Kiss vocalist and bassist praised his relationship with Paul Stanley, from whom he never separated, even with conflicts
There are few really lasting relationships between rock musicians. Even rarer are the bands that do not undergo line-up changes. O U2 remains firm and strong, despite the absence of the drummer Larry Mullen Jr in the next commitments of the band, while the ZZ Top just brought in a new bass player, Elwood Francisafter the death of Dusty Hill.
O kiss cannot boast of keeping the same formation, since it lost two of its original members (guitarist Ace Frehley and the drummer Peter Criss) before completing 10 years of career. However, the leaders of the group, Paul Stanley (voice and guitar) and Gene Simmons (vocals and bass) never parted — despite the natural conflicts of those who have worked together for five decades.
simmons gives a lot of value to this, as revealed in an interview with Piers Morgan Tonight. It goes so far as to criticize the attitude of some of his idols for publicly slandering their partners, something he says he never did with Stanley and vice versa.
“We continue to have this amazing relationship. I always get very sad when I remember that John Lennon and Paul McCartney [Beatles] or Mick Jagger and Keith Richards [Rolling Stones] began to publicly slander each other. I mean even Cain and Abel [da Bíblia] they didn’t get along very well. It was always so sad for me to see this, but Paul [Stanley] and I have this kind of resilience of being the brother each other never had.”
In fact, musicians from Beatles It is Rolling Stones they began to publicly tease each other as the years went by. Specifically in the case of stonesit is known that Jagger It is Richards they had fights so strong as to generate “cracks” in the band’s relationship. The periods yielded solo works by both, but the partnership was never definitively ended.
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley Mismatches
As noted earlier, this does not mean that Gene Simmons It is Paul Stanley they had no conflicts throughout their career. Especially in the 1980s, the two differed greatly in terms of the direction their work was taking.
Simmons, for example, I didn’t think the band should give up makeup in 1983. Stanley convince him — and the partner was still a little out of place with the change in the years that followed.
In the same period, the bassist started a career as an actor that left the guitarist somewhat “alone” in the music scene. Kiss.Gene he didn’t leave the band, but transferred practically all creative decisions to Paul, something that upset him, as he has revealed in interviews and in his autobiography.
Aware of all this, the hard rock mouthpiece pointed out that, at least, the two never made the media a space for attacks.
“We don’t quite see eye to eye but there is an abiding admiration and respect for the talent he has that I will never have and hopefully the piece of the puzzle I bring that he doesn’t have.”
Finally, he still defined the colleague as his “soul mate”.
“It works. You don’t know everything and neither do I. But when you meet someone who is a kindred spirit, you can be bigger than ever.”
Source: Rollingstone
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