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Don't they sell a KISS coffin, too? I seem to remember Gene hawking one on Conan's show once.
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Sure do!Originally posted by Cult of Roth
Don't they sell a KISS coffin, too? I seem to remember Gene hawking one on Conan's show once.
Custom coffins are occasionally created and some companies also make set ranges with non-traditional designs. These include painting of peaceful tropical scenes, sea-shells, sunsets and cherubs. Some manufacturers have designed them to look like gym carry bags, guitar cases and even yellow dumpster bins. Others coffins are left deliberately blank so that friends and family can inscribe final wishes and thoughts upon it to the deceased. The rock band KISS has made a coffin called the KISS Kasket for their most diehard fans; Dimebag Darrell, guitarist of both Pantera and Damageplan, was buried in one.
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Well, Ed has slapped his name and logo on quite a bit of guitar gear over the last several years...Originally posted by BALLYJUNKIE
ITS FUNNY VAN HALEN IS JUST THE OPOSITE ..... YOU CANT GET ANYTHING FROM THEM ....... UNTIL WOLFIE BREAKS THE VAULTS THEN WHEN EDDIE AND ALEX ARE GONE WOLFIE WILL SELL YOU VAN HALEN BEER MUGS AND BED SHEETS ON QVC !!!!Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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I think his kids are saying ..."Go DAD Go! Pile up that money for ME!""Originally posted by lonnieg5
Gene Simmons is such a money whore. How does his kids have any respect for him at all?Comment
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Originally posted by MERRYKISSMASS2U
Sure do!
Custom coffins are occasionally created and some companies also make set ranges with non-traditional designs. These include painting of peaceful tropical scenes, sea-shells, sunsets and cherubs. Some manufacturers have designed them to look like gym carry bags, guitar cases and even yellow dumpster bins. Others coffins are left deliberately blank so that friends and family can inscribe final wishes and thoughts upon it to the deceased. The rock band KISS has made a coffin called the KISS Kasket for their most diehard fans; Dimebag Darrell, guitarist of both Pantera and Damageplan, was buried in one.
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Gene GAVE his widow the casket for free for Dime who was a HUGE KISS fan.
KISS are doing what they've always done...give the people what they want. You don't like it...don't buy it. Obviously SOMEONE is!
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Gene and give don't flow nicely together in the same sentence.Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
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New Photos Of DIMEBAG's Final Resting Place Posted Online - Dec. 8, 2005
Two brand-new photos of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott's final resting place at the Moore Memorial Gardens cemetery in Arlington, Texas have been posted online: Photo#1, Photo#2. Dimebag was buried next to his mother, Carolyn Abbott, who passed away in 1999.
As previously reported, KISS donated a "Kiss Kasket" (photo) to Dimebag's family for the guitarist to be buried in. The coffin features the faces of the four founding members of KISS, the KISS logo and the words "Kiss Forever".
Darrell was a huge KISS fan and even had a tattoo (photo) of original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley on his chest. In addition, Darrell had Frehley autograph it and had that tattooed to his body as well.
KISS bassist Gene Simmons announced he was giving the family the coffin during an appearance on Fox News' "The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby" a couple of days after Dimebag's death. Simmons told Cosby, "Well, I wasn't really prepared to talk about it, but the family requested, as a personal issue between the family and the grieving people who are going to be there, to send a Kiss Kasket. We initially did it as a promotion. And you know, I think it meant a lot to Darrell when, you know Ñ when he was alive, he gave lots of people great joy. I mean he had the band tattooed onto his chest. He was a major figure in rock and roll. He's going to be greatly missed. And the family wish Ñ you know the one last wish they had was that he be buried in a Kiss Kasket. And I think it's a private matter for the family and the fans actually."
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Was never really fond of the merchandising aspect of the band, but they've been slapping the logo on all sorts of products since really about 1976 or so - not really a new thing with them. This side of it has been a part of the group basically almost all the way to the beginning...
I mean, what other choice does Simmons have? Sure, I suppose he could opt not to do it at all, but in terms of keeping the band name out there as a money-making vehicle, well, KISS clearly can't make an album of new material worth buying anymore. The touring bit seems to be either all finished or at least suspended for a while.
I suppose it's that the logo has been put onto too many different products that makes it all seem a bit silly, overblown and overdone - but then that's KISS for you. Always has been.
If they put out a KISSOLOGY Vol 2, I'll probably pick that up. That's really the only 'product' I'm interested in. For me, their music (or at least the music that I liked, which certainly wasn't all of it) was always as important as the visual image. As for the rest, as was already said in this thread, nobody's forcing anyone to buy it.Scramby eggs and bacon.Comment
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