This is on target. Gene Simmons is SOOOO normal in his day to day life. KISS was totally marketing... which is not to say it was good but it was not real in the sense of a Marilyn Manson or some of the others. When these guys came off stage they blended transparently into the mainstream for the most part.
As to the makeup and the performing of the KISS music... again I would be cautious about sowing a seed of question into his mind by over emphasizing my concern. This is a trip down to the land of nostalgia and is not likely to catch on with him or his peers. JMHO
Whoa... I didn't catch the bit about having to wear "KISS" makeup. I'd put my foot down right there. Just look at what that's done to Peter Criss' complexion. I'd tell him he can wear the fishnet stockings and platform shoes as long as it's warm outside- but no makeup!
"KISS" does NOT mean "Knights in Satan's Service" like many have said over the years... The band won't deny that claim because, well, it makes them look cool and Gene Simmons was always about making $$ from the band (the whole thing was just a scheme to make money, the maekup and costumes were just makeup and costumes and nothing else to the band... they had no meaning other than they looked cool)
I'd say don't make a big deal out of it, KISS is actually EXTREMELY tame and even has songs ("God gave Rock and Roll" for example) that could be seen as "Christian" songs (and have been covered by numerous Christian bands)
Oh rubbish....it's one thing to call them tame but quite another to try to say they are "Christian" songs.
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Every musician knows that this is the mantra for all successful performance... keep it simple stupid! Good grief... don't they teach ya'll nuthin out yonder in CalYfornIA?
Seriously....she says the S's are backward Zs so I am assuming it stood for something other than Keep It Simple Stupid
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Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
Who was that evangelist who was the Richard Heard wannabe who claimed he was an FBI agent, A Navy SEAL, probably a US Congressman etc. etc. etc. ... all before he was 30?
Of course he and a multitude of others claimed to have secret information that KISS stood for "Kings In Satanic Service" and were probably the forerunners of the anti-christ.
I guess they're corrupting those senior citizens on the Branson circuit now.
One of the senior citizens they're probably corrupting is the "forerunner" of the anti-christ that Jonathan Urshan preached about for 40-some-odd years that was going to come "any moment" from over there in Palestine somewhere - the guy that Andrew Urshan saw call fire down from heaven etc. etc.
He sure got a lot of mileage out of that one.
The guy will probably appear on a walker and with a colostomy bag; as old as he'd be by now.
KISS would be what I call "bubblegum" hard rock.
Hey, I do envy Gene Simmons or any man married to Shannon Tweed.
That is one FINE hunk of woman.
For my money, the best KISS related song was "New York Groove" off of Ace Frehley's solo album.
Here is a very unoffensive video where some guy put together scenes of New York.
Frehley was a native New Yorker and his love for his hometown is evident in the song.
[yt="New York Groove"]l_sBSPSURqY[/yt]
Ahhhh. HE LIVES! HE LIVES!
BTW I remember the "evangelist" but he wasn't Oneness. I heard him preach in what sounded like an AOG church (on tape)
Todd was the last name maybe? I can't remember. He was saying that he had just a little more time left to tell his story (hinting that eventually the witches will find him and kill him)
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There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
Every sinner must repent of their sins.
That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
Oh rubbish....it's one thing to call them tame but quite another to try to say they are "Christian" songs.
No really:
"You can take a stand, or you can compromise
You can work real hard or just fantasize
But you don't start livin' till you realize - I gotta tell ya!
God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you
Gave rock and roll to everyone
God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you
Put it in the soul"
BTW I remember the "evangelist" but he wasn't Oneness. I heard him preach in what sounded like an AOG church (on tape)
Todd was the last name maybe? I can't remember. He was saying that he had just a little more time left to tell his story (hinting that eventually the witches will find him and kill him)
Uh ... THIS evangelist was indeed "oneness" or pretty much a pragmatist.
He preached at Living Way in Lake Charles for either John Wilkins, Keith Clark or Mike Chance and I'm sure you know none of those guys would preach an AOG.
BTW I remember the "evangelist" but he wasn't Oneness. I heard him preach in what sounded like an AOG church (on tape)
Todd was the last name maybe? I can't remember. He was saying that he had just a little more time left to tell his story (hinting that eventually the witches will find him and kill him)
You know, seriously this time...
There is an element of KISS style Rock n' Roll in "Evangelism."
I'm thinking of people who become a parody of themselves, like Bob Larson, the Bakkers, Dave Hunt and Tex Marss, Jack Chick and "Alberto," "Dr. Dino" Kent Hovind ... the list goes on.
There is an element of KISS style Rock n' Roll in "Evangelism."
I'm thinking of people who become a parody of themselves, like Bob Larson, the Bakkers, Dave Hunt and Tex Marss, Jack Chick and "Alberto," "Dr. Dino" Kent Hovind ... the list goes on.
Bob Larson definitely became a parody of himself.
When it came to begging for money, he could make those offerings at General Conference look like they lasted only three minutes.
Who was that evangelist who was the Richard Heard wannabe who claimed he was an FBI agent, A Navy SEAL, probably a US Congressman etc. etc. etc. ... all before he was 30?
Of course he and a multitude of others claimed to have secret information that KISS stood for "Kings In Satanic Service" and were probably the forerunners of the anti-christ.
I guess they're corrupting those senior citizens on the Branson circuit now.
One of the senior citizens they're probably corrupting is the "forerunner" of the anti-christ that Jonathan Urshan preached about for 40-some-odd years that was going to come "any moment" from over there in Palestine somewhere - the guy that Andrew Urshan saw call fire down from heaven etc. etc.
He sure got a lot of mileage out of that one.
The guy will probably appear on a walker and with a colostomy bag; as old as he'd be by now.
KISS would be what I call "bubblegum" hard rock.
Hey, I do envy Gene Simmons or any man married to Shannon Tweed.
That is one FINE hunk of woman.
For my money, the best KISS related song was "New York Groove" off of Ace Frehley's solo album.
Here is a very unoffensive video where some guy put together scenes of New York.
Frehley was a native New Yorker and his love for his hometown is evident in the song.
[YT="New York Groove"]l_sBSPSURqY[/YT]
Do my eyes decieve me? wow! lookie who done showed up!
it was Kenneth Small. He left his wife and 2 kids in DeRidder and ran off with another woman. The boy has fifteen or twenty tatoos and the daughter well, lets just say she needed a husband but got something else instead.
That dude still needs s whoopin.
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