Gene Simmons

His influences spoke loudly, Page and Beck and, you know.

Dimebag and everybody.

And Kirk from Metallica.

Everybody, lots of guys went, you know, Ace was the first guy.

But it also, again, is...

At a certain age, you start to listen to certain music, and that influences you.

It's the highest compliment, and...

The Melvins bus that Nirvana drove around had the KISS logo all over it.

I mean, I know all those stories.

I remember Mike McCready was telling me that when he first started Pearl Jam, when he first started guitars and everything, that he'd listen to Ace, and in particular,

was one of the first solos he learned from a song called She.

I said, Mike, I don't know how to tell you this, but that's note for note, note for note, guitar solo from The Doors.

Ace liked it so much, he just reproduced it.

He goes, no.

I didn't know that.

I learned something.

All right.

So my point is it's always very appreciative when somebody says, you know, love your stuff or this stuff.

Everybody's got bits and pieces of stuff.

Listen to Zeppelin songs.