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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So actually Jews, I think, have a better idea than Roman Catholics, which is... You have an open casket so everybody can really be miserable and see how awful it is. And in Judaism, you must cover the body immediately and bury it within 24 hours. But don't you sit shiver? You do. But you don't have a corpse looking at you.
No, you're not allowed. That's just for the family. Because if you're Bedouins and you come from the desert, anything is fair game for predators. So you had to bury it. Immediately. Yeah, because they could smell it and all that.
Well, that was probably not the place because all the chicks who were lifted and separated and pointed in my general direction probably were only interested in what room after the show.
It was rare. For real? Yeah. Well, they were not the highest form, but you can't have the stuff and the stuff. Shannon's got it. Yes, she does. Well...
So that's funny because she told me to fuck off right away.
Yeah, but there's a backstory that's very bizarre. Accidentally, I started living with Cher. And she... It's funny, at a certain age, the kids don't know the famous fleeting. And... So two years or whatever on, I had to move back to New York. We lived in Malibu at her place. And I had to go buy a Christmas present. I go, I don't know what to buy you. You have everything.
She said, go and call my best friend, Diana Ross. She'll tell you. She'll take you shopping. OK. Well, it didn't take long. And Diana gave me chocolate cake and then a second slice. And then we started a thing and they stopped being friends for a while. And then, you know, Kiss was touring and all that. And then I was shooting a film. I was a bad guy in a movie called Runaway.
I watched that movie. Well, Michael Crichton wrote it.
That's ahead of its time. Those things are now pretty commonplace. They go ahead of the cars and they short circuit the cars they're chasing so that they stop going.
You're very kind. So during a weekend, I'd be bringing chicks up to Vancouver where we shot. And one of them said, you know, I miss October or something. There's going to be a Playboy party at the mansion called Midsummer Night's Dream. I go there and I get, I'm going to shortcut the story. I get introduced to Shannon and Tracy Tweed, who both appeared on Playboy.
And Shannon's been on, she was a Playmate of the Year at that time. And so I met them, and my silk pajamas, you could tell what religion I was in. You understand?
And otherwise, we would be the biggest, you know, because they cut half of it off. And that's why Jewish women cannot, cannot stay away from Jewish men. Anything with 20% off. So... That's interesting. So I am bewitched by this chick. She's six feet tall, blonde hair and all that stuff, but a farm girl.
She comes from a family of seven, and we're talking, talking, and she takes me by the hand and leads me into the main house. And just like in James Bond, you've got books and everything, and she presses a button, and it opens up, and we start going down the stairs. Underneath that, where there's like a pool table, only room for two or three people.
Normally, I would have mounted that before you spelled out my name. But I was fascinated by Shannon. You know, who are they? Where you come from? And all we did was talk. I didn't even kiss her or hold her hand or anything. Oh, really? That's really interesting. You know, we're just finding out about each other. She comes over and gives me her phone number. And I said, I'm gonna call you tomorrow.
And so I went back to the Beverly Hills Hotel and I always stay in single rooms, no suites, none of that stuff. It's interesting, if you're not Jewish, it's frugal. But if you're Jewish, yeah, cheap. But I never threw the money around, I still don't. And I'm sitting, the next day, early in the morning,
You know, the single rooms, the bed is here and the door is right there and the bathroom is right there. And you see this photo coming under the thing because previous to that, I kept calling the phone number. Hello. Hi, it's Gene Simmons. It's Shannon. No, it's not here. Oh, come on. She told me to call her. This is a phone number, you know, 9445. And let's put her on. She said to call her.
No, I don't know what you're talking about. And he hung up the phone. And I kept calling a few times. I go, holy fuck, what the hell? Couldn't figure it out. And I'm watching TV in front of me, and I see the photo being stuck under the table. What happened to your meeting, by the way?
So the photo comes underneath, and it's her Playmate of the Year photo. And on the back, it's clearly handwritten, well... I'm used to gentlemen, and a gentleman, if he gets a phone number of a woman who puts it, at least calls her. And I'm thinking to myself, what's she talking about? I called her a few times, never got through. And on the bottom, the last number was different.
It was four instead of five. I go, what the fuck? So I finally called her on the phone. You know, the phone number was four. Yeah. And she completely ignores everything and goes, yeah, whatever. So what are you going to do? You're going to come over or what? Yeah. In those days, I didn't drive. I had a guy who drove me around. I was 34. I didn't know how to drive. But if you...
And it's not even a joke. You were a New York kid. Yeah, what do you do in New York? You hop a cab or go to Subway. So I go back to New York, and I arrange for Shannon to be flown to New York to be with me. I lived on Fifth Avenue, and Diana lived one of her places a few blocks on Fifth Avenue, also a few blocks away. And I find out that...
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