We flew in on Friday night at about 7pm in Newark, NJ. It took Keith Leroux and I over two hours to drive to get to Atlantic City. Once we got there we contacted Dale "The Demon" Torborg. Dale is of course the KISS wrestler from the WCW of a few years ago. We met him at a little party on the beach near Trump Plaza. We hung out for about an hour then went to Trump Plaza to gamble a little. After about fifteen minutes I was up about $400, fifteen more minutes and my winnings were down to $100. Gambling is a lot more fun in Las Vegas anyway. Dale found us and we headed back to the hotel.

We had a fun time hanging out with Dale. After a few threats from Dale about us "giggling like little school girls", we finally went to sleep for about three hours.

The next day we get to The National to work on the setup for the day and get everything organized. After solving a few issues we setup the merchandise table and worked on selling the new KISS Alive 4 cd & vinyl.

Once KISS was close to being ready we setup all of the camera equipment and everyone went over their assignments. I ended up in charge of taking the photos which was kind of cool. Looking at KISS through a camera lens for about two hours was pretty neat. If this would have happened about five years ago I probably would have been too excited to even do it. Over the last few years I have really gotten over the whole being star struck thing, with any celebrity. There are too many more important things in life, than the attitudes of so called celebrities of any kind. All of the band members were very cordial to all the fans that came from my view. The fans seem to have really enjoyed the opportunity of a lifetime to get their photos with the band in makeup and tell them thanks. Most fans were very understanding of how quickly we needed to move the fans through the photo line. I would say this was a very good group of diehard fans.

The band seemed to be happy with each other and the event. No visible issues.

A ton of things were autographed by the band. Every thing from the new vinyl album, baseballs, guitars, photos and various odd objects. I'm sure this is an opportunity of a lifetime for some fans, me on the otherhand didn't bother getting an autograph. Not that I didn't maybe want one, I just don't really worry about that type of stuff.

After we closed up and grabbed our gear we headed for dinner compliments of the promoters at TracerCode. We then headed to the KISS Party at Trump Plaza featuring the tribute band KISS Nation. They seemed pretty decent. For the most part the crowd was full of some of the same people we see at the Expos across the country throughout the year instead of a collection of celebrities. We stayed and hung out with some friends then took off.

We finally get to our hotel near the Newark airport at about 4am. A couple hours sleep and we were off to the airport. I know this isn't a detailed review like the fans always want, its just so hard to sit down and write down all the fun things that happen at these events. I just need to start taping them and editing the tape then make it available. So much happens in these trips I can barely remember it all. Another quick trip that was a blast. It was definitely a lot of fun.