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The final performance has been decided, and the “End of the Road World Tour” is finally approaching the finale. A transcendental video that allows you to experience the latest stage has arrived.
This work was shot on June 12, 2023 in Amsterdam. It is the transcendental audience shot. Speaking of the greatest taste of this work, it is the ultimate special seat experience. You can fully experience the “End of the Road World Tour” from the “front row in the middle”!
Before putting that super power into words, first of all, the position of the show. Let’s take a bird’s-eye view of KISS’s last steps over the last two years.
● 2022
・ April 19-May 7: South America #1 (9 performances) ← * BUENOS AIRES 2022
・ May 11-19: North America #1 (5 performances)
・June 1-July 21: Europe #1 (24 performances)
・ August 20-September 10: Australia (9 performances)
・ September 21-October 7: North America # 2 (3 performances)
・November 30: Tokyo performance ← *TOKYO DOME 2022
・December 4: Toruca Performance
● 2023
・ April 12-30: South America #2 (8 performances)
・ May 27: Columbus performance
・June 5-July 15: Europe #2 (21 performances) ← here
・ September 1: Crandon performance
・ October 7: Sydney performance
・October 13: Performance in Dubai
・October 19-December 2: North America #3 (25 performances)
This is the ongoing “End of the Road World Tour”. The final performance has been decided at Madison Square Garden, a symbol of New York. The Amsterdam performance of this work was the concert of the first four performances of “Europe # 2” half a year ago.
In this work, you can fully experience the day by placing the main part of such a show on DISC 1 and the sound check on DISC 2, but the experience is the ultimate. As I introduced at the beginning, the shooting position is “the front row in the middle”. The center of the stage is in front of you as if you had measured it with a ruler before the performance started, and the sense of closeness is completely from the camera pit’s perspective. I think that you can understand the super close-up shooting even if you look at the screen capture. If you say it, it will be “like a professional shot angle”, but when you actually see it, it is super powerful. In the opening scene, the curtain falls and the front three people get on the disc and get off, but this is the same as “coming to me”. In particular, the curtains are so imminent that I think they will be underlay.
After that, there was a series of outrageous super close-up shots. It becomes unclear whether you are a spectator or a film crew in the camera pit, and it becomes ambiguous whether the scene in front of you is a direct shot or a screen image. The powerful pyrotechnics and many tricks are unfolding in a different dimension as if they were captured in VR in a professional shot video (the scene looking back and looking over the venue is also a tremendous spectacle!).
A full show that can be said to be the final form of the glorious history is bathed from such an ultimate special seat. The set itself is very similar to last year’s encore visit to Japan (some song order has changed), but let’s organize it here for the record.
70’s Classics (13 songs + α)
・Emissary from Hell: Deuce / Cold Gin / 100,000 Years / Black Diamond
・Hell Corps: Detroit Rock City/Shout It Out Loud/God Of Thunder/Beth/Do You Love Me (★)
・Others: Rock And Roll All Night / Calling Dr. Love / Makin’ Love / Love Gun / I Was Made For Lovin’ You
● Others (6 songs)
・80s: War Machine/I Love It Loud/Lick It Up/Heaven’s On Fire
・After the 90s: Psycho Circus/Say Yeah!
* Note: “★” marks are songs that cannot be seen in the simultaneous release “BERLIN 2023 (Shades 1800)”.
Everyone has different tastes for the best seat, but the most popular position that everyone wants to try at least once is “the front row in the middle”. In this work, you can fully experience the last “End of the Road World Tour” in such an ultimate special seat.
Today, anyone can easily shoot concerts, and even multi-camera editing has become easier. If you access the video site, you can see all the professional shots of the past. Precisely because it is such an era, the value of “through footage” that is not made footage is only increasing. This work is also its ultimate form. An extreme experience video that can not be tasted by any professional shot. Please enjoy it to the fullest.
★ Superb audience shot of “Amsterdam performance on June 12, 2023”. It is a shocking video that you can fully experience from “the front row in the middle”. As if measured with a ruler, the center of the stage is in front of you, and the sense of closeness is completely from the perspective of the camera pit. In the scene where the curtain falls in the opening scene, I think that it will be underlay. It is a dream experience-type video where you can enjoy the “End of the Road World Tour” from the ultimate special seat.
