Review : Fat Bat Simmons : boring KISS songs and Thin Lizzy and Motörhead covers, abuses special needs child

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Yeah, that's underwhelming.
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Is the guitarist the guy that Ronnie Radke had a giant thing about last month? What ever came of that?
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Gene MI$$ show is best Kiss option in fun

Gene 8/10
MISS maybe 6/10..maybe more like 4/10
Paul MISS- 4/10
Ace MISS- 4/10

Carrot Top 10/10 Vegas

* Gene is only rockstar in the band(Kiss)
Jani Lane and Bret Michaels should form a band called "Nelson II"
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Mass interest in this….
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You're a brave man for watching that entire shitshow.
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BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 5:09 pm Gene is still in full-voice, I will say that about the fat cunt.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Dead on review, I watched the whole thing too.

Definitely not a rock show, not how the “big boys” do it … just embarrassing.
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BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 5:39 pm Asks a little kid in the front row how old he is, he says nine. Wonder what he thinks about all the jokes about pulling out, dicks that spin, trans people going to graveyards et al.

Asking a woman in the audience if they’ve ever slept together.

Now he’s back to talking to the women in the audience from before, he’s asking, nay demanding, one of them to come up to the stage. What the fuck is this, a rock show or Who’s Line Is It Anyway? Demanding a teenage looking girl in Fat Bat makeup to also come up. Oh shit, I think she’s slightly special needs.

Oh fuck. She is. Oh man, I don’t want to be mean spirited about some fucking KISStard Korky.

Holy shit, he can’t quite understand her speech and he asked her “Have you had a few tonight?” The girl is clearly special needs. She didn’t understand and he repeated “Did you have a few drinks tonight?” Grampa is clueless. She doesn’t even understand his meaning, thank god.

Ok, maybe the penny just dropped, he said “Boy am I going to be in trouble”. Talk about clueless, it was obvious from the first second she wasn’t quite right.

So, after another five or six minutes of total fucking around and inadvertently making everyone in the audience cringe (again), he’s announced they’re going to do I Love It Loud. With two audience members now on stage in front of microphones - one lady who probably doesn’t even know the song, and one who can’t speak clearly let alone sing. Good one, Grampa.

He then compares the girl’s speech patterns to “taking a Ex-lax” and makes a farting noise into the microphone, comparing her speaking to diahorrea, so he clearly hasn’t worked out she is special needs yet. Talk about a trainwreck. Poor girl.

Half a dozen old fat women have run out from somewhere and they’re singing along with it. Most are nowhere near a microphone. Talk about amateur hour.
There is absolutely no way I would believe this happened if someone just told me, but you say there is video evidence, to that's just .... i dont even know.
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Nibbler wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 8:17 pm
BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 7:46 pm Someone post this on KISSFAQ.
Done
Immediately some KISStard makes excuses and calls the reviewer “negative”. :roll: As expected
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BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 8:54 pm Well, it was pretty fucking negative to be honest.
What else could it be? There were some compliments where they were deserved, but it sounds like a complete shit show overall.
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Wiseacre wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 9:12 pm
BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 8:54 pm Well, it was pretty fucking negative to be honest.
What else could it be? There were some compliments where they were deserved, but it sounds like a complete shit show overall.
It would be pretty funny if you reworked it, but made all the 'comedy" funny, tightened it up the dead air, and deleted all the cringe, as well as adding in Almost Human, X Ray Eyes and Not For the Innocent
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HueyRamone wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 9:27 pm
Wiseacre wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 9:12 pm
BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 8:54 pm Well, it was pretty fucking negative to be honest.
What else could it be? There were some compliments where they were deserved, but it sounds like a complete shit show overall.
It would be pretty funny if you reworked it, but made all the 'comedy" funny, tightened it up the dead air, and deleted all the cringe, as well as adding in Almost Human, X Ray Eyes and Not For the Innocent
You really need some new material. Maybe Gene could help.
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HueyRamone wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 5:11 pm Is the guitarist the guy that Ronnie Radke had a giant thing about last month? What ever came of that?
Yes, that’s the accused Brent Woods. The dude has been radio silence since the accusations.
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The world would be a better place if Trump and Simmons croaked tomorrow. Or today.
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I slid the video timeline far enough to see a bunch of kids on stage. That and the setlist were enough to make me not watch it.
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Bernie getting a lot of traction on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KISS/comments/ ... ssfaq_lol/
LAglamrocker wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:07 pm You can tell Sleek had nothing to do with this…thats why it’s so entertaining
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BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 7:32 pm I thought it would be funny to do a review but I honestly regretted starting it about halfway though with all the screwing around.

His last solo tour with the other band and the deep cuts and rare songs was legitimately quite good.
is Gene actually that immature with the pre-teen sex jokes or does he just think his audience is?

I remember seeing the hot in the shade tour when I was 13, first time seeing Kiss after being a fan since I was 3.
Paul was lame then with all the dry humping.
I didn’t even want to admit to myself how uncool the whole thing was
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HueyRamone wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 7:52 am Bernie getting a lot of traction on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KISS/comments/ ... ssfaq_lol/
And some of the dimwits are predictably defending $immon$. Incredible.
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And Your Bird Can Sing was never played live and was never intended to be. That was a mess.
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Gene is NOT a frontman.
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After Deuce he says, "We're not going to waste your time, we're going to play for you. Too much talking."

Then proceeds to never shut up the rest of the show.

Why do adults always ask 9-year-olds if they have a girlfriend or boyfriend? I fucking hate that.
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looks like he is lost without the costume, still making those moves. Looks ridiculous without the suit. Band sounds good
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TREVERLAST wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 9:13 am Gene is NOT a frontman.
He prefers the back door

https://youtu.be/LYyO4pjRPXo?si=PnUdwTfmSIaw6Y6F
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my neck of the woods. Beaver Dam amphitheater in Beaver Dam KY of course. About an hour from me. a bunch of my friends were there including the guys from A2Zradio.net. They had a blast even though it rained the last 20 minutes or so of the show. My friend Kevin was hired to provide the backline. He does most of Beaver Dam's shows including Bret Michaels. If you go to Kevin's page, we all went to see KISS in 1978 as kids. Gene was his idol. Kevin played in bands and had some regional success back in the 80's ad 90's. Now he runs a sound company. Anyway, on his fb page, he shows him with Gene backstage. He said if you meet Gene knowing that he knows more than you and you carry on like that, it's all good. And that how he approached it. He meet his childhood idol and got some signed collectables he had.
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BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 5:53 pm “I’ve got to tell you a quick story”. Oh Christ here we go. Reciting the Beverly Hillbillies theme song. He literally spends as much time talking shit as he does playing anything. Bragging about discovering Van Halen. If anyone has verbal diahorrea it’s Gene.

House of Pain :

Simmons era demo arrangement, not the 1984 version. Guitarist Jason on lead vocals. Why is he playing this?
Which springs to mind that comparing this video to DLR gig last weekend makes you think Gene`s comment of Dave reminding him of bloated Elvis hasn't aged that well :)
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BernieTaupson wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 12:46 pm
Nightcrawler wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 8:42 am
HueyRamone wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 7:52 am Bernie getting a lot of traction on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KISS/comments/ ... ssfaq_lol/
And some of the dimwits are predictably defending $immon$. Incredible.
Best review of the review :

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Amazingly for a KISS group, I think every single reply was positive or saying it was funny except for two or three. Dozens and dozens of people calling Gene’s lame show out or saying thanks for saving me money. The tide has absolutely turned for Gene, even in the KISS groups. That $12,000 roadie announcement a few months back was a massive turning point, it fucked off so many people.
This is not unlike Ben Shapiro calling Luigi "An unhinged leftest, doing what all leftists do, murdering innocent people", and having his own entire comment section saying 'Fuck that CEO!"
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I was gonna photoshop the KISS ARMY logo replacing “army” with “enablers”, but didn’t feel like it. It really should be a thing though.
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Wiseacre wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:01 pm I was gonna photoshop the KISS ARMY logo replacing “army” with “enablers”, but didn’t feel like it. It really should be a thing though.
It's pretty crappy,but im sharing in case anyone wants to slap it down on a Kisstard like an Uno reverse


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LAglamrocker wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:07 pm You can tell Sleek had nothing to do with this…thats why it’s so entertaining
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HueyRamone wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 5:28 pm
Wiseacre wrote: Mon May 05, 2025 4:01 pm I was gonna photoshop the KISS ARMY logo replacing “army” with “enablers”, but didn’t feel like it. It really should be a thing though.
It's pretty crappy,but im sharing in case anyone wants to slap it down on a Kisstard like an Uno reverse


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:lol: nice
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BernieTaupson wrote: Sun May 04, 2025 6:12 pm “I’m going to tell you another brief story” ffs. Bragging about going to Lenny’s funeral.

Ace Of Spades :

Another clueless addition to the show. Tichy on vocals. This is bar band cover band shit.

Where’s Naked City?
Where’s Saint & Sinner?
Where’s Childhood’s End?
Where’s And On The Eighth Day?

Gene has a few legitimately good songs he could be playing. It’s 2025, you have to give people a damn good reason to make the effort to go to concerts. He hasn’t given any yet.
Funny thing is I was the usher at Lemmy's funeral as my ex was in charge of it and Gene walks in and I take him to his seat which was in the 7nth pew and he complains and wants to sit up front. I felt like saying bro it's a funeral not hierarchy of who's who and so I had to go get my ex because Gene wouldn't sit and after about 5minutes of bitching to her he gets to sit in the front. Rob Halford on the other hand was great, sat off to the side in a pew blocked by a huge pole and was totally content.

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