Annie Reuter of Radio.com reports:
Gene Simmons of KISS has some heated words for drug addicts and people dealing with depression in a new interview with Songfacts.com.
When asked if he keeps in touch with the original players of KISS he answered with a resounding “no.”
Why’s that? Simple: they’re either drug addicts or just downers.
“I don’t get along with anybody who’s a drug addict and has a dark cloud over their head and sees themselves as a victim,” Simmons said. “Drug addicts and alcoholics are always: ‘The world is a harsh place.’ My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don’t want to hear f–k all about ‘the world as a harsh place.’ She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life.
And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, ‘I’m depressed, I live in Seattle.’ F–k you, then kill yourself.”
He added “I never understand, because I always call them on their bluff. I’m the guy who says ‘Jump!’ when there’s a guy on top of a building who says, ‘That’s it, I can’t take it anymore, I’m going to jump.’ Are you kidding? Why are you announcing it? Shut the f–k up, have some dignity and jump! You’ve got the crowd.”
While Simmons said KISS has new songs ready, there are no plans to record anytime soon. But, there is one artist he’d love to record with in the future: Lady Gaga.
“I think Lady Gaga is the only new rock star, although she’s not a rocker,” he said. “I would like her to throw away all the disco stuff and get a band. Don’t use tapes, come out with a real live band and guitars. She’s a bona fide musical artist. She did a duet with Tony Bennett, real great pipes. She can sit at a piano all by herself. She’s a legitimate artist. A lot of the other pop divas who are really talented are not artists.”
Simmons said KISS and Gaga tried to collaborate on their last record but both were too busy.
“We got close. She got busy, we got busy. We would have done it.”
additional source: radio.com
245 Responses
And yet people keep spending their money on this clown and supporting him and his family and future generations of the Simmons family…..I just don’t get it.
I always read and never posted but this comment has me pissed.
Ive been a hardcore KISS fan since 1973….yes BEFORE the Alive album broke them open.. Ive heard them throw each other under the bus many times but enough is enough! From a lifelong fan to Gene…you are a douche and an ass. Please keep a low profile in public eye and shut your mouth for once in your life. Stop speaking….simply just stop!
We dont give a rats ass what you think anylonger…Gawd…shut the phuck up!!!!
Enough already with the Kiss articles, we all agree Gene and Paul are jerks. I’m beginning to think Eddie just likes to add fuel to the fire. Ed, you do a great job, but all these Kiss bashing stories you have on your page makes you no better then Gene or Paul. Just let it go and focus on real music news.
Shawn,
You can blame me for this one. Eddie had nothing to do with it.
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Keep Posting stuff in-spite what the haters think. it’s fun read even if we all think they are douche bags lol! If people respond it a positive.
Dana you have ABSOUTLY NOTHING to be sorry for…..if this upsets people ( which I can appreciate) then they don’t have to read it. Personally all this just proves how bizzare Gene & Paul have become. It is (again) bizarre human behavior. And for the few meatheads that will take their own clothes off for these two knuckle heads it really proves the theory that YOU CANT TEACH STUPID!! Joe in The Cuse
Dana,
On this I agree with Jim from Houston and Joe in the Cuse. Keep up the good work! These discussions are a great outlet and a way to learn how we all think. It’s free speech, you can post what you want! (: there have been plenty of other stories in between and most of them don’t cause this much discussion or debate.
Must be nice to be perfect like Gene $immon$
Shocking!! KISS?? Causing discussion? Who could have guessed that? I predict 150 comments, minimum. lol