Born: Haifa, Israel, 1949
Member of: Kiss
Influenced by: Dennis Dunaway, Jeff Beck, Black Sabbath, Cliff Burton, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, John Paul Jones, The Rolling Stones, Ian Hill, The Beatles, Cream, The Yardbirds
Genre: Rock & Alternative
Biography: Although Gene Simmons found fame as a blood-spurting, fire-breathing, bass-playing demon with Kiss, his early years were ...
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Sep 18 2008 12:00PM
by Karen Bliss
Filed under: News, Exclusive, Movies
Spinner.com: Makeup and role play isn't out of the ordinary for Gene Simmons. That said, it only seems fitting that the Kiss bassist makes a cameo in Japan's No. 2 box office hit, 'Detroit Metal City,' as Jack Ill Dark, a legendary American death metal guitarist...Read moreJun 19 2008 7:00AM
by John D. Luerssen
Filed under: News, Trash Talk
Spinner.com: Kiss bassist Gene Simmons is blaming artists like Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Green Day offshoot the Foxboro Hot Tubs for "contributing to the demise of the record industry" by giving away their music for free.Gene's also blaming the fans."The...Read moreFeb 22 2008 10:00AM
by Spinner Staff
Filed under: The Hit List
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"Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left." -- Gene Simmons
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09/04/08
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09/03/08
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07/16/08
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07/10/08
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06/10/08
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06/08/08
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09/06/08
Gene Simmons May Have To Wag His Tongue In Court Family Jewels , but is also currently b...
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09/06/08
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09/04/08
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08/29/08
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08/20/08
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07/17/08
Gene Simmons Can Jingle, Can You?
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07/17/08
News Ticker: Kanye West, Gene Simmons, T.I. and Natalie Cole Kanye West has denied accus...
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07/16/08
Culture-Wrecking Duo Gene Simmons and Mark Burnett Team Up Again For 'Jingles' [The End Of Ideas]
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07/10/08
Wanted: More John Stamos In Wanted , trained accountant Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy), wh...
Television Without Pity
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07/10/08
Gene Simmons On The Oldest Profession (CBS) As a member of the band Kiss for 35 years, G...
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06/13/08
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06/13/08
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06/12/08
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06/09/08
The Green Quote: Gene Simmons Is A Good Samaritan "Think of me as a goodwill ambassador....
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06/03/08
Gene Simmons Vows To Keep Make-Up Kiss star Gene Simmons has vowed never to ditch the ba...
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05/30/08
KISS News: Hanging With Condoleeza Rice, Still Extremely Rich With a legion of fans eage...
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05/30/08
The Reality Shows Have Writers!? Award Nominees There's a bit by Patton Oswalt on his br...
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05/19/08
Former Schoolteacher Gene Simmons Assigns 200-Word Essay On Whores [For The Literary Strutter]
Idolator
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05/15/08
Gene Simmons Knows From Prostitution On July 8, the new book by New York Times bestselli...
WFMU
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04/02/08
Gene Simmons Wasn't Offended By Sharon Osbourne's 'Silly Wig' Comment Kiss star Gene Sim...
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04/01/08
April Fug's Day The Sex and the City movie, for me, is really just an opportunity to che...
Go Fug Yourself
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03/31/08
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03/12/08
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