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i'mthatguy
Posted 2014-09-11 3:03 PM (#34250 - in reply to #34247)
Subject: RE: Dee responds to Gene Simmons claim that "Rock 'n' Roll is dead"
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Ha! As usual, "Dee knows best." (I see a new show coming to VH1Classic!). The irony is that Gene himself is one of the "greedy, big city record company moguls" who helped bring about the demise of his own industry (although, as Dee points out, it is not so much in demise as it is in flux). As a huge KISS fan myself going back to 1975, I could handle their merchandising and other cash grabs as long as they were producing good albums and good concerts, but they stopped doing both, in my opinion, around 1987 and that's when they started to lose me. I was at both days of the Heavy Montreal Festival this summer along with 75,000 other ticket holders (and Twisted Sister), and I can assure Gene that Rock n Roll is certainly not dead. Fans are hungry for it around the world. I was at a sold out Tom Petty concert at Madison Square Garden last night, and saw Aerosmith and Slash tear it up in Newark last week. Not dead. Vinyl record albums have made a resurgence in the last few years and LP sales grow bigger every month. And what is the largest selling genre in the vinyl market? Rock and roll. But maybe Gene's 2 newest KISS records haven't sold well for one reason: they aren't very good. If Gene spent more time on his song writing and producing a good album, maybe more people would be apt to buy it. TS proved an older band can sell records and be re-energized with their Christmas album. My wife didn't care what a Twisted Sister was until she heard that record and she's a huge fan now. Quality lasts, and quality sells. Gene and KISS are still all right in my book, if at the very least for what they accomplished in the 70s, but Rock n Roll will only die when rock bands like KISS stop being artists and instead turn into the corporate robber barons they once detested. Sorry for the rant.


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