Kiss of death: Gene Simmons thinks Radiohead are killing music industry
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Some people just don't know when to keep their tongue in their gobs. Kiss lynchpin Gene Simmons reckons Radiohead are killing the music business and their live show is boring.
Simmons, talking to WENN, said: "The record industry is dead. It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. 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 civilised. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we'll record new material."
He's clearly not a fan and has recently been quoted saying: "I admire bands like Radiohead, but the idea of being that serious? Fuck that, get up on stage and blow shit up! Bands that stand by their microphones and strum their guitars are forgetting one important point - people are bringing their eyes, it's audio and visual. If you're not fulfilling the visual part, it's like watching a movie with your eyes closed.
"One of the biggest compliments we get is [people saying], 'I fucking hate their music but that's the best show I ever saw in my life'."
...fair enough?
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is this based on comments he made to Lala Laverne
on Saturday? It was a hilariously incompetent interview - she blatantly had no idea how to follow up the line of questioning and the actually quite valid points he brought up.
you do have to agree that
kiss put on one hell of a stage show. but their music is so awful the bad faaaar outweighs the good
i agree
with the stage show point of view, as in that if the preformer(s) stand there doing nothing its like just listening to the cd on your own.
also, "Some people just don't know when to keep their tongue in their gobs" - fried gold.
oh
and sorry to be pernickety, but you're misreporting - he didn't slag off radiohead's music or live show, he slated the freetard model.
The comments about visual things in live shows was a general criticism of many bands.
Seany seany seany... i fort you knew better than to repeat comments from the Sun...
He's got a point though,
there's no showmen or actual performers anymore in music, everyone takes themselves so seriously *sigh*.
Freddie Mercury at LiveAid or Prince's "Sign 'O' the Times" DVD are essential viewing to see real performers in action.
have added the sources now
saw this story on a few other sites, none of which had a source for the comments but 20mins of googling later and I found them all on WENN http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wenn/20080613/ten-simmons-slams-boring-bands-c60bd6d.html
hes got a point
i hate kiss, but dont really care about radiohead either so fair game
Slipknot?
Sufjan Stevens? Beck?
:)
now i am satisified. Jack and Coke on me next time i see you.... Boring by the Sea? I have NEWS.
Clearly
More bands should sell pinball machines and coffins. It's the only way to save the industry.
^ they look sick
As for Simmons, put that coital weapon away you dirty old man.
i drunkenly agreed to dj the aftershow months ago
nearly forgot all about it.
Flaming Lips!
Innit.
If Kiss aren't realising any new material until people stop downloading
this is a good thing - Psycho Circus only had one good song on it (maybe two if i was being ultra generous)
What about the tune 'Kiss Loves You' by Lach
here you have a nerdy anti-folker singing a tune about being a nerdy anti-folker who loves Kiss and has a Kiss lunchbox, sung in a style (particularly live) that Kiss would clearly despise, but sung in the style of a Kiss song as if being sung by a nerdy anti-folker, which he is. And does. Erm, what am i talking about?
Slipknot...
purrleeeease.
Beck I have seen, though wouldn't go as far as calling him a performer as such in the way Mercury and Prince are, you dig? Though good call with Flamming Lips (below), hadn't thought about them!
Standing around playing
At least Yorke shows emotion. Anyone been to a fucking Justice show? I've never seen such lack of emotion, ever.
Maybe from a Vulcan.
Also, I always say this, but Craig Finn of The Hold Steady is a performer to the core. I've never seen anyone so happy to be on stage in my life.
^^^^^
Having just seen Kiss i have to disagree. One of the best shows you will ever see.
the thought of.....
radiohead wearing make-up based on cats and other animals whilst playing live doesn't bear thinking about........
fat slob Simmons totally misses the point here - if radiohead are like a chekhov play, then kiss are a jim davidson christmas panto.......
I was at this press conference
And he didnt mention Radiohead so really putting them in the news story is just a way of attracting traffic.
:D
"Fuck that, get up on stage and blow shit up!"
Talking Heads!
Innit.
I
was saying Kiss are probably amazing live, with all the zip wires and pyrotechnics and that.
Kiss
Pre OK Computer Radiohead were really edgy live, mainly because of Jonny and Thom putting a lot of energy into the performance. Since then they appear to perform as introverts, and if you are not drawn into the music it becomes a piss boring show. Kiss is the diametric opposite, but Simmons should work on his own act a bit, because the Stooges they are not... having a colossal explosion every five minutes may indeed stop the audience getting bored, but it's no substitute for genuine adrenaline.
Comparing Justice to Radiohead
is about as silly as comparing Radiohead to Kiss.
I would love
"Fuck that, get up on stage and blow shit up
thom yorke to come on and say this whilst Phil Selway rotated in a giant suspended kit and jonny fired glitter cannons from his laptop. Pyro during the National Anthem would be awesome.
IN FACT
if it means less moronic crap like Kiss and Dio and Judas Priest and all these awful metal bands I was forced to put up with then good fucking riddance
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