You’ll be able to “Rock and Roll All Nite” with Gene Simmons — however it’ll price you.
The Kiss frontman, 75, is giving followers the chance to be his private assistant and band roadie for over $12K.
Hawking the job as “the ultimate Gene Simmons experience” on his web site, the rocker guarantees you’ll “be on the GS Band Team Crew for the entire day” and be on the within of his day by day schedule whereas he’s out on the highway for his solo tour together with his Gene Simmons Band this spring.
Not solely will the fortunate fan do handbook labor — like serving to the band arrange for his or her present — however they may sit in on sound examine, arrive on the venue with the band, and hang around backstage.
Simmons additionally guarantees that the hefty worth of $12,495 will probably be sufficient for the large spender to have a meal with the rockstar both on the resort or backstage on the present, be introduced up on the stage throughout the live performance, and be launched to the group.
The “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” musician gained’t allow you to depart the venue empty-handed, both.
In keeping with the itemizing, the excessive curler will go residence with a set listing signed by Simmons and a rehearsal-used bass together with his John Hancock.
He additionally claims that the fortunate assistant can take photographs throughout the day of their “entire experience.” Relating to exterior objects, Simmons will solely permit them to deliver an extra 4 issues for him to signal — and it will possibly’t be any devices or elements.
Nevertheless, the final word fan will probably be allowed to deliver one other particular person as their plus one for the day.
This isn’t a one-time supply, although.
Simmons will permit one assistant expertise per venue when his band heads on tour from April 3 to August 3 — and with over 20 reveals, that’s an entire lot of dough.
The $12K assistant job isn’t the one attention-grabbing expertise accessible.
For the worth tag of $6,500, followers can get a signed bass (whereas provides final) and meet Simmons backstage at considered one of his reveals.
That is simply the most recent gimmick for the rocker, whose Kiss band has been slammed for his or her considerably crass advertising ways through the years.
In 2001, Simmons and bandmates Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss supplied up Kiss-themed caskets for $3,900, which featured their faces on them.
The rockers additionally gave their stamp of approval on Kiss Kondoms, inflatable tongues and Kiss rest room paper.
The band completed the “End of the Road World” Tour at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis on December 2, 2023, with Simmons making it clear it was “the end of the road for the band, not the brand.”
“Kiss is a universe of its own – movies, merchandise, maybe even Broadway. The band will end, but the Kiss experience … it’s immortal,” he informed to 519 Journal on the time. “It’s the end of touring … We are the hardest-working band on stage. I’ve got 40 pounds of armour and all the rest of it and seven-inch platform heels. Each of the dragon boots weighs as much as a bowling ball. Physically, it’s tough to do that.”
