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Gene,

You must be fully aware that John Lennon is using your "hand thing" on the cover of "Yellow Submarine."

Response from Gene:

I never knew that. Thanks for pointing it out.

hello gene my name is kaitlyn and i live in melbourne i am 6 years old and i talked to you at your hotel. me my mum and my dad saw you with kiss play your music you told me that you have a little girl like me who liked the powerpuff girls like i do. well the movie is coming out and my parents are taking me to see it i was wondering if you are taking your girl too. i am now in grade prep at school and i told all my friends and my teacher all about you but i dont think they believed me so i showed them photos. do you still have the photos that i left at the hotel if not i could send you some.i still have the money you gave me in my frame with my photos. well i have to go now because i am at work on the computer with my mum she is helping me. you talked to her too and my dad and my little brother eric if you want to we can talk when i go to work with my mum you can send me mail at my grandmas address my mum will write my stuff.
i love you still kaitlyn

Response from Gene:

Yes. I took Sophie, my daughter to the Powerpuff Girls movie. I'm a fan of the Powerpuffs myself.

Gene,

I heard a story over and over about how KISS shot up the Charleston WV civic center with BB guns. Can you please settle this once and for all. I know this is a "Gene" website, and KISS can be reached at www.kissonline.com but I have to prove this one way or another.

Jeff King

Response from Gene:

Have never had a BB gun in my hands, much less shot one. The story is untrue.

Dearest Gene,

I am writing again with a question that might be of some interest to some of your other Female fans out there as well as myself... How would you recommend a "regular" girl (like myself) get your attention other than the obvious, like lifting my top??? That just seems so common and un-original, I've seen way too many girls do that at the shows...

What attracts you to a woman? There have got to be numerous things. You don't come across as a "shallow" person, you seem to be interested in the many other sides to the women out there...

For instance, in the interview you did with Carson Daily you spoke about your love of all women, and also about being up-front with them. Does that apply for us also? Hypothetically speaking, if I were to come up to you if we met and say "Gene, I want to spend the night with you!" what kind of response would that comment get from you?

I'm very curious as to how you feel about us being as open with you...

By the way, the interview with Carson was great! I found it funny, intelligent and all around entertaining. You are irresistible!...lol

I'll be looking forward to your response...

Yours Always,
Meredith Howe
aka DOMINO70

P.S.-I hope you don't mind me writing in so often, I'm glad you find my letters to be interesting and intelligent enough to add to the site. : )

Response from Gene:

I AM shallow. Shallow is spelled M-A-N. Get used to it. Lifting your top is ok. It works. I don't know a lot of guys who would disagree. Other than that, you and I have the same right to say yes or no when asked about spending nights with someone.

Dear Gene,

With all due respect to you and everyone else for that matter, God and "science" are one in the same. Arguing theory with "fact," or faith for that matter, is healthy for the purpose of having a debate and expressing free thought, but to exclude one from the other is fruitless. God, Mother Nature, Allah, or whatever "name" you want to give him/it and our physical surroundings are the same. Everything in between is whatever we choose it to be and whatever we create with it - good, bad, or indifferent - and even that is subject to interpretation.

Regards,
Will Johnson
Little Rock, Arkansas

Response from Gene:

You're wrong.

Gene,

Yes, it is me again (Mary Kay). I love visiting your site and seeing what the controversy is now, or what you have said or done to piss someone off. Also to keep up on what you are doing.

I don't always agree with you on everything and that is okay. I am a unique individual like yourself. That is why they call it Your Opinion and My Opinion. We all know the saying on opinions. One thing I do agree with you on is the statement You can't please everyone, Or you just can't win. This is very true. But I would like to respond to the whole marriage, divorce and partner debate.

Marriage? Hard to remain Faithful to one person. Yes, I agree. I have had a few affairs on My husband but that was just sex to me. And yes he has had one or two himself. But here we are 20 yrs and still together. Divorce? Almost and yes you are right it came down to Money. I didn't want to sign off his pension. I felt a portion was owed to me. So you are not so far off in some of your theories as people want to think.

Asking where are you going, who with and what time will you be back? Yes, sometimes. I attended over 20 shows on the reunion tour. Hubby only went to 3 of those with me. The rest of the time I was solo and met up with online pals and even shared rooms with guys. Did my hubby know? Yes. He did want me to call him from time to time on the road so he knew I was okay, I was sick with Cancer at the time.

My partner? We have separate checking accounts, I have my bills, He has his. He doesn't consult me on his financial matters and I don't consult him. We each have our own investments and pay for our own health and dental insurance. He has a room with all his tech stuff and star wars, star trek things. I have a room with all KISS. We each even have our own computers. We have our own separate hobbies and interests. He likes to hunt, I don't. I love Kiss and concerts, He doesn't.

Love? Do we love eachother? Yes, although I don't feel we are actually IN love anymore. I think there are different types of love. I love my grandchild, I love You! I love to ride horses and I love my husband. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to him and I know he feels the same. Happiness? Dare I say it? Content comes to mind. I am sure he feels the same.

At night when I have those hot sexual dreams starring you and wake up with a deep ache. He understands. He knows you are my fantasy and have been since I was old enough to know about sex. You visit me in my dreams so much it is scary at times. At least I am not alone. He even took nude fotos of me for Girls of Kiss. So are we the norm or are we proof of what you think.

Take Care

MK

Response from Gene:

You're an individual...as are we all.

Gene,

I will preface this, so as not to sound like I'm judging your stand, by saying this is simply a question.

It seems that anything untangible is completely out of the question for you, such as, spirituality, Astrology, reincarnation, clarvoyancy. And they really aren't worth probing, because there isn't any physical proof, so that ends the argument for you......am I right?

There is something that happened to me about fourteen years ago, and something wonderful came of it. I was on the other side of the coin. I was floating on a cloud, and didn't care what physical proof there was about anything. If God or one of his leaders said it, it was so. All the proof in the world didn't make a bit of difference to me. I was a blind, deaf little lamb. Strangely out of no where, someone I had never met, and never wanted to meet, changed my whole perspective on life. He didn't set out to do that, and as a matter of fact, I think (my opinion) he feels uncomfortable with any notion that he influences anything, beyond his own goals. Ha ha............this is a place I disagree with him, if that is in fact, how he feels.

Just some food for thought...

I grew up not wanting to be judgemental, and I feel sure I wasn't, until I became a Saint doing the Lord's work. I didn't want to hear anything from anyone else about anything. I knew the truth, and that was that. I am not, and have never fancied the idea but.......I NO LONGER BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ANYTHING SHAMEFUL, OR SINFUL IN BEING GAY. Sorry, but sometimes clarity is extremely important when writing. I was being taught it was evil, and sinful. So I closed my eyes and ears to anything anyone would have to say about it. Scientific proof meant nothing. I didn't listen to MTV because of the evil influence it had on people. It is a proven fact, that the type of music you listen to can alter your attitude, and feelings about yourself. But this evidence wasn't my reasoning. I was taught it was evil and caused immoral thoughts. We were admonished not to spend time with people who didn't live their lives the way we knew was right (that means being the same religion we belonged to), unless we were going to convert them.....ok now to my point...

I'm watching, of all things, Oprah Winfrey and to make a long story short, this horrible, nasty, sinful, immoral perverted Rockstar was on her show with his long haired, earring wearing bandmate. Oprah was the only hour of TV I allowed myself, and I was really sad that these people and an author for a sleezy sex book about a Rockstar, were on. Curiosity did get the best of me, mainly because I had listened to this band while I was in highschool, and this was the first time I'd seen them without their make-up.....hmmmmm who could it be? Now what I found was that this person I thought was such a sleeze, just had a different idea about life than I did. He basically said that he respected someone else's right to believe something different, and he felt they should respect his as long as he was being honest, and not hurting anyone. Honestly, I think I was waiting for him to get all mean and nasty with the people who weren't agreeing with him, and when he didn't, I realized I'd been wrong. There isn't any scientific proof that this man's words are what changed me, and my thinking, and I don't think that that was all there was to it either. People, and the sense of who they are,and the positive energy, if you will, that they emit can stimulate, inspire, and give focus to other's around them.

I didn't run out and buy all their records, I didn't start collecting posters and everything else........that came a while later. But what I did start doing was listening to other people's points of view. Recognizing that we all come from a different place, so we will all see things just a bit different. We can learn so much from the paths that other people walk......if we don't just hear the words, but listen to what is being said.

Intermingled in things we know we don't believe, or accept, is the answer to why people feel the way they do. Understanding is an amazing tool to help us not judge other's opinions, and help us clean up predjudice and bigotry with knowlege. Hate is fear, fear is not knowing........knowlege, and understanding, are therefore, power. Power to understand and control judgement, by overcoming fear.

You, Mr. Simmons, taught me not to be so quick to judge. Like it or not you are stuck with that notion of mine. (I'm laughing, but it's true!) You have also taught me to let go, and go for what I believe in, and what I want out of my life. I don't want to shut any doors to any possibilities, or put any limits on what to follow. Of course common sense is important, but our sense is our own, and limited. Why not let go of some of the boundaries, be a little more flexable and accepting of other's idea's. Not that you have to agree with them.

You talk so much about wanting to be free. Being too intellectual, can be just as confining as you suppose marriage is. You and I don't see eye to eye on that subject, but I'm still learning a lot from your point of view. As I've said, from my point of view, the greatest weapon against bigotry, racisim, and judgmentalness, is the willingess to listen, and learn why. Telling other people they are wrong or on crack, because their concepts are different........well the guy I saw on Oprah said it best, sorry for the repetition and paraphrasing but the man is soooooo smart!......I respect your right to believe what you believe, and I would hope you would respect my right too.

I really love your site!!!!!!!!!

Marcy

Response from Gene:

Glad to hear from you. You don't need anyone else's approval... in your lifestyle... your choices and yes, in being gay. As long as you're comfortable with it, why do you care what anyone else thinks.?

As to science vs spirituality: My only point is that FACT can be proven and anything else I have a "wait and see" attitude... That includes Angels, ghosts and so on. All anyone can say is that SO FAR, they haven't been proven to exist. When and if they can be proven, they will rise to the level of FACT.

Gene:

My friend Brian and I have a bet going and I stand to lose fifty bucks if I'm wrong. My friend says that you and Paul had originally had Steven Soderbergh in mind to direct Detroit Rock City. I say it was Adam Rifkin from day one till the end. Can you please clear this up for us.

Your Fan,
Chuck Leny

P.S.

I'll give ya a percentage...:c) (lol)

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