Gene Simmons: We're 'Tortured By Tech'

Legendary Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has been featured in Guitar Hero and had run-ins with hackers--but he can't always figure out how to get his gadgets to work for him.

"All of us are tortured by tech," he told the Huffington Post. "I still cant get my flashing light on my video machine from the 1800s to stop flashing. I have one of the old ones that played videotape. I cannot turn it off."

Simmons, is the spokesperson for the real time social media translation platform Ortsbo, and acknowledges that technology has changed some things about how he lives his life.

"I hardly talk to my daughter unless I'm texting and chatting," he said. "We're too busy to do voicemail and shmoicemail and all that stuff."

But despite all that and some of the headaches of tech, Simmons says he appreciates the conveniences of a wired life.

"You know, I drive a truck, and I can get in and start that thing right away and it tells me when it's out of gas and when I want to go somewhere I know exactly: the GPS and the shmeePS and the IRA and all that," he said. "What's great about it is modern cars are automatic. When I was growing up they were stick shift, you wanted to hang yourself. Isn't it great to be able to get in your car and press your foot to go forward?"

Comments

[Pectin]

12:57 AM on 05/21/2011

We're tortured by mediocre rock 'n' roll music, too...

[gravit8]

02:31 AM on 05/18/2011

KISS I will always worship.

Gene Simmons? Not so much.

[cvbnm67]

12:06 AM on 05/18/2011

These Seventies rockers crack me up. Always bitchin about tech. They never got over how Napster single handed dismantled the rip-off machine that was the music industry. You used to pay $15 for a CD or Cassette that only had two songs on it that you liked, and if you wanted to listen to anything new you had to go to "Tower Records, MusicPlus" or a number of CD duplication outlets that charged $15 per copy to anyone with a weeks allowance. The kids were raped for years and no one complained. Well those days are over, if you have a problem with tech, take it up with Universal, EMI, Sony Music or Warner Bros., they have your money.

[Dominicus]

06:09 PM on 05/17/2011

Gene used to be my teen hero. Must've drank too much goat blood during concerts.
I refuse to believe he didn't have more working neurons in the 1970's.
Pathetic.

[citizen1787]

05:20 PM on 05/17/2011

no, we are tortured by talentless hacks, like your son and yourself.

[gemini3]

04:41 PM on 05/17/2011

ha ha ha ha

[Kamereon]

02:09 PM on 05/17/2011

After how many years and how much money and he still has a crappy hair cut!?

[Carbon Forteetoo]

12:30 PM on 05/17/2011

Gene should've tweeted this.

[VincentRose]

09:30 AM on 05/17/2011

As usual Gene's out of touch with the times

[dmsdzinr]

08:00 AM on 05/17/2011

No Gene we are tortured by your Self Arrogance and LAME comments/

[Spartan Ideal]

04:59 AM on 05/17/2011

"voicemail and shmoicemail"

"GPS and the shmeePS"

huh?

[cameron d]

03:08 AM on 05/17/2011

Funny, I feel like Gene Simmons has been torturing me for years.

[Ali Nazifpour]

02:36 AM on 05/17/2011

I'm just happy Simmons didn't claim that he has invented the iPad.

[jabailo]

01:43 AM on 05/17/2011

I would like technology that would allow me to listen to all four Kiss member solo albums...simultaneously!

[TakeSake]

01:22 AM on 05/17/2011

You~ better get off of my law~n,
And pick up all of your toys!
You~ better get off of my law~n,
And pick up all of your toys!