A look at the nature of inspiration, via Gene Simmons moving to the US at eight, discovering rock music, comics and movies, ...

This affordable bass looks great, doesn’t cost too much ... designed with input from Kiss bassist Gene Simmons (and with a custom engraved logo on the mirror-finished pickguard).

Billy Currington and Kip Moore, 7 p.m. Friday, June 27, at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre. $39.75-$89.75. Ryan Adams, 8 p.m.

(WTVO) — Gene Simmons, formerly of KISS ... So it’s a very exciting event,” Simmons told Bass Magazine. KISS held the final two concerts of its “End of the Road” tour in Madison Square ...

“It was my first concert. Prince was on the ‘Purple Rain’ tour and he had a string of shows at the St. Paul Civic Center right around Christmas,” he said. “It was absolutely life-changing.

His Kiss days were blighted with injuries, but none were as death-defying as one shocking night in Florida in ‘76 ...

Gibbons and former San Diego bass great Nathan East will not ... and former Kiss bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons (um, your call). The album’s first single, “Yes I Will,” due out Feb. 14 ...

Billy Strings has already sold out a three-night stand in St. Augustine, but you can still get tickets to see Diana Ross.

Sadie Bass and Chase Matthews ... Amos Lee, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the Florida Theatre. $49.50-$99.50. Gene Simmons Band, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, at the Florida Theatre.