{"id":804919,"date":"2020-03-05T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=962893"},"modified":"2020-03-05T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T18:56:25","slug":"see-kiss-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-los-angeles-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-kiss-pay-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-at-los-angeles-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"See Kiss Pay Tribute to Kobe Bryant at Los Angeles Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GettyImages-1210507615W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kiss\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kiss\" data-tag=\"kiss\">Kiss<\/a> paid tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kobe-bryant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kobe-bryant\" data-tag=\"kobe-bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a> Wednesday during the band\u2019s concert at Los Angeles\u2019 Staples Center, a.k.a. \u201cthe House That Kobe Built.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the encore, guitarist Paul Stanley stripped off his customary Kiss garb and donned a yellow Los Angeles Lakers jersey with Bryant\u2019s name and #24 on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe\u2019re in the house that Kobe built,\u201d Stanley said of the Staples Center, home of the Lakers and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/beyonce-kobe-bryant-tribute-halo-xo-957351\/\">site of the recent Bryant memorial<\/a>. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">None of us would be here if this place wasn\u2019t really like a memorial to somebody who\u2019s so much more than a basketball player, somebody who\u2019s been a role model. And tonight, I think we dedicate this show not only to Kobe and his daughter Gigi, but all the people who perished on that helicopter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kiss then performed their <em>Destroyer<\/em> cut \u201cDo You Love Me?\u201d as the spotlights remained focused on Bryant\u2019s retired jerseys in the rafters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Soon after Bryant\u2019s death January 26th, Stanley tweeted an undated photo of his encounter with the Lakers legend at the Staples Center:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9364161849711\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WOW! Kobe. Such A Shock. My Condolences To His Wife And Children. Very, very sad. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KobeBryant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#KobeBryant<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4UM6Vap8Dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4UM6Vap8Dc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulStanleyLive\/status\/1221524882057396224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">January 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kiss-kobe-bryant-tribute-staples-center-962893\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss paid tribute to Kobe Bryant Wednesday during the band\u2019s concert at Los Angeles\u2019 Staples Center, a.k.a. \u201cthe House That Kobe Built.\u201d During the encore, guitarist Paul Stanley stripped off his customary Kiss garb and donned a yellow Los Angeles Lakers jersey with Bryant\u2019s name and #24 on it. \u201cWe\u2019re in the house that Kobe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 22:27:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}