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Kiss bassist Gene Simmons was interviewed on the "Thunder Underground" podcast and spoke further about his often-held thesis that rock died because of the rise of digital music. This time, Simmons blamed the fans for the lack of good new bands.
“Look, this doesn’t affect me. I’m very rich. I can live. By some standards I’m rich and famous and all that (…) But it’s relative. However, none of this affects me. It doesn’t affect me. I live. We have our fans, they go to the shows and that’s great. We sell millions. We sell more than the Beatles and Elvis with licensing and merchandise, we sell more than ten bands combined. But imagine you’re in a new band, and you have passion and music and you love it, you can’t do it. There’s nothing else. They can’t play live because nobody knows who they are. So you need to show your music to people. But if you want to have money to live, you can’t show your music. So you live in your mother’s basement, you have a day job, and people take your music for free. ‘Just to promote the shows,’ that doesn’t work. And the people who killed the new bands are the fans themselves. It wasn’t the industry, it wasn’t aliens from space. The people who love music are the people who killed the music.”
He concluded by saying: “Have you ever heard a child say, ‘You’re too rich, you don’t need that money.’ Listen, kid, I didn’t ask for your opinion. I decide how much money I need and don’t need. I don’t need a kid who can’t even wipe his own drool telling me what I need or don’t need in life.”
