Now here is an interesting tidbit of news: Kiss co-founder and bassist Gene Simmons has actually just said something that is NOT him being a big jackass and saying something extremely negative. This time around he has made a rather positive statement about how music is like therapy to people and how it helps them escape the blues of every day living.
The interview happened with Metal Hammer after making an appearance on stage with famed J-metal band X Japan (covering Rock and Roll All Nite), saying:
"At the end of the day, all that matters is what happens on that stage – that’s electric church. That’s glory hallelujah, all hail rock’n’roll, where people who spend lots of after-tax money come to the show and their girlfriends have been torturing them about where did you go and traffic jams and all that.
And it’s our job – anyone who gets up on that stage – to create magic time. To make you forget about all that stuff and take you away, so just for those few hours...and then you get back to gravity, and all the chaos that’s out there."
I kind of dig the whole 'electric church' name given to a concert. It really is. It's a high voltage experience that in a way allows you to transcend the physical plane to a more spiritual realm that allows you to really connect with yourself, others, and the universe around you. Personally I'm surprised that Simmons has something like this to say after all his comments about how rock is dead. Maybe he is turning a new leaf? Either that or he is just trying to clean up his image a bit.
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