A rapid heart rate has forced Paul Stanley out of a KISS show at a California casino.
While sound checking for the final show of KISS' three-date 'Hit N' Run' Tour at Soboba Casino in California, Stanley's heart started beating at almost three times its normal rate.Stanley wrote on his personal website that his heartbeat spontaneously rose to a rate of 190 beats per minute. It stayed like this for an hour, paramedics putting the singer and guitarist on an IV drip and administering a "shot" to stop his heart and get it to return to a normal pattern.
Stanley wrote that the paramedics and a cardiologist from Cedar Sinai hospital in LA said, "I would put myself at risk if I tried to do the show." He thanked his fellow bandmates for playing on without him and promised to return for the fans.
It was the first time KISS had ever played as a trio and the first show that Stanley has missed in his 33 years with the band.
The glam rock legend has spent recent time promoting his second solo album 'Live To Win', touring the US in late-2006 and Australia in April 2007.
