Gene Simmons keeps busy beyond Kiss by touring solo

Guitarist John 5 amassed a trove of Kiss memorabilia. A lucky few can take the tour

In a Sears department store during the summer of 1977, rock guitarist John 5 first saw the album cover that would change his life. “My first one was ‘Love Gun,’” he says of the Kiss record display that stopped him on that shopping trip when he was 7. “I saw that – and because I loved monsters and I loved guitar – went, ‘Oh my God, what is this?’ “My mom bought me the record and that’s where it all happened,” says John 5, whose rock and roll care…

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