Young boys, adults and girls dress up as members of the Kiss band, playing music and accessorizing to the hilt! Gene Simmons Halloween costumes, wigs and masks impersonating Gene, axe shaped guitars and some blood spitting – fire breathing make an interesting look for the evening. Thousands of fans dress up as Gene Simmons every year on Halloween and get a kick out of people’s repeated reactions. Every tour has bought Kiss thousands of fans, all of whom remember them by all the memorabilia they can get their hands on. Besides, masks, wigs, t shirts, Halloween costumes are a favorite.
Be it the music that the band belted out, the ear splitting amplifiers and lyrics that praised sex, the on stage persona of the members; fire breathing, blood spitting antics on the stage, the various business ventures from Gene Simmons, they have all been huge successes. Every year something new is added to the already multi-million businesses from Kiss franchises, authoring a book, featuring in movies and reality TV shows, everything Gene Simmons does is with flair! Of course, the humungous fan following and the amazing business sense that Gene Simmons possesses has stood the tests of time.
So, every time you don that Gene Simmons Halloween costume or mask, remember the persona behind the mask as well!
Written on December 4, 2008 | Posted in
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Halloween is probably the best time to impersonate your favorite stars and look through websites to order all your supplies for the costumes. Probably the one you are looking for may already be sold out, especially if what you are after is a Gene Simmons Halloween costume!
The official Kiss make up kit will help any fan reproduce a Gene Simmons personality well. Halloween is the evening of 31st October, immediately preceding All Saint’s day and children dress up in costumes and masks. ‘Trick or treating’ house to house, collecting sweets, fruits and money, costumes are decided upon days in advance. School or home projects making your own costumes, thousands of online retailers selling or teaching you to make your ‘look’ for the evening occupy most children and even adults. From Spiderman to Flintstones, witches to ghosts, medieval costumes and Disney princess clothes, there is no dearth to the options available when you are looking for your costume. One of the most popular and sought after is the Gene Simmons Halloween costume.
A typical Gene Simmons Halloween costume should consist of a black stretch jumpsuit and a cape with silver trimmings and loop to fit around your fingers. A silver colored poly foam chest and shoulder piece with the black cape around the neck brings you closer to looking like your icon. A studded dog collar choker and arm bands with vinyl platform and boots in black with silver accents will make you the enviable Gene Simmons impersonator to the hilt! And of course, you can always use your imagination and make changes to the costume. Add the Gene Simons mask with the ever famous tongue sticking or if you can really extend your tongue out, well, all the best!
Written on November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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Simmons and Stanley were definitely not the kinds to be bogged down easily. They decided to form the ultimate rock band, and began their search for a drummer and a guitarist for their band. This extensive search ended when they were joined by two of the best in their respective fields - Peter Criscuola and Paul Frehley. And then, finally the big moment came in February 1974, when ‘Kiss’ released its debut album, which was incidentally self-titled!
Gene Simmons became the driving force behind the one of its kind, extensive Kiss merchandising franchise. It was Stanley who quickly took on the role of main performer on stage. With their trademark style and looks, the band rode on the wave of popularity for years together. Simmons was widely loved for his act of the ‘Demon’, by the young and old alike - the blood-spitting, fire-breathing, and tongue-wagging persona in the hard rock band Kiss!
On a more personal note, Simmons has had quite a few live-in relationships, the well-known ones being with Cher and Diana Ross. Though the man never married, he presently lives in California, with longtime partner Shannon Tweed. The couple has two children - a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Sophie. A polyglot of sorts, Simmons can speak four languages – English, Hungarian, Hebrew and German – and is also trying his hand at Japanese and Mandarin!
Written on November 14, 2008 | Posted in
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Gene Simmons’ biography is as intriguing and interesting as the man himself – ‘The Demon’ of the popular 1970’s hard rock band – Kiss! Gene Simmons, or originally Chaim Witz, was born on August 25, 1949, in Haifa, Israel. This Israeli-born ‘American’ immigrated to New York City, when he was eight years old, with his mother Florence Klein who was a Jewish Hungarian immigrant. His father, Feri Witz, also Jewish, had abandoned the family.
After arriving in the U.S., he took the name Eugene Klein, and later Gene Klein. In the late-1960s, he again changed his name, this time finally to Gene Simmons. He attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York. Ever since his childhood, Simmons had a strong desire for fame and wealth. In fact, his involvement with music began in the early years of his life.
When he was a teenager, Simmons started his first band by the name ‘Lynx’, which he disbanded to form another – Long Island Sounds. One of his bands made a demo, ‘Leeta’, which was later released on the ‘Kiss’ box set in its demo version. Though he played in these bands, he made more money by doing some odd jobs like making fanzines and buying used comic books.
It was in the early 1970s that Simmons formed the rock band with Paul Stanley. Though they recorded one album, it was never to be released. Both Simmons and Stanley were not completely satisfied with the sound and the looks of this particular band. When they planned some changes by trying to fire their band members, they were opposed so strongly for their ideas that they decided to quit themselves, despite the fact that they had a record deal with Epic Records.
Written on November 4, 2008 | Posted in
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If you own a copy of the ‘Kiss and make up’ authored by Gene Simmons himself, you have the famous painted face with the tongue sticking out at the front cover. A party cannot be complete without a few dressed like him and with a Gene Simmons mask on. The characteristic black and white face paint id duplicated so well and the hair attached to it complete the look. Halloween will definitely see you handing out candies to Gene Simmons from the Kiss heyday in every size and shape! A freakishly long tongue and some bass playing techniques added to the mask can get you a number of lovely admirers as well!
With its combination of cartoonist monster movie makeup and oversized costumes, ear splitting amplification and gleeful songs praising sex, Kiss as a band has never been accused of being excessive. The book ‘Kiss and make up’ takes you behind the mask to the real Gene Simmons proving to us why he and his merchandising is a multi-million profit making machine. Gene Simmons mask are a small part of this great legendary man and the still huge band Kiss.
Written on October 28, 2008 | Posted in
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