Kiss’ Tommy Thayer Suggests Las Vegas Could Host the Band’s Digital Avatar Concerts
There used to be a time when artificial intelligence in music wasn’t a thing. Way back in the before times of just a couple years ago, the technology simply wasn’t there. Now, we’ve got robots making music, ghost artists flooding Spotify, and Ian Hill of Judas Priest insisting beyond all hope that AI could never really take over in music because AI can’t really perform live. Yet he forgot one key thing — Kiss‘ drive to make boatloads of cash after retirement by touring through the use of digital avatars.
You’ll remember we reported late last year that Kiss would be continuing on as avatars in a show similar to the Abba Voyage show in London (because what metal fan hasn’t already seen that show and fallen in love, am I right?).
At the recent 27th annual Power of Love gala in Vegas, Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer told UK tabloid The Sun that the new avatar show that the band are working on which will create a virtual Kiss experience beyond the band’s retirement was going to need a full theater and the frontrunner for the location of that theater is currently Las Vegas. Here’s what Thayer had to say:
“A show like this needs a theatre which is built specifically for the show, so we have to decide where it’s going to be. And there’s considerations about New York, Singapore, Dubai, London of course, but Las Vegas as well is a strong contender.
“And I’m a big fan of Las Vegas. This is where I live. So I can see something like that possibly happening here, but we’ll just have to wait and see.”
No strangers to the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, it would make total sense to see a digital Kiss residency where wealthy, old fans of the rock band pony up big money to relive their glory days. And let’s be real about something here — those tickets are going to be stupid expensive just so you can watch PlayStation 2-era Kiss play air guitar on stage.
The only thing that could possibly make this an interesting proposition would be if they held these avatar concerts in the MSG Sphere. That place is wild enough to make the Kiss experience even larger than life. Still, with this project’s first show planned for 2027, we’re a long way away from seeing any of this actually come to fruition.
