Fact: KISS's first Tourbook (featuring photos from the ALIVE! tour). This had 24 pages and came in 2 variants (a US & European Tour version). Featured a mailing card to join the KISS Army and is quite expensive in mint conditon.
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Fact: Used for the DESTROYER/ROCK'N'ROLL OVER tours, this oversized tourbook had 16 pages. Apparently there are 2 versions as Paul got a little "thingy" about his pics and had them replaced in the reprint. Rock stars, huh! (Included an iron-on transfer!)
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Fact: This 40-page Japanese tourbook from the ROCK'N'ROLL OVER tour is quite collectible. Featured great pics of the band and (unless you paid attention in Japanese class at school) unreadable text!
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Fact: Great 20-page tourbook from the LOVE GUN/ALIVE world tours. Released at KISS's 70s high point this is probably the most seen of the Seventies tourbooks.
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Fact: Extremely beautiful 40-page tourbook from the Japan tour. Again, all text is in Japanese but the pictures are amazing. Extremely collectible and worth paying the extra dollar (or yen) for.
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Fact: The holy grail of KISS collecting. Version 1 was sold on the first dates of the 1979 Tour before being replaced.. Most likely would sell in excess of $1000! Version 2 of this 20 page book had a few variants of it's own, with different advertisements appearing in different books.
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Fact: Four different versions exist: A European Tour version. A UK version with 1978 movie promo, a German version with the edited KIZZ logo and the Aussie Tour version with different ads and more pages!
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Fact: Hard to find as KISS's popularity in 1982 (especially in the US) was waning with poor attendance greeting the band (now with Vinnie Vincent replacing Ace). Great photos inside including all 6 members of the group from their 10 year history including some great pics of the new (soon to be unmasked) line-up!
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Fact: KISS's first tour without make-up came in 2 versions. A European version which rehashed the '10th Anniversary' design and a US one with a photo of the band.
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Fact: Again 2 versions. One with the short-lived Mark St.John and another with Bruce Kulick's photos replacing them (except for, ironically, a close-up of Mark's hand). Done so slickly and professionally that, almost like Mark's time with band, you'd never know he even existed in KISS!
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Fact: This 28 page tourbook from their 1985-86 tour is actually quite funny to see. Filled with pictures of KISS in their most embarrasingly "glam rock-meets-Van Halen" costumes and featuring Gene doing his level best to look like a drag queen.
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Fact: KISS's hugest tourbook to date featured plenty of great KISS Exposed "draped-with-girls" style shoots and long interviews with each band member. Bigger than an A3 sheet of paper!
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Fact: A 24 page from KISS's tour of Japan. Gene had started to look cool again, dresed in leather and this hard-to-find tourbook featured many great pics from the era!
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Fact: Just as big as The Crazy Night tourbook this would feature pics of Leon the Giant Sphinx and their laser show. Unfortunately this would also be Eric Carr's final tour with KISS and in retrospect makes a nice tribute to the man.
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Fact: A hard-to-find KISS tourbook due to the tour not lasting that long. This oversized book would be the first to feature the blond-haired Eric Singer on the cover and also mark the first time the KISS logo was not featured on a tourbook. Looks very cool as do (finally!) the band!
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Fact: This 24-page book was used for KISS's tours of Australia and Japan. These feature the same line-up and the REVENGE tourbook. Features the band in all it's post-Grunge glory.
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Fact: This 36-page half-sized tourbook was sold on the KISS Convention tours of Australia & US where the band would also appear for the first time Unplugged. Featured many photos of the costumes, Memorabilia on sale at the events.
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Fact: About four versions from the reunion tour exist (including a silver cover variant). This featured glorious photos of the band and it's members from all new shoots. The earlier versions had more retrospective shots and the newer had more pics from the tour itself.
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Fact: For a band that's motto is Keep It Simple Stupid, another 2 versions exist! A Dodger Stadium show Halloween versions and the more common world tour version with more live shots and an extra 4 pages added from the afore-mentioned gig.
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Fact: A monster of a tourbook at 68 pages features a retrospective look at the band, every gig ever played listed in this tourbook that was to be KISS 's last ever tour (yeah, right Gene!) The cover featured a die-cut KISS logo. A Japanese/Australian variant exists with Eric Singer's page inserted when he temporarily replaced Peter Criss for this leg of the tour.
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Fact: On sale at the KISS gig with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, 28th February 2003. This would feature the return of Peter Criss to the fold and the arrival of Tommy Thayer replacing the now solo Ace Frehley! The book also contained a quick history of the band's vists Downunder!
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Fact: Issued for the band's 4 Japan shows. Features plenty of good pics, a history of the band and all text in English!
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Fact: From the Aerosmith/KISS Tour that would mark Peter Criss's final appearances with KISS before his contract was not renewed. I assume using the title of "World Domination" for a US-only tour is the band's scathing dig at US Foreign policy? Eh? OK, maybe not.
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Fact: The first tourbook to feature 'new-KISS' in all their "actually-playing-the-songs-quite-well-now" glory. With Tommy and Eric in the band together for the first time, this tour book again featured extensive cool new studio and live shots of the band.
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Fact: Big new tourbook for the 2008 World Tour. Their first foray back to Europe in some years.
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Fact: One-off event program of the Cobo Arena gig.
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Fact: The new tourbook from the US Tour released to coincide with the SONIC BOOM album.
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Fact: All new tourbook for the European leg of the SONIC BOOM tour
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Fact: All new tourbook for the US leg of the SONIC BOOM tour. Featured the same image as the last two books. Disappeared very quickly making this slightly rare.
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