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 that five bucks pays for the rent and the people that work there. It also pays for the trucks that bring the produce there. It also pays for the farmer and the people that work there and everything. Now imagine somebody can walk into the supermarket
put a penny down and walk out with the same amount of fruits and vegetables, how long would the farmer stay in business, the trucking company, and the supermarket? And that's what's happened to the record business because the fans aren't willing to pay for the music. And that's the saddest part because there's certainly as much talent today as there was back then, but there is no structure.
There's no business model that works.
Oh, Steely Dan. By the way, Jackson, who I know, not on that level. Nowhere close.
Chicks. No, the Eagles, yes, one of the top bands. selling bands of all time. Yeah, for sure.
Well, it ain't rock.
So the pop music stuff is exploding. Nobody's as good, as big as Taylor. I'm a Swifty. Would you mind bringing up Taylor Swift? 100 million albums worldwide. Button pushing guy? Can you bring up Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kiss, and play the video, please? What? Wait. You can forward about 10, 15 seconds.
This is where Taylor and the whole band come out dressed as Kiss.
Go to the bump. There we go.
Holy cow.
And it's going to get beyond anything we ever imagined, because Pop House, which bought the underlying rights, is spending... Just a lot of money and doing something that nobody's ever experienced before. I don't mean see. So imagine a caveman and you can speak the same language and you're telling the caveman what you're about to experience. Don't think you're going crazy.
It's not religious, but put these virtual reality glasses on and And all of a sudden, reality, as you know, it disappears. The ground is different. You're in space or you're in the mouth of a dinosaur or you're in a fire pit. And no matter where you look, you're in a different reality. Yeah. Now imagine that with no glasses. And imagine you can smell it and feel the heat.
Where is this going to happen? Within two years. Is this the Avatar show? Yes.
Oh, they won't know what hit them. It's beyond. And we've been trying to do this. We played at Dodger Stadium 2000. And it was the first 3D concert. Not all of it. You've got your glasses and at certain points you put them on. So if I spit fire, you'd see the fire coming out into the audience. But it was far too expensive to do it all. And nobody wanted to wear glasses for the whole show.
And it cost a fortune. We didn't make a dime on that show. But technology has changed so fast that future concerts are going to be unlike anything anybody's ever imagined. We're already almost there. There's this fear in Las Vegas that, And what you're seeing is unbelievable, except you don't lose yourself. If you look down, you see the hangnail that you had that morning.
And you see the next, you know, the chick. I should grab her number before I go. And then when you look up, you see all that. Virtual glasses are closer to that because this world disappears. Wow. But you don't feel the heat if there's a fire.
We could be in a wall. We could be in the underworld. We could be, yeah.
2027.
No glasses. No glasses. I remember seeing a minority report. Did you ever see that Tom Cruise movie?
And he goes like this. And then he's got like a computer thing and he's moving things. I saw a real one that the Air Force was using in doubt. I know some friends in the military. Yeah. It exists. Really? Yeah. There's nothing in front of you. And they're moving things. Well, I mean, what the fuck is the cloud? Right?
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