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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Yes, I'm part of the YXYZ. Shut the fuck up. So Andy Warhol said business is art and making money is the highest art. I hope I'm getting that right. It's pretty much right because almost everybody can do art. Not everybody can make money legally.
Well, what's creative and who determines that? I let the fans determine that. There is only... Who cares? When a painting is really good, it's actually called priceless. You can't put a figure on it. Money is the judges holding up a number to tell you how well you did in your thing. That's all money is. The higher the number... supposedly, the better you're doing. The market, yeah, it's hard.
It doesn't really lie, does it? It's what it is. What people say, how do you pay rent with that? You're the best that ever was.
It is tough not to. I don't understand why that's a negative.
You work hard by the sweat of thy brow. Our people gave that book to everybody in the world. It's called the Bible, even the New Testament. It's all Jews. And it says in the good book, by the sweat of thy brow. Anything that you earn by the sweat of your brow has value. When you make money without exertion, the value loses what they call gravitas. It just doesn't impact you the same.
Yeah, it does feel good to earn as opposed to just to get, eh? Yeah, because then you don't have to say thank you to anybody.
Without them, I'd be asking the next person in line if they'd like some fries with that. And by the way, that's an honorable profession.
Is this kind of a big show?
It was one of the life lessons. Kiss was on one of the first real rock concert TV shows, early 1974. Dick Clark had already been a mainstay in television. He had a show called American Bandstand. Yeah, I remember that. A young teen show every day after school. People would hurry three, four o'clock in the afternoon, and they'd watch. Written by Barry Manilow, as a matter of fact.
And they'd listen to new music, and everybody would come on there. Madonna and Schmadonna and everybody else. And then kids would listen to new songs. How do you like that song? I give it a 95 because I can dance to it. I like the beat. You know, they don't know what they like. But that was, you know, like kid stuff. And then in concert was exactly that.
You'd have the groups of the day playing live like a concert, and we were given a slot. First record came out, and we were so thankful for them because we didn't look or sound or walk or talk like the other bands. Melissa Manchester, Kool and the Gang, I don't remember who else was on the bill, and Kiss.
I'll tell you very quickly, in the afternoon we had to do a run-through so the cameras would know who's singing. I see. who's going to be where, what are you going to do so they can cover you because it's television. Was it live? Live. Yeah, okay. And that was also, and you can't do that nowadays.
They don't do that now, yeah.
No, you can say a potty word and the advertisers get upset. So we did a song called Firehouse, actually that Paul wrote, and then I'm supposed to spit fire and I'm talking to the cameraman right here I'm holding my hand up in the air. I'm going to be spitting fire. The guy goes, what do you mean spitting fire? I'm going, no, for real.
Actually, there's a fire guy watching and it's going to be like this and it's going to be eight or 10 feet. He goes, okay. So the show starts and we start doing it and the cameras are all trying to pick up all the shots. And I start walking towards the camera. And if you ever see that, I start to, the camera guy jumped off the camera and the camera went up.
Well, he was afraid. He was, I don't know what he was afraid of.
Open flame and a flammable. And I've caught fire a number of times.
I don't want to tell people. Don't try it. There are so many videos on YouTube with kids who are trying to do that who went up in flames.
Well, in the beginning, we protected, you know, Superman, Clark Kent. Right. Yeah, that's funny.
Superman didn't want to talk about Clark Kent. Right. And likewise, we kept our faces hidden, our actual faces. You know, it's like beautiful women with makeup and all that stuff. They don't want you to see them in a potato sack without their makeup on.
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