“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this,” [Gene, aka Chaim] Simmons said, according to AOL News. “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
Source: Gene Simmons blames fans, P2P for killing music industry [Ars Technica]
Gene, you belong to a dark past.
For your knowledge: Bad music killed the record industry. I’m afraid that Glam Rock was part of it.
… and it seems that Radiohead, Trent Reznor and Soul Williams are doing just fine.
“Oh man, I’ve lost all faith in man kind.”
Gene Simmons in Family Guy, Road to Europe, Season 3, Episode 20
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Who is Gene Simmons? The only reason people today know who is he is Family Guy. As if someone downloads Kiss songs. And if someone does Simmons should be grateful that someone is still interested…
I guess you are right in regard to modern day listeners — Family Guy would be a great benefactor in the revival of Kiss…
And another thing — Kiss were big at a time when everyone recorded mix-tapes — is there a difference??
Glam rock is NOT bad music. there are some people in the world who are ultra capitalist. Gene simmons is one of them. Nother example is Lars Ulrich.
you can’t say that any of them made bad music. but if they went in to make music they stayed in to make money.