"Anyone who thinks rock-and-roll is a serious art form is fooling themselves. Think back to when you first wanted to play in a band and you'll realize that your main motivation was to get rich and get laid. Imagine being a skinny, awkward kid in high school who's built like a 2nd grader down there and can't get a date to save your life, and then you're in a band and suddenly you have more pussy than you can handle. And I've had people say to me 'Yeah, but Frank Zappa...' Big deal. Frank Zappa made a bunch of funny noises and wrote a bunch of pretentious lyrics to con gullible young women, which is kind of an oxymoronic thing to say if you think about it, into sleeping with him. And you know what? He succeeded. He got rich, he got laid, and he died. The end."
"Anyone who thinks rock-and-roll is a serious art form is fooling themselves...
This is the guy who chews open a blood capsule and starts wagging around his tongue while playing a bunch of non-notes on his bass, right?
triggered nu males incoming
Daily reminder this man is so desperste for attention he made a cover of Firestarter
Based.
*Desperate
Gene Simmons is a disgusting human being. He should also give up on that hair. It's dead grandpa, you killed it by straightening it for all these decades. It saddens me that he is part of "rocknroll history". He is just one of the many stupid rock acts that have gotten more attention over the years rather than superior acts such as Pixies and Sublime.
Author is dead etc
what kind of fever dream is this
Could he be any more of a Jew if he tried?
pure kino
The most self-awareness lacking video ever put to screen
THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME
Does he even know what a bass is?
kiss is actually Sup Forumscore!
That's from the 80s; he'd basically phoned it in by that point. He was a quite good bassist in the 70s.
Rock n' roll was just edgier pop music but it expanded into genres that really are artful and thought-out and inspiring. Gene Simmons is mad that his own music is the epitome of sellout Rock music so he keeps spewing shit.
what the fuck haha
I find it quite adorable that KISS and especially Gene wants to be taken seriously after pulling shit like this.
Dressed To Kill [Casablanca, 1975]
I feel schizy about this record. It rocks with a brutal, uncompromising force reminiscent of a slicked-back, heavied-up Dave Clark Five or MC5 and the songwriting is very much improved over albums one and two. But the lyrics dimly recall the liberal fantasy of rock concert as Nuremberg Rally, with sexism at its cruelest hinted at in songs such as "Room Service" and "Ladies in Waiting", a situation made still more ominous by the band's refusal to bare the grinning faces beneath the makeup. This might be just the effect they intend, although for the worst of reasons. You damn well know if they didn't have their eye set on maximum commerciality, they'd call themselves "Blowjob". B-
Alive [Casablanca, 1975]
There are those who regard this concert double as a de facto best-of that rescues such unacknowledged hard rock classics as "Deuce" and "Strutter" from the sludge. There are also those who regard it as the sludge. I fall into neither category--regret the drum solo, applaud "Rock and Roll All Nite," and absorb the thunderousness of it all with bemused curiosity. The multimillion kids who are buying it don't fall into either category either. B-
Destroyer [Casablanca, 1976]
Like most hard (not heavy) groups wildly favored by young teens (cf. Alice Cooper, BTO), these guys have always rocked better than adults were willing to enjoy, but pro producer Bob Ezrin adds only bombast and melodrama. Their least interesting record. C+
Rock and Roll Over [Casablanca, 1977]
Those who dismiss them as unlistenable are still evading the issue: they write tough, catchy songs, and if they had a sly, Jagger-style singer they'd be a menace. But they aren't a menace, my wife and my sister assure me; the kids get off on the burlesque. Does this mean that when the cartoon hero in the platform shoes bellows an order to grab the rocket in his pocket all the twelve-year-olds are aware that this is a caricature of sex, and macho sex at that? Really, I'd like to know. But I'm not getting down on my knees to find out. B-
Meltdown [1980s]
Everything Rocks and Nothing Ever Dies [1990s]
Early kiss is good though
Yeah he was good
Check the bassline on this one youtube.com
>waahhhh dey so sexist dey demeans da wimminz in der songs
Was Christgau the original nu male?
Hate the game, not the player. Gene always tells it like it is.
Or Detroit Rock City for that matter.
80s Gene was one lazy piece of shit. He stopped practicing his bass or doing anything but play the root note, also in the studio he only played on his own songs, leaving the rest to Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, or whatever session musician happened to be available that day.
Back at that time, he was more preoccupied with dating Cher and producing/managing other artists and acting in movies. The 80s version of Kiss was more of a Paul Stanley solo act than anything.
>rock song
>you can actually hear the bassline
unusual
Just a reminder that this is his wife. Keep hatin'
Wasnt detroit rock city bassline actually created by bob ezrin?
Kind of, but also the 80s hair metal sound generally didn't have much, if any bass in it. Nikki Sixx couldn't do anything but play the root note either; his strength was as a songwriter and business/PR man. Melodic bass lines in general were more of a 70s thing.
>poses nude in front of a camera
>not eastern european
yeah that seems like a Gene Simmons-tier wife
Yeah, she's a Playboy centerfold and they had a common law marriage for many years before formally tying the knot.
Ace and Peter were the real talent in that band desu, they brought the New York street punk attitude. Gene and Paul were just a couple of fugly nerds who started a band so they could get rich and have sex.
The amount of KISS threads seems to grow
He also dismembered Bono pretty good.
"Only an idiot gets his political opinions from rock stars. Do you really need a rock star to tell you how to save the rain forest?"
Even then, he kind of liked 70s Kiss. Not the 80s version, but then nobody but their diehard fans really likes that period. For all intents and purposes, they became just another among dozens of nearly interchangeable hair metal bands.
I know people who unironically like Music From The Elder
> And I've had people say to me 'Yeah, but Frank Zappa...' Big deal. Frank Zappa made a bunch of funny noises and wrote a bunch of pretentious lyrics to con gullible young women, which is kind of an oxymoronic thing to say if you think about it, into sleeping with him. And you know what? He succeeded. He got rich, he got laid, and he died. The end. "
I'm sorry that you wrote songs about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll and parties and demanded to be taken seriously and that it somehow backfired.
>Anyone who thinks rock-and-roll is a serious art form is fooling themselves.
Has he ever heard of progressive rock, krautrock, art rock? I guess that in his mind, every rock song is about parties, getting high, getting wasted and having sex with groupies.
lol so mad
>thinks pretentious drivel is an adequate substitute for fine art
He thinks pretentious drivel is an adequate substitute for fine art.
For all their reputation as a kiddie band, that was mostly during the Dynasty-Elder arc, after signing with Mercury, they tried to get more adult again, hence Paul Stanley's infamous filthy 80s stage banter. He pretty rarely cursed in the 70s, but some of his 80s concerts would have made Larry Flynt blush. I don't think he really wanted to do it, but Mercury pushed him into swearing up a blue streak to shake off that image of being a comic book band for 10 year olds. Whenever they performed in NYC, Paul kept his stage dialog clean because his mother would attend their concerts there.
>he's this upset
lmao
Great argument buddy, you sure proved us all wrong now. Oh, and by the way, isn't it funny that he supposedly had sex with thousands of women after becoming a member of a rock band (given that he supposedly hated this mentality)?
youtube.com
I think you just meant to quote , right?
There was one photo from the early 90s of Paul wearing a jumpsuit with FUCK written all over it. By that point, he was feeling a little weird about doing this stuff as he was pushing 40 and performing in front of people young enough to be his kids.
he's so mad that he lost control of himself
I've never listened to any of his music but that video is FUCKING HILARIOUS
Did you mean to namedrop both prog rock and krautrock as if they're two distinct things?
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For all the joie de vivre over the reunion tour in the late 90s, it was really pretty fucking bad music. Ace and Peter could barely even play anymore and on Psycho Circus, they play on a grand total of two songs, leaving all the rest to session musicians. Yes, there was the whole magic and nostalgia of seeing the original four guys on stage again, but that obscures just how crappy most of those shows were.
Ok, buddy, you've gotten enough (You)'s.
>Genre that combines elements from Jazz, Western Classical Music, Rock and many others. Its homeland is England and arose in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its main features are the complexity of harmonies, arrangements and musical structure. The suites (songs divided in movements) are also a trademark, along with narrative and abstract lyrics.
>"Krautrock" is a term coined by the British music press, and is generally used to refer to the progressive and experimental groups of late 1960s and early 1970s Germany. Although they all differed in their approach to their music, the underlying link between all the krautrock groups was the attempt to take the rhythm ("motorik" was the name given to the steady 4/4 beat used by many groups) and energy of American rock music and disassociate it as much as possible from its Rhythm & Blues roots, instead drawing inspiration from other sources.
Peter Criss broke his wrists in a car accident in 1978 while driving drunk. His ability to play rapidly declined and in fact Anton Fig did most of the drumming on Dynasty.
Fucking Lou Reed co-wrote that album. It is still by far the strangest thing KISS has ever done
Did you actually read what you copypasted?
Have you actually listened to both progressive rock and krautrock? Care to refute anything of what I've said?
I'd like to hear you say something. Use your own words: how is "krautrock" distinct from any other kind of prog?
Have you actually listened to both progressive rock and krautrock? Care to refute anything I've said?
>the red hot anal pain radiating from this reply
tippity top kekty kek
>the underlying link between all the krautrock groups was the attempt to take the rhythm ("motorik" was the name given to the steady 4/4 beat used by many groups) and energy of American rock music and disassociate it as much as possible from its Rhythm & Blues roots, instead drawing inspiration from other sources.
except for the krautrock that doesn't have motorik beats
which is a shitload of them, including big names like Faust and Popol Vuh
Progressive rock:
>Concept albums (thematic)
>Longer songs
>Extended solos
>Influenced by classical and folk music
Krautrock:
>Influenced by electronic music, musique concrete, drone
>Neglecting the format of conventional psych-pop songs
>Repetitive drum pulses
>Use of guitar feedback
And people still tend to forget that God Gave Rock & Roll to You was actually a Rod Argent cover!
>after signing with Mercury, they tried to get more adult again
awkward af comma senpai
Source on this?
But none of those bullets are exclusive to either of the two.
This made me want to deepthroat a 12 gauge so bad
Simple but pretty dank
That part at 0:58 is good
The jam with the drums is good too it rips
Fuck off Gene Simmons
NASA should send this into space for the aliens to see
isn't she a filthy canadian
They forgot the platform shoes, man. Add 10cm to your height instantly.
wtf dave navarro can do better than that
I wish his mother had been killed in the Holocaust.
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