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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGene Simmons Tells Depressed People: 'F**k You, Kill Yourself'
https://tv.yahoo.com/news/gene-simmons-tells-depressed-people-f-k-kill-154600164.html"Drug addicts and alcoholics are always, 'The world is a harsh place.' My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don't want to hear f**k all about "the world as a harsh place." She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life," the 64-year-old told SongFacts.com. "And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, 'I'm depressed, I live in Seattle.' F**k you, then kill yourself."
Unfortunately, he didn't stop there. "I never understand, because I always call them on their bluff. I'm the guy who says 'Jump!' when there's a guy on top of a building who says, 'That's it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to jump,'" Simmons continued. "Are you kidding? Why are you announcing it? Shut the f**k up, have some dignity and jump! You've got the crowd."...
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, 55, commented on the shocking quotes during his radio show Sixx Sense, saying, "I like Gene. But in this situation, I don't like Gene. I don't like Gene's words. There is a 20-year-old kid out there who is a KISS fan and reads this and goes, 'You know what? He's right. I should just kill myself.'"
I think I know where Gene can stick that legendary tongue of his.
edit: There is a 20-year-old kid out there who is a KISS fan? Srsly?
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Kick his ass Rutger and fuck the bonus indeed.
BeyondGeography
(39,276 posts)aka when everyone knew the 70s were going to shit.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)I'm tempted to say, "Same to you, pal!" regarding what he said to people who suffer from depression....
Is it any surprise that Gene describes himself as "Very Conservative"?
Cha
(295,899 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)Sixx Sense indeed...
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, 55, commented on the shocking quotes during his radio show Sixx Sense, saying, "I like Gene. But in this situation, I don't like Gene. I don't like Gene's words. There is a 20-year-old kid out there who is a KISS fan and reads this and goes, 'You know what? He's right. I should just kill myself.'"
muntrv
(14,505 posts)They don't want to be around such a douchebag.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)sort of novelty act and not a real band. I am still amazed by this. And I am a child of the 70's, pretty well schooled in the music. They just never played KISS on Pittsburgh rock stations, apparently.
johnp3907
(3,723 posts)I grew up listening to 'DVE in the 70s. A KISS song would've stuck out like a sore thumb.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)I just don't remember any KISS. I thought they were like the Monkees or the Partridge Family.
dawg
(10,607 posts)"Beth" got some airplay.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)I was aware of their act/makeup. They must have coasted pretty far on that, because obviously their music was extremely forgettable.
dawg
(10,607 posts)I liked Boston instead.
(But I later discovered Yes, Genesis & King Crimson, so I drifted off into nerd bliss.)
KISS has some good songs. Their image and showmanship were their big selling points, but some of their songs are decent, hooky hard rock. I can understand why some people love them. Detroit Rock City is my favorite.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Shows how engaged I was in pop culture.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)ELP, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Van Der Graaf Generator, Can, Tull, Tangerine Dream, the Canterbury scene, etc.
We proggers looked at Kiss in much the same way most people look at dog crap on their shoes. Disgusting and basically beneath contempt. At least the dog has an excuse - when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.
JI7
(89,172 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Like boy bands, or Donnie and Marie.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)1st grade, a kid brought an article about them to show & tell. I remember thinking they just looked like creepy clowns.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and its the same monster as on the surface.
PoutrageFatigue
(416 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Lazy tool looks like George Washington with a dye job. Wish I could make million$ playing four notes per song, half-sing badly and spit the occasional blood capsule.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I can't link to the YT performance because I'm at work . . . OMFG, it is phenomenally terrible.
Picture KISS being covered by 60+ year olds in greasepaint who cannot keep up or sing like KISS used to, missing notes all over the place and straining to even get the verses right. Bands that don't know when to pack it in are the ultimate worst thing to watch.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)back in the 1970s but have spent the last 35 years scrupulously avoiding Kiss as if they were plague rats.
Doesn't surprise me, though. They're not musicians and never really have been, they're just carnies, and carnies keep going until they keel over as long as there are marks willing to line up and get fleeced.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)You sure it's that many? Even if you're right, he could try playing them connected to the kick drum.
He's a dreadful player.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Once I was in a one-off band playing covers (cringe) and we were asked to play Detroit Rock City. TORTUROUS. Hate, hate, hate HATE that bass lick.
ismnotwasm
(41,916 posts)Ignorant, self-absorbed, selfish, destructive, examples of assholery as the rest of them.
And I'll be thinking of you the next suicide I hear of because it sure as hell ain't your face paint or music.
Also, I'll make sure the young ones in my life understand what an asshole you are.
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)To the surprise of no one. I seem to recall that he endorsed Mitt, and he usually shows up on all the lists of conservative celebrities.
Pure asshole, through and through. Utterly repulsive.
merrily
(45,251 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Probably all that jet black dye he's been putting in his hair has leached through and addled his brain.
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)black thing on his head
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)for what ever reason Williams's death has been politicized.
merrily
(45,251 posts)excuse things like depression, vs. the tough, badass conservatives who supposedly love life. (Yet always seem so bitter, angry and mean-spirited anyway. Just another way of showing joy, I guess.).
Orsino
(37,428 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)This is the ultimate self centered, self-absorbed douche, though:
"If my grannie and I are not depressed, no one else has a right to be. So, anyone who is depressed should just fuck off and kill themselves."
Yes, because all humans are identical, right?
Or, it could be, as usual, money and one of the sore spots with conservatives: disability benefits. Sometimes, depression is disabling.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)Time
Orsino
(37,428 posts)His words say he's managed to blind himself to everyone else on the planet.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Hey Gene. You suck, your band sucks and has always sucked donkey dick.
Lowest common denominator bullshit for the rubes. Little steak, lotsa sizzle.
You're a 1% asshole. And a plain old asshole on top of it.
I hope your next fire-breathing act goes bad and you blow your own head off.
You are a colossal walking turd.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)I never did like this scumbag.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)War Horse
(931 posts)that Chuck Norris has gone nuts. At least my childhood hero Arnold is an upstanding guy.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Welcome to DU!
Catherine Vincent
(34,485 posts)Stupid low class that badmouth the dead. He and Nixx are one and the same so I don't know why he's criticizing that nasty Gene Simmons.
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)Was perfect.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)I don't.
Trash
Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)dogknob
(2,431 posts)Both god awful. Both ubiquitous while surrounded by artists light-years beyond them in ability, creativity and soul.
Sorry, deadheads... Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are members of Bohemian Grove. Just admit it. You got played.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I have half a mind to alert on this, but with my luck, I'd get a jury full of small-souled Dead h8rs like yourself.
You would alert simply because you disagree?
I thought they only did that over at... umm...
Anyway -- peace, bro.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The Dead were big extended family who did what they did because they loved music and playing it. Kiss would sodomize sheep at Madison Square Garden if there was enough money in it for them.
BAD comparison.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I despise cheese.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)he gets it
bulloney
(4,113 posts)I thought they were just a bunch of painted up goofs who played a lot of LOUD who looked like they were trying to find an S&M party.
I think they cranked out more albums than songs. Every album - the same songs over and over.
zappaman
(20,605 posts)I was 12 years old when ALIVE came out and loved them for maybe 2 years.
Probably cuz my parents hated them.
But then, I started listening to good music so these fuckers fell by the wayside.
Not to mention I discovered punk which pissed my parents off even more!!!
cui bono
(19,926 posts)There are no 20-year-old KISS fans.
Of course I think Simmons is an ass.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)No talent hacks in clown outfits.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)who treats his wife like crap.
He says he's never tried alcohol, or drugs but he is a slut for sure.
Boomerproud
(7,888 posts)Compassion? Empathy for the human condition? Doesn't sound like it.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Granted, I'm not a kid of twenty (I'm pushing forty) but his tirade is beyond ignorant and insensitive to those (including me) who suffer from mental illness.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)The way he treated Terry Gross in a Fresh Air interview was vile.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)He looks like one and acts like one.
This god damn filthy chickenhawk loves war yet never went to war. Has he considered the thousands of veterans who suffer from PTSD?
Liberal_from_va34
(50 posts)Seriously, what a jerk. I hope this outburst comes back to bite him in the ass in the near future.
Initech
(99,909 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)His mother being in a concentration camp has nothing to do with a 20 year-old kid who is depressed. One is a war crime the other is a medical condition. Sure we have empathy for those who ended up in a concentration camp, but that doesn't mean we can't have empathy for people with other problems. It is complete and utter bullshit.
I hope other artists come out and condemn what Simmons said. Most of his diehard fans won't give a flying shit about what he says, the obedient little jackasses. They are too busy kissing his ass.
and one last thing:
FUCK YOU GENE SIMMONS!
Ps-I'm posting this one Facebook and Twitter.
Edit: Here is what I wrong after thinking about it
Mr. Simmons, I have to admit that I was going to come here to tell you to fuck off, but I've had second thoughts about that. Your apology is not accepted on behalf of those who deal with mental health issues everyday. I have dealt my entire adult life with depression (well over 25 years). I am on 5-6 different medications to keep me stable. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford them like I can. If we treated mental health issues as an illness instead of a joke, our society would be much better off and we would have less people in prisons, jails, hospitals, and on government assistance. The sad fact is we don't. I seriously urge you to go volunteer for a day or a week at a mental health facility or jail and talk to people who are dealing with mental health issues. I think you will be surprised at what you find. Finally, I want to say that I object to the way you brought up your mother being in a concentration camp and the comparison to someone who is suicidal. It seems as though you treat one as serious and the other as a joke. This shows me you truly have no empathy for others.