KISS’s longtime manager Doc McGhee has said that the band’s second Las Vegas residency will now take place late next year.
Doc spoke about the rescheduled tenure in a new interview with The Rock Experience and blamed COVID-related matters for the cancelation of the band’s second Las Vegas residency.
When asked by The Rock Experience host Mike Brunn what the real reason was for KISS’s latest residency cancelation, Doc said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “When we did it, I said we’re gonna go until November 1st and see if we can get the people in from Europe. We have one chance for people to come to Vegas to see us because [KISS co-founders] Gene [Simmons] and Paul [Stanley] will not tour after [2022]; they’re gonna be done. So when we couldn’t get the people in, and the restrictions were there, I said, ‘We don’t have to do it now.’ We talked about it: ‘Let’s do it later down the road when everybody gets a chance to see a different section of KISS.’ This isn’t KISS, the stage show that we have today, this isn’t KISS 2.0 or any of that stuff — this will be a whole different vibe that people wanna come [and see]. And we’re gonna do 12 shows. Let people be able to come and see ’em for the last time in Vegas. It was hard enough on the [recently completed Kiss Kruise] — 174 people couldn’t come [due to COVID travel restrictions]; 174 cabins, [which was] like 300 people.”
As for when he expects the second KISS Vegas residency to finally happen, Doc said: “I think it’s gonna be in, like, August [of 2022]. It’ll be either August or October. We’re checking it out now.”
Watch the full interview at this location.