Gene Simmons

You'll hear lots of blues, very recognizable blues songs.

Now, we were aware that culturally, because kids of all ages, you get grown up.

The impact and the success and the culture was a much bigger...

Sure.

Had a much bigger impact.

There was not a lot of discussion of, you know, that's a decent song and maybe we should get Rolling Stone to never care about- But I'm asking you, that's what I'm saying.

So my sense of some of those tunes are pretty decent material and I could point to a thousand bands that were much, much better.

and maybe not as successful.

I mean, Humble Pie opened for...

Grand Funk Railroad at Shea Stadium.

Humble Pie could wipe the floor with Grand Funk.

Are you kidding?

Grand Funk's a pretty good band, though.

I liked it, too, but you can't touch Marriott and even with Jerry Shirley.

Yeah.

Well, I think when they opened, they may have had Jerry Shirley.

Yeah.

Yeah, so, and, you know, Jimi Hendrix is opening for the Monkees, so the fact that the Monkees are headlining, does that make them a better band?

I loved the Monkees for different reasons, but when you see Hendrix, it's another world, and he was booed off the stage.

For young people, yes.