It seems like the multiconcert residencies at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino were tailor-made for KISS. The band, in its 41st year of existence, embodies hard rock for generations of fans, and wrote the rule book on stage performance that influenced everyone from Garth Brooks to Slipknot. This month, the Hard Rock veritably belongs to KISS, with a full-on takeover that includes limited-time additions on restaurant menus, a pop-up shop and even a spa treatment. For KISS fans, the only question is, “What took so long?”

“Yeah, it’s something that’s always seemed so obvious but for many reasons we couldn’t make it work until now, and we have a great show planned for Vegas,” says co-frontman Paul Stanley. “The terrific thing is not only will we get our fans and the people who literally travel the world to see us, but we’ll get

a chance to play for people who perhaps only have heard of us, and on their trip to Vegas will decide to

see that band they’ve always heard about. We will deliver, and then some.”

Stanley, who told the story of KISS from his perspective in his recently published memoir Face the Music: A Life Exposed, performs nine shows with bassist and longtime partner Gene Simmons, guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer for the residency. KISS has been selling out venues since before the landmark 1975 album Alive! rocketed the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, pyro-exploding act to the top of the charts and sealed the musicians’ fates as legends, but The Joint’s 4,500-person capacity provides opportunities arenas and stadiums do not.

“It’s great to play a small venue where you don’t have to compromise the show,” says Stanley. “You can actually build a show specifically for that venue, so when you don’t have to worry about breaking the show down and having it go to the next city tomorrow, it opens up a lot of opportunities. So we’re thrilled, man. This is KISS World.”

KISS World arguably came to be once the band, which had been performing without their famous makeup more than a decade, brought back original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss for its Alive/Worldwide reunion tour in 1996. Now KISS has become a lifestyle for its fans, with Stanley and company recently taking to the seas for Kiss Kruise IV and helping open the KISS-themed Monster Mini Golf course a block south of the Hard Rock a few years ago. Stanley promises more than a Vegas version of a multinight stand at an arena, though.

“This isn’t a version of the road show that we’ve just done. We just did 42 shows and played to 600,000 people. This isn’t that show,” he says.

“This is a show specifically designed for Vegas and for the Hard Rock. … What happens in Vegas will not stay in Vegas.”

The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel, 8 p.m. Nov. 19 & 22-23, starting at $49.50 plus tax and fee. 888.929.7849