Gene Simmons
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1,552 appearances
6 recordings
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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6'8".
But he's a much nicer person.
Oh, yeah.
No, it's all Shannon. The heartbeat, the moral compass, our mothers.
You want to hear something crazy? Please. So... We start, it's kind of crazy.
So we started about, anyway, the first show, we came out, as it were, New Year's Eve, 1973, 74, the Academy of Music, New York City. Within one year and a half, within a year and a half, even before we were signed, we were headlining Anaheim Stadium.
On top of bands that had been around for 20 years and all that. A year and a half. Now, by the way, this is before cell phones, before MTV. You still had to put coins. I think at that point it was 10 cents and with a rotary thing. And you should see modern day kids trying to figure out what that is. I know. They're pressing and all that stuff.
How did you do what?
No, no, there is such a thing. We didn't know what the word marketing meant. If you have the right thing, even though you think it's for that, and you're at the right place and the right time, your chances are much higher. So we happen to be this idea of putting on makeup with the things and looking different. Mm-hmm. Than what everybody else is.
And for no reason in the world, sticking my tongue out, I have no idea what I was doing. Except that in sixth or seventh grade, I used to do that because the chicks, you know, would make that sound that turkeys make when they're about to get their heads chopped off.
But I didn't know when I stuck my tongue out. You want me to put what? Where? I didn't know that.
And I had to be careful when I stuck my tongue out because not all the floors were clean. Did you get that one? Yes. Yes. Some were dirty. And... That was a great laugh. So... Nobody can lay claim to it. We just happen to find each other. And in retrospect, it's fair to say not every person is designed to run a marathon.
So the two original guys, Ace and Peter, were great in the beginning, but it didn't last long. You know, once... In the beginning, there was no drugs and alcohol, maybe outside the band. But once they got money and the money came in fast, we used to put in order forms in the albums. So you can put $5, $10, $20 before the post office became, you know, a crook haven.
And night and day, we would open these envelopes for T-shirts, belts. We had four envelopes. warehouses operating 24 hours a day in the valley in 1976, fulfilling orders. Nobody's ever done that before, during, or since. No. Well, during, we did. And in 1979, 20th Century Fox's... Top two licensing and merchandising things were Star Wars and Kiss.
Yeah. I'm rich.
At 7-Eleven, they had Slurpee Kiss cups.
We were going to do a Kiss Barbie. We had Kiss. You kissed dolls.
Action figures, please.
There have been more items. Here comes the joke. This is true. We have had kiss condoms, kiss caskets. We got you coming and we got you going. But it's true. Dimebag Darrell, the guitar player in Pantera, passed away on stage. Some idiot, a psycho, shot him on stage while they were doing a show. And his last will and testament was to be buried in a kiss casket. Wow. Yeah, we sent it to him. Yeah.
That's crazy. Are you going to be buried in a kiss casket? I don't think I'll know. But you know what I'd like to do is to have the biggest party in the world invite everybody just to have a party and forget about the problems of the world. And if you want to talk about me, celebrate my life, not my death. We're all going to have a turn.
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