Earlier this month, the world discovered 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 can pay to see his solo act. And that realization stems not simply from the best way he’ll make merch out of fuckin’ something, however reasonably that he provided a package deal for his upcoming solo tour the place you would be his roadie for a day — for $12,495.
You learn that proper. The dude desires his followers to pay greater than $12,000 to do work hauling gear, setting shit up, and driving round with him. Oh, however you get to convey a buddy, sit in on soundcheck, hang around on the facet of the stage through 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 Put up, 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 all the time curious, ‘What’s it like once they’re in a resort? What’s it like when the stage is about up? What’s it like being onstage once they’re performing and seeing the viewers from the stage? I made a decision, ‘ what, no person’s ever performed it. Why not open the concept to be my private roadie for the day?’”
Perhaps there’s a cause nobody’s performed it, Gene.
Now, it will be one factor if this have been provided as a lottery to your common fan. However inform me one factor — who can afford $12,000+ for a one evening expertise until you’re already properly off and a grown ass grownup? That childhood surprise 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 when you purchase the package deal.
“You meet on the resort the place you have got breakfast collectively or, , no matter floats your boat. You experience 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 package deal, by the best way. So pony up some further moolah. The Gene Simmons Band shall be on tour from April 3 in Anaheim, California till Could 24 in Houston. Yow will discover the complete record of dates under and determine 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 Dwell
Could 2 – Peachtree Metropolis, GA – The Fred Amphitheater
Could 3 – Beaver Dam, KY @ Beaver Dam Amphitheater
Could 5 – Pink Financial institution, NJ @ Basie
Could 6 – Montclair, NJ @ Wellmont
Could 8 – Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek On line casino
Could 9 – Huntington, NY @ The Paramount
Could 11 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Solar Area
Could 14 – Northfield, OH @ MGM
Could 15 – Niagara Falls, ON @ Fallsview On line casino
Could 17 – Hammond, IN @ The Horseshoe
Could 18 – Rockford, IL @ Exhausting Rock
Could 20 – Nashville, IN @ Brown County Music Heart
Could 22 – Dallas, TX @ Home of Blues
Could 23 – San Antonio, TX @ Tobin Heart
Could 24 – Houston, TX @ Home of Blues
