just finished listening to an interview with gene simmons by terri gross on fresh air. my god, he has to be one of the biggest dicks i’ve ever heard. i can’t even begin to describe some of the shit he said. he was totally demeaning to her throughout the interview, and several times she just had to stop and tell him that he was offensive. eventually she just ended up asking him about his make-up because he was being such an ass.
anyone else hear this?
didn’t hear it, but i’m not surprised. he’s probably as big a dick as he looks.
I’d be a dick too if I were banging Shannon Tweed.
i thought i was going to see a fatty
i actually heard that a couple years ago.
my favorite part is when she asks “what’s with the codpeice?”
and he answers “behind this codpeice is real life, babe. you couldn’t handle it.”
or something like that.
i do love KISS though ; )
Yeah, I’ve heard him do local interviews and he’s definitely a cocky bastard. The worst is when he describes his TV shows which no one watches and brags about how great his kids are…it’s quite annoying. Gene sucks and so does Kiss…I don’t know if there’s any band that has made as much money with as little musical talent as they have.
Stevo
oh come on!
Love Gun?
Christine Sixteen?
Lick it Up?
Hotter Than Hell?
Flaming Youth?
Calling Doctor Love?
I Love it Loud?
these are songs of subtle nuance and inneundo! these guys ARE rock n roll!
KISS ARMY FOREVER!
BTW…
“Having sex with Gene Simmons is like having sex with God, but better; because it’s sex with Gene Simmons.”
~Gene Simmons
Yeah, I heard this about 3 or 4 yrs ago… My thoughts exactly… What an ASSHOLE!
Here’s a more recent article about/interview with Gene. He does seem like an asshole to me, but I still kind of agree with a lot of what he says. Anyway, this isn’t the article we’re discussing, but this was just published in the paper that I work for, so I figured it applied well to this thread.
Simmons surprisingly normal
Heather Adler, CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
If you ask KISS bassist Gene Simmons, the world should be run by women in a model similar to ant colonies, marriage should seen as an unworkable farce, society should censor violence, not sex, and everyone should work seven days a week. The man who has made his living belching fire, spitting blood and wagging his disproportionately long tongue at the world has an unconventional life with an unconventional world view to match. So it’s shocking to discover that his home life is completely and utterly normal.
Simmons introduced his family – Playmate wife Shannon Tweed, 50, son Nick, 18, and daughter Sophie, 15 – to the world on reality TV show Gene Simmons Family Jewels, now entering its third season. Unlike fellow hard-rockers the Osbournes, the Simmons are a group of well-adjusted, intelligent and, as Simmons points out, “extremely good looking,” individuals. His ridiculously articulate and creative kids do well in school (Nick has a 4.3 GPA, which is actually better than perfect due to extra-credit honours courses, while Sophie holds her own at 3.5) and they seem to have a firmer grasp on reality than most.
“[My life] is not normal,” Simmons boasts, his voice puffed up with trademark arrogance. “What I do and have done for decades is stick my prodigious oral member out … hump my guitar and spit blood. And Shannon was, if you judge the book by the cover, the playmate of the year, on the cover of Playboy many, many times, and we’ve never been married. How is that normal?”
Font: ****Simmons says he’s bucked convention because he sees the result of common life and its rules as being “devastatingly horrible,” qualifying his morals with the notion that most men don’t even like their wives.
Simmons, however, loves being with his partner in crime, the surprisingly hilarious and devious Tweed.
What I tell Sophie, when we talk about life in general is, ‘I hope you grow up to be Sophie and not the girlfriend of some guy,’ " he explains. “Women have to stop defining themselves by men. You take the guy’s last name. Every women’s magazine says ‘The 10 things he’s interested in,’ ‘What is he thinking?’ ‘Where is this going?’ ‘Do I have my mother’s hips?’ and every one of those articles weakens you.”
Wait. It’s starting to sound like the demon himself is actually a feminist. Could the man made famous by throwing up blood, attracting throngs of groupies and dressing like the devil be all for progressive social change for females?
“Absolutely,” Simmons asserts, before trailing off into a slightly twisted view of what he thinks would make a utopian world. “I believe that every single country by dictum should be ruled by women – but just at the high end. The pragmatic, everyday things should be by men because you women refuse to roll up your sleeves and build skyscrapers and pour concrete and pour the roads that we all drive on because your nails will break. That’s why the ant colonies have it right: there’s a queen and the rest are all male workers.”
Font: ****When pressed on the matter that his views could be considered a contradiction – that someone who has “used” so many women also considers himself a fem-liberation flag-waver – Simmons sticks to his guns. He says the only contradiction he sees is with “every married man who lies to the woman he’s with [by saying] that he wouldn’t trade places with me or Hugh Heffner.” And, according to Simmons, the whole point of existence comes down to fornication, anyway, so why dodge the issue with political correctness?
“Well, ultimately, everything comes down to sex,” he rationalizes.
“It’s the primal urge to merge. Everything we do, if Freud is correct, is sexual and is designed to attract the opposite, the female. Every action, every step you take, every fashion, ultimately has to do with ‘I want to be attractive to the male of the species,’ and everything we [men] do likewise goes to attracting you. Everything.”
“Why do men die younger than their wives? Because they want to,” Simmons deadpans. “They don’t want to be there. Whereas, I prefer to be with Shannon than with other people because I actually like her. The fact that she’s smoking hot is in addition to that [is nice].”
While the situations Simmons encounters on Gene Simmons Family Jewels are anything but ordinary – in one episode, he takes Sophie to a “Sexercise” audition, where he gets voluptuous girls to do aerobics in skimpy outfits, for “bring your daughter to work day” – the KISS brood remains remarkably well adjusted. Simmons explains he believes his clan might have different values, but, in his eyes, they just make more sense than societal norms.
“You know, I think [we should be] less sensitive to the idea of sex and embrace it as a thing that is natural and wonderful – and shield the eyes of our children to boxing or football or anything that’s violent,” he says. “It’s violence that should be censored – not sex. Nobody’s going 'ouch.”’
When it comes to his own daughter, the infamous womanizer (who claims to have slept with 4,600 women) says he hopes she’s wise enough to likewise ignore what mainstream culture tells her to be and becomes a woman who finds her own path.
That lying liar!
Shannon Tweed has only been on the cover of Playboy 3 times.
She’s been IN Playboy several times, of course.
So from now on, anytime I need to reference the number three, I’m going to substitute “many, many times.”
I like how Neil tried to post from Planet Climax.
It was up there for a short while.
Now it’s not.
Me sad.
No, AC/DC is rock and roll. And they knew how to play their instruments. Kiss can’t play instruments OR sing. I don’t really get what they do well other than have great stage setups. Go figure.
Stevo
well i was mostly kidding. but! i have seen Kiss and they do know how to play their songs, so i don’t know where you’re getting that they can’t play their instruments. i guess it would be pretty sad if you threw them into a room with Phish and said “okay, now jam”, but for what they were, they were good.
That’s kind of what I mean. Basically NONE of their songs require any amount of complicated playing of any of the instruments. A dude could play of those songs after a six-week practice course.
But don’t get me wrong…if you like them, then a live show would probably be great.
Stevo
it’s like the difference between seeing Citizen Kane and seeing like, Dumb and Dumber The Big Lebowski or something. both are great, just in very, very different ways.
that’s probably an awful comparison.
Gene Simmons is an ass!
Dumb and Dumber wasn’t great…at all…
But I see your point. Carry on…