Last year David Byrne advocated for the Music Fairness Act, a bill that would require radio stations to license musicians' songs for airplay so they could get compensated. Today Gene Simmons testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to support the bill.
"When you work hard and you get to the top, what do you got? Zipper-rooney," the KISS member said. "That’s not the American way. If you against this bill, you are un-American. You cannot let this injustice continue."
"It looks like a small issue," he continued. "There are wars going on and everything. But our emissaries to the world are Elvis and Frank Sinatra, and when they find out that we are not treating our stars right — in other words, worse than slaves. Slaves get food and water. Elvis, Bing Crosby, and Sinatra got nothing for their performance. We have got to change this now for our children and our children’s children."
He also recently made headlines for shooting his shot with an interviewer on live television yesterday, asking if she was still modeling and saying he assumed she was a model.
On Sunday, KISS received Kennedy Center honors presented by Criss Angel, and they were covered by Garth Brooks. Simmons praised the controversial White House ballroom expansion, saying it needed a "facelift." Incidentally, he and his then-girlfriend, now-wife got his-and-hers facelifts in 2007.
