Vintage April 1974 KISS 1st Concert Tour Unused Ticket Michigan Palace BOC

Description

This is a unique piece of rock n’ roll concert memorabilia - an used concert ticket from the first KISS tour in 1974 when they opened up for Blue Oyster Cult at the Michigan Concert Palace in Detroit on April 12, 1974.
This tour was in support of their first album that was released earlier in February 1974.
This unused vintage ticket is from the first of two shows
promoted by Steve Glantz Productions
at the Michigan Concert Palace on April 12-13, 1974.
The Palace was located on 238 Bagley Avenue in Detroit (see picture) but is now a parking garage.
The Palace was also used by KISS for the videos Rock N Roll All Nite, C’mon & Love Me, and the cover photo for the infamous Alive! album.
More recently, the parking garage was featured in the movie “8 Mile” starring Eminem.
The ticket is unused and in good condition, No. 748 out of 5,000, and has a crease in the middle where it was probably in someone’s pocket because the ticket measures 1.8”x 8.5”.
It has the Hudson’s Ticket Service from Oakland stamp on the back.
KISSonfire.com and KISSconcerthistory.com reports both shows were sold out with 5,000 in attendance and one of the classic KISS concerts!
The Motor City Music Archives lists this concert on their website as well (
http://www.motorcitymusicarchives.com/michiganpalace.html
).
Concert posters promoting upcoming shows are also in the pictures. Photo was taken from the Saturday, April 13, 1974, show at the Palace.
There is also a KISS
bootleg CD recorded for this show on April 12, 1974. It is a soundboard recording.
Set List:
Deuce
Strutter
She
Firehouse
Nothin to Lose
Cold Gin
100,000 Years
Black Diamond
Let Me Go, Rock and Roll
1974 was also a significant year for Blue Oyster Cult, as many people consider "Secret Treaties", released earlier in April 1974 to be the band’s most significant record. The April 5, 1974 issue of Ann Arbor Sun, and some other early ads, had Nazareth listed as second on the bill to BOC for both shows, though they didn't perform.
At a time when Detroit native Suzi Quatro was topping the U.K. charts with "Devil Gate Drive," she was very much non-mainstream in the U.S. with her self-titled album (Bell 1302) eventually reaching #142 on Billboard Top-200.
Gene Simmons interview, LA Times, 1988:
It was New Year's Eve, 1973, Simmons said. Blue Oyster Cult was headlining the show at Manhattan's Academy of Music, and Kiss, with its Kabuki-style makeup and super-hero stage outfits, had bottom billing in a lineup that also included Iggy Pop.
The show won Kiss its first substantial press notices, Simmons said, and soon afterward the band went off on its first national tour, opening theater dates in the Midwest--for Blue Oyster Cult.
"We weren't allowed to play encores. Usually our plugs were pulled," Simmons said. But one night in Detroit, Kiss was able to go back on stage and answer the crowd's cries for more--a demand that the new band, having already exhausted its meager song list, satisfied by repeating three numbers it already had played. As it turned out, Simmons said, the Kiss road crew had prevented Blue Oyster Cult's road manager from pulling the plug by locking him in an equipment trunk. Kiss was booted off the tour on the spot.