Gene Simmons called the "more honest" groupie kiss connections than real relationships
CO-Fontman also considered that it slept with nearly 5,000 women.
"We wanted to form a group like the Beatles on steroids", singer and bassist Kiss Gene Simmons said earlier this year in the early 1970s of the group. Part of the lifestyle of rock star that they obtained meant winning a legion of female fans, many of whom had sex with the members of the group. And Kiss was hardly expressed by their participation in the culture of groupies. During an appearance in 1988 on The Oprah Winfrey Show , Simmons and Co-Frontman Paul Stanley Defended their dallinations with mega-favors, arguing that the grouping connections were simpler and honest than traditional romantic relationships. Continue reading to learn more.
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Simmons said they started kissing to meet women.
In 1988, during the group Crazy nights time, Stanley and Simmons were guests of Oprah Winfrey , next to Rock Star author Jackie Collins And I am with the group: the confessions of a groupie memorist Bars . The musicians discussed the Rock Star / Groupie relationships and gave an overview of the rather not very sophisticated origins of the kiss. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Whoever tells you the story of wanting to transmit a greater knowledge of humanity really does not say the truth," said Simmons in the series. "The reason we started scratching the guitars is because we wanted women and many of them. And their daughters."
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They said everyone was there to have a good time.
"It's a bit like being in a buffet where everything is ready, and you don't have to take this or this or this, but everything is there to be eaten if you want," added Stanley in the interview From 1988. Despite the comparison of women to food, the stars of Hair Metal rejected the idea that they had "little respect" for women, suggesting that their groupie branches were more real than traditional meetings due to a lack of superficiality.
"I think that the relationships that occur on the road - one night stand so will - are much more honest than a lot of" let me take you dinner, gee you are an interesting person "[dates]", Simmons supported.
Dressed in leather and epaulettes, but without their brand face makeup, the two looked surprised when Winfrey suggested that some women may want a deeper connection.
"I think that the most beautiful game is that it is very honest and that it is frank and that no one has false expectations on what to expect," said Stanley. "I think it's a good time ... it does not go through the facade of these preliminary dates when you are not interested in what the person wants to have for dinner, you are obviously more interested in dinner with . "
Simmons opened in Winfrey.
The episode also addressed the subject of the most emblematic appendix of Simmon, who would become 14 years later the subject of his magazine de Bref, entitled Gene Simmons' language . Winfrey asked for how long his language was, noting in a widely broadcast tiktok clip From the episode that she had heard that it was "longer than most". A Smug Simmons replied: "It is long enough to make you my closest friend."
The talk show animator has covered his face in response.
Simmons said he had slept with at least 2,000 women (in 1988).
Elsewhere in the episode, Winfrey noted that Simmons had a sad Polaroid collection of Groupies and asked with how many women had slept. "Over the past 10 years ... More than 2000," said Simmons to audible public dressings.
However, the group still had a lot of tours in front of them. Until 2005, Simmons continued to speak straight about the groupies in his life, according to a Contact music Article cited in courageous words. "I do not lie, like most men. I will tell a girl I want and desire her, but I will say directly to her:" I also want your sister and your mom ", he said .
These days, Simmons estimates the number of women with whom it was be around 4800, by The sun . As for the Polaroid collection? The star said he had burned him when he married his wife, actor Shannon Tweed , in 2011 after 28 years of meetings.
"I had the polaroids to prove it, oh yes," he said The sun . "But most of them were burned ... Shannon and I gathered with them and we had a ritual."
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His former group comrade accused him of having groped his wife.
There are more than a few people who have not been impressed by Simmons' claims. In 2019, group classmate outside-together in place Ace Frehley Taken on Facebook after Simmons made comments on the reasons why he and his colleague ousted Peter Criss would never be full members of Kiss. According to the AV club, Frehley alleged that Simmons had groped and offered his wife , who wanted to continue him.
"Today's comments made me realize that you are only [explanative] and a sexual addict which is prosecuted by several women, and you just try to sweep everything under the carpet!" The guitarist wrote.
At the time, Simmons faced a trial Brought by an employee of one of his Rock & Brews restaurants, who alleged that he had touched her inappropriately. ( She dropped the trial the following year.) In 2018, He settled with an unnamed radio personality Who allegedly allegedly allegedly transformed questions from standard interview into sexual innuendos "and had cut him during the photos.
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