I went to Indie Mart at Thee Parkside on Sunday afternoon so I could rock and shop (meaning, hear some live music while buying stuff handmade by local designers).
The first thing I did was walk inside the bar so I could withdraw shopping and imbibing money from the ATM. As soon as I stepped inside, I was enveloped in this KISS hit from the mid-80's:
Sure, this technicolor, practically bare-faced version of KISS might be an embarrassment to old school fans, but after all this time, the song sounds totally fresh to me.
When watching this video, don't miss:
- Paul's fingerless neon green tassled gloves
- The sheer size of Peter Criss Eric Carr's* drum kit
- The set has a volcano that spews pyrotechnics in the background and TV sets are strewn about. It is unclear why.
- Sequins
- Reaching-over-the-top-of-the-guitar-neck noodling
- Paul's repertoire of dance moves: above the head jazz hands, rope-pull, tracing an imaginary tear down the face, high jump into a split kneel, fingers-as-windshield-wipers
- A short list of where tears can fall: onto your clavicle, down your cheek, into your coffee (watch out!), down your guitar neck, over your kneecap, onto the top of your foot
- Neon pink tassled gloves!
- Seriously, the sheer size of that drum kit. There are drums in his kit that he couldn't possibly even reach from where he's sitting.
- Paul's Tarzan-style swing across the stage reminds me of DLR's harnessed swing across the stage in Van Halen's "Panama" video, which came out the previous year
- So, why is she crying? Is it because the colorful ghost of Paul Stanley haunts her in her sepia-toned attic?
Listening to this song makes me want to do that shoulder-y, shuffle-y, Jagger-y dance Paul's doing.
- "Tears Are Falling" appears on Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
which is only $5.99 from Amazon MP3.
* My factchecker was away in Shanghai when I wrote this post - sincere apologies to my paying customers!