Gene Simmons continued telling the story: Simmons explained that the band members always focused on being the best version of themselves when it came to their music and stage performances, and the effort they put in their looks represented their enthusiasm. It would have obviously been a lot easier to get up on stage in jeans and T-shirts and go, ‘Okay, here we are–we’re the Ramones!’ And that would have been just as valid, but it would not have been honest.”Īccording to Simmons, there was nobody involved in the creating of the four iconic makeup looks as he was the one who sat in front of a mirror in a loft in downtown New York and drew on himself. That’s where the makeup and dressing up came in. Getting up on stage was almost a holy place for us, like church, so being on stage looking like a bum wasn’t my idea of respect. This doesn’t negate what the Dead and other bands were doing it just wasn’t us. We weren’t a Grateful Dead kind of band that would get onstage and look worse than the roadie delivering our stuff. In the very first pictures we took when the band first got together, we looked like drag queens. Well, we were more like football players all of us were over 6 feet tall, and it just wasn’t convincing! You know, all the skinny little guys, hairless boys. “At the same time that we were forming in New York, there was a very big glitter scene, where boys were basically acting like girls and putting on makeup.
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