Back in 2014, Gene Simmons made some controversial comments about the state of rock music. “Rock is finally dead,” the KISS bassist told Esquire, blaming file-sharing music piracy for the genre’s demise. “The death of rock was not a natural death,” Simmons explained. “Rock did not die of old age.
It was murdered… The tragedy is that they seem to have no idea that they just killed their own opportunity — they killed the artists they would have loved.
Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed, and now it won’t, because it’s that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs.
No one will pay you to do it.” In a new interview with Gulf News, Simmons doubled down on his comments. RELATED: Gene Simmons Weighs In On COVID
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