Gene Simmons: ‘Rock Is Finally Dead’

The man with rock's largest tongue, and most recognizable band, has declared Rock dead. Kiss's Gene Simmons did an in-depth interview with his son on the subject of rock and roll today. And according to Simmons. Rock is dead. There are no more opportunities for a band to become a legend in the music business. Primarily due to file sharing. "I am so sad that the next 15-year-old kid in a garage someplace in Saint Paul, that plugs into his Marshall and wants to turn it up to ten, will not have anywhere near the same opportunity that I did. He will most likely, no matter what he does, fail miserably. There is no industry for that anymore. " Simmons feels that file sharing takes away the opportunity for the artist to get paid for producing their art. "The masses do not recognize file-sharing and downloading as stealing because there's a copy left behind for you — it's not that copy that's the problem, it's the other one that someone received but didn't pay for. The problem is that nobody will pay you for the 10,000 hours you put in to create what you created. I can only imagine the frustration of all that work, and having no one value it enough to pay you for it."http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/gene-simmons-future-of-rock