Talk:Gene Simmons

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Infobox instruments

As a musician Simmons is known for his vocals and bass (and obviously stage antics); guitar, piano, and drums should be removed from the infobox. Unles anyone make a convincing argument I will remove them in 48 hours. -J04n (talk) 20:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External link section

The external link section is getting quite long. Accoding to Wikipedia:External links the only link in this section that should be included is the first, his official website. There are currently 5 links to interviews (one of them in 4 separate parts so really 8 links), and a link to his IMDb page, that I want to delete but I will wait a couple of days to see if anyone points out that I am misinterpreting the external link guidelines. -J04n (talk) 15:35, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

typos?

The quote: "The record industry is dead. It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. The previous generation was allowed to download music for free. You can't be surprised that there are no chickens and eggs when you let the fox in the henhouse." Shouldn't it read "The previous generation was not allowed to download music for free. " ?? Otherwise it makes no sense. Kingturtle (talk) 18:07, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the reference and suprise it's misquoted, I'll fix it. BTW, nice job in cleaning up that section, I agree the tounge stuff did not belong. J04n(talk page) 18:14, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Instruments/more info on bass

Why is it just mentioned twice that he's a bassist? I thought thats what made gene, gene. Not the full page of TV appearances. Wiggl3sLimited (talk) 23:20, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, there is also only a paragraph-and-a-half dealing with him as a member of Kiss. I have meant to rewrite this page several times but just don't have any good sourced material on him as a musician. It is interesting that Peter and Ace have much more info on them as members of Kiss than Gene and Paul. I am the guilty party in making that table of TV appearances, but if you saw all of the bullet points (all formatted differently) that were there before you would understand why. Feel free to add more on him as a musician, it is needed. J04n(talk page) 23:49, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

" . . . don't have any good sourced material on him as a musician" - maybe that's because he sucks in this regard. Sstteevvee (talk) 18:38, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

School Teacher past??

I'm surprised that there has been no mention of Gene Simmons' past experience as a school teacher. I have read comments of this in the past, including an interview (Playboy?) by him in which he detailed a sexual encounter with a fan who turned out to be one of his former middle school students.

His obvious intelligence has been well-touted with reference to speaking four languages fluently, and a mention in this article that he attended a local junior college. But to have become a certified school teacher he would have had to graduate from a program with a bachelor degree. How long & where did he teach? What subject(s)? What was his major field of study, and where / when did he graduate?

This will add an interesting facet to an already very fascinating person, artist & celebrity.

Dirty Dan the Man (talk) 03:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Current living status

I noticed the article didn't state where Gene is currently living, so i added it, hope that was okay. Yonobi (talk) 03:43, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it does say it in the "Personal life" section. J04n(talk page) 03:36, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just think it would be easier to find. Yonobi (talk) 03:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That was already a pretty busy sentence. The opening section is intended to be a brief summary of what is in the main body of the article, so if you think it belongs up top you could put it back, but perhaps in a new paragraph? J04n(talk page) 03:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No, you're right. It's already there, i just missed it. Sorry. Yonobi (talk) 03:51, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]