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Gene Simmons Is Touring Solo, Traveling Light and Making Lots of Money

Gene Simmons describes his experiences touring solo, and details how he and his band save money while on the road. Listen to Behind the Setlist.

Gene Simmonsspent decades traveling the world as the fire-breathing bass player for KISS, taking with him the large road crews required for massive — and expensive — productions on some of music’s biggest stages. “The local promoters provide the back line, and we just get up there and play,” Simmons tells Billboard ’s Behind the Setlist podcast. Rock pioneer Chuck Berry took it a step further, touring only with his guitar and arriving in each city with a local band that had learned and rehearsed his songs.

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