Gene Simmons blames college kids

[Gobias Industries]

!!!!!!!!!!

[napoleon]

i blame gene simmons for the death of the music biz.

[EL the Famous]

gene simmons is 'the system'.

[rwrkb]

i blame Rick Roll

[jc4prez]

gene simmons is 'the system'.

 

 

sure is, I doubt he'll deny it.

[EL the Famous]

nobody in sigur ros can spit blood and breathe fire either...so fuck them.

[jc4prez]

nobody in sigur ros can spit blood and breathe fire either...so fuck them.

 

 

nor do they talk to terri gross like this

 

http://erim.net/misc/GeneSimmons_TerryGross.mp3

 

classic

[Beltmann]

I thought everybody knew Pseudo Echo was to blame.

[Good Old Neon]

I'm going to go right ahead and take the liberty of blaming Mr. Simmons' hairpiece.

[Analogman]

I have been listening to KISS since 1976.

 

From what I have read, he was in a pretty bad financial state in the 1980s.

 

Gene comes from a different time. His band, like Rush, was a band of the people - and the people bought records.

 

With the advent of more affordable tape recording (cassettes), some people of course taped records from friends - but I would think the numbers were certainly not as big as the number of people who snag music online.

 

At the end of the day, it is stealing. I know that.

 

People seem to either hate him or admire him.

 

I think you also have to know that what he does best - is sell things. So - he does whatever he does to make people notice him and/or hear his views.

[Lammycat]

Looks like Gene pretty much nailed it. It's nice to see him come out of his shell a bit, too, and pat himself on the back for once.

[mountain bed]

I think you also have to know that what he does best - is sell things. So - he does whatever he does to make people notice him and/or hear his views.

That sums it up. He's first and foremost a businessman. When KISS first began making records ('73) it was precisely the same time that RXR began to move away from being perceived as an 'anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian' thing into a very lucrative entertainment enterprise.

 

I don't really have a problem with this, and I loved KISS back then - I owned all the first 5-6 records when they came out. But something definitely changed around that time. Gene's just one of the more obvious examples of Rock becoming a business.

[tugmoose]

Why do people still interview this guy? Guess it's an easy story, and there ain't nothing a journalist loves more than an easy story. "Scarlett Johansson wants to have sex with me right now? Sorry, I'm working on an easy story."

[jhh4321]

What an idiot.

I dont like KISS at all but have always gotten a good laugh out of Gene, most of the time laughing with him.

I appreciate him inadvertently explaining the concept of supply and demand with his wonderfully flawed gold analogy though.

[froggie]

can someone sendspace me that " i was made for loving you" song?

[mountain bed]

can someone sendspace me that " i was made for loving you" song?

No.

[froggie]

good!

[augurus]

That doesn't count. You can't pick on one person as an exception. And that's not a business model that works.

 

I love the elegant logic of Gene Simmons. I mean, he can somehow jump from one conclusion to another, and make statements opposite of their nature. What an observant man for taking note of these anomallies and consciously denying their existence. It's sort of like saying the Holocaust never occurred. I know Spiderman agrees with me.

 

[IRememberDBoon]

It's nice to see him come out of his shell a bit, too, and pat himself on the back for once.