Gene Simmons
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I became the assistant to the director of the Puerto Rican Interagency Council, a government research and demonstration project. I was the only Jew there, but because it was a government research and demonstration project, there was a percentage of non-Puerto Ricans who had to be there. And I was the one because I took typing classes in high school, pragmatism, because all the girls...
I became the assistant to the director of the Puerto Rican Interagency Council, a government research and demonstration project. I was the only Jew there, but because it was a government research and demonstration project, there was a percentage of non-Puerto Ricans who had to be there. And I was the one because I took typing classes in high school, pragmatism, because all the girls...
We're taking the typing classes. So I signed up. I also signed up for another class where only girls took it. Greg and Pittman. It was called Shorthand. I signed up. And that gave me the ability to get hired by Kelly Girls, which became Kelly Services, that hired me out for lawyers, real estate companies, all that. In fact, I became...
We're taking the typing classes. So I signed up. I also signed up for another class where only girls took it. Greg and Pittman. It was called Shorthand. I signed up. And that gave me the ability to get hired by Kelly Girls, which became Kelly Services, that hired me out for lawyers, real estate companies, all that. In fact, I became...
We're taking the typing classes. So I signed up. I also signed up for another class where only girls took it. Greg and Pittman. It was called Shorthand. I signed up. And that gave me the ability to get hired by Kelly Girls, which became Kelly Services, that hired me out for lawyers, real estate companies, all that. In fact, I became...
the assistant to the director of the research and demonstration project. And then I became the man Friday to the editor of Vogue magazine. Again, on a floor where there are only girls, bottles and everything else. Then it was terrible. I got to tell you, it was just torture. Couldn't wait to get out of there. And at the same time, decided to get serious about putting a band together.
the assistant to the director of the research and demonstration project. And then I became the man Friday to the editor of Vogue magazine. Again, on a floor where there are only girls, bottles and everything else. Then it was terrible. I got to tell you, it was just torture. Couldn't wait to get out of there. And at the same time, decided to get serious about putting a band together.
the assistant to the director of the research and demonstration project. And then I became the man Friday to the editor of Vogue magazine. Again, on a floor where there are only girls, bottles and everything else. Then it was terrible. I got to tell you, it was just torture. Couldn't wait to get out of there. And at the same time, decided to get serious about putting a band together.
and happened to accidentally meet another member of the tribe. That's failed language for the rest of the world, may not know what that means. And Stanley Eisen became Paul Stanley, and we put a band together. And the idea was, even though we weren't able to verbalize it, let's put together the band we never saw on stage, almost the way girls, really have it in their DNA.
and happened to accidentally meet another member of the tribe. That's failed language for the rest of the world, may not know what that means. And Stanley Eisen became Paul Stanley, and we put a band together. And the idea was, even though we weren't able to verbalize it, let's put together the band we never saw on stage, almost the way girls, really have it in their DNA.
and happened to accidentally meet another member of the tribe. That's failed language for the rest of the world, may not know what that means. And Stanley Eisen became Paul Stanley, and we put a band together. And the idea was, even though we weren't able to verbalize it, let's put together the band we never saw on stage, almost the way girls, really have it in their DNA.
There's a club and she calls ahead because she wants to know what's going on. And she gets the word, uh-oh, just beware, all the girls are wearing short black minis. So she thinks and goes, I think I'm going to put on a red short miniskirt.
There's a club and she calls ahead because she wants to know what's going on. And she gets the word, uh-oh, just beware, all the girls are wearing short black minis. So she thinks and goes, I think I'm going to put on a red short miniskirt.
There's a club and she calls ahead because she wants to know what's going on. And she gets the word, uh-oh, just beware, all the girls are wearing short black minis. So she thinks and goes, I think I'm going to put on a red short miniskirt.
many so that you stand out shakespeare figured it out the whole world's a stage and you know figure it out how to get people to look at you once you get the attention it's what you do with it and kiss was formed way before you were born in uh 19 at the end of 1972 By New Year's Eve 1973, we played our first show. We didn't have a record contract. The first record came out in February 1974.
many so that you stand out shakespeare figured it out the whole world's a stage and you know figure it out how to get people to look at you once you get the attention it's what you do with it and kiss was formed way before you were born in uh 19 at the end of 1972 By New Year's Eve 1973, we played our first show. We didn't have a record contract. The first record came out in February 1974.
many so that you stand out shakespeare figured it out the whole world's a stage and you know figure it out how to get people to look at you once you get the attention it's what you do with it and kiss was formed way before you were born in uh 19 at the end of 1972 By New Year's Eve 1973, we played our first show. We didn't have a record contract. The first record came out in February 1974.
Within a year and a half before MTV, before voicemail, before digital, before anything, no cell phones, Rock was not heard on radio or anything. We were headlining Anaheim Stadium in California. It just exploded. In those days, magazines and imagery was the way it impacted stuff in the same way that TikTok is the modern version of stuff. You know, like, how do you become Mr. Beast? Well, go on.
Within a year and a half before MTV, before voicemail, before digital, before anything, no cell phones, Rock was not heard on radio or anything. We were headlining Anaheim Stadium in California. It just exploded. In those days, magazines and imagery was the way it impacted stuff in the same way that TikTok is the modern version of stuff. You know, like, how do you become Mr. Beast? Well, go on.
Within a year and a half before MTV, before voicemail, before digital, before anything, no cell phones, Rock was not heard on radio or anything. We were headlining Anaheim Stadium in California. It just exploded. In those days, magazines and imagery was the way it impacted stuff in the same way that TikTok is the modern version of stuff. You know, like, how do you become Mr. Beast? Well, go on.