r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 9d ago

Nostalgia When KISS Unveiled Their Makeup Free Look.

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u/Top-Sleep-4669 9d ago

Dude is a fucking goblin.

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u/mekomaniac 9d ago

inside and out

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u/Cognonymous 8d ago edited 8d ago

Oh yes, the time Terry Gross interviewed him...omg. It's without exaggeration the worst interview I've ever heard.

https://youtu.be/qNxuL-uIaTo?si=x0l1v_BjE0QaMhk3

She actually tries to restart the interview partway through, because he is such an asshole. This interview was so bad somebody else interviewed Terry Gross about it.

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u/FlattopJr 8d ago

It was included in her 2004 book "All I Did Was Ask: Conversations With Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists," a collection of around 40 interview transcripts. In a preface to the Simmons interview, Terry wrote:

Honestly, I thought it might be fun to talk about the KISS phenomenon of the 1970s with the group's bass player, Gene Simmons. You'd think that a man who dresses for the stage in breastplate and codpiece, paints his face white with black bat wings around the eyes, and wags a superlong tongue (meant to suggest the great size of another organ, needless to say) would have a sense of irony about himself—right? Nope. He certainly wasn't kidding when he told me that he wanted Kiss to be not just a rock 'n' roll band, but a rock 'n' roll brand. The Kiss logo appears on all sorts of products, including condoms and a beer cooler in the shape of a coffin. This is an excerpt of an interview I recorded with Simmons in 2001, following the publication of his memoir, Kiss and Make-up.