KISS‘ Gene Simmons has retold the story of the one and solely time in his life that he received excessive.
The US rock musician, who has beforehand claimed to have by no means been drunk or excessive in his life, opened up in regards to the time he by accident ingested hashish brownies after a KISS gig within the ’70s.
The musician mirrored on the eventful expertise in the course of the newest episode of Your Mom’s House with Christina P. and Tom Segura alongside together with his son Nick Simmons.
“I’ve by no means been drunk or excessive in my life,” he reasserted on the podcast (per Loudwire), earlier than his son introduced up the “one unintentional story”.
Nick defined that his dad was “so faraway from drug tradition that he didn’t know that you may bake hashish into baked items”, and had no hesitation by accident consuming six brownies.
“So, please describe then what you hallucinated,” he mentioned to his dad. “You’ve advised me this a few occasions. It’s my favorite story.”
Gene continued that he’s “by no means earlier than or since had something like that occur to me” and “wasn’t ready for it”.
He recalled: “So, you’ve received a room full of individuals celebrating – we’re breaking some form of document in Detroit…This was in ’76…The entire room is full, and I’m simply seeing the brownies piled [high]. And I really like that stuff. Everybody’s [like] ‘Let’s smoke, let’s put issues up our ass.’ No, simply give me cake.”
Gene mentioned that it “didn’t damage” that the girl shelling out the brownies “wasn’t dangerous trying, including: “[She] comes over, and I’m [like,] ‘Give me one other a kind of.’ Then I began, like a canine with a bone, simply following her round. ‘Can I’ve one other one?’ ‘You need one other one?’ And I simply saved consuming it – six.”
The KISS bassist and singer then recalled his expertise of being excessive, remembering the room “began to get larger, and my head began to get smaller…all the way down to the dimensions of an olive”.
He went on: “I keep in mind this: I began to open my eyes [wide] so that individuals would suppose I’m regular. And as I moved, my arms turned – because it will get farther [away from you], it will get smaller – nope, [my hands] ballooned up like cartoons. So it received huge.”
The musician mentioned that fortunately the editor of Creem journal was there to assist him into his limo. “And as I’m strolling, each step I take, [I have giant feet]. … And I’m speaking loudly as a result of I don’t suppose she will hear me, ’trigger my voice [seems] small.”
“We get within the limo, and I’m afraid to maneuver or something,” Gene recalled. “And I’m thirsty…In order that they pull over two or three blocks in a ghetto in Detroit, and he or she leads me in to get me a drink…And it’s crammed with neighbourhood people who’re there at night time grabbing a burger and stuff after the present.
“And I’m wearing leather-based, no kidding, they usually all flip round… And I’m pondering, ‘They’re all me as a result of my head is small’. So I attempt to make myself larger. And I’m going up, and the man goes, ‘What’ll ya have?’ And I’m going – yelling – ‘Can I’ve a glass of milk?!’”
After they returned to the lodge, the important thing to the room additionally appeared huge. “I’ll say that I’ve by no means been as massive in my life,” he quipped.
On a extra severe word, Gene mentioned his motive for not getting excessive or drunk was due to his late mom, who was a Holocaust survivor.
“She was in a focus camp when she was 14 years of age. And I by no means wished to interrupt her coronary heart,” he mentioned. “And I used to be all the time conscious I by no means wished to disappoint her – there was sufficient aggravation. So I by no means smoked cigarettes, by no means received excessive, by no means received drunk.”
Elsewhere, Gene Simmons final month introduced his first solo live performance after KISS’ retirement in December 2023.
