{"id":30666,"date":"2024-10-21T21:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kiss-gene-simmons-calls-bass-virtuosos-show-offs-in-music\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T21:03:21","slug":"kiss-gene-simmons-calls-bass-virtuosos-show-offs-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kiss-gene-simmons-calls-bass-virtuosos-show-offs-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS\u2019 Gene Simmons calls bass virtuosos &#8220;show-offs in music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-21\/M_GeneSimmons_100924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Disney\/Eric McCandless<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Gene Simmons<\/strong> made a career playing bass for <strong>KISS<\/strong>, but he wouldn\u2019t consider himself a virtuoso, and he\u2019s perfectly happy with that.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He tells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/artists\/bassists\/gene-simmons-technical-skill-doesnt-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Guitar World<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> that he thinks virtuosos are simply \u201cshow-offs in music\u201d and he&#8217;s not a fan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI don&#8217;t consider myself \u2013 and was never really interested in being \u2013 a bass virtuoso,\u201d he says. \u201cI don&#8217;t like show-offs in music. I&#8217;m much more attracted to things that are memorable. It&#8217;s part of the joy of music for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He took aim at jazz\u00a0bassists, noting that no matter how respected they are \u201cthe rest of the world doesn\u2019t care,\u201d adding, \u201cWe&#8217;re going to play a game: name a jazz player that means something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He also took aim at <strong>Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/strong>\u2019 bassist <strong>Flea<\/strong>, saying, \u201cguys like Flea, who is really good on his instrument, but I can&#8217;t remember anything he plays \u2013 and I also do not like the sound of a bass being slapped.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It seems Simmons would prefer to keep things simple, and he doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The hardest thing to do is write a good simple song or riff,&#8221; he says. &#8220;That&#8217;s really hard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney\/Eric McCandless Gene Simmons made a career playing bass for KISS, but he wouldn\u2019t consider himself a virtuoso, and he\u2019s perfectly happy with that.\u00a0 He tells Guitar World that he thinks virtuosos are simply \u201cshow-offs in music\u201d and he&#8217;s not a fan. \u201cI don&#8217;t consider myself \u2013 and was never<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/kiss-gene-simmons-calls-bass-virtuosos-show-offs-in-music\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}