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This guy just doesn't stop...

I was watching the morning news, and his marketing machine was promoting his latest thing.
Buy the vault, and he will PERSONALLY to you!

http://www.genesimmonsvault.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5dCNhe2J2AIVEYl-Ch0gYgYeEAAYASAAEgLhpfD_BwE#

I saw them as a junuir high kid  in the mid 70's, and  for a brief moment, was mesmerized. Just as cool as Alice Cooper. By high school, I realized they were not cool, because the girls didn't dig them. Back to the Stones and Zeppelin and everything else that was going on.

I will give him credit for longevity. I imagine there are fans who are into this stuff?


tablejockey
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ghosthouse
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...just NOW?  :-)
tablejockey OP
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Stepping into the confession booth......

So, I saw these guys in 75.Went to Licorice Pizza(guys in SoCal know this one) and bought their first 3 albums  and learned every guitar lick with my fake Les Paul in my bedroom. I thought they were the Apex of R&R,Jimmy Page and Pete Townsend had NOTHING on Ace Frehley.

Thank goodness, cars and girls grabbed my attention in high school.

czarivey
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One of ways to make foolish pay. It's not important to have music, more important to have fans and fans are ones who pay to those who can barely play.
bondmanp
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I admire Simmons.  A genuine entrepeneur succeeding in the U.S. (mostly) free market economy.
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bdp24
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Licorice Pizza! Tablejockey, I shopped at the one on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Canoga Park when I lived there in '78-'82. LP was a small record store chain in SoCal, of which there were a few. Another was Moby Disc (good name!), in whose Sherman Oaks store on Ventura Boulevard Lucinda Williams could be found standing behind the cash register at in 1987, staring off into space (perhaps writing some lyrics in her head) when not ringing up customer’s purchases. She was playing around L.A. with a small band in little dives---I saw her in a pizza parlor, singing to a crowd of a half dozen. At that time she was recording what I still consider her best album---the s/t one on Rough Trade (1988), a great, great album.
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