Gene Simmons kicks ass

[NightWatcher]

I'm watching his "reality show" The Family Jewels on A&E and he is one funny mutha.
Who'da thunk it that he was more normal than Ozzy. Gene is a hoot.

[Blue-Jay]

1. I'm watching that too.

His kids are awesome!

[NightWatcher]

2. I want the KISS snowboard

[Deja Q]

5. Because you watched his show?

:D

That's okay, I want these too: :D

[NightWatcher]

6. I dont snowboard, but it looked cool

I think that it's funny how he is trying his hardest to make any cash he can off of the "kiss" name while a few people still know who he is. He has pitched everything from Gene Simmons car wash to pimping out his kid's band. It's nice to see that he's not biting the heads off of chickens but is rather trying to capitalize off of the name.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I've neer seen the show...

But based on what I know about him, that should read "Gene Simmons is an ass."

[Scarlett17]

4. I was never a member of the "KISS Army", so I can appreciate the Gene on the show.

However, my husband is having a very hard time seeing his boyhood idol drool in his sleep, bow to his "wife", and sell his name and image on anything he can. He doesn't want to see the man behind the curtain. He only wants the Great and Powerful Oz.

[hellbound-liberal]

7. I've seen him acting on TV and I think he is a good actor but I also believe he's a jerk.

While trying to find out what I might have seen him in, I found this: -A February 4, 2002 interview on the NPR radio show Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Gene Simmons said to Gross, "If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs," to which Gross replied, "That's a really obnoxious thing to say." Simmons refused to grant permission to NPR to make the interview available online on the station's website. Besides that, despite his denials, I think he's a Repug.

Here's more: Gene Simmons continued his assaults on other artists he feels are “giving aid and comfort to the enemy”. Insight magazine recently printed an interview with Simmons where he singled out two artists he would no longer support: Pearl Jam and The Dixie Chicks. Simmons feels that Pearl Jam’s recent anti-Bush antics on stage would cost the band in the end. A few fans walked out of a recent concert in Denver following an anti-bush tirade from the stage from Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. Simmons warns, "I don't think everybody that booed will stop buying PEARL JAM records or going to PEARL JAM concerts, but I do know that a segment of the audience will stop. I'm one. I've bought PEARL JAM records. I'm out. He crossed the line."

"America is made up of people who have the right to buy or not buy your stuff for any reason they choose, and if what you stand for and who you are incenses them, they have a right to not put money in your pocket," Simmons said. "For example, I have female fans. If I get up there and say something very sexist, the female fans have a right, because their sense of who I am was insulted, to not put money in my pocket. ... Nobody is curtailing Tim Robbins' rights. However, if a Tim Robbins movie came out today - and I've seen some of his other movies and I've enjoyed them — would I go see it? No."

Simmons also told the magazine that he has pulled a planned feature on the Dixie Chicks from his magazine, Gene Simmons Tongue. "In time of war, to aid and give comfort to the enemy on foreign soil, on stage and in a public forum is perfect fodder for anybody's press overseas that has a slightly different agenda, and I think it's reprehensible. And just because you're cute and have D-cups doesn't mean it's any less reprehensible."

Despite Simmons’ feelings about these celebrities, President Bush should count on his vote come November 2004, "I often don't agree with the Republican Party's stance on air, water, big business, Roe v. Wade, ad infinitum," Simmons explains. "But in time of war, it's time to cut it out, or we're not here. We can't wait for Saddam Hussein He is not a threat to the United States in the conventional sense. But in a very real way, if this son of a bitch gives one suitcase filled with dirty materials —whether it's a nuclear dirty bomb or anything else - to an Al-Qaeda guy who's out of his mind. ... Do I have to wait for what will happen in order to say now he's a threat?" Here's a link: http://www.antimusic.com/news/03/may/item27.shtml

[argyl]

16. Ted Nugent,Charlie Daniels,Toby Keith and now Gene Simmons.

The Bushistas obviously have a considerable edge in musical talent on their side.

[fudge stripe cookays]

18. Simmons is all about Israel.

That's where all his interests lie. He's also a sexist pig.

[idgiehkt]

25. have you watched his show?

It is all about selling an image and making money off of that image, which he openly admits is bogus. They showed some sessions of him and his parnter, she finally talked him into going to therapy about his fear of marriage. So, in truth, he is completely p-whipped from the looks of it. Bwah ha ha ha.

I do find it disturbing that he is so aware of the image he is portraying to young men, yet he still continues to sell it because he knows that's what they want to buy. He has a young daughter and seems oblivious of the affect his behavior mirrored might have on her. I never ceased to be amazed at that kind of blindness.

[MnFats]

23. he is an asshole and his music sucks ass.

if not for the costume shit they never would have been more than a bar band.

oh, by the way, which do you think was their greatest hit:


"LOve Gun?"
or
"Lick it Up?"

Yeah, some great music this quartet produced....

I can't imaging why anyone would give Gene Simmons the motherfucking time of day.

his treatment of Terry Gross made him one of the biggest assholes of the era.

[JanMichael]

26. Fuck him, period. And I don't mean in a friendly way.

What a complete dipshit.

[matcom]

8. actually no.

i don't believe he does

IMHO

[MilesColtrane]

9. His only talent is in marketing.

If you consider that a talent.

[Blue-Jay]

10. *I* consider that a talent.

[jobycom]

19. How can you not consider it a talent?

Maybe not one you appreciate, but a talent, certainly.

[MilesColtrane]

28. Putting a dollar sign on everything on the planet...

I'll let the very dead Bill Hicks speak on my behalf about marketing.

from here...

http://sazmatazz.users.btopenworld.com/




"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!
Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web! "Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"

[NC_Nurse]

11. I heard Terri Gross interview him on "Fresh Air"...

He was a completely arrogant asshole with nothing the least bit interesting to say.
:puke:

He sucks. And so does Kiss.

[Jamastiene]

12. If you overlook his assishness, I guess.

His politics really turn me off. I loved KISS music a long time ago, but now, I can't get past how much of an asshole he is. I won't buy anything of his now.

[Little Wing]

13. If by "kicks ass" you mean "is a giant dick" I fully support this idea

[MAGICBULLET]

14. kiss sucks disco rules!! n/t

:silly:

[AlCzervik]

15. if kick ass is a euphemism for arrogant jack hole then i agree with you.

his children however seem eerily normal.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

17. I like that show .

[NightWatcher]

20. Politics or no, I just enjoyed the show

[Ekirh]

22. Same here. .

I haven't watched an episode in awhile.. but I do remember enjoying it.

[InvisibleTouch]

21. I've seen him only once...

...on an episode of "The Apprentice" a few seasons back, and yes, he was an ass.

I can't speak to his music, because I'm probably the only person in the western hemisphere who can't recall ever hearing a Kiss song.

[MrSlayer]

24. Yeah he kicks ass at being a complete asshole.

He's got that down pat.

[Forkboy]

27. Even uglier inside than he is outside...and that's not easy.