CHRIS IMPELLITTERI Slams KISS Legend For Comments On Depression - "GENE SIMMONS Is A Complete Fucking Moron!"
August 15, 2014, 10 years ago
In a new interview with Songfacts.com (found here), Simmons addressed the subject of alcoholics, drug addicts and people who suffer from depression:
“For a putz 20-year-old kid to say, ‘I’m depressed. I live in Seattle.’ F– you, then kill yourself. 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.’ Are you kidding? Why are you announcing it. Shut the f— up, have some dignity and jump! You’ve got the crowd. By the way, you walk up to the same guy on a ledge who threatens to jump and put a gun to his head, ‘I’m going to blow your f—in’ head off.’ He’ll go, ‘Please don’t.’ It’s true. He’s not that insane.”
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, a recovering drug addict, ripped a strip off the KISS legend during his syndicated radio show, Sixx Sense. Listen to Sixx and co-host Jenn Marino's comments here.
Impellitteri guitarist Chris Impellitteri has since added to the growing shitstorm:
"Gene Simmons is a complete fucking moron! Thank you Nikki Sixx for calling out this idiot! I personally can relate to depressions as both my mother and step father committed suicide when I was 9 years old! I went to bed with a family and woke up as an orphan! Thank God I had my guitar which led me to creating Impellitteri and becomming this shredder that you guys have come to know. More importantly, all of you suffering from depression keep your heads up and know that you are loved!"For background information on depression and its symptoms, go to this location.
