Gene Simmons

And during one weekend, I'd make more money with the band having fun with the chicks and the attention and all that than I would the whole week working. It started to make more financial sense Yes, I had more fun. And then I graduated in 1972 from the City University at Richmond College and started teaching sixth grade in Spanish Harlem.

And during one weekend, I'd make more money with the band having fun with the chicks and the attention and all that than I would the whole week working. It started to make more financial sense Yes, I had more fun. And then I graduated in 1972 from the City University at Richmond College and started teaching sixth grade in Spanish Harlem.

Segway to being the assistant to the editor of Vogue magazine, assistant to the director of the Puerto Rican Interagency Council, a government-funded research and demonstration project, where I saved $23,000 by the time I was 23 years of age. I lived at home. Makes more sense. You want to meet in Chicago? Go to the Holiday Inn. Otherwise... Save your money. Yeah. Save your money.

Segway to being the assistant to the editor of Vogue magazine, assistant to the director of the Puerto Rican Interagency Council, a government-funded research and demonstration project, where I saved $23,000 by the time I was 23 years of age. I lived at home. Makes more sense. You want to meet in Chicago? Go to the Holiday Inn. Otherwise... Save your money. Yeah. Save your money.

lived at home when I didn't need to spend money. But of course I contributed a little bit. And we, I met another guy too. who shared the love of English music, which is really American music, anglicized. We were anglophiles, the Beatles and the Stones and Zeppelin and all that, and made our own pastiche, our own thing, like they did their own thing of American music. And by 1973,

lived at home when I didn't need to spend money. But of course I contributed a little bit. And we, I met another guy too. who shared the love of English music, which is really American music, anglicized. We were anglophiles, the Beatles and the Stones and Zeppelin and all that, and made our own pastiche, our own thing, like they did their own thing of American music. And by 1973,

We got signed to Casablanca Records, a new record label.

We got signed to Casablanca Records, a new record label.

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We played clubs from nothing to everything. Really? Yes. We played New Year's Eve, Fourth on the Bill, at the Academy of Music in New York City, 1973-74. And two months after that, the first album came out. We were fourth on the bill. KISS, Teenage Lust, which was a local band, Iggy Pop, and Blue Oyster Cult. And on the first, by the third song, I'm Spitting Fire. We were full makeup.

We played clubs from nothing to everything. Really? Yes. We played New Year's Eve, Fourth on the Bill, at the Academy of Music in New York City, 1973-74. And two months after that, the first album came out. We were fourth on the bill. KISS, Teenage Lust, which was a local band, Iggy Pop, and Blue Oyster Cult. And on the first, by the third song, I'm Spitting Fire. We were full makeup.

My hair catches fire. And we're on the covers of all the magazines and everything. New band from Hellfire. And you know, all this kind of stuff. I was just glad to be alive.

My hair catches fire. And we're on the covers of all the magazines and everything. New band from Hellfire. And you know, all this kind of stuff. I was just glad to be alive.

but within a year and a half of coming out before mtv before cell phones we had still rotary calls superman was still going into that booth and changing of course people can't see him taking off his pants because he's in a phone booth while all this was happening within a year and a half were headlining Anaheim Stadium in Los Angeles. Wow. Yeah, just that overnight thing.

but within a year and a half of coming out before mtv before cell phones we had still rotary calls superman was still going into that booth and changing of course people can't see him taking off his pants because he's in a phone booth while all this was happening within a year and a half were headlining Anaheim Stadium in Los Angeles. Wow. Yeah, just that overnight thing.