Vintage KISS Live in St. Louis: Destroyer Tour 1976

If given the chance, would you jump in a time machine and travel back to July of 1976 when KISS brought their Destroyer tour to St. Louis? I unfortunately don't have a time machine, but there is a rare video that has been unearthed that has captured that concert as it happened.

Héctor A. Báez López dropped a series of video that shows KISS in their prime on July 28, 1976 at the Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis, Missouri. Here's the setlist from that night.

The video quality is obviously not great, but keep in mind that during this era there were no camera phones and if you were caught with a video recorder, you would get tossed from the concert and your camera would likely be confiscated. The fact that he was able to find and preserve any video from this era of KISS in St. Louis is awesome. It's debatable whether the 1976 Destroyer tour or the 1977 Love Gun tour were the apex of KISS, but this was as good as it ever got for the original lineup before infighting would lead to Peter Criss and eventually Ace Frehley leaving the band in the early 1980's.