Kiss’ Gene Simmons on why he thinks rock is dead: “The business model doesn’t work”
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nme.comKISS frontman Gene Simmons has clarified his recent comments on why he believes that rock is dead.Simmons initially courted controversy with similar comments in 2014, before doubling down on the remarks in a new interview which arrived last month.He claimed that new bands haven’t taken the time to create “glamour, excitement and epic stuff” and claimed that they lacked the ability to develop a legacy and lasting impact.Speaking on the subject once more, Simmons explained to Consequence how modern bands had failed to live up to the game-changing impact of The Beatles in the 1960s.“The point is, yeah, rock is dead because if we play the game from 1958 until 1988, which is 30 years, you had Elvis, The Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd, and on.
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