Gene Simmons

And if you take like a house of cards, if you take any one of those, it's just one card, maybe all of it comes down. Interesting. It's so interesting to think about. I get paid a lot of money for this kind of stuff.

I was always aware that character was not the right thing. It's persona. Persona not alter ego or alter egos and by the way I know people get so upset when I keep bringing up the juice stuff But the idea of the alter ego was created by them also, okay all the superheroes Superman yes Batman the Hulk fantastic that were all created by Jews Who dress British think Yiddish?

I was always aware that character was not the right thing. It's persona. Persona not alter ego or alter egos and by the way I know people get so upset when I keep bringing up the juice stuff But the idea of the alter ego was created by them also, okay all the superheroes Superman yes Batman the Hulk fantastic that were all created by Jews Who dress British think Yiddish?

the idea of the weak man and and the secret super-man. Der Ubermensch And all created by disenfranchised people who never felt powerful. So the superhero was created by those guys who were never lifting weights, couldn't dribble a basketball, but they owned the teams.

the idea of the weak man and and the secret super-man. Der Ubermensch And all created by disenfranchised people who never felt powerful. So the superhero was created by those guys who were never lifting weights, couldn't dribble a basketball, but they owned the teams.

No, it happened very quickly, and you react to market. The smart people react to the market. And immediately, we didn't think about it, but fans started to make homegrown T-shirts. Oh, they want T-shirts. Let's make T-shirts. And they wanted... We were aware that if you were a... I don't know, a Joe Cocker fan or somebody, you didn't necessarily want to look like Joe Cocker.

No, it happened very quickly, and you react to market. The smart people react to the market. And immediately, we didn't think about it, but fans started to make homegrown T-shirts. Oh, they want T-shirts. Let's make T-shirts. And they wanted... We were aware that if you were a... I don't know, a Joe Cocker fan or somebody, you didn't necessarily want to look like Joe Cocker.

and chose a fantastic artist. It was music. And somehow we didn't plan it. We want to be unique and all that's true, but we didn't quite understand the cultural significance of the idea that you may not be able to be in Kiss, but you can feel like it,

and chose a fantastic artist. It was music. And somehow we didn't plan it. We want to be unique and all that's true, but we didn't quite understand the cultural significance of the idea that you may not be able to be in Kiss, but you can feel like it,

How many more tennis rackets did we sell because people bought those and put on Kiss makeup and pretended when they were 13 that they were in a band? Because just as soon as you, and I'll show you photos of, Lenny Kravitz, when he was 13, like all down on these people going, what did I do? He was kicked out of school for at 13 coming to school dressed like that. That's interesting.

How many more tennis rackets did we sell because people bought those and put on Kiss makeup and pretended when they were 13 that they were in a band? Because just as soon as you, and I'll show you photos of, Lenny Kravitz, when he was 13, like all down on these people going, what did I do? He was kicked out of school for at 13 coming to school dressed like that. That's interesting.

But you wouldn't be kicked out of school for coming to school dressed like George Harrison. Right, right. Yeah. But that's not cool. No, it is cool, but it doesn't. There's nothing negative I can say about the Beatles, but market research. Market research is a strange thing. It makes assessments based on the way things actually are. So Mount Rushmore, you've heard of it.

But you wouldn't be kicked out of school for coming to school dressed like George Harrison. Right, right. Yeah. But that's not cool. No, it is cool, but it doesn't. There's nothing negative I can say about the Beatles, but market research. Market research is a strange thing. It makes assessments based on the way things actually are. So Mount Rushmore, you've heard of it.

Could you tell me who the four faces are? I've been there. Yeah, you've been there and you still don't know. Washington, yeah. It bears noting that market research says The four Kiss faces are more well-known on the entire planet than Mount Rushmore. That's great.

Could you tell me who the four faces are? I've been there. Yeah, you've been there and you still don't know. Washington, yeah. It bears noting that market research says The four Kiss faces are more well-known on the entire planet than Mount Rushmore. That's great.

You can go to Africa, and as soon as they see one of the four faces, they say, it's Kiss.

You can go to Africa, and as soon as they see one of the four faces, they say, it's Kiss.

If you show them one of Mount Rushmore's faces, they wouldn't know what it was. Yeah, yeah. That's astonishing, isn't it?

If you show them one of Mount Rushmore's faces, they wouldn't know what it was. Yeah, yeah. That's astonishing, isn't it?

I was a regular, normal guy with regular appetites and nothing out of the ordinary, and never veered towards self-destructive behavior, never.