I deleted my previous response to this. Just ending it.

Point noted that you have better taste in music than everyone. I'll keep that in mind.

Haha. It's bittersweet as a fan. You've been wanting his mouth to get him trouble for years just to simply shut him up. This has at least temporarily accomplished that. He's off Twitter. Although I don't think it's cool that the Twitter and Facebook accounts of his wife, daughter, or even Paul Stanley and the…

Because I like KISS, you implied that you had better taste in music than me, I was out of touch, and stuck in a 40 year time warp. Go back and read your own posts. I was telling you that whatever impression of me you had was wrong. I wasn't some basement dwelling dude in a KISS t-shirt that only listened to KISS…

Wasn't really bragging. Just trying to answer to a mature adult needlessly arguing that the music he likes is better quality and more current than the music I like. I haven't really engaged in back and forth like this since dudes in Rush t-shirts chastised my taste music at a middle school cafeteria table or kids in…

I'm probably more up on current music than you. I'm not saying that in a braggadocios way, and I could be completely wrong since I don't know anything about you, but I write and curate content for several online music blogs, programmed an Internet radio station for years, and work in social media helping indie/garage…

Oh, I have very good taste in music. KISS was pretty much my gateway drug to other music. Anyone that says their earliest stuff sucks doesn't have a clue. It was New York street before the CBGBs scene blended with British glam rock elements. Kind of like the Dolls meets T-Rex or Slade meets Humble Pie with…

I was about to vote your post up because the Morrissey/Kanye West thing made me laugh, but then I continued to read on to where you basically called me an asshole for my defending of poor, defenseless Gene Simmons. I made it clear I wasn't defending his remark. Just pointing out that I felt the "Gene Simmons Tells…

Well, again, he's talking about drug addicts and alcoholics that say they're the way they are because life is hard and they're depressed, but whatever. I'm not going to win that argument here. As a fan, I just wish he'd would've answered that while he couldn't see himself working in KISS with Ace and Peter again, it…

He hasn't "gone around repeatedly publicly" saying depressed people should commit suicide. But yes he thinks his opinion is valuable insight people should be grateful to receive. And it annoys everyone. He's been in a band with a guy for 40 years that didn't even invite him to his wedding.

I saw that. An asshole that plays in a band mostly championed by assholes. Because all KISS fans are assholes. I mean, we listen to a band with an asshole. No other band that anyone here likes has an asshole that says asshole things.

Robin Williams' suicide was an unfortunate coincidence that bit Gene in the ass. But he deserved it.

My point was offering the perspective of someone that's read a shit ton of Gene Simmons interviews and knows his ridiculous self-serving spiel. I've heard him say this same bullshit more eloquently in the past. He's saying he's indifferent to the addict or alcoholic who can't deal with life being difficult and choose…

Gene is an opinionated ass but this is being blown out of proportion in light of the Robin Williams suicide. He is clearly talking about addicts that blame their addiction on the "world being too harsh" and what he feels is their choice to shoot up or drink themselves to death if they can't deal with it. That's the…