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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But by the time Metallica came in, the culture was set. When we were first starting, you still had a lot of pressure to get a song on the radio, get a song on the radio. I see. And then it opened up. Maiden and Metallica and a lot of those.
A lot of new bands became very famous very fast and then died very famous. And I don't mean to pick on them. They're fine, I'm sure. There's a band called Wang Chung.
They had dance hall days and And they had hits. You can't name anybody in the band, and nobody ever wore a Wang Chung T-shirt. I'm sure they're terrific and all that. So there were lots and lots of bands who had number one songs and then disappear. Because you've got to deliver on stage.
If you have a hit single and you just sing in the microphone, they're paying more money for a ticket than they do for the album.
Michael Jackson, without all that dancing and the backwards and the stuff, not the same artist.
Not in music. Innovators are Elon Musk. Tell me about that. NASA, with all the hundreds of billions of dollars, couldn't figure out how to reuse a rocket. So every time they launched something, they had to throw it away. Elon Musk reused it. Can land take off, land take off. Electric cars outsold all the car companies, changed it overnight. Car companies didn't want to do it. Unions.
See what I did there? He doesn't care. It always takes one visionary, a futurist who doesn't care, just wants to do what they want to do. Alexander Graham Bell, Edison, even Ford at the beginning, who created this kind of assembly line thing, which didn't exist before Futurists don't look at what is. They do what they want to do. So Elon's got the boring company. He's going to have robot taxis.
It's just all this stuff. It's not waiting to ask anybody what they think. He will be the first legal trillionaire.
And this is not advice. I'm not a financial advisor. You have to say that full disclosure. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a lawyer, but I'm not your lawyer. It depends what kind of lawyer and which state. But probably the two safest for me are Bitcoin and Ethereum. And the rest you have to play.
I've got 13 or 14 different cryptos that I play with.
never really understood it because from her, you know, they were lucky. All of Europe, not just Jewish households, but right after the Great Depression, 1929 and on, people couldn't even have an egg. There are photos of Germans with wheelbarrows full of Deutschmarks trying to get enough money together, just stacks of money to get a few eggs. People have no idea the great generation.
There are 100 million people that died in World War II. Even white people. I'm not even talking about black Asia or anything, just white Europeans. 100 million died. Starvation, war, killings, and all this stuff. It was insane. People who lived through that have a completely different point of view about life and the value of things.
My mother, in the translation in Hungarian, every day above ground is a good day, is worth taking note of. Kind of corny. What do you have to complain about living here in Beverly Hills? What exactly? Riots? War? What? Yeah, I know. Some hooded teenagers break into 7-Elevens and all this kind of stuff. I know. I can't tell you how I would react because she's shaking her head.
Let's just say there were different rules for the police when I was growing up. There was less crime.
40s and 50s, 1940s, 1950s.
Once drugs became culture, we went to hell and back.
Yeah. But that's during the drug world. When I was growing up and I went to school, you couldn't even, you weren't allowed to have liquor, booze, beer. Out in the open. You'd have to have it in a brown paper bag. That's still the case. Oh, is it still?
Well, they take baths in it over there.
But never heard of a drug addict. Nobody smoked that we knew of. It was looked down on.
Well, if we landed in New York, and it was a shock to me because we're- We, your mother and yourself? My mother and myself landed in New York. I never saw tall buildings or every street was covered in concrete or asphalt. Every street in the small town and the bottom of Mount Carmel, like the biblical Carmel, that's where I was born.
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