Fresh Air has gotten permission to rebroadcast the interview in which Gene Simmons from KISS acts like the complete asshole that he is. But the permission is only for radio play. Damn! Terri Gross, the host, has proven time and again that she can interview anyone, no matter how obnoxious or stupid, but this idiot was even beyond her. The trainreck was very amusing though.
Partial transcript:
TG : Now, clothes that you've worn on stage. You wear fishnets
GS : No, fire your research person, no fish nets
TG : I was sure I'd seen you in them, but I trust you
GS : Don't ever do that, I'm a man
TG : Let's get to the studded codpiece -- Do you have a sense of humor about that?
GS : No it holds in my manhood, otherwise it would be too much for you to take. You'd have to put the book down and confront life. The notion is if you're going to welcome me with open arms you also have to welcome me with open legs
TG : That's a really obnoxious thing to say
GS : No it's not, why should I say something behind your back that I can't tell you to your face
TG : Has it come to this? Is this the only way you can talk to a woman, with that schtick
GS : Let me ask you something, why is it schtick when all women have ever wanted since we crawled out of caves is, 'why can't a man just tell me the truth and speak to me plainly'. So if I do that, you can't have it both ways.
TG : So you really have no sense of humor about this do you
GS : I'm laughing all the way
TG : Yeah to the bank
GS : Of course, don't I sound like a happy guy
TG : Not really to be honest with you
GS : I was going to suggest you get outside of the musty place where you can count the dust particles falling around you and get out into the world and see what everybody else is doing.
TG : Having sex with you?
GS : Well if you chose but you'd have to stand in line
TG : Ok well we might as well get to this since you keep bringing this up
GS : I didn't, you did
TG : You write that you've had 4600 sexual liasions
GS : You're supposed to say so far
TG : So far. To you this will be asking the obvious but why have you wanted so many encounters
GS : M-a-n, the notion is plain
TG : I'd like to think the personality you presented on our show today is a persona that you've affected as a member of Kiss, but that you're not nearly as obnoxious when you're at home or with friends
GS : Fair enough, and I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one's who's doing NPR, studious and reserved.
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