Performing their last in-person live performance on Saturday night time at New York Metropolis’s Madison Sq. Backyard, Kiss used the encore to unveil digital avatars of themselves that can permit the legendary glam-rock band to remain on the street.
The avatars nailed God Gave Rock and Roll to You, opening up the potential of future generations of Kiss followers with the ability to benefit from the American rockers’ music in live performance arenas.
Kiss bandmates Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, and Eric Singer have a mixed age of 273 — with bassist Simmons the oldest at 74 — so letting avatars take the reins looks as if a wise transfer.
The feat has been made attainable by means of a partnership with George Lucas’s special-effects firm, Industrial Mild & Magic, and Pophouse Leisure Group, co-founded by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus.
The 2 corporations labored collectively to create the ABBA Voyage present, an ongoing residency in London that includes holograms of the enduring Swedish pop foursome knocking out their traditional hits from the 70s.
In feedback reported by the Related Press, Pophouse CEO Per Sundin stated the know-how signifies that Kiss “may have a live performance in three cities in the identical night time throughout three totally different continents. That’s what you possibly can do with this.”
Kiss frontman Paul Stanley was equally upbeat concerning the avatar replacements, saying: “What we’ve completed has been wonderful, nevertheless it’s not sufficient. The band deserves to reside on as a result of the band is larger than we’re. It’s thrilling for us to go the subsequent step and see Kiss immortalized.”
Simmons added: “We may be perpetually younger and perpetually iconic by taking us to locations we’ve by no means dreamed of earlier than.”
Whereas some music followers love the way in which the know-how has the potential to allow them to take pleasure in bands or singers in a concert-like ambiance, others discover that it falls disappointingly wanting the unique expertise, and within the case of deceased artists can really feel simply downright creepy.