KISS' Gene Simmons - "I Will Be Damned If I'm Going To Allow Somebody To Download The New Record For Free After We've Spent Six Months Of Our Lives Working On It"
April 24, 2010, 14 years ago
KISS' Gene Simmons spoke with Rushonrock.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
Rushonrock: Sonic Boom proved to one of the albums of 2009 but it was a long time coming. Do you wish you'd released a new record sooner?
Gene Simmons: "I don't think we should have done something sooner. I say everything in its time. If you're a farmer and you bring your stuff to market before it's open - when it's closed - then nobody buys it. It's the first rule of commerce. And what I'm in is actually called the music business. It's not called music. Everybody thinks great I'll just do music' but what about the business?"
Rushonrock: So why was 2009 the year to take your stuff to the market?
Simmons: "When we thought about releasing Sonic Boom we thought where is our retail partner? There are no real record stores anymore so as a band we have to ask ourselves where can we sell our product? And once we got Wall-mart on board it gave us the chance to pay attention, without worries, to the record."
Rushonrock: What worries could you possibly have?
Simmons: "I will be damned if I'm going to allow somebody from Newcastle College to download the new record for free after we've spent six months of our lives working on it. KISS is not a charity and we don't pretend to be."
Read the entire interview here.
