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05/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Pearl Jam is no doubt considering early retirement."
Pearl Jam is no doubt considering early retirement.
I mean, when a hip mega-rockstar like Gene Simmons announces he isn't going to buy your records any more, your career's about over, right?
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Gene Simmons continued his assaults on other artists he feels are 'giving aid and comfort to the enemy'. Insight magazine recently printed an interview with Simmons where he singled out two artists he would no longer support: Pearl Jam and The Dixie Chicks. Simmons feels that Pearl Jam's recent anti-Bush antics on stage would cost the band in the end. A few fans walked out of a recent concert in Denver following an anti-bush tirade from the stage from Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. Simmons warns, "I don't think everybody that booed will stop buying Pearl Jam records or going to Pearl Jam concerts, but I do know that a segment of the audience will stop. I'm one. I've bought Pearl Jam records. I'm out. He crossed the line...."
Simmons also told the magazine that he has pulled a planned feature on the Dixie Chicks from his magazine, Gene Simmons Tongue. "In time of war, to aid and give comfort to the enemy on foreign soil, on stage and in a public forum is perfect fodder for anybody's press overseas that has a slightly different agenda, and I think it's reprehensible. And just because you're cute and have D-cups doesn't mean it's any less reprehensible."
Yeah, and just because you can lick your eyebrows with your tongue and your music was relevant 25 years ago, doesn't mean your political opinions have any weight at all.
Replies: 6 people speak up
Hey, look what happened when he broke up with Cher.
Well, actually, she got a movie career and her records started selling and she won an Oscar, but it's the principle of the thing.
On the other hand, when Gregg Allman broke up with Cher, she ended up with Gene Simmons.
I'd say that about puts him in his place on the karmic scales.
Posted by julia @ 05/24/2003 04:48 PM NY
Haha. This guy's pathetic.
And! He's giving "aid and comfort" to the very people who have tried in the past to censor rock music, which will give them more strength to do it in the future. What a sad little old man.
Posted by madprophet @ 05/24/2003 06:32 PM NY
Gene Simmons is the washed up Bill O'reilly of the music industry. I wish that Aerosmith would cancel their tour with Kiss. Aerosmith is a legit relevent Rock band of mega talent, while Kiss has never been anything more than a conceptually made up novelty act. Gene Simmons lives from selling little Kiss figurines & other crap, because he no longer has the machine (record label), behind him to place more mediocre songs on his lap. So it has become easy for him to criticize those with talent, fans, brains & morals.
My condolences to all Kiss fans.
Posted by Pedro @ 05/24/2003 07:00 PM NY
Isn't Simmons actually Israeli anyway? I'm not trying to indict the whole of Israelis here, but maybe there's a little more going on with Simmons support for US Middle East policy than meets the eye...
Posted by Spade Hammer @ 05/25/2003 12:23 AM NY
Spade,
You must be my doppelganger! I was just about to post an almost identical message when I came upon your comment.
You're right, Simmons is an Israeli of the Sharon, hard-line variety. And believe me, when a mega-super-hyper star like Simmons makes public pronouncements, the world sits up and take notice. Do you think his comments will make the front page of today's Sunday NYT?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/25/2003 01:30 AM NY
Oh, Simmons' music was EVER relevant? You mean the 'party all night' throwaway? Kiss may have been a phenomenon, but music had almost nothing to do with it.
It's great to learn this asshole is on the other side of politics along with Charlie Daniels and Ted Nugent. What a character to be aligned with! Best political news I've heard in a while.
Posted by Factchecker @ 05/27/2003 12:39 PM NY
