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       Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup (1997)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 16, 2014, 11:30 am
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       Based on the cover of the book, I went into Kiss and Sell: The
       Making of a Supergroup with the idea that it would cover some,
       if not all of the Reunion Tour of 1996. Wrong. After reading the
       entire book, nothing is said about the Reunion Tour other than
       one sentence at the end of the book, about it being the highest
       grossing tour that year. I should have known based on when this
       book came out (1997), that this was nothing more than a cash
       grab to capitalize on KISSmanina from the previous year. It's
       true, you never should judge a book by it's cover, especially
       when they use an image from the reunited KISS. Furthermore, the
       author of the book wasn't even part of the KISS family when the
       Reunion happened. He had been fired a few years before and had
       nothing to do with anything significant with the band other than
       being a low level fly on the wall.
       With that said, there were parts of the book that I did in fact
       enjoy, especially the stories behind the Dynasty, Creatures of
       the Night and Lick It Up Tours. The years that came after that
       from Asylum to Revenge as well as the KISS Konvention were also
       intriguing to read about. It does paint a different picture of
       their Tours (the ones that I attended) and how close to
       bankruptcy they were with each tour. This book is really for the
       diehard KISS fan and even they, patience is going to be in short
       supply, especially when it does a 180 degree turn and starts
       talking about Diana Ross, which when on and on and on and made
       no sense as to why one would include so much information about
       her when it had nothing to do with KISS. Worth a Rent for said
       KISS fans. Tread lightly. Personally, it's a book I will never
       revisit again.
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       Re: Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup (1997)
       By: Mac Date: April 16, 2014, 1:10 pm
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       That is one butt ugly cover to boot
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       Re: Kiss and Sell: The Making of a Supergroup (1997)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 16, 2014, 1:47 pm
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       Agreed. It looks like he got his hands on Photoshop and that was
       the first "design" he came up with.
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