Great musicianship has never meant great songs.
To many here that have been in band in high school (I was'nt good enough with school attendendence to qualify - I was a brat that is making up for it now!) how much of that has leaked into their own thing?
I think rock acts did more to tell your poor kid that they could bring out their expression and get people interested.
Beats being a criminal.
Maybe Gene Simmons is smarting from the signs of time and that we don't live back in the era of the KISS army.
But it is this notion in this thread that less physical talent is supposed to make Gene Simmons less credible.

Can Sting with all his talent not make a song without some kind of political pronouncement?
I hav'nt found that much with him since his days with The Police.

It has'nt been the talent, but the charisma to make music fun and something to identify with.

That is the biggest thing that I miss with acts from KISS's era.

The scene has become very divisive.
And I know that illegal downloads are still very much common.
I don't believe the whining of the loss of revenue and how hard it is for the record companies any more than I believe it with the oil companies.
But I don't think that people on the net are all looters either.
I think making a cd that could be purchased for $5 that would be purchased in a store for $13 pretty much sums up the animnosity with the RIAA and every other conglomerate on the net.
And with how some recording acts are responding, they are catching on.

Not that this is on topic, but I think the writers strike might boost the IQ of the public with all the malarky.
I am enjoying watching my old videos anyway.

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