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Opinion on Gene Simmons

Opinion on Gene Simmons

  • He's Awesome

    Votes: 41 8.4%
  • He's Ok

    Votes: 182 37.1%
  • He's Absolutely Horrible

    Votes: 191 38.9%
  • No Opinion

    Votes: 77 15.7%

  • Total voters
    491
  • Poll closed .
I Don't Want ANY Bashing Just Vote and if you don;t have anything positive to say, don't say anything. If you don't listen to KISS, never had, or have never heard his bass parts, dont even bother. Biased *****
 
To be totally honest, Gene Simmons was one of the reasons I started playing bass, many years ago. I still think he's OK.

Oh hell yeah... I used to dress up as the Demon for halloween in the 70's. I used to own a copy of Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park. He made bass cool... and then when I started playing, I learned his parts. I was less impressed. Got to start someplace though :)
 
a friend of mine lent me a box set of kiss live. it was about 6 hours long and it took me about a half an hour to go through it. not gene simmons specifically, but the whole band are just unbelievably average. i like a few songs by kiss but for the most part if it wasn't for the makeup and costumes they would've been just another bar band trying to play their way across the usa until they got fed up and got real jobs. i voted he was okay, that's about as positive as i can be.