Skip to Content
Home arrow Musical Instruments Blog arrow FREE Autographed KISS Legends of Rock Guitar - What would Gene Simmons Do?
FREE Autographed KISS Legends of Rock Guitar - What would Gene Simmons Do?

kiss10small.jpg It was a day like so many others around here — endless phone calls, a flurry of incoming musical instruments, and of course, the occasional break to jam with some of our favorite gear.

About mid-afternoon we received our daily shipment of new inventory. Among the violins, flutes amplifiers were the standard dozen or so guitars we get each day. As we started opening boxes we made an amazing discovery. One of the guitars was an official KISS Legends of Rock game controller and it was SIGNED by all four current members of the band.

 

Our first thought was that one of our vendors was a little late in getting their April Fool's day joke to us. However after more carefully inspecting the contents of the package we discovered that the box was addressed to another business over two miles away from us and that it was, in fact, authentic.

kiss2_small.jpg

We were mistakenly sent a contest winning KISS AG RiffMaster Game Controller, signed by all four KISS members. But, being the good-hearted, honest people that we are, we gave it to its rightful owner instead of selling it on ebay. :~>

However we couldn't resist taking a few pictures of this one of a kind game controller and we have posted them here to share.

Art Guitar(AG) , a custom electric guitar manufacturer, created the AG RiffMaster Guitar Hero, which merges the body of a real electric guitar with the components of the plastic Guitar Hero controller. Their goal was to further entrench Guitar Hero gammers into the fantasy that they are true Rockstars. It doesn't really matter if you're only slamming bright, primary colored plastic buttons instead of real chords.--you look legit and you FEEL like a Rockstar.

 kiss8_small.jpg

Art Guitar currently offers 17 artistic variation for the RiffMaster, licensed by rock bands including Ozzy Osborne, Lynard Skynyrd, Pantera, Megadeth, and KISS. If you're willing to drop the $400 for the controller, you may be one step closer to becoming the coolest Guitar Hero kid on the block. If you want to spend $400 on a real guitar, we may be able to help you out with that one.

KISS is currently in Europe on their KISS ALIVE / 35 World Tour. Their four current members are Paul Stanley (rhythm guitar, lead vocals), Gene Simmons (bass guitar, lead vocals), Tommy Thayer (lead guitar), and Eric Singer (drums, vocals) are still going strong. And, after more than 30 years of rocking, KISS is still going strong with their trademarked face paint, costumes and elaborate live performances.

The guitar has been returned to it's rightful owner. Hopefully they are using it to rock and roll all night right from home.

kiss3_small.jpg

kiss1_small.jpg

kiss14_small.jpg

Please bookmark this article and tell your friends:
Comments
Add New
joe gargiola  - Great Work 2K4S   |04-08-2008 16:03:10
Its not every day that the story of an honest merchant is heard! Im sure the
lucky owner appreciates the effort!
Matt  - Admirable!   |04-08-2008 16:11:02
It's good to know that there are still a few honest people out there.
Aaron - The guy with the guita  - Thanks for returning it   |04-22-2008 16:11:19
I have to add a big thank you to this thread - I won the guitar and am very
happy that they returned it to me. Thanks guys.

Best
Aaron
Brad Weinholtz  - You are 2Kool4Skool   |05-07-2008 20:07:53
Your story on the KISS autographed guitar controller is absoulutely amazing. I
bet the contest winner could not believe it when you people returned the item to
them. Moreover, the free advertising you are doing for AG is very cool. Most
companies would of just told the UPS man to pick it up and take it away. For
there that super special AG controller could of been lost forever. It would of
probably shown up on ebAY or Craigslist years later. I think you should tell
your story to the LA TIMES. I bet they would really dig it.

Kiss Rocks and
so do you people.
Aaron  - AG Riffmaster for sale...   |07-01-2008 14:28:10
Hi All,

The guitar you have pictured is now for sale on ebay. My wife and I
are buying a house and the funds will help with the down payment. You can find
it here:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KISS-Autographed-Peave
y-Guitar-signed-by-all-members_W0QQitemZ1602567685
33QQihZ006QQcategoryZ434QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem
Write comment
Name:
Email:
 
Title:
UBBCode:
[b] [i] [u] [url] [quote] [code] [img] 
 
Please input the anti-spam code that you can read in the image.