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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And the kids were watching it and thought that it was funny and stuff, but wink, wink, nudge, nudge, it was kind of grown-up material.
Less Disney and more Fritz Freeling and Chuck Jones and Warner Brothers.
That's a good point. There's never a Jewish parade. We need respect. Don't try to kill us. We're fine.
Jews have never been accepted. And by the way, Asians have a problem in Western culture too. But I've never seen an Asian parade. Have you? I don't think so. Ever. Because they're too inclined to succeed in life and move on. And just despite what people say, go and make money. Money. James Brown said it better than anybody else. Black power is green power.
Specifically, the wings that I designed for myself was a cross between Lon Chaney Sr. and London After Midnight, which is a movie that people haven't seen in decades, but I've seen photos of it, so the print has been lost. And Black Bolt from a comic group called The Inhumans. And by the way, I had the rights... to make a motion picture out of that.
Marvel gave me the rights before the superhero cycle, and I couldn't get Universal interested enough. But eventually there was a Black Bolt series. I also had Ghost Rider.
Before Nick Cage, yeah.
And everybody thought, well, what do you mean? It's a burning skull that's before the superhero cycle. So specifically, a cross between... London After Midnight, the movie, Lon Chaney Sr., who played a vampire, and Black Boat. And facially, the makeup came from the shadows on Lon Chaney Sr. 's face as Mary Philbin.
His love interest in the opera he's playing, organ, she rips the mask off his face. And when he turns around, there's shadows on his face. And in my mind, I saw that image.
One of the first covers of any magazines I got was in a magazine called One Dollar out of Toronto. We were playing there. And on the cover, it said something like the devil's disciple or something. You know, I was supposed to be evil. I don't even get high. I like cookies and girls.
Or a mephism. Yeah. See what I did there? I did. You got dad jokes. Semantics, but I'm not anti-semantic. You better take your pen out and write things down.
Millennials, a pen is a writing utensil which you hold in your hand. This is a fake one. There's no button to put it. It doesn't go on social media. There's paper, too, which comes from trees.
Anybody who thinks, well, I'm not part of you, nobody cares who and what you think you are. There's only one contest. It's like all the different top 40 things in Billboard magazine. Top 40 alternative charts, top 40 reggae, top 40 Jewish folk songs, top 40. It's all nonsense. There is only one top 40. You're all in competition with everybody else. It doesn't matter what genre you're in.
Yeah, if that. No, that means nothing. Those are all delusional, self-serving numbers. There's only one rule. We're all on the same planet. We better figure out how to get along with each other. Maybe a little more seriously, maybe all our jobs... invariably, big word like gymnasium, is to leave the world a little bit better, just a little bit better than when we came into it.
Multiply that by $8 billion.
That's smart, obviously. That's really clever. Well, you're only going to get the respect you demand. You know, you have to assume that people don't have an imagination. Right. Sinatra had the same thing happen. His manager at the time went out and got high school girls and paid them 50 bucks or something to be in the front and do all that stuff.
And they were called Bobby Soxers, Sinatra fans, because they were in school, had those Catholic skirts. They were called that. It's not a religious thing. That was just like an Italian t-shirt. That's what it was called. And those short skirts and the socks went way up the leg. Bobby Soxers. And then nobody else did that in rock because it was not credible. I don't care about credible.
I just care about winning. You're not supposed to do licensing and merchandising. Who said that? Can I please meet that loser? He was probably still living in his mother's basement.
Well, I think whether it's the least or the most, Just give me a chance. Again, because the vast majority in the world never even get the chance. So claw, do the best you can just to get up to bat. You may strike out, but if you never swing the bat, guaranteed you'll strike out. You won't even get a chance. All I want's a chance.
Yeah. But there are people, young people especially, who's just starting in a band, who think it's called music. It was never called that. It was always called music business. That's what it's called. And if you believe in truth in advertising, business is cool. Andy Warhol, who I knew, of course, millennials have no idea what I'm talking about. What's the new generation called?
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