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Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« on: February 21, 2009, 06:52:13 PM »
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2009, 07:39:57 PM »
Damn that's cool. Probably my favorite Gene bass line - and he's nailing the vocal too.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 08:16:05 PM »
Great!  I always thought you could hear the Beatles influence on this song.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 11:06:17 PM »
Looks like my LP (minus the ice cream cup on the headstock). Thats a cool clip. Thanks for posting it.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2009, 12:58:22 AM »
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2009, 10:11:36 AM »
Yes, that is a very nice Kiss song!
Gene rules
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2009, 02:29:34 PM »
Nice to see but way too compressed bass sound IMO.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2009, 06:16:55 PM »
That's a Gibson (Thunderfunk) bass amp too.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2009, 09:42:21 AM »


Oh wait, that's me! LOL!
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2009, 09:58:44 AM »

 I thought the tongue looked a little small to be Gene.............. ;)

Everybody's comin' out of the closet lately.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2009, 10:01:24 AM »
One of my favorite Kiss songs of all time. Shows just how good Gene is. While many bands MTV acoustic performances fall short I have always thought the KISS unplugged stuff was great. Thanks for posting this !
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2009, 10:19:55 AM »
Quote from: TBird1958 on February 23, 2009, 09:58:44 AM
I thought the tongue looked a little small to be Gene.............. ;)

Everybody's comin' out of the closet lately.

LOL!  My band did KISS one Halloween.  I knew how to work the greasepaint, so I did the whole band up.  I even learned to do the fire-spitting trick.  Playing Gene Simmons is kinda fun...just tuck the bass in your crotch, and move them legs about!  I got pretty good at the firespitting - I was working some good 15 ft. flames.

First time hearing this Kiss song - looks like I have another one set for downloading.
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2009, 12:09:37 PM »


A little Ronson's will do ya!
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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2009, 03:16:29 PM »
Quote from: OldManC on February 23, 2009, 12:09:37 PM

A little Ronson's will do ya!


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Re: Gene Simmons playing a Les Paul bass
« Reply #14 on: February 23, 2009, 05:16:55 PM »
Stephen Coronel, who co-wrote the song, stated that the rolling chord changes were inspired by "Theme For An Imaginary Western"...
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