	HALESTORM's LZZY And AREJAY HALE Open Up About Mental H... 42
	STEVE MORSE On DEEP PURPLE: SIMON MCBRIDE 'Is Fitting T... 39
	28
	MANOWAR's ERIC ADAMS: 'If You Believe In What You&... 28
	21
	DEEP PURPLE Announces New Album '=1' 19
	ACCEPT’s WOLF HOFFMANN – “People Ask Me, &... 16
	HELLBUTCHER Featuring Former NIFELHEIM Members Announce Debu... 14
	Watch: SLIPKNOT Plays First Concert With New Drummer 13
	ARCH ENEMY's ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ Named One Of Executive P... 11

все новости группы

Gene Simmons

США

Hard Rock

http://www.genesimmons.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/genesimmons234
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialgenesimmons/

24 апр 2024 :	Watch: GENE SIMMONS And TOMMY THAYER Perform KISS Classics At Rock & Brews Grand Opening In Ridgefield
21 апр 2024 :	GENE SIMMONS To Play First Post-KISS Concert At Rock & Brews Grand Opening In Ridgefield, Washington
15 фев 2024 :	SEBASTIAN BACH Recalls Telling GENE SIMMONS's Daughter How KISS Inspired Him To Launch His Own Career In Rock
3 дек 2023 :	DESMOND CHILD – “GENE SIMMONS Called Me A Song Doctor So That He Didn’t Have To Say I Was A Co-Writer”
23 ноя 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Isn't A Fan Of Cellphones: 'If I Had My Druthers, I'd Take Them All Away'
20 ноя 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Says He Will No Longer Post On X Social Network
20 сен 2023 :	KISS' GENE SIMMONS Announces Limited Edition EB-0 Bass In Partnership With Gibson Custom Shop
19 сен 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Pays Tribute To YOSHIKI As Japanese Star Makes History In Hollywood
28 июл 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS: PAUL STANLEY And I 'Continue To Have This Astonishing Relationship'
18 июл 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Is 'Concerned' About Lack Of Artificial Intelligence Legislation
13 июл 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Opens Up About True Love And Marriage: 'I Never Wanted To Be Hurt Ever Again'
12 апр 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Donates $250,000 To MENDING KIDS Organization That Provides Free Life-Saving Surgical Care To Sick Children
24 мар 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Sells Las Vegas House For $11 Million
20 мар 2023 :	Is JOE BIDEN Too Old For A Second Term As U.S. President? GENE SIMMONS Weighs In
22 янв 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS Praises ABBA's 'Undeniable Songwriting'
6 янв 2023 :	GENE SIMMONS On KISS' Exclusion From Rolling Stone's "Greatest Singers" List - "I Don't Give A F*@k" (Video)
12 дек 2022 :	GENE SIMMONS Says He Hasn't Sold His Crypto Holdings Despite Market Drop
30 ноя 2022 :	GENE SIMMONS Says He Was Initially 'Happy' When TRUMP Became President, Admits He's An 'Ageist' About BIDEN
22 ноя 2022 :	GENE SIMMONS Drops Another Million From Asking Price Of Las Vegas House
15 ноя 2022 :	KISS's GENE SIMMONS Undergoes Procedure To Have Excess Kidney Stones Removed
25 окт 2022 :	GENE SIMMONS Urges KANYE WEST To Take His Medication And Surround Himself With 'Nicer People'
20 окт 2022 :	Has GENE SIMMONS Experienced Any Anti-Semitism As A Member Of KISS? He Responds
15 окт 2022 :	KISS' GENE SIMMONS On Mortality And Death - "I’d Be A Complete A**hole, Certainly More Than I Am Now, If I Wasn’t Grateful For This Amazing Life"
21 сен 2022 :	GENE SIMMONS: 'I Don't Have Friends'
9 сен 2022 :	GENE SIMMONS's MoneyBag Soda Celebrates Shipping One Million Bottles
30 авг 2022 :	Watch: KISS's GENE SIMMONS Celebrates 73rd Birthday Onstage In Sydney

7 сен 2021

GENE SIMMONS: 'Who Killed The Music Business? The Fans Did'

In a new interview with US Weekly, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons once again spoke about the decline of the music industry as consumers value access over ownership and experiences over assets.

"By and large, new artists will never have the chance that we got, because record companies would give us millions of dollars — once we got successful — as an advance, non-recoupable, with a royalty system and all that," he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "And so we didn't have to work day jobs. Now if you're a new band, you can't make a living because all the freckle-faced college kids — who, by the way, hate me — because what I'm saying is it's robbery. You're robbing by downloading and filesharing that music. It doesn't affect me; our band came before, when it was a real business. But the new artists, you're breaking my heart. It's like new babies being born without being able to have food. You're taking food from their mouths so they have to go work for a living and not have enough time for their art.

"Who killed the music business? The fans did," he continued. "Not a foreign power, not aliens; the fans killed it. And who do I blame? The record companies for not suing that first putz who dared break into the henhouse and steal some eggs and a chicken for free. As soon as you let that first fox into that henhouse to take some eggs without paying for it, the rest of the foxes come along. Likewise, cockroaches — you allow one into the kitchen, you squash that first one, the rest of 'em are gonna go, 'Uh-oh, we've gotta watch out.'

"So, Pandora's box has been opened. There are hundreds of millions of fans around the world that are trained [in their minds] not to pay for music. So what does that do for new bands? It kills them. When you take away the value of something, it becomes by definition worthless.

"Imagine being a farmer, and you sell eggs and chickens — that's what you do. And that first little cute fox comes in and steals an egg. And the farmer is gonna try to shoot the fox, 'cause, 'Hey, you're stealing my living.' And the wife says, 'Don't [shoot the fox]. It's so cute.' That cute little fox takes the egg back to where all the foxes are: 'Hey, we've got a sucker over here. Let's go get some chickens and eggs.' Before you know it, there are no chickens; no eggs' the farmer's out of business; the trucks that drove the farmer's stuff to market are out of business 'cause they don't have stuff; the supermarkets that sold the stuff are out of business. Everybody's out of business because that first putz, that first little hole in the Titanic sank the whole ship."

This is far from 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.

GENE SIMMONS:

-6


	( 18 )

Комментарии могут добавлять только зарегистрированные пользователи.
Вы можете зарегистрироваться на сайте или залогиниться через социальные сети (иконки вверху сайта).