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The can go to hell. They always sucked, and now they suck even harder.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7981907/kiss-concert-pledge-of-allegiance-watch
Before their encore Saturday night (Sept. 30) at the Gretna Heritage Festival in Louisiana, the classic rock band requested the audience join them in a display of U.S. patriotism by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
"It's always cool to love your country," frontman Paul Stanley said, according to a report.
Unsurprisingly, fan response was divided. One supporter tweeted, "KISS just stopped their concert to take a moment to thank the veterans and say the pledge of allegiance. Pretty damn cool."
While another wrote, "KISS made everyone do the pledge of allegiance before they would do an encore. That was the least rock and roll thing I've ever seen."
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)More gimmick than music.
Coventina
(27,120 posts)on edit: and to think that in my childhood, we were warned by our church leaders that they were satanic!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And here's the proof!
Funny how it's come full circle. The evangelicals hated rock and called it satanic. Now the satanist rockers have turned patriotic.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...never cared for KISS and, especially, Gene Simmons.
janterry
(4,429 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)I used to know a guy back in the 70s who was a roadie for Blue Oyster Cult, and he had met KISS as they were just starting out. He claimed that their music was shit because they were more interested in creating/exploiting the KISS image than they were writing/performing decent tunes. I tend to believe him, it sounds plausible to me.
janterry
(4,429 posts)I couldn't believe it - that anyone would treat someone like that
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...I'm gonna see how much of it I can get through a little later on, thanks for mentioning it.
janterry
(4,429 posts)it's pretty shocking
https://archive.org/details/TerryGrossInterviewWithGeneSimmons
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)and left when they were done.
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)the same ones who lambasted the NFL players for brining politics into 'their' football?
I'd be interested to know why they are cool with one and not the other.
It's pretty authoritarian to make someone recite the pledge at a concert for which they paid in exchange for an encore.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)the room and ask yourself, is this really were I want to be?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)They suck, and have always sucked.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)"Plaster Caster grab a hold of me faster!"
"For my money, you can't be too soon, I'll meet you, greet you in the ladies room!"
"Get up, and get your grandma outta here!"
"You know your man is workin' hard - He's worth a deuce!"
"No placeYou'll pull the trigger of my Love GUN!"
"First I drink, then I smoke, Start the car and I try to make the midnight show!"
standingtall
(2,785 posts)especially sense it was written by socialist Christian Francis Bellamy. Are the Gene Simmons and Ted Nugent's of the world aware of this fact?
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I always knew that fucking one-percenter wingnut Gene "Chaim Witz" Simmons was batshit. Didn't think Paul suffered from the same disease.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I really don't see the big problem here. Those who were offended were free to offer a finger instead of a recitation and are free to dump these jerks permanently.
Proud liberal here.