KISS Gets Fans to Recite Pledge of Allegiance

[ProudLib72]

The can go to hell. They always sucked, and now they suck even harder.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7981907/kiss-concert-pledge-of-allegiance-watch

KISS showed once again that they don't just have stars and stripes painted on their faces -- but on their hearts too.

Before their encore Saturday night (Sept. 30) at the Gretna Heritage Festival in Louisiana, the classic rock band requested the audience join them in a display of U.S. patriotism by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

"It's always cool to love your country," frontman Paul Stanley said, according to a report.

Unsurprisingly, fan response was divided. One supporter tweeted, "KISS just stopped their concert to take a moment to thank the veterans and say the pledge of allegiance. Pretty damn cool."

While another wrote, "KISS made everyone do the pledge of allegiance before they would do an encore. That was the least rock and roll thing I've ever seen."

[guillaumeb]

1. Can they be headed to a Trump hotel as a headline act soon?

More gimmick than music.

[Coventina]

2. Wow, that's so rock 'n' roll!

on edit: and to think that in my childhood, we were warned by our church leaders that they were satanic!

[ProudLib72]

6. Well, it must have had an influence on Dotard back in the day

And here's the proof!

Funny how it's come full circle. The evangelicals hated rock and called it satanic. Now the satanist rockers have turned patriotic.

[TubbersUK]

3. God-awful band n/t

[GReedDiamond]

4. KISS is almost as bad as Ted Nugent...

...never cared for KISS and, especially, Gene Simmons.

[janterry]

5. he's an absolute pig

[GReedDiamond]

7. Yes, he is. Obnoxious piece of shit.

I used to know a guy back in the 70s who was a roadie for Blue Oyster Cult, and he had met KISS as they were just starting out. He claimed that their music was shit because they were more interested in creating/exploiting the KISS image than they were writing/performing decent tunes. I tend to believe him, it sounds plausible to me.

[janterry]

8. that Terry Gross interview

I couldn't believe it - that anyone would treat someone like that

[GReedDiamond]

9. I have not heard that interview, but I see that it's on Youtube...

...I'm gonna see how much of it I can get through a little later on, thanks for mentioning it.

[janterry]

12. here's the audio on npr

it's pretty shocking
https://archive.org/details/TerryGrossInterviewWithGeneSimmons

[GReedDiamond]

13. Cool, thanks - nt

[muntrv]

10. Why? We're they swearing in new citizens?

[Doreen]

11. If I had been there I would have kneeled ( despite the pain )

and left when they were done.

[CakeGrrl]

14. Are the people who loved this display of 'patriotism'

the same ones who lambasted the NFL players for brining politics into 'their' football?

I'd be interested to know why they are cool with one and not the other.

It's pretty authoritarian to make someone recite the pledge at a concert for which they paid in exchange for an encore.

[Snake Plissken]

15. If you are still going to see KISS in concert in 2017, you need to take a look around ...

the room and ask yourself, is this really were I want to be?

[muntrv]

16. Is patriotism the last refuge of a has been rock band?

[Johonny]

17. Why are they in the rock and roll hall of fame?

They suck, and have always sucked.

[HughBeaumont]

21. You cannot argue against their KIck-ASS lyrics.

"Plaster Caster grab a hold of me faster!"
"For my money, you can't be too soon, I'll meet you, greet you in the ladies room!"
"Get up, and get your grandma outta here!"
"You know your man is workin' hard - He's worth a deuce!"
"No placeYou'll pull the trigger of my Love GUN!"
"First I drink, then I smoke, Start the car and I try to make the midnight show!"

[standingtall]

18. I love the pledge of allegiance

especially sense it was written by socialist Christian Francis Bellamy. Are the Gene Simmons and Ted Nugent's of the world aware of this fact?

[HughBeaumont]

19. Knights In Shitgibbon's Service?

I always knew that fucking one-percenter wingnut Gene "Chaim Witz" Simmons was batshit. Didn't think Paul suffered from the same disease.

[Hortensis]

20. KISS is entitled to freedom of speech also. No one was forced to attend. Free choice.

I really don't see the big problem here. Those who were offended were free to offer a finger instead of a recitation and are free to dump these jerks permanently.

Proud liberal here.