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Speaker 1: Jerzy and Amanda gam Nation citing times. Our tongues are

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Speaker 1: wagging and we're getting ready to rock and roll all

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Speaker 1: night for one last time. Just when you thought you'd

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Speaker 1: mourn their final show, Kiss has just announced they're coming

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Speaker 1: back for a final curtain. And look who's talking to

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Speaker 1: us right here, right now, the man himself, Gene Simmons.

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Speaker 2: The hardest pace is in the land.

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Speaker 3: Gene, how are you hilariously happy? How are you?

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Speaker 1: We're great, We're great, and how great are your fans?

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Speaker 1: The Final Curtain show was initiated because of a national

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Speaker 1: petition to say, give us one more night in Australia,

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Speaker 1: please please.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true. Now I'm getting grief from Brisbane and

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Speaker 3: in every city on the planet in Australia actually that

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Speaker 3: we're not doing the one last final show ever in

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Speaker 3: their cities. And honestly, we were just following the you know,

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Speaker 3: the path laid out by our wonderful Australian promoter Andrew McManus, who,

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Speaker 3: by the way, is one of the few promoters around

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Speaker 3: anywhere on the planet who really believes and giving bang

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Speaker 3: for the buck. It's difficult, you know, to get enough

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Speaker 3: money to get it to go to any concert, and

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Speaker 3: he's you know, he grew up as a fan going

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Speaker 3: to concerts and everything, so he knows what fans want.

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Speaker 3: And so we're putting a full shipload of everything. Ship

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Speaker 3: not the other word that sounds like it. A ship,

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Speaker 3: a sailing vessel coming all the way from Europe with

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Speaker 3: our equipment on it, all of it. Something like twenty

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Speaker 3: tractor trailer full of flying gear and levitating pods and

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Speaker 3: you know, rockets and all that stuff, with sixty of

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Speaker 3: our crew, and we're going to put on one hell

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Speaker 3: of a show. I will tell you that it's going

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Speaker 3: to be in October and Acorn Stadium in Sydney, and

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Speaker 3: that'll literally be the very last time ever Kiss will

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Speaker 3: be touring in Australia. The very last show of all

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Speaker 3: time will be December the second Madison Square Garden in

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Speaker 3: New York City.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And that's a big deal that Madison Square Garden shot,

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Speaker 4: because that's fifty years ago.

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Speaker 2: You know that you used to be around that area.

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Speaker 2: That's only ten blocks from where you guys formed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. We were rehearsing in a loft

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Speaker 3: ten East twenty third Street and Madison Square Garden is

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Speaker 3: literally ten blocks over. We rehearsed for about, oh, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, six months. Somehow the band got together so

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Speaker 3: fast and within a year and a half we were

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Speaker 3: headlining Madison Square Garden. It's crazy. And within another six

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Speaker 3: months of that we were headlining stadiums across America. And

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Speaker 3: that's before cell phones and you know, people are still

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Speaker 3: using payphones. Voicemail didn't even come in yet. It was crazy.

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Speaker 3: And when we first came down to Australia, we of

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Speaker 3: course had heard all about it, but the first images,

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Speaker 3: the first things you think of. We can roots, you know,

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Speaker 3: because the rest of the world doesn't have them. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's crazy. And when we landed we were shocked. Get

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Speaker 3: ready for this we were. It was like a nation

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Speaker 3: of models. Everybody was just gorgeous. They were everybody's friendly, healthy, happy,

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Speaker 3: I have to add sexy, and I may have a

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Speaker 3: few children drawing around.

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Speaker 2: You never know, well, Dad, dad, they do.

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Speaker 3: See I've heard that before once or twice. But I

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Speaker 3: will tell you that the band was enormous. Nineteen eighty

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Speaker 3: was the first time we went to Australia. One in

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Speaker 3: every fourteen Australians bought albums or came to the shows

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Speaker 3: one in every fourteen. The very first shows we did

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Speaker 3: were two days at Sydney Stadium and two days at

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Speaker 3: the Melbourne Stadium, and that's before bands played stadium. It

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Speaker 3: was insane.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was supposed to go to that concert in

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Speaker 4: nineteen eighty and my brother and I got in a

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Speaker 4: punch up and bright the glass tible, so my dad

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Speaker 4: refused to take us to the Kiss concert. I was

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Speaker 4: twelve years old at the time.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Well that'll teach you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that'll teach you.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of interesting now to hear that, like, to

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Speaker 4: actually be talking to you now about this, because we

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Speaker 4: were so and I still am obsessed. But you just

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Speaker 4: we've spoken to you a few times over our careers.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I remember that time in nineteen eighty. You

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Speaker 4: guys were like you couldn't walk the streets.

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Speaker 3: Looking back on it, and it's not over yet, but soon.

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Speaker 3: I am the luckiest guy who ever walked the planet.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you that, I'm so grateful for this

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Speaker 3: amazing journey. Difficult to describe it. The places we've been,

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Speaker 3: the amazing people we've met, it's been one hell of

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Speaker 3: a riode.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm thrilled we get to throw our undies on

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Speaker 1: the stage one more time.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully not both of you, just one.

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Speaker 2: I know you'd be talking to me Gi.

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Speaker 1: Like a spinnaker arriving on the stage from Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if I could be I

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Speaker 2: don't think. I don't know if I could be a

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Speaker 2: notch in your guitar neck. Gene. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I could do that.

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Speaker 3: That's jail talk, right, Don't get excited, Gene.

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Speaker 2: It's always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 4: The Final Curtain Tour is back for one night only Saturday,

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Speaker 4: October seven. Tickets from ticket tech dot com dot au.

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Speaker 4: Gene Simmons, thank you my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Good on you, mate,