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He said: ‘Oh, you’re that Kiss bloke with the tongue!’ I said: ‘Yeah. His stage outfit, with body armour, weighs 40 pounds. He responded, "I think the security and the familiarity. I was just mesmerised by this band.”
“Bon Scott was a force of nature with his shirt off, drinking.
There's no substitute or anything that comes close to being with somebody for forty-some-odd years, you know -- forty-six years, I think, at this point. He has written liner notes for classic album reissues by artists such as Def Leppard, Thin Lizzy and Kiss, and currently works as content editor for Total Guitar.
They never recorded it, not that version.
Was a fan, still a fan.”
Simmons is not inclined towards sentimentality.
“I’d never heard of AC/DC, and I thought it might be a gay band,” Simmons admits, noting that the term ‘AC/DC’ was slang for bisexuality at the time in America.
He is proud that Kiss went out on a high with their final tour, but, as he admitted, the tour was hard going for man in is seventies. This is a guy that does it because he feels it inside.”
After the show, Simmons didn’t waste any time in connecting with the band. Among the songs that were regularly in the band’s set back then were Whole Lotta Rosie (about a generously proportioned groupie), Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be (about a woman messing with Bon’s head) and The Jack (about an STD passed around the band by a female admirer).
AC/DC’s performance that night connected with Simmons on a visceral level.
“I was blown away,” he says.
Sure they could! That’s enough. But, that being said, I more scratch my head at that. And I said to myself: this is the real deal. The sexuality. I was talking my head off, like a fan. He has written liner notes for classic album reissues by artists such as Def Leppard, Thin Lizzy and Kiss. He lives in Bath - of which David Coverdale recently said: “How very Roman of you!”
“The acrobatics.
And it's an interesting thing, because if I were, I'd be proud to be whatever I am.