeverything4339]

Say what you want about Gene. And yea, he's been tainting his legacy since they started letting him talk too much. It completely altered the original Simmons character perception. The fire breathing blood spitting demon with the abrasive vocals. He's one of the most influential characters of all time

[@danieleidet7131]

6th date of the Love Gun tour

[@ajjy1110]

wrong 4th date

[@multicamprojects6185]

No PS10 guitar yet.

[@hugnroll]

Coool Stuff! 🤗 I Have 1981 PS10! One Of The Coolest Guitars. Love White Explorer Too! KIZZ Fan Since 1976. Greetings From Finland. 🤘😝🤘

[@nathueil1]

Exactly one month later to the day, Elvis died.

[@maorienteg]

Just thinking, anything labeled "Kiss" after the Love Gun tour should be banned from KZbin. Or at least come with some kind of disclaimer for those not fortunate enough to have seen them live in the mid 70's. You'd leave feeling that you just watched 4 rockstars killing it the entire concert. And then as early as the Dynasty tour, you left feeling like you just saw guys putting on a Kiss show rather than a rock concert.