#660 : Gene Simmons of KISS
Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK
Dean Delray
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Today we go to another level on the show with my ultimate dream guest Mr Gene Simmons of KISS.
11 years ago when I started this show I made a list of Dream Guest and Gene was at the top.
This man completely changed my life in 1977 and is 100 percent the reason I pursued a life in the Arts.
Over 660 episodes of Let There Be Talk and 80 percent of them all said Kiss is the reason they started playing music.
To quote my good friend Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta KISS is The Gateway into Rock n Roll and he could not be more correct.
I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did recording it.
Keep the candles lit my friends
DDR
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, August 15th, and this is another episode of Let The Be Talk. |
| 0:05.6 | Brought to you by my podcast network, cactusradionetwork.com. |
| 0:12.4 | You can find all of my podcast in one spot, absolutely free. |
| 0:18.3 | cactusradionetwork.com. |
| 0:22.1 | Well, it is a great day today. |
| 0:25.7 | Here on Let The Be Talk, and hopefully for all of you out there |
| 0:28.9 | who have been following the show over 11 years now, 660 episodes. |
| 0:37.2 | Sat down many years ago, and did know what I was doing. |
| 0:41.6 | Just turned on some microphones and tried to find some guests |
| 0:46.5 | and wrote down a list of dream guests. |
| 0:49.2 | And at the top of that list was this man, my guest today. |
| 0:53.0 | Mr. Jean Simmons of Kiss. |
| 0:56.0 | I often say that without Kiss and Jean Simmons, who knows what I'd be doing in life. |
| 1:03.5 | But that magic day that happens to a lot of kids in the 70s, |
| 1:08.6 | where you first see that Kiss album cover, whatever it is, rock and roll over alive, |
| 1:14.0 | alive to love gun. |
| 1:17.3 | Any of those album covers and you saw the four members, especially Jean |
| 1:23.9 | Bedemann, your brain exploded. |
| 1:29.3 | It did for me. And I was like, what is that I need to know. |
| 1:35.1 | Pre-Kiss, I'm just cruising around, listening to some partridge family. |
| 1:40.0 | And Don McLean, by by Miss America Pie. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah, I like to music, but I like to other things too, until Kiss happened. |
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