{"id":40972,"date":"2014-09-16T12:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=40972"},"modified":"2014-09-16T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:22:32","slug":"kiss-gene-simmons-returns-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=40972","title":{"rendered":"KISS &#8211; Gene Simmons Returns To Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geneyapper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geneyapper-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"geneyapper\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-40974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geneyapper-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/geneyapper.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TMDDOTCOM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TMDDOTCOM.jpg\" alt=\"TMDDOTCOM\" width=\"300\" height=\"31\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40908\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe biggest mouth in all of music, Gene Simmons of KISS, has returned to Twitter after deactivating his account exactly one month ago today. <\/p>\n<p>Simmons first deactivated his Twitter account amid a growing fan backlash from negative comments he made about people suffering from depression. In an interview that Simmons gave to SongFacts.com he was asked if he still got along with original KISS members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. He replied: \u201cI don\u2019t get along with anybody who\u2019s a drug addict and has a dark cloud over their head and sees themselves as a victim.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cDrug addicts and alcoholics are always: \u2018The world is a harsh place.\u2019 My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don\u2019t want to hear fuck-all about \u2018the world is a harsh place.\u2019 She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life. And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, \u2018I\u2019m depressed, I live in Seattle.\u2019 Fuck you, then kill yourself.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cI never understand, because I always call them on their bluff. I\u2019m the guy who says \u2018Jump!\u2019 when there\u2019s a guy on top of a building who says, \u2018That\u2019s it, I can\u2019t take it anymore, I\u2019m going to jump.&#8217;\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAre you kidding? Why are you announcing it? Shut the fuck up, have some dignity and jump! You\u2019ve got the crowd.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cBy the way, you walk up to the same guy on a ledge who threatens to jump and put a gun to his head, \u2018I\u2019m going to blow your fuckin\u2019 head off!\u2019 He\u2019ll go, \u2018Please don\u2019t!\u2019 It\u2019s true. He\u2019s not that insane.\u201d.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNikki Sixx of MOTLEY CRUE fired off a rant in disagreement with the old fire breather and that forced him to issue an apology to get everyone off his back. Then on the same day he quit Twitter and has not been back until now.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo add more fire to the controversy, Simmons recently said in another interview that &#8220;Rock is dead&#8221;, which as well pissed off a lot of other people, namely the rock musicians still performing and putting out records who vehemently disagree, including Dee Snider and Dave Grohl. What crap the Demon will spew next is anyone&#8217;s guess. Let&#8217;s hope he stops and thinks more before he gets in trouble again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/genesimmons\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/genesimmons<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest mouth in all of music, Gene Simmons of KISS, has returned to Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}