StatsBirth Name: Chaim Weitz Age: 63, born 25 August 1949 Country of origin: Israel Height: 6' 2" Ethnicity: Mixed Relationship Status: Married Partner: Shannon Tweed
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Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed The Missing Links, when he was a teenager. Eventually, he disbanded The Missing Links to form The Long Island Sounds, the name being a play on words relating to the estuary separating Long Island from Westchester County, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While he played in these bands, he kept up odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Simmons attended Sullivan County Community College in L
Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed The Missing Links, when he was a teenager. Eventually, he disbanded The Missing Links to form The Long Island Sounds, the name being a play on words relating to the estuary separating Long Island from Westchester County, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. While he played in these bands, he kept up odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Simmons attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York. He then joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and the band recorded a demo, "Leeta"; this was later included on the Kiss box set.
The Demon
Simmons formed the rock band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s with Stanley Harvey Eisen (now known as Paul Stanley) and recorded one album, which was never released. Dissatisfied with Wicked Lester's sound and look, Simmons and Stanley attempted to fire their band members; they were met with resistance, and they quit Wicked Lester, walking away from their record deal with Epic Records. They decided to form the ultimate rock band, and started looking for a drummer. Simmons and Stanley found an ad placed by Peter Criscoula, known as Peter Criss, who was playing clubs in Brooklyn at the time; they joined and started out as a trio. Paul Frehley, better known as Ace Frehley, responded to an ad they put in The Village Voice for a lead guitar player, and soon joined them. Kiss released its self-titled debut album in February 1974. Stanley quickly took on the role of lead performer on stage, while Simmons became the driving force behind what became an extensive Kiss merchandising franchise. The eye section of his "Demon" makeup with KISS came from the wing design of comic book character Black Bolt.
In 1983, while Kiss' fame was waning, the members took off their trademark make-up and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity that continued into the 1990s. The band hosted their own fan conventions throughout 1995, and fan feedback about the original Kiss members reunion influenced the highly successful 1996–1997 Alive Worldwide reunion tour. In 1998, the band released Psycho Circus,. Since then, the original line-up has once again dissolved, with Tommy Thayer replacing Ace Frehley on lead guitar and Eric Singer (who performed with Kiss from 1992 up through 1996) replacing Peter Criss on drums.
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Long-Lasting Celebrity Relationships (52 person items)"It took 28 years and two children for Gene and long-time girlfriend Shannon Tweed to make it down the aisle. The couple wed on October 1st 2011. They have lived together since 1983. Gene had often joked that the two had been "happily unmarried".
Gene: "It is time for me to grow up. I'm 62. I've been doing a lot of wacky stuff for an awfully long time…and there's nobody I've ever said I love you to. I even find it difficult to say 'I love you' to my mother. But I love Shannon with all my heart"
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Celebrity Insults (142 person items)"about Carlos Santana
"I'm sick and tired of these bands like Carlos Santana looking at his shoes and thinking that's a rock concert.""
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Please Just Go Away! People I HATE (13 person items)"Arrogant enough? Now I am not a Kiss fan, but without Ace Frehley, I don't think anyone would have ever cared for them, oh wait I am wrong about that, GENE SIMMONS is the only reason people ever liked them, cause he looked cool. I've always thought Kiss was the biggest gimmick band ever, all their stuff is a combination of what was popular during the 70's, but at the same time, Ace Frehley was a monster guitar player, and made great solos.
The history he has had being a total asshole is by far "
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16 Ugliest Men in The History of Rock N Roll (16 person items)"
Gene looks like Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter after decades of Little Debbie abuse, wearing a leather jumpsuit, and making faces like he'd enjoy nothing more than a good bowel movement. "
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scariest musicians ever (10 person items)"
KISS touched down in the '70s in platform boots, codpieces and creepy make-up tailor-made for Halloween, but Gene Simmons has always been the Halloweeniest of them all. Long before he came into the living rooms of the masses as the reality TV star showing off his "Family Jewels," the KISS bassist elicited delighted screams around the world as the band's resident tongue-waggling, blood-spitting, fire-breathing "demon."
Gene Simmons Blood spitting through the years!
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Notorious Womanizers (17 person items)"Bio: an Israeli-American rock bassist, vocalist, actor, and businessman. Known as "The Demon", the bassist in the hard rock band Kiss, a group he co-founded in the early 1970s.
Past girlfriends/affairs: Cher, Shannon Tweed, Diana Ross. He's opposed to marriage, even though he is currently involved with Shannon Tweed. He says it is an "institution" and that he doesn't believe in institutions; he's also very proud of being a womanizer.
Possible count of women: Aside from the famous women he's be"
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