Earlier this month, the world realized one in all two issues about Gene Simmons: his followers both have an excessive amount of cash and never sufficient sense or he’s delusional as all get out about the kind of cash folks pays to see his solo act. And that realization stems not simply from the way in which he’ll make merch out of fuckin’ something, however fairly that he supplied a bundle for his upcoming solo tour the place you could possibly be his roadie for a day — for $12,495.
You learn that proper. The dude needs his followers to pay greater than $12,000 to do work hauling tools, setting shit up, and driving round with him. Oh, however you get to deliver a buddy, sit in on soundcheck, hang around on the facet of the stage in the course of the efficiency, share the stage with him for a pair minutes, and also you get a signed bass on the finish of the day, so perhaps that’s value it? Perhaps?
Throughout a current interview with the New York Submit, Simmons defined his thought course of for deciding he was going to cost for the aforementioned expertise (and some extras). And naturally, all of it goes again to his childhood within the stone age.
“Once I was a child and went to see reveals, I used to be at all times curious, ‘What’s it like after they’re in a lodge? What’s it like when the stage is ready up? What’s it like being onstage after they’re performing and seeing the viewers from the stage? I made a decision, ‘You realize what, no person’s ever achieved it. Why not open the concept to be my private roadie for the day?’”
Perhaps there’s a cause nobody’s achieved it, Gene.
Now, it might be one factor if this have been supplied as a lottery to your common fan. However inform me one factor — who can afford $12,000+ for a one night time expertise except you’re already properly off and a grown ass grownup? That childhood marvel about what goes on has in all probability already been overwhelmed out of anybody that might have paid for it, so why not pull somebody random out of your ticketholders and hang around with ’em for a day?
Oh proper. Cash. He went on to clarify what else occurs should you purchase the bundle.
“You meet on the lodge the place you could have breakfast collectively or, you understand, no matter floats your boat. You journey with me to the gig. You may arrange amplifiers and drums to your coronary heart’s content material. You’re onstage, proper offstage to my proper. You may video the crowds, no matter. And I pull you onstage to sing a track with me.”
Your ticket to the present isn’t included in that bundle, by the way in which. So pony up some further moolah. The Gene Simmons Band shall be on tour from April 3 in Anaheim, California till Might 24 in Houston. You will discover the total listing of dates under and resolve if you wish to blow 12 grand or not.
April 3 – Anaheim, CA @ Home of Blues
April 4 – Temecula, CA @ Pechanga Resort On line casino
April 5 – Rohnert Park, CA @ The Occasion at Graton Resort & On line casino
April 8 – Auburn, WA @ Muckleshoot On line casino Resort
April 10 – Magna, UT @ The Nice Saltair
April 11 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
April 25 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Corridor
April 26 – Miami Seaside, FL @ Fillmore
April 28 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon
April 29 – Jacksonville, FL @ Florida Theater
April 30 – Orlando, FL @ Exhausting Rock Reside
Might 2 – Peachtree Metropolis, GA – The Fred Amphitheater
Might 3 – Beaver Dam, KY @ Beaver Dam Amphitheater
Might 5 – Purple Financial institution, NJ @ Basie
Might 6 – Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont
Might 8 – Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek On line casino
Might 9 – Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
Might 11 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Solar Enviornment
Might 14 – Northfield, OH @ MGM
Might 15 – Niagara Falls, ON @ Fallsview On line casino
Might 17 – Hammond, IN @ The Horseshoe
Might 18 – Rockford, IL @ Exhausting Rock
Might 20 – Nashville, IN @ Brown County Music Middle
Might 22 – Dallas, TX @ Home of Blues
Might 23 – San Antonio, TX @ Tobin Middle
Might 24 – Houston, TX @ Home of Blues
