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[WTF] KISS Releasing Limited-Edition Book At The Cool Price Of $4,300
KISS might be taking things just a little too far with their upcoming photo book KISS Monster, which features incredibly high-quality, never before seen photographs of the band through the years. Three feet tall and two and a half feet wide, this book is advertised as being as tall as a guitar. It also costs as much as a high end guitar, with a price tag of $4,299. The book will be limited to 1,000 numbered/autographed copies with a pre-launch set of 75 going for the still incredibly unreasonable price of $3,499. But hey, both prices include free shipping, so I guess whoever orders it can feel like they got a deal. If you’re at all interested, head on over to the official website for more information.
Below is a video with each band member talking a little bit about the book. Also in the video you can watch as Gene Simmons still hasn’t learned to put away his tongue. Terrible table manners, don’t you think?
Level with me readers, can any of you see this as a worthwhile investment? I personally can’t wrap my head around the price vs. content. It just doesn’t make sense to me.
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AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.