Kiss have opened their concerts with a speaker shouting that line out loud for ages: “You wanted the best, you got the best: The hottest band in the world – Kiss!”

Enter the Expectations society and Generation In-Charge, now it’s not a speaker line, it’s the real thing. If you want the best, you will get the best. Thousands and thousands of Americans know this, having routed Kiss’ North American 2009 Tour by demanding that the band play their local venues.

Never late to adopt new business models, at the beginning of the year, Kiss made the fans their tour managers, announcing that the band will go where enough fans want them to go. And Generation In-Charge acted, by voting, voting, and recruiting fellow voters with widgets. Next step – pre-sale tickets. That is, instead of the old model where tickets are suddenly made known and available to the public soon before the concert, aspiring concert-goers can – of course – line up long before the schedule is set. Fuelled by the alluring almost and the golden expectations, tickets can never be more valuable than before the concert dates and venues are even set!

My guess is, the tour won’t stop in North America: More than 10,000 locations across the globe have already been demanded.

Just another Kiss stunt? Or a new, Expectations society standard for the music industry? Check out eventful.com…

I wanna wear a shirt like Paul’s..: