Kiss And Make-Up: Gene Simmons
Joel McIver, Bass Guitar, August 2003
Joel McIver asks entrepreneur, record company head, insatiable groupie-pleasurer and – oh yes – unfeasibly long-tongued Kiss bassist Gene Simmons about his four-string habits, and gets more than he bargained for . . .
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