Kiss tour flops - does this really suprize anyone?

taken from a post made by the metal master!

Kiss (minus original members Ace Frehely and Peter Criss) struggled to fill seats on this past tour. Here are two news clips that tell the tale. I couldn't be happier, as Kiss are charging outrageous prices for what amounts to a Kiss cover band. Tommy Thayer on guitar dressed as Ace Frehely? Nigga please. Info courtesy Blabbermouth.net:

According to an article in the USA Today, KISS' "Rock the Nation" tour was one of the summer's bigger flops. Based on the figures released by Billboard Boxscore, KISS sold 49 percent of all tickets, with an average of 8,444 tickets sold per show. The hottest acts of the summer were bands like JIMMY BUFFETT, PHISH and the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, who sold more than 20,000 tickets per show. MADONNA and PRINCE have also sold 100 percent of their tickets.

"KISS may have rang that farewell tour bell one too many times," commented Billboard's Ray Waddell. "There were only two originals. And how many times can you go to the well without offering something new and different."

Hits Daily Double reports: "How bad was this summer’s touring season? At an Aug. 4 at an Atlanta amphitheatre that seats 18,389, veteran rockers KISS — used to doing big business — sold only 4,345 tickets, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of what observers are calling 'one of the slowest summers ever.'