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http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ki...ns-the-end-of-the-road-trademark-application/
Haha I love this on going circus. It's not Gene this time it's Paul doing the explaining but the way all the non fans who claim to hate the band yet still follow every story about them and then get all angsty and righteous about what the band does amuses the hell out of me. So what they are trying to trademark some words that will be used as a tour name, it's done by hundreds of bands every year in many different countries, Kiss themselves have been told they can't use terms for a tour name because a circus owns rights to those words as used in advertising, yet the Internet naysayers are screaming because Kiss are in the news.
Haha I love this on going circus. It's not Gene this time it's Paul doing the explaining but the way all the non fans who claim to hate the band yet still follow every story about them and then get all angsty and righteous about what the band does amuses the hell out of me. So what they are trying to trademark some words that will be used as a tour name, it's done by hundreds of bands every year in many different countries, Kiss themselves have been told they can't use terms for a tour name because a circus owns rights to those words as used in advertising, yet the Internet naysayers are screaming because Kiss are in the news.
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I believe it will also help them by stopping someone else patenting the words and demanding money for Kiss to use it. Technically if someone else patented it and Kiss called their tour that the owner could easily wait until the tour was over and sue for misuse of patent. I'd be more interested to see if it's a worldwide patent or just in the US because I remember back in the 90's we went for a US patent and it was going to cost us $120K (legal fees both local and US because we weren't American included) but that patent gave us no rights anywhere else in the world. In the end we didn't do it though.
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Given that Kiss will eventually do a last tour it makes sense to protect the name they want. Just a pity the internet wasn't around when they applied for the patent for the word KISS and got refused 
Not just legal, was $120K in total. I can't remember the break down but legal fees were large part of the total, made worse by the fact we needed both local and US support.
Not just legal, was $120K in total. I can't remember the break down but legal fees were large part of the total, made worse by the fact we needed both local and US support.
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I can see it happening but don't think it's for the best of the band. Many fans don't even know the guitarist and the drummer changed as much as they have so I think it's feasible to change everyone but sales wont ever be the same even if the music is.
I don't know how many years they really have in them but my daughter has said she'll go an see them even it Gene and Paul weren't there. She'll grow out of that I'm sure but if it's all the new fans have I think they will embrace it for a little while.
Interesting enough in this country we've had three cover bands who not just make a living out of being a cover band but been able to make it on their own for more than 20 years. An ABBA cover band, a Led Zep cover band and a Kiss cover band, all have done overseas tours as well as regualr local shows and all have been endorsed by the original bands. It's a lucrative market in many countries, I'm surprised Gene hasn't already marketed the idea.
I don't know how many years they really have in them but my daughter has said she'll go an see them even it Gene and Paul weren't there. She'll grow out of that I'm sure but if it's all the new fans have I think they will embrace it for a little while.
Interesting enough in this country we've had three cover bands who not just make a living out of being a cover band but been able to make it on their own for more than 20 years. An ABBA cover band, a Led Zep cover band and a Kiss cover band, all have done overseas tours as well as regualr local shows and all have been endorsed by the original bands. It's a lucrative market in many countries, I'm surprised Gene hasn't already marketed the idea.
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My cus plays everything. He started out playing guitar in a hard rock band. Then had several of his own bands playing anything from 60's psychedelic to rock. Then he played as one of the backing musicians in the ABBA cover band, then he played with a local guy who just toured schools playing top 40 stuff. Now days he pulling 4 gigs a week playing anything he can from Beatles to Irish music, to jazz, to blues, whatever the venues want. He's one of those people who can play pretty much any instrument put in front of him and his collection of instruments is huge.
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Yeah he was obviously a big score for Oz in his early years and despite the drug state of both of them Ozzy and Sharon really did take him into the family. He was a good guitar play without Ozzy but whether he'd have gotten the recognition he did without him it's impossible to say.
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