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22 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Explains His Capitol Hill Testimony On Pay For Artists From Radio Plays: 'It's An Injustice That Has Long Been Overdue'
18 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Says Artists Are Treated 'Worse Than Slaves' Because Radio Doesn't Pay Them: 'Slaves Get Food And Water'
16 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Says 'A.I. Is A Concern If Left Unregulated': 'The Government Must Get A Federal Law That Encompasses All Of A.I.'
14 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS On Being Recognized At 2025 'Kennedy Center Honors' Without ACE FREHLEY: It Was 'Heartbreaking'
8 дек 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS To Testify Before Senate To Support Artist Radio Play Compensation
7 ноя 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I Love Cake. Cookies, Chocolates, Cake. It's About As Much Fun As I Can Have With My Pants On.'
10 окт 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS 'Recovering At Home' After Being Hospitalized Following Malibu Car Crash
26 авг 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I've Got My Finances In Such Order That The Next Two To Three Generations Are Taken Care Of'
30 июн 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS BAND Performs At Opening Of 'Rock & Brews Restaurant And Concert Bar' In Oklahoma
7 июн 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'THE BEATLES Are Above And Beyond Anything That Anybody's Seen In Music Over 200 Years'
19 май 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS BAND Performs In Niagara Falls During Spring/Summer 2025 U.S. Tour
7 май 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS BAND Performs In Red Bank, New Jersey During Spring/Summer 2025 U.S. Tour
5 май 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS Plays First Two 2025 Shows With His Solo Band
29 апр 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Says 'Astronomical' Insurance Costs Are Why He Is Charging More Than $12K For One Fan To Be His 'Roadie' For A Day
20 апр 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Reflects On His Decision To Call His Second Solo Album 'A**hole': 'I Don't Have A Problem With It'
13 апр 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I'm Still Sad' About ACE FREHLEY And PETER CRISS Not Being Able To 'Enjoy The Fruits Of Their Labor'
21 мар 2025 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS Reads The Weather On Los Angeles TV Station
10 мар 2025 :	You Can Be GENE SIMMONS's Roadie For A Day — For $12,495
11 фев 2025 :	GENE SIMMONS Explains Why Rock Music Is No Longer As 'Fashionable' As It Once Was
24 дек 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS Admits He Took Some Heat For Contributing To 'Reagan' Movie, But Says 'I Don't Give A Squat'
21 дек 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS On Performing With His Solo Band: 'There's A Magic That Happens Up There That Words Don't Describe'
3 дек 2024 :	See Music Video For GENE SIMMONS's Cover Version Of Jazz Standard 'Stormy Weather'
2 дек 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS Says Rock Is Still Dead, Explains Why
14 окт 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I Stand By Every Word I Said' On 'Dancing With The Stars'
14 окт 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS Blasted For 'Offensive' And 'Sexist' Comments As Guest Judge On 'Dancing With The Stars'
30 сен 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I'm Okay With Being Labeled Or Thought Of As An A**hole'

12 дек 2020

GENE SIMMONS: 'The Record Industry Is Dead For New Artists'

The Larry King YouTube channel has uploaded the full 26-minute interview with KISS bassist Gene Simmons conducted by guest host Dennis Miller in the fall of 2019. During the chat, Simmons discussed his long career with KISS and why "End Of The Road" is the last tour the band will do together.

Speaking about the state of the rock scene and the impact of digital streaming services on the music industry, Gene said (see video below): "I've said this 10 years ago, when streaming and downloading and all that stuff was for free. RADIOHEAD, it bears noting, tried to do a brand new record and said to their fans, 'Pay whatever you will.' It's interesting to note it hasn't been done since, 'cause it doesn't work. If you leave the doors open in a supermarket and say, 'Pay whatever you want,' people will just go ahead and pay nothing. But it doesn't work, because people would rather get stuff for free.

"My heart goes out to new bands," he continued. "There's so much good talent out there that will never get a chance. Right now in the zeitgeist, they think, 'Okay, music industry. I get on 'X Factor' or 'The Voice' and I sing, and then I have a career. They have no idea what it means. The other thing is that record companies simply cannot make money.

"My daughter, Sophie, is a huge Spotify writer, singer and all that. She's written for Rick Ross and Yellow Claw and all these kinds of [artists]. She's got tons of songs that have been downloaded millions and millions of times. You can download something 10 million times and make a few hundred bucks.

"The record industry is dead for new artists," Gene added. "Rock is dead. The last great rock band was the FOO FIGHTERS, and that's 20 years ago. You can't name another rock band, because you can't make a living.

"When I first started in '73, there was still a record industry, and the record company, which we used to talk badly about, was the best friend you ever had — they gave you millions of dollars and tour support and all that, and they only took money back from the records you sold. So you sold records, and then people showed up and got all that live money and the licensing and the merchandising.

"Until legislators become well educated and understand the nature of the business, they're unqualified to talk about copyrights or the record industry."

This is not the first time Gene has painted a bleak picture of the state of rock music. Back in 2014, he told Esquire magazine that "rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed and now it won't because it's that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it."

A number of hard rock and heavy metal musicians have weighed in on the topic in a variety of interviews over the last several years, with some digging a little deeper into Simmons's full remarks and others just glossing over the headline.

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12 дек 2020

НELLECTOR

Пиздец.
Одна говнина хвалит другую.
Но так? Пиздец....

12 дек 2020

resurgamresponses

не , он забыл добавить. "Для меня.".

12 дек 2020

sibterminator

Видимо Джин имеет ввиду размеры площадок для выступления и вообще образ жизни Файтеров. Например когда Грол (который не поет гролом) после перелома на сцену прибыл, это ППЦ как круто было.
Ну а материал, что у Бойцов, что у Кисс шляпа. Мож Бойцам Дейзмонд Чайлда нанять, пока он не помер, а Грол не начал петь как современный Кипелов?

12 дек 2020

НELLECTOR

>>>Мож Бойцам Дейзмонд Чайлда нанять

Слушали мы тут Bat out of Hell III от Meat Loaf авторства Десмонда Чайлда. Пусть лучше старые винилы Бон Джови перебирает, чем песни пишет.

12 дек 2020

Who is Grey

Опять в вечность пукнул...

12 дек 2020

Nord61

Интересно, а Симмонс вообще слышал о Muse, Airbourne, The Darkness, Arctic Monkeys, да о тех же Greta Van Fleet? Что - эти парни не пишут альбомы, не ездят в туры и не собирают солидные площадки? Так, лабают по пятницам для двух десятков обрыганов в вонючих кабаках? Похоже, память начала подводить старика Хаима.

12 дек 2020

gravitgroove

"Последняя великая группа" )))) Мистер Нафталин не в теме, но...
Я посмотрел их сел лист и не могу сказать, что они сильно великие (про Foo Fighters) и последние.

12 дек 2020

Xander

Ну ясен хрен, что ещё от них можно ждать

13 дек 2020

Bombadil

Что он морозит?