What a tool Gene Simmons is. I am so fuckin' tired of all these self righteous, free market, determinists. Blow me, asshole.
Oh, and if you don't believe me, just ask Al Franken, (my italics)...
- In a February 4, 2002 interview on the NPR radio show Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Simmons said to Gross regarding his claim to have bedded about 4,600 women: "If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs" (paraphrasing The Who's hit song "You Better You Bet"). To this 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 network's website. However, the interview appears in print in Gross's book All I Did Was Ask (ISBN 1-4013-0010-3), and some unauthorized transcripts are also available.[8] A part of the interview was re-broadcast on Fresh Air on Aug 31, 2007.[9] It is noted that Kiss bandmate and co-founder Paul Stanley has frequently used the phrase "... welcomed us with open arms and open legs", and similar wording, in onstage patter through many years of Kiss concerts.
- In a later Fresh Air interview, satirist and future United States Senator Al Franken related to Terry Gross his own encounter with Gene Simmons. According to Franken, he was awaiting a racquetball partner at a club when Simmons, whom Franken had not recognized, challenged him to a match, stating "I'll kick your ass", only to suffer an embarrassing loss to Franken. Simmons responded by calling for another match, and when Franken indicated that since his racquetball partner had arrived, he couldn't play Simmons again, Simmons responded by making loud "boc, boc, boc" chicken sounds. Franken then offered to play Simmons with $500 at stake, at which point Simmons walked away.[10] Franken told Gross not to blame herself for her experience with Simmons, and that Simmons' behavior at the racquetball club made him "the most awful person I've ever met."
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Gene Simmon's new company Cool Springs Life Equity Strategy is going to make a killing with this new concept of loaning money to rich people against their life insurance policies. Its a no brainer with the increase in taxes coming soon.
Cool Springs:
That's swell. And may Gene's wads of money clog his lower intestine until he rots of colon cancer.
In Gene's defense - He's no Ted Nugent. And if that isn't damning with faint praise...
The fact is, unless he's separating marks from their money with KISS ephemera or capitalizing on his own notoriety in some shameless fashion his business track record appears a little sketchy. Good on him for maintaining his brand, but at the end of the day he's just another businessman dabbling in music for kicks, IMO.
;>)
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