Last Concert Ever - My Video

[Troy Spiral (13)]

 

 

 

 

This is a 55+ hour worth of work video.   I was up from friday until sunday editing it.  I was so tired I feel asleep walking to bed. 

Its longer than my usual videos mainly because after my initial skepticism about even the idea, I started to feel like this was, despite any superior negativity about kiss... This is pretty much a historic event.  Like it or not.   Kiss is the only mega-celebrity sized band that has pushed detroit into mainstream rock over >five decades<.   Yes that would be a LONG FUCKIN TIME.   Long before eminem and kid rock and other white people half-assedly pushed detroit, kiss embraced the city and the city embraced them.  YOU WOULD BE IN SHOCK how many fans Kiss has in detroit.   Just a random glance at the Kiss official facebook page when I was researching them:

 

Out of 400 FB friends...  >47 of them < follow the main kiss page.  That is JUST the people that bothered to like that page.   A guesstimate of how many actual kiss fans there are is that number times at least 3.  That is insane.  Also the concert was PACKED and guess what?  25% of all the tickets were finally sold  at at least TWICE their original (already even the nosebleed seats were  almost 100 bucks)  Yes scalping tickets right on ticketmaster is now a thing. Welcome to the post-regan america. It's not America First its Money First... but I digress. 

Like i quote in the video Kiss has publicly pushed Detroit in interviews and on a personal level specifically Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have both stated that despite being a "New York Band"   KISS's official stance on the matter is of all the "rock cities" in america.   Detroit is THE rock city.  Period. Full stop.  They have said it over and over  from 1974 all the way until just a few weeks ago in the free press. 

Despite all the time I spent on this, I'm very much unhappy with the end result.  Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad I made it.   But i'm extremely bummed out that I could not document the concert itself properly.  In hindsight I would have figured out a way to at least borrow a real camera (and a decent external microphone)  In that kind of changing and low-light and difficult to capture sound the phone just flat out fails.   I could have charged about $250 and gotten a pretty god dang good camera setup, not perfect but far far better than the phone.  But,  I'm already in far too much debt (all due to the various House Spiral endeavours) and am going to have to quit altogether doing the videos by about June if I can't figure out a way to stop the $ bleeding.   I'm determined to not have that happen.  But i'm not sure if ROCK-SOLID determination itself is enough.  It might just be unrealistic. 

Just trying to justify why the video isn't better if I wanted it to be better.  'Troy just STFU and do a better job'  Honestly I did the best I could with what I had,  that in no small part also includes the logistics of not feeling very good 90% of the time and staying motivated AND trying to get healthier every day.  Just sucking down air can be an effort in a way that is hard to comprehend if you have not experienced it. 

Please take a look.  Feedback appreciated.