Gene Simmons
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1,552 appearances
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6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 10 Dec
Gene Simmons’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you take a look at the most powerful people in history, good and bad, they weren't super tall. They were usually pretty short guys.
Some illogical belief in themselves.
Whether it's Caesar or Hitler or Napoleon, they have no right to have this, you know, and Some of them were real bad guys. Small people with, but on the inside, giants. Giant bad guys and giant good guys.
are above and beyond anything that anybody's seen in music over 200 years easily, not since the Renaissance, which is how you say it, not the Renaissance. You have to understand they only existed seven years And they came from a place that was a pool filled with liver, liver pool, where nothing ever happened, high unemployment rate, no experience, no resume.
know nothing and yet uh i wanna hold your hand um what she loves you yeah yeah yeah and that last chord that minor ninth is as sophisticated a chord if you know about music yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah That thing is almost like a jazz chord, unheard of in rock music. And okay, look, I'm going to give you something you'll be able to understand. Satisfaction is one of the great songs.
It takes about 40 minutes, 40 seconds to get to the first thing. I can't get no satisfaction. Yeah. Yeah. or anything. Sunshine of your love. I did it backwards. It's a It takes about 50 seconds to get I've been waiting so long and all that. On and on and on. The Beatles. I just wrote a new song. What is it called? It's called Help. How does it go? It goes like this. Help! I need somebody, help!
Not even an introduction, nothing. Got another one for you. What is it called? It's called Yesterday. How does it go? It goes like this. Yesterday, God... Got another one. It's called Michelle. How's it go? Got another one for you. It's called Hey Jude. Not only does it begin with Hey Jude, the word Hey... It's before the music. Before the music. Hey Jude. And then the chords come in.
Those are what's called perfect songs. Not only that, but... The title of the song is the first word of the song. It's the most memorable song. And it's the last word in the song. Yesterday. The last song. Because I believe in yesterday. Who writes songs like that? It's undeniable they're writing them. McCartney, especially, by far is the most successful songwriter in all of recorded history.
There have been over a thousand different artists who've recorded just yesterday. Did you get to spend some time with them? With Ringo. What was that like? Well, there are two stories. In the Cher days, she used to have these disco roller skating parties where all the celebrities would go. And I didn't care. I mean, I appreciate you're lucky to be a celebrity. But oh, my God, it's Ursula Andress.
I didn't care. I don't mean to be dismissive. It's just, oh, there's that person from that commercial TV show. And I'm sitting, because I didn't, you know, Jews on roller skates is hilarious. So I didn't. I just sat on the sidelines watching them, sat on top of the bowling, anyway, on the side with my legs going like this.
And as everybody's roller skating, and then I saw two teenagers coming towards me. So I got up, because one of them's wearing a Kiss T-shirt with rhinestones. They're about 15. And they came up, and one's got a, I'm a big fave, you know, speak with an English accent. Oh, it's okay, sure. Doing an autograph. And then I look up, and in back of them, Ringo Starr starts coming towards them.
And I'm, you know.
But the Beatles, I couldn't shine their shoes. So Ringo comes up, puts his hand, puts his arms around them, and he says, I hope me boys aren't thinking. Ringo's sons are asking me for an autograph. Wow. I had to slap their little putz faces and say, how dare you talk to me? Your father's a Beatle. It happened again. We were playing.
Oh, one other time, we were having a party up in the Hollywood Hills, and Ringo had a L.A. manager at that time, a guy named Eric Gardner. And Shannon, my wifey and I, and I was eating salads. I hate salads. And I'm eating salads, and Ringo's coming up to say hello. And he sent me a birthday. He said, oh, happy birthday, Gene. If you can't tell me, you can't say how much that means to me.
And I'm eating. So I give her the thing. And he comes up to me. And I'm much bigger than he is. So I didn't know what to do. So I picked him up. And his feet are dank. Ringo's about 5'6", 5'7", I don't know, or maybe 5'. I'm 6'2". So I picked him up, you know, because I wanted to hold him. I don't know what else to do. I didn't want to shake his hand. And I'm smiling.
I didn't even remember what I'm talking. And he said, would you put me down? So I put him down, and he walked off. All right. And I'm smiling, looking at Shannon. She goes, you got Godzilla-sized.
Like a big thing sticking out. And I'm like, his face is right here. And... Yeah, just get over yourself, no matter who you are. If you're the Pope, I know you got to poop just like I do. I don't have that hierarchy thing. So I've met everybody from His Holiness to Dalai Lama to Presidents Clinton and Bush and everything. And they've achieved greatness in their field, but we all fart.
If you become famous, not always, but by and large, makes a good living. The rest is how you can handle it or not. Because there are, I would say, lots of famous people, rappers, a lot of rappers, who surround themselves with yes men and yes women. a posse so that, and I admire rap, don't misunderstand, so that when you go someplace, you have that cushion of support.
It says publicly, I am somebody.
Whereas if you didn't have the fame, they wouldn't hang out. They're parasites and vampires. They're only around you because you have money and fame and they get free booze and free chicks and free all that stuff. They're using you. You're using them also to say, look, I'm somebody.
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