Proud new member of the KISS club with LE #46 and no regrets whatsoever! Shout out to a great pinsider, Iceman5000, for a great deal on a great pin!

Good to hear you're enjoying it! I picked up a KISS LE about a month ago and I'm loving it. I'm actually glad that this has a bad rap right now as I was able to get a great deal on one from a fellow pinsider.

I’m not putting anything that Gene Simmons may have licked on my junk.

Nice. If it were me I wouldn’t worry about getting the other’s signatures, Ace’s is the only one I really care about.

It doesn’t sound that loud on mine.

I was at the show Sunday in Moline, it was a good time. Thinking about seeing them again later this summer just in case this really is the last tour.

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I completely disagree with this opinion. On my LE I have not had either of those problems with the Gene head, and I think it plays great. Some of the shots are a little tougher than an average Stern pin, but still very easy to get into a groove on. And the most recent code update was fantastic, it takes it to another level.

Looks sharp. If only there was Color DMD for this game, then it would really be complete.

Never heard that one before, I thought it was all Lonnie and his team. Regardless, the final huge code update they released at the end was a real game changer for this machine.

Has anyone successfully updated to the new 4.1 version? I’ve tried using four different USBs, including the same one I used to install the 4.0 version, and it will not update with that file. I can’t believe the USB is the problem, especially when it installed fine with it originally.

Thanks for the replies, I’ll try it again tomorrow, too frustrated right now. It’s a newer display because I bought it a little after they had released the KISS Color DMD code and that’s the version I downloaded.

Thanks, I was able to get it updated. I think the problem was the first USB drive I used was too large so I used the smaller one that I used to install it originally but I didn’t realize I needed to reboot the machine to clear the error.

Saw them a few nights ago in St Louis and was surprised at how well they sounded. The last time we saw them was right before the pandemic hit and Paul’s voice was shot, he had to have Gene take over singing on one of his songs. So I didn’t know what to expect but his voice was much better this time…for someone in his seventies who has done thousands of shows over his career. This is the third time we’ve seen them on this particular tour, and maybe the last we’ll ever see them. I tend to believe that they’re really going to hang it up at the end of this year…but also wouldn’t be shocked to see an End of the Road Part II.

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And I forgot to say that the first time I saw them was about 42 years ago when I was in high school, which is pretty wild to think that I’d be going to see the same band that many years later after I retired.

Yeah, when I saw them prepandemic it was pretty obvious he was relying on vocal tracks for help, this time it was less obvious. Paul had a great voice but like most singers time has taken it’s toll on him.

Ha, looks like you were in the same row, or at most one over from us.

Yeah they’ve pretty much been doing the same show for the last few tours, and I could tell you their song set by heart now, but their songs are made to be heard live and they continue to deliver a good show. A few years back when they started this tour Paul talked about how he wanted to end it at Madison Square Garden and that he would like to have Ace and Peter participate in the last show, probably because of how much more interest that would generate. But his recent fighting with Ace has pretty much killed any possibility of that happening.

They’re both idiots. I liked the two songs that Gene contributed to on Ace’s Spaceman album, I thought at that time they had put everything behind them, but they all continue to act like little children.

I guess eventually they’re going to need a replacement for Wayne Newton.

I’m thinking animatronics, they’re repurposing all the old Chuck E Cheese band members.

What about the fire breathing?

They were pretty decent for an opening act, nothing really stood out about them but they sounded good. I enjoyed them more than the artist doing the upside down paintings.

Yeah I heard Paul had the flu, glad you got to see them. Only 4 shows left before they hang it up for good, if you believe them.

P.S. I wonder how long it takes them to clean up the confetti after the shows.

Congrats, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it! If they would have had appearances from the other surviving members who’ve been in the band, or just Ace and Peter, I’d probably be on my way there too.

Congrats to those going to tonight’s show or who were at last night’s show! I saw them three times on this tour but still wish I was there. I kind of hope this is their last full blown production concert ever, I’ve seen too many bands continue on for too long where they’re just sad to see live in concert. At least Kiss can still deliver a good show and get the crowds pumped up.

Awesome, one of the benefits of living in NYC! The guy dressed as Gene looks like the same guy that dressed up at the concert I was at, probably not though. There was a line of women waiting to get their picture taken with him.

Sounds like that really was the end of the live shows. Now the performances are going to use the ‘immortal’ digital avatars of the band they debuted after the last show. While I have no interest in going to a concert with no live performers, I guess kids who were too young and never got to see them live might be interested in something like that. The same company doing the KISS digital avatars are doing ones for ABBA and those avatar shows are supposedly pulling in $2 million a week!

I guess I don't understand exactly what the shows are supposed to be like. I can certainly see them being able to create something that’s very cool to watch. I get there would be a live backing band, I guess I just need to get my head around the idea that none of the actual band members are present.

Yeah I don’t know about that, it looks more like a video game to me. Some of it seems a little too over the top even for KISS, but maybe I’m just too old.

No that would be Say Yeah, really don’t care for that song.

Agreed, Paul hasn’t been to sing that song for a while now.

IWMFLY was their biggest hit outside the U.S. so they had to keep that in their set list.

Did you all see the leaked footage of the new KISS avatar show?

So lifelike it’s scary!

I don’t think Stern will be remaking any Spike 1 games. Maybe they’ll make a pin based on the new KISS avatars.

It was actually Ace Frehley that came up with the KISS logo design, Paul just made some minor changes.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kiss-ace-frehley-original-logo-auction/

But would they vault a Spike 1 game when they don’t even stock any boards for them? Doubtful.

When I bought my KISS LE about 7 years ago I didn’t have room for the topper so I asked the guy selling it if he would take a couple hundred off the price and sell it without the topper. He of course agreed. I didn’t realize how in-demand the toppers were…or would eventually become.

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Did you sell it before they came out with the big code update for it? That’s how I was able to get my LE for a great price, it had a bad rap because of the code so people were selling them rather cheap.

I think that’s about what they were going for when I bought my pin. And since that’s probably the topper off my pin if you could sell it to me for $400 that would be great.

Nope, that wasn’t mine then.