When I saw the Kiss reunion tour in 1996, online ticket sales weren’t a thing yet. You called on the telephone repeatedly until you got through, you took the operator’s assessment of “best seats available,” and that was it. That show sold out in less than an hour.
When I saw the Kiss “farewell” tour in 2000, it seems like it was online by then. I can’t quite remember. But that show sold out in less than a day.
I took a look last week at the Birmingham and Nashville dates on the End of the Road tour. The cheapest Nashville seats are $86 each (out the door); the cheapest Birmingham seats, $103. When I looked, tickets had been on sale for two weeks, and there were lots available. Like, thousands.
This is not going to go how Gene and Paul think, and the primary complaint is exactly the one I raised when I wrote about seeing them in 2014. There is nothing new to see here. What will be different? More explosions? Three more songs in the set?
We know we won’t get deep cuts. It’s not like they’re going to come out and do “Almost Human” or “Get All You Can Take.” We know we won’t get any former members either. There are too many hatchets in that hole to try to bury any more. At best, this show will be 110-115% of exactly what they’ve been doing for the past ten years.
Who cares?
Well, somebody. But at a C-note for a crappy seat up to God-knows-what for a good one, will enough somebodies? I doubt it.
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