Gene Simmons
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.