KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons is providing his followers an opportunity to be his roadie for a day throughout his upcoming tour with the GENE SIMMONS BAND.
Simmons‘s $12,495 “Private Assistant And Band Roadie For The Day” expertise is restricted to 1 per present and contains the next perks:
* You’ll meet up with Gene and GENE SIMMONS BAND members early within the day (both at his resort or designated location) to go over the band’s present day schedule.
* You’ll be on the GENE SIMMONS BAND workforce crew for the complete day!
* You’ll get a GENE SIMMONS BAND crew member shirt and hat
* You’ll get a GENE SIMMONS BAND crew member VIP laminate
* You’ll have a meal with Gene Simmons (on the resort or backstage on the present)
* You’ll arrive and cargo in to the venue with the band
* You’ll assist the band arrange for the present
* You’ll hang around backstage
* You’ll sit in on soundcheck
* Gene Simmons will deliver you on stage through the present and introduce you
* You’ll get a setlist signed by Gene Simmons
* You’ll be able to take pictures all through your total expertise
* You could deliver one visitor
* You could deliver 4 objects for Gene to signal (no devices, elements, and so on.)
* And… you get a Gene Simmons (KISS-rehearsal-used) bass signed by Gene Simmons
Tickets to the present are usually not included, as they’re offered by way of the person venues.
For extra info, go to GeneSimmonsAxe.com.
GENE SIMMONS BAND‘s tour will kick off on April 3 in Anaheim and is scheduled to conclude on Could 24 in Houston.
GENE SIMMONS BAND 2025 tour dates:
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 Seashore, FL @ Fillmore
April 28 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Moon
April 29 – Jacksonville, FL @ Florida Theater
April 30 – Orlando, FL @ Onerous Rock Reside
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 @ Onerous Rock
Could 20 – Nashville, IN @ Brown County Music Middle
Could 22 – Dallas, TX @ Home of Blues
Could 23 – San Antonio, TX @ Tobin Middle
Could 24 – Houston, TX @ Home of Blues
Throughout an look on a December 2024 episode of Billboard‘s “Behind The Setlist” podcast, Gene spoke about how he now excursions and performs along with his solo band. He responded: “I assumed I may avoid the stage [after the completion of KISS‘s ‘End Of The Road’ farewell tour]. It bears noting that there is a magic that occurs up there that phrases do not actually kind of describe. It is a feeling, and it is powerful to speak about emotions. It is most likely nearer to… There was a man named Dr. [Arthur] Janov and he had a sort of an odd hippie perspective about individuals having their stuff pent up. So you place individuals in a padded room. And it was known as scream remedy. You go in there and also you simply let free and reportedly — I used to be by no means a part of that, however reportedly — individuals would come out drenched in sweat and relieved and drained and also you expel all these items. And going by way of life, there are guidelines. You’ll be able to’t praise ladies an excessive amount of. There isn’t any extra hugging. There’s all these guidelines. You’ll be able to’t do trans jokes, homosexual jokes, Jew jokes, black — you possibly can’t do any of that stuff as a result of we’re very kind of… There are refined guidelines that all of us have to pay attention to. Not on stage. You might be free. You simply expel all this vitality, and it is this celebration of life with the followers and also you, and also you get to this sort of joyous place. So the GENE SIMMONS BAND is an opportunity for me, with some buddies who’re monsters on their devices, to go on the market and simply have a good time. It bears noting we do not have managers, highway crew, nothing. No vans, nothing. The native promoters present the backline, and we simply rise up there and play. And there are not any set-in-stone setlists. Followers can yell, ‘Hey, why do not you do ‘Virtually Human’ from 1804?’ You betcha. And also you break into it. Or, ‘Do you guys know ‘Complete Lotta Love’?’ ‘Yeah, I believe so.’ And also you break into it. Otherwise you jam. And at each present we deliver followers up on stage. ‘Are you able to sing?’ ‘Are you able to play? Let’s have a celebration.'”
When requested how the concept for touring with out managers and a highway crew took place, Simmons replied: “Truly, it was accomplished by black musicians once they performed the Chitlin’ Circuit, what was the black golf equipment, ‘trigger they could not play white golf equipment. So Chuck Berry, for instance, famously would present up along with his guitar, and there was an area band. Now, I do not do this — I take my band with me — however Berry would present up, and he’d inform the fellows, ‘Research the information, study these songs, I am gonna present up,’ and no rehearsal, nothing. Simply let it occur. And you may be as tight as THE [ROLLING] STONES. I do not know in case you’ve ever seen THE STONES stay. Irrespective of how a lot they rehearse, there’s this sort of sloppy, greasy approach of doing it. And also you by no means fairly know the place the tip of the tune is — it by no means fairly ends — as a result of there is no finish; you simply sort of really feel it. So it’s extremely simple. We now have lots of enjoyable. The followers are, as they are saying on the road, digging it. And then you definitely die. That is all there may be.”
Concerning what the distinction is to him financially when he performs reveals along with his solo band in comparison with the way it was with KISS, Gene stated: “I make extra [with my solo band]. Yeah, there is no managers, no personal jets, no 20 tractor trailers, no 60-man crew, no large reveals. And the pyro alone for each [KISS] present was 10 grand, typically 50, relying in case you go outside — monumental, monumental prices for doing that — however proud to have accomplished that with [fellow KISS founder] Paul [Stanley] and the remainder of the fellows within the band. However this can be a decidedly completely different factor. It is virtually as in case you determined to hire some amps in a storage and plug in after which everyone from the neighborhood is available in and you’ve got a a lot completely different relationship. There’s none of that kind of ready factor. It’s totally casual and an terrible lot of enjoyable.”
Along with Simmons, the GENE SIMMONS BAND members embody guitarists Brent Woods (WILDSIDE, SEBASTIAN BACH, VINCE NEIL) and Zach Throne (COREY TAYLOR) alongside drummer Brian Tichy (LYNCH MOB, THE DEAD DAISIES, WHITESNAKE, BILLY IDOL, FOREIGNER, PRIDE & GLORY, SLASH’S SNAKEPIT).
Again in 2017 and 2018, the GENE SIMMONS BAND performed quite a lot of reveals with a lineup that consisted of Simmons alongside guitarist/bassist Jeremy Asbrock, guitarist Ryan Cook dinner, guitarist Phil Shouse and drummer Brent Fitz.
Six years in the past, Simmons acknowledged about his solo reveals: “Doing these smaller live performance halls, which maintain a thousand to 3 thousand individuals, means they get crammed up by actual diehard followers. They do not wish to hear the ‘standard, standard.’ They wish to hear nuggets, as they are saying. It is a hoot for me as a result of I’ve by no means actually had an opportunity to do that stuff stay. It has been lots of enjoyable.” Gene instructed the Chicago Solar-Occasions: “By the tip, I get the possibility to deliver as many individuals from the viewers as we are able to match on the stage to sing with me.”
Concerning how the concept for a solo tour took place, Simmons instructed Australia’s Advertiser in a 2018 interview: “The GENE SIMMONS BAND was not a plan or something. A few 12 months in the past, a company occasion requested me to be keynote speaker … then they stated, ‘Will not you rise up and sing just a few tunes?’ I defined which you can’t simply do this, you have to have a band and rehearse and all that. They stated, ‘Nicely, we’ll pay you X {dollars} extra,’ and I stated, ‘I such as you!’ “So I put collectively a band from Nashville — these guys again up Child Rock and many different individuals — and and not using a single rehearsal, I simply instructed them which songs I wished to do they usually realized them. It simply sounded pure — there may be such a factor known as chemistry. They do not educate that wherever — I imply, they do educate ‘chemistry’ however not the type I am speaking about. It felt proper and as quickly because the movies went on YouTube and such, individuals have been calling. This little GENE SIMMONS BAND by no means tried to be KISS… It was just a bit little bit of enjoyable and stuff. Now unexpectedly, we’re headlining festivals within the Czech Republic, Canada, Germany… It is loopy.”
KISS performed the ultimate live performance of its “Finish Of The Highway” farewell tour on December 2, 2023 at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis.