People who think Kiss’s music is simple are “idiots”, says Bruce Kulick: “Gene never wants to brag about how good he is on bass”
Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick has defended the band’s music, dismissing those who call their songs simple as “idiots”.
Speaking in a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, Kulick – who was with the band from 1984 to 1996 – argues that the Kiss members are better musicians than people give them credit for and that their songs are far from easy to play.
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“Sometimes I refer to earlier Kiss as a ‘little bit garage band’ because they weren’t trying to be overly finessed,” he says. “Which is why all of the Seattle bands gravitated to early Kiss — they didn’t necessarily relate to my era because it was more polished. I mean, by the time [producer] Bob Ezrin walked in [for] Destroyer, he walked around with the whistle.”
“He was contributing a lot of things. Nobody in Kiss wrote the Detroit Rock City solo. That was an Ezrin idea. That’s orchestrated. It’s brilliant. It’s like a trumpet, but nobody could play it better than those guys the way they performed it. So anyone that considers Kiss simple or easy music to play, they’re idiots.”
On the contrary, “this stuff is hard,” Kulick adds. “It’s just that the band never got credit that way and it always should. Gene [Simmons] never wants to brag about how good he is on bass and what a tremendous musician he actually is. That’s part of his schtick, I believe. I don’t buy it for a second.”
The guitarist also notes how Simmons is “unbelievably gifted” at “playing an aggressive style with [Paul] McCartney melodic bass lines” as well as the lines he came up with in songs.
“I don’t buy that any producer spoonfed him a whole lot at all, if anything,” says Kulick.
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