Rock & Roll Over Tour

Rock and Roll Over Tour

Tour by Kiss
Associated album	Rock and Roll Over
Start date	November 24, 1976
End date	April 4, 1977
Legs	2
No. of shows	70
Kiss concert chronology

Rock and Roll Over Tour is a concert tour by the American hard rock group Kiss. It began November 24, 1976 (shortly after the release of the Rock and Roll Over album) and ended April 4, 1977. Destroyer tour 2/18/77 was the tour where the band performed for the first time at Madison Square Garden - a venue all four members of the band had long dreamed of playing (February 18, 1977). The band also performed in Japan for the first time on this tour. They played Budokan Hall four nights in a row breaking the previous concert attendance record set by The Beatles. On December 12, 1976 Ace Frehley suffered a severe electrical shock on stage which delayed the concert. The delay lasted about fifteen minutes and then resumed. Ace was able to finish the show. Being inspired by the event, Ace wrote the song "Shock Me" which appeared on Kiss' next album release Love Gun (1977). It is the first Kiss song in which Ace sings lead vocals. This was the first tour on which "Beth" was performed live; instead of being played by the entire band, it was sung solo by drummer Peter Criss to a recording of the instrumental track from the Destroyer album.

Set list

1. "Detroit Rock City"
2. "Take Me"
3. "Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"
4. "Ladies Room"
5. "Firehouse"
6. "Makin' Love"
7. "I Want You
8. "Cold Gin (Ace Frehley guitar solo)
9. "Do You Love Me?"
10. "Nothin' to Lose"
11. Gene Simmons bass solo/"God of Thunder" (Peter Criss drum solo)
12. "Rock and Roll All Nite"

Encores:

1. "Shout It Out Loud"
2. "Beth"
3. "Black Diamond"

Hard Luck Woman was played on the tour in the month's of November and December 1976. Also, in the opening weeks of the tour, "Deuce" was played rather than "Ladies Room" and "Calling Dr. Love" was played instead of "Shout It Out Loud".

Early Tour Selist:

1. "Detroit Rock City"
2. "Take Me"
3. "Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"
4. "Deuce"
5. "Firehouse""
6. "Makin' Love"
7. "Cold Gin" (Ace Frehley guitar solo)
8. "Do You Love Me?"
9. "Nothin' to Lose"
10. Gene Simmons bass solo/"God of Thunder" (Peter Criss drum solo)
11. "I Want You"
12. "Rock and Roll All Nite"

Encores:

1. "Calling Dr. Love"
2. "Beth"
3. "Black Diamond"

Other songs played include "Strutter" and "Flaming Youth".

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Opening Act(s)
November 24, 1976	Savannah, Georgia	United States	Savannah Civic Center	Graham Parker & The Rumour
November 25, 1976	Charlotte, North Carolina		Charlotte Coliseum	Jesse Bolt
November 27, 1976	Raleigh, North Carolina		Dorton Arena	The Raisin Band
November 28, 1976	Greenville, South Carolina		Greenville Memorial Auditorium	Climax Blues Band
November 30, 1976	Columbus, Georgia		Columbus Municipal Auditorium	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
December 2, 1976	Memphis, Tennessee		Mid-South Coliseum	Dr. Hook
December 3, 1976	Jackson, Mississippi		Mississippi Coliseum
December 4, 1976	New Orleans, Louisiana		New Orleans Municipal Auditorium	Blackfoot
December 5, 1976	Mobile, Alabama		Mobile Civic Center
December 7, 1976	Huntsville, Alabama		Von Braun Civic Center	Dr. Hook
December 8, 1976	Macon, Georgia		Macon Coliseum	Uriah Heep
December 10, 1976	Jacksonville, Florida		Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
December 11, 1976	Pembroke Pines, Florida		Hollywood Sportatorium
December 12, 1976	Lakeland, Florida		Lakeland Civic Center
December 15, 1976	Buffalo, New York		Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
December 16, 1976	Syracuse, New York		Onondaga County War Memorial
December 18, 1976	New Haven, Connecticut		New Haven Coliseum
December 19, 1976	Landover, Maryland		Capital Centre	Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
December 21, 1976	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania		The Spectrum
December 27, 1976	Fayetteville, North Carolina		Cumberland County Memorial Arena	Blackfoot
December 28, 1976	Roanoke, Virginia		Roanoke Civic Center	Uriah Heep
December 30, 1976	Augusta, Maine		Augusta Civic Center	Natural Gas
January 1, 1977	Providence, Rhode Island		Providence Civic Center	Uriah Heep
January 5, 1977	Abilene, Texas		Taylor County Coliseum
January 6, 1977	Tulsa, Oklahoma		Tulsa Assembly Center
January 7, 1977	Norman, Oklahoma		Lloyd Noble Center
January 9, 1977	Wichita, Kansas		Henry Levitt Arena
January 10, 1977	Amarillo, Texas		Amarillo Civic Center
January 11, 1977	Albuquerque, New Mexico		Tingley Coliseum
January 13, 1977	Salt Lake City, Utah		Salt Palace
January 15, 1977	Denver, Colorado		McNichols Sports Arena
January 17, 1977	Grand Forks, North Dakota		Ralph Engelstad Arena
January 18, 1977	Duluth, Minnesota		Duluth Arena
January 20, 1977	Lincoln, Nebraska		Pershing Auditorium
January 21, 1977	Des Moines, Iowa		Iowa Veterans Memorial Auditorium
January 22, 1977	Chicago, Illinois		Chicago Stadium
January 24, 1977	Fort Wayne, Indiana		Fort Wayne Coliseum
January 25, 1977	Terre Haute, Indiana		Hulman Center
January 27, 1977	Detroit, Michigan		Cobo Hall
January 28, 1977
January 29, 1977
February 1, 1977	Milwaukee, Wisconsin		Milwaukee Auditorium
February 2, 1977
February 3, 1977	Green Bay, Wisconsin		Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena
February 4, 1977	Madison, Wisconsin		Dane County Expo Coliseum
February 6, 1977	Bloomington, Minnesota		Met Center
February 8, 1977	Omaha, Nebraska		Omaha Civic Auditorium
February 9, 1977	Kansas City, Missouri		Kemper Arena	Head East
February 10, 1977	Waterloo, Iowa		McElroy Auditorium	The Dictators
February 12, 1977	Bismarck, North Dakota		Bismarck Civic Center
February 16, 1977	Hartford, Connecticut		Hartford Civic Center	Sammy Hagar
February 18, 1977	New York City, New York		Madison Square Garden
February 21, 1977	Uniondale, New York		Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
February 26, 1977	Johnson City, Tennessee		Freedom Hall Civic Center	The Dictators
February 27, 1977	Columbia, South Carolina		Carolina Coliseum
March 1, 1977	Asheville, North Carolina		Asheville Civic Center
March 3, 1977	Birmingham, Alabama		BJCC Arena
March 5, 1977	Lexington, Kentucky		Rupp Arena	Legs Diamond
March 6, 1977	Columbus, Ohio		St. John Arena
March 7, 1977	Hampton, Virginia		Hampton Coliseum
March 24, 1977	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Kōsei Nenkin Kaikan	Bow Wow
March 25, 1977
March 26, 1977	Kyoto		Kyoto Kaikan
March 28, 1977	Nagoya		Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
March 29, 1977	Osaka		Osaka Festival Hall
March 30, 1977	Fukuoka		Fukuoka Kyuden Kinen Gymnasium
April 1, 1977	Tokyo		Budokan
April 2, 1977^1
April 4, 1977

• ^Note 1 Kiss performed two shows on this day, one at 3pm and one at 7pm.