Gene Simmons thread 75 | Jüdische Allgemeine

On the silver platter, Gene Simmons is one of the few ways to absorb and break down the costs. After 50 years, the bassist and singer played the most delicious concert with his iconic band Kiss this month. If you feel yourself, there will be no infringement on the stage. The kultrocker with the long pregnancy, on August 25th 75 years old, now runs without his famous make-up.

Abschied von Kiss, aber nicht von der Bühne

Dass es Simmons did not last long, war was omitted. In 2022 the time had come, the Kiss Abschied was my biggest loss. »The Magic of the Stage«, it said. »If a man appears on the stage, a man can quickly appear, where someone on the stage could speak. If you are a Viertelmillion person on the Ostersonntag, spreading your arms and cheering all over, it is not a negligible issue. «

So the people who had the spirit of the band were never a concert. If you want to see more, you see the big arenas and the stadium. My biggest concert since 1983 in the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro is in front of 137,000 people.

During the more »End Of The Road« tour, which was opened up by the Corona pandemic, Kiss won 250 concerts in 2019 and 2023. They are showing both shows in the Heimatstadt New York City in Madison Square Garden statt.

Traum of money and women

There are a few Straßenblöcke that made Kiss Absolviert in the year 1973 in the first place – for a few Leuten. When a friend of the woman sees the wife of Schlagzeuger Peter Criss and a few Freunde in the Popcorn Pub in the city, Queens dabei gewesen, Simmons erzählte in dpa-Interview on 50. Band anniversary. The clothes and make-up of Simmons, Criss, singer and guitarist Paul Stanley and lead guitarist Ace Frehley were not real ladies.

Common with Stanley hatte Simmons who got the Band Wicked Lester, the songs for a planned album appear, that is not nice. Simmons and Stanley gründen a new band and plant spectacle. When he started a band with the duo Ehrgeiz and Hartnäckigkeit, which Wille let go, wanted to become Rock’n’Roll-Stars. In späteren Interviews Simmons was still uninterested, it was his motivation not to go to the music, to the money and the woman.

From Israel to the US

Who Stanley comes with Simmons from a Jewish family. As Chaim Witz was born on August 25, 1949 in Haifa. His mother Flora Klein, who came from Hungary, had overloaded the Nazi concentration camps in Ravensbrück, Flossenbürg and Mauthausen before emigrating to Israel. The research into the »Bild« is very important. When Simmons takes over the entsprechenden documentation for the second time, you can beat the cool Rockstar with the Tränen.

I’ve been muttering the blessing in the US for eight years. The father stays in Israel and the gründete are a family. From the little Chaim Witz, Eugene Klein became in America. As a beginning fishing musician career, Gene Simmons is then um. So the rocker, the Kiss costume as »The Demon« (der Dämon) is looking for a fire and (art) blood, nor American blades.

Aim for the American Trauma

In Armut Simmons was called the »American Dream«. If I am with the kiss of the war in the war of Rockstar, this is a terrible Geschäftsmann. There is power over Kiss a Marke and a kind of dafür, the band logo and the iconic imagery for feature films, clothing and uncomplicated products. Beinharte fans can indulge in a Kiss-Sarg beer dinner.

An exit in film history would be for Kiss zum Flop. The film »Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park« from the year 1978, in Germany as »Kiss – Von Phantomen gejagt« in the Kinos-kam, is unbridled comic. Unter Fans are a heute Kultstatus.

Simmons appeared in the 80s as a playwright. He is played in the science fiction thriller »Runaway – Spiders of Death« with Tom Selleck. Among other things, in the TV series »Miami Vice« and the heavy metal horror film »Trick Or Treat« with. With the Hollywood career world, this is never the case.

Erfolg with Kiss, soldiers Glück with Shannon

It continues with Kiss. ​​After the band had left its mask in 1983 and had a little make-up, it continued with the original make-up with the make-up in 1996. In grunge and alternative rock, 90ern Kiss suddenly dominated again as one of the most popular live groups. The classic line-up is now a year ago, from December 2, 2023 the make-up is ready for Kiss-aufritt in Madison Square Garden.

Simmons‹ american trauma is more like inheritance. There would be a rich and splendor that damn, with beautiful women in their bets. The Zwischendurch war took place with the singer Diana Ross and Cher liiert. His private happiness came in 1986 with actress and model Shannon Tweed. Since 2011 the Kanadierin has been married. The couple has two children.

No long roads in sight

Ob Gene Simmons in Zukunft more Zeit für seine Familie hat, is fraglich. Zur Ruhe continues with »The Demon« and no more. Neben zahlreichen geschäftlichen Projecten – auch rund um die Marke Kiss – will be in Zukunft with a new Group on the Stage stehen. Gerade went to concerts in Germany for the first time with the Gene Simmons Band – in Oberhausen and at Wacken Open Air. Langeweile also didn’t dry.

“Of course it would be the case, who would like to receive a Teil von Kiss,” said Gene Simmons in the conversation with the Deutschen Presse-Agentur an. »Aber man sollte delete, when man vom Tisch aufstehen muss, when man fell gegessen hat. Who can find a man in his life? We live in reichlich abbekommen.«