Gene Simmons
speaker
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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Shannon is related in a familiar way by Diana, with Diana. In other words, Shannon is her sister-in-law because unbeknownst to me, Diana's brother, Chico, was secretly married to Shannon's sister, Tracy. What? What are the chances?
Holy crap. That is insane.
I like a lot of new bands, but it saddens my heart. They will never have the chance that we did because there's no music industry. The fans killed it. They allowed... the industry to die, the thing that they love the most. So you can download and file share and do all that stuff for nothing. So new bands don't have a chance, except Nick and Sophie are both very successful.
Sophie's written songs for Train and Rick Ross, you know, rock band, everything. And yeah, she has billboards. Here, put up Sophie Simmons billboards. It's around the world. She's a big deal. See up on top? You went too fast. One back. There you go. Yeah. Wow. See Amortage? That's currently the number one record in Asia. Sophie wrote that. Amazing.
Never asked my opinion. Nothing. It's very pop, sort of Rihanna kind of thing. She's beautiful. Like Chaperone. Never asked my opinion. She writes every day. She releases songs, produces, manages, does the whole thing. And Nick. has got his own band called Sim Fera, S-Y-M-F-E-R-A. And their music is on Ozark and Prodigal Son and everything. And I have nothing to do with it. There we go.
And you should, just for a second, put up Evan Stanley. Is that Paul Stanley's son? Yes. All of a sudden, they're making a record together. Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons. Oh, really? Yeah.
Well, sure. They came out on the road. Can you play just a heartbeat of Sounds of Silence?
Yeah, play that. I want to hear that. Evan went to Nick's house and just whipped out an acoustic guitar. They were always pals. They have their own music. And you'll hear it. It's unbelievable. Hello, Dr. Smiles.
Wow. There's such a thing called chemistry, and you don't know what that means until you hear it.
It beat Cleopatra on channel seven, ABC with Elizabeth Taylor. Wow. Yeah.
$1,000.
She's holding on to that.
Oh, not even. Hundreds and hundreds of one penny. Yeah. And the big secret is licensing and merchandising. is a financial source that other bands didn't have. Yeah. You can't get a Bruce Springsteen comic book or a Radiohead anything.
Neil Bogart... got a record deal, distribution deal with Warner Brothers. So he wanted to, he had Kama Sutra records and... Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy. 1910 Fruit Gum Company, Gladys Knight, The Pips, and Curtis Mayfield, you know, not rock. And he wanted to start a new company and eventually settled on Casablanca, after he wanted to call it Emerald City.
And he asked me what I thought of it. And I'm going, sounds like a disco... Label, I don't like that. So he started Casablanca Records. A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a, you know, Casablanca. So he signed us. We didn't write hit singles. We didn't look like anybody and everything. And we started to make noise. But he made all his money as the king of disco.
Donna Summer and the Village People and Parliament Funkadelic and just all these bands, which he started the EP called Love to love you, baby. The Donna Summer song. He said this one disc jockey locked himself away for 24 hours and played that song over and over again. So he called Giorgio Moroder in Germany. Producer says, I need to make this song longer because people are making love to it.
They're fucking.
And so he made it longer, and they put out the first EP, a slightly smaller version of an album with just that one song with an extended middle, you know, like that. Yeah. And the girls also went like that. See, that was a joke.
Different time. And now there's... Look, I've done this before to a few people. So from 1988, I beg your pardon, from 1958 until 1988 is 30 years. During that time, you had Elvis, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, you name it. In disco, you had Donna Summer. With the heavy bands, you had Metallica, ACDC, maybe us, Aerosmith, on and on and on and on.
Motown, Bowie, Prince, you name it, they all came out in that 30-year period. From 1988 until today, it's almost 40 years, where's the Beatles? Where's anything? And it bears noting that in 1988, Napster is where it started. And people never got... The analogy is... If you're a supermarket and you're selling, let's say, fruits and vegetables, you have this much and it costs five bucks.
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