Condoleezza Rice Meets KISS And Tells
AFP - Condoleezza Rice may be a top diplomat who once aspired to being a concert pianist but she let her hair down a bit in Stockholm to meet the flamboyant rock group KISS.
“I was thrilled,” a beaming US secretary of state told reporters Friday after meeting lead singer Gene Simmons and his three band members at the waterfront Sheraton Hotel in the Swedish capital on Thursday night.
“For someone who likes the whole range of music, it was really fun to meet KISS and Gene Simmons,” Rice said on the plane taking her from a conference on Iraq in Stockholm to talks with Iceland’s leaders in Reykjavik.
The gathering was held in an executive loung at the hotel after the band, which is on a European concert tour, contacted the US delegation who were in Stockholm for the Iraq Compact Review Conference, US officials said.
Her aides showed reporters digital photographs of Rice smiling and chatting to the long-haired band members who were dressed casually rather than in their flamboyant stage costumes of black leather and painted faces.
They wore slacks, open-necked shirts and jackets. Rice, who had just returned from a dinner with Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, appeared in her usual business attire.
Simmons and the other band members — Paul Stanley, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer — autographed for her a glossy concert photograph of them on stage and gave band T-shirts to Rice’s aides.
Rice said she had never seen KISS perform but she had been to four rock concerts in her life.
The first was when she was 10 years old and she saw Paul Revere and The Raiders in her native Alabama and the second was when she was 16 years old and went on her first date with an Air Force cadet to see Smokey Robinson.
She later saw Earth Wind and Fire and U2 in concert.
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Loved Gene in that movie where he played a Terr with Rutger Hauer called Wanted Dead or Alive. The part where Hauer stuffed the baseball grenade in Simmons mouth and pulled the pin…LOL. “Fuck the bonus…”
May 30th, 2008 at 6:21 amHe always played a good nemesis in films. I loved him as the bad guy Dr. Charles Luther in the movie Runaway with Tom Selleck. A Michael Crichton movie with the classic 80’s big hair, macho bravado and neat high tech gizmos with the robotic killer spiders that shoot acid.
Now that I think about it I have to watch that movie again.
Good stuff.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:45 amGene Simmons is the man. i like that reality show with his family called family jewels.
May 30th, 2008 at 7:08 amGene is actually a very conservative Israeli born patriot. One episode he takes his daughter to 29 Palms and they go though a mock boot camp for a day.. it was hilarious..
he always supports the troops and loves America! Go Kiss
May 30th, 2008 at 11:29 am