You Can Be Gene Simmons’ Roadie – For Just $12,495 a Day!

The Kiss star is offering a $12,495 “Personal Assistant and Band Roadie for the Day” experience for his upcoming solo shows. The tour kicks off April 3 in Anaheim and is currently set to conclude on May 24 in Houston. Only one experience is available per show.

For that five-figure fee you’ll spend the entire day with the God of Thunder, meeting him early in the day to go over his pre-show schedule, accompanying him to the load-in, helping the band set up for the show, attending the soundcheck and having a meal with Simmons.

You get to bring a guest along, and you’ll be brought out for an introduction during the show itself. You’ll get autographs, signed set lists and selfies. Most tangibly, you’ll take home a Kiss-rehearsal used bass autographed by Simmons.

You can get full details on the “Roadie for a Day” and the half as expensive “Bass Experience” at GeneSimmonsAxe.com. Don’t worry about finding common conversational ground – the site promises “you will find that Gene Simmons is very down-to-earth, funny and knowledgeable on almost any subject.”

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Guitarist Bruce Kulick recalls playing bass on KISS’ track ‘Psycho Circus’

Former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick was recently interviewed by Marko Syrjala for Metal-RulesKulick spoke at length about KISS‘ Conventions in 1995, the group’s MTV Unplugged appearance back in 1995 that led to him losing his position in the band, and the Carnival of Souls recording sessions.

Kulick is credited with playing bass on five of the ten songs on KISS‘ “reunion” album Psycho Circus that featured the band’s original line-up of Paul StanleyGene SimmonsAce Frehley and Peter CrissKulick also has a co-writing credit on the track “Dreamin’” with Simmons on Psycho Circus.

With respect to playing bass on the title track “Psycho Circus” which was co-written by Stanley and Curt Cuomo (the latter who went on to work with Kulick on his solo projects and Union),  the former KISS guitarist indicated:

“Yes, and that goes back to Curt Cuomo because Paul went to Curt’s place after the Carnival of Souls sessions and said to him, ‘I have this song idea,’ the two of them wrote it. I wasn’t a writer on the song, but they wanted me to play bass on it. So, we demoed it at Curt’s place, and I played the bass. Paul always liked how I played bass, so I put my Gene Simmons hat on, and I knew how to approach it. I didn’t know I’d be on the record—I knew I’d do the demo and a few others with Paul. Then Bruce Fairbairn, who produced that record, was very clear about my bass tracks. ‘I like this bass playing. Who is that?’ ‘Oh, it’s Bruce.’ ‘All right, well, let’s bring him in.’ You see? There are some really interesting stories about Psycho Circus that I’ll share in my book, too. It’s kind of interesting. Just to give you a quick overview: as much as I knew Paul and Gene slightly before I started to work with them, I started as a ghost guitarist with KISS, and then at some point, I became a ghost bass player for them when I wasn’t in the band again, so it’s an interesting connection there.”

You can read the rest of the interview with Bruce Kulick via Metal-Rules‘ website.