You can watch the closing statements here:<\/p>\n
<\/object><\/p>\nYou’re on your own re the audio quality, I had nothing to do with the making of this recording.<\/p>\nOn another note, I did a bit of research regarding sales in big box stores.\u00c2\u00a0 And my experts told me that KISS would have a difficult time making a big box deal.\u00c2\u00a0 Big box deals are all about foot traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re not so much about selling the CD of the act involved, but getting people into the store, where they’ll buy other stuff and experience the retailer firsthand.<\/p>\nThe Eagles worked for Wal-Mart because there hadn’t been a complete album of new material in decades.\u00c2\u00a0 The price and band visibility were icing on the cake.<\/p>\nSame deal with AC\/DC, which blew out a ton of CDs at Wal-Mart.<\/p>\nBut don’t forget the Bryan Adams album was a stiff.<\/p>\nAnd then we’ve got the curious case of Axl Rose and Best Buy.\u00c2\u00a0 An incredible sales disappointment.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though the band had been away for eons and had never had a failure.<\/p>\nKISS has had a string of less than successful albums in the marketplace.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike AC\/DC, they have not been absent from the boards for the better part of a decade, they’ve been touring their asses off.\u00c2\u00a0 What is the demand for new KISS material?\u00c2\u00a0 Limited.<\/p>\nMaybe Gene can make a deal with Kragen Auto Parts.\u00c2\u00a0 Or some other outlet that does not normally sell CDs.\u00c2\u00a0 But the conventional big box CD retailers have become extremely picky.\u00c2\u00a0 And the door is closing every day.\u00c2\u00a0 With CD floorspace and demand evaporating, just like Circuit City. Could be that KISS is just too late to enter this marketplace and play this game.<\/p>\nHell, I’d say Gene would be better off hooking up with Bob Ezrin and writing only ONE track, that he could whore out to ESPN and a bunch of other outlets.\u00c2\u00a0 One killer cut that could drive up his grosses and goose demand for further material.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a whole new era, the shifting sands of time have about swallowed the old music business model.\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes me wonder why Gene is playing the old game.<\/p>\nBut that’s where we started.<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can watch the closing statements here: You’re on your own re the audio quality, I had nothing to do with the making of this recording. On another note, I did a bit of research regarding sales in big box stores.\u00c2\u00a0 And my experts told me that KISS would have a difficult time making a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-sF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You’re on your own re the audio quality, I had nothing to do with the making of this recording.<\/p>\n
On another note, I did a bit of research regarding sales in big box stores.\u00c2\u00a0 And my experts told me that KISS would have a difficult time making a big box deal.\u00c2\u00a0 Big box deals are all about foot traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re not so much about selling the CD of the act involved, but getting people into the store, where they’ll buy other stuff and experience the retailer firsthand.<\/p>\n
The Eagles worked for Wal-Mart because there hadn’t been a complete album of new material in decades.\u00c2\u00a0 The price and band visibility were icing on the cake.<\/p>\n
Same deal with AC\/DC, which blew out a ton of CDs at Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n
But don’t forget the Bryan Adams album was a stiff.<\/p>\n
And then we’ve got the curious case of Axl Rose and Best Buy.\u00c2\u00a0 An incredible sales disappointment.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though the band had been away for eons and had never had a failure.<\/p>\n
KISS has had a string of less than successful albums in the marketplace.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike AC\/DC, they have not been absent from the boards for the better part of a decade, they’ve been touring their asses off.\u00c2\u00a0 What is the demand for new KISS material?\u00c2\u00a0 Limited.<\/p>\n
Maybe Gene can make a deal with Kragen Auto Parts.\u00c2\u00a0 Or some other outlet that does not normally sell CDs.\u00c2\u00a0 But the conventional big box CD retailers have become extremely picky.\u00c2\u00a0 And the door is closing every day.\u00c2\u00a0 With CD floorspace and demand evaporating, just like Circuit City. Could be that KISS is just too late to enter this marketplace and play this game.<\/p>\n
Hell, I’d say Gene would be better off hooking up with Bob Ezrin and writing only ONE track, that he could whore out to ESPN and a bunch of other outlets.\u00c2\u00a0 One killer cut that could drive up his grosses and goose demand for further material.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a whole new era, the shifting sands of time have about swallowed the old music business model.\u00c2\u00a0 Which makes me wonder why Gene is playing the old game.<\/p>\n
But that’s where we started.<\/p>\n
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