Kiss is filmed backstage in Toronto by CBS

On 15. June, 1974, Kiss was filmed performing at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada, and interviewed backstage by CBC News after opening for the New York Dolls before an audience of 2,800. The footage and interview were later featured in a CBC documentary “Glitter Rock”.

 
Transcript:
Out front it’s all sequins and lights, masked amplifiers and bass speakers sound so loud that it’s on the very threshold of pain. Undecipherable lyrics, beastial costumes, switchy movements, elaborate choreography, shooting flames and levitating drums. Backstage is all sweat smell and spilled beer.
– An audience can sense sincerity. And if if we were up there trying to put one over on the audience they would be aware of you, you know. And you can’t fake sweating and you can’t fake exhaustion and we’re both you know drenched and exhausted when we go off and it’s for the audience.
– You can probably smell us right now, ha ha!
– If someone pays $6 to see me I’m not doing them a favor playing for them. I owe them $6 worth of music. At least I owe them a show I owe them good music I owe them something to look at.
The bass is physically felt in the stomach. The sound is so loud that it borders on the threshold of pain. The beat is simple and overpowering. The lyrics where one can distinguish them full of homosexual innuendo. Each group seeks its own distinct. Kiss bet on the streets of New York a year or so ago play it being monsters. They stagger and lurch about the stage as if hell had been taken over by a motorcycle gang in black leather jacket and bat wings.