"TAKE TWO MORE LAPS, LADIES!!!!!"
Reminds me of the way my gym coach would point and glare......exact resemblance, sans bass
She was a real hardass
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Gene Simmons and the horns
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Reminds me of the way my gym coach would point and glare......exact resemblance, sans bass
She was a real hardass
lol that's just stupid. So the football team, toilet seats, coffins, and radio station weren't enough?
Good luck collecting royalties from any Slayer fans
I'm venturing to say THIS predates them all...
... probably even had real fire spewing from it's mouth, at one time...
... take that, Gene!
... probably even had real fire spewing from it's mouth, at one time...
... take that, Gene!
That's actually a slightly different gesture - it's ASL for "love", a neat tie-in with the title.KISS - Love Gun album (1977). The cover was painted by Ken Kelly. Maybe he popularized the gesture.
I know this because a (long-ago) girlfriend was given a couple of books by her born-again mother, which laid out in agonising, mostly spurious and often incorrect, detail about how everything in the rock music industry was somehow devil-worship. Mostly it was a long-winded way of avoiding responsibility for his love of booze, drugs and abusing women (his description, not my accusation).
This was one of the better ones - he described both the devil-horns and the ASL sign in detail, and asserted that this picture involved the former. Refuted in the time it took to pull my copy off the shelf and look at the cover; maybe his primary audience just weren't much into fact-checking.
As for the origin of the gesture, the version I heard was that a guitarist wanted to wave to the crowd without dropping his pick, the fans got excited and returned the wave, and it spread from there. It'd help if I could remember which guitarist, yes...
Didn't she have a role in 'Porkies'?
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For your information I took patent on boiled water™ and hot air™.
Anyone using these without my explicit permission and paying me for their license, can expect to get their sorry ass sued to hell in the near future!
So watch it!
Anyone using these without my explicit permission and paying me for their license, can expect to get their sorry ass sued to hell in the near future!
So watch it!
This is funny because in the film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Dio tells a story of how Gene Simmons tried to patent the initials "OJ" for orange juice - so that he would get royalties every time someone said it on TV (or something).
I don't think the story was true, but the point was that Dio seemed to take great amusement in Gene's business antics! He might have got a kick out of this latest thing if he'd been around to see it.
(... and in the film Dio also tells the story of how his grandmother used to do "the horns" to ward off evil, so he started doing it onstage. I've met various Italians who confirmed it's a thing.)
I don't think the story was true, but the point was that Dio seemed to take great amusement in Gene's business antics! He might have got a kick out of this latest thing if he'd been around to see it.
(... and in the film Dio also tells the story of how his grandmother used to do "the horns" to ward off evil, so he started doing it onstage. I've met various Italians who confirmed it's a thing.)
whoah - Gene Simmons posts on TB!
Aqualung60 gets it. And it worked. Here we are on Talkbass talking about Gene Simmons. He wins again.Anything to keep his name in the news.......
It's just 'bizness' baby!
Regardless of who first used it in a show, none of those that have were the first to come up with it.
That hand sign predates all of them by several hundred years. So I'm not sure where the "original" in "original creative work" part of the copyright act comes into play with this bogus publicity stunt.
I think Gene just wants to create a little media buzz for himself, get everybody talking, and looking at old photos and videos and maybe buying some old CDs.
Can a farewell tour announcement be far off?
Regardless of who first used it in a show, none of those that have were the first to come up with it.
That hand sign predates all of them by several hundred years. So I'm not sure where the "original" in "original creative work" part of the copyright act comes into play with this bogus publicity stunt.
I think Gene just wants to create a little media buzz for himself, get everybody talking, and looking at old photos and videos and maybe buying some old CDs.
Can a farewell tour announcement be far off?
It's corporatism. I seem to remember that years ago a software company tried to trademark the word "English". More examples: You can't trademark everything
1.) No
2.) Most of the time when he does it, his thumb is out, which is standard sign language for "I Love You." You can't trade mark that.
3.) You can't trademark a hand gesture.
4.) Ronnie James Dio is generally accepted as being the originator of the "Horns." Something he said a Grandmother(?) used to ward off the Evil Eye.
5.) The band BabyMetal uses their own crap version saying it is their "Fox God" (Kitsune) and I've seen Grand Canyon University cheerleaders doing it. That's a Christian private college, so apparently the "Horns" can be anything you want them to be.
6.) Can these guys $%#&ing retire already so I can get on with my life long practice of ignoring them?
2.) Most of the time when he does it, his thumb is out, which is standard sign language for "I Love You." You can't trade mark that.
3.) You can't trademark a hand gesture.
4.) Ronnie James Dio is generally accepted as being the originator of the "Horns." Something he said a Grandmother(?) used to ward off the Evil Eye.
5.) The band BabyMetal uses their own crap version saying it is their "Fox God" (Kitsune) and I've seen Grand Canyon University cheerleaders doing it. That's a Christian private college, so apparently the "Horns" can be anything you want them to be.
6.) Can these guys $%#&ing retire already so I can get on with my life long practice of ignoring them?
