To be fair: Kiss have a reputation of being extremely professional, courteous and gracious to their opening acts. Bands as diverse as The Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Manfred Mann's Earthband, Dr Feelgood, Slade, Judas Priest and the German Die Ärzte have testified to that. Manfred Mann recounted in an interview that the only time Kiss got nasty with an opening act (not the Earthband) on the tour he did with them around 1977/78 was when a band member of that opening act took apart his hotel room in rockstar fashion. And while this was the seventies when such things were en vogue, the Jewish middle class boys from Queens were aghast, had the opening act unceremoniously fired and apologized profusely to the hotel management (plus picked up the bill).
