Pagan
12-01-04, 10:19 AM
All I can say is....:rolleyes:
from blabbermouth.net:
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GENE SIMMONS Teaches Kids How To Rock
Amelia Hill of The Observer reports: Gene Simmons sticks out his long, reptilian tongue, snatches the microphone from the small boy and swings it wildly around his head. With his other hand, he gestures to another child playing the drums to fling his drumsticks to the ground.
The front man of KISS, the band whose outrageous make-up, riotous shows and sex-crazed groupies made them the biggest American stadium act of the Eighties, has crossed the Atlantic to teach pupils at the oldest boarding school in England how to be rock gods, in a project echoing last year's hit film "The School of Rock".
"Being in a rock band is an allegory for life. Good taste is academic and talent is overrated: mindset and perseverance are everything," says the singer, 54. "In a rock band, each person is out for themselves — within the context of the team.
"Children need to learn to be selfish, to put themselves first and not care what other people think. I have welcomed these children into the twilight zone and they have never seen anything like it."
In a new six-part TV series to be screened on Channel 4 next spring, Simmons has been given a month to turn ten 13-year-old public school pupils who excel in classical music into stars capable of supporting one of the day's biggest rock bands in a sell-out concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo.
On the surface, pupils at the 450-year-old Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex — a charity-run boarding school for children from less well-off families — could not be less rock 'n' roll. The 840 pupils wear a uniform chosen in 1553 by their founder, King Edward VI — long blue coats, cotton shirts with rectangular neckbands similar to those of a lawyer, yellow socks and a leather belt.
from blabbermouth.net:
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GENE SIMMONS Teaches Kids How To Rock
Amelia Hill of The Observer reports: Gene Simmons sticks out his long, reptilian tongue, snatches the microphone from the small boy and swings it wildly around his head. With his other hand, he gestures to another child playing the drums to fling his drumsticks to the ground.
The front man of KISS, the band whose outrageous make-up, riotous shows and sex-crazed groupies made them the biggest American stadium act of the Eighties, has crossed the Atlantic to teach pupils at the oldest boarding school in England how to be rock gods, in a project echoing last year's hit film "The School of Rock".
"Being in a rock band is an allegory for life. Good taste is academic and talent is overrated: mindset and perseverance are everything," says the singer, 54. "In a rock band, each person is out for themselves — within the context of the team.
"Children need to learn to be selfish, to put themselves first and not care what other people think. I have welcomed these children into the twilight zone and they have never seen anything like it."
In a new six-part TV series to be screened on Channel 4 next spring, Simmons has been given a month to turn ten 13-year-old public school pupils who excel in classical music into stars capable of supporting one of the day's biggest rock bands in a sell-out concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo.
On the surface, pupils at the 450-year-old Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex — a charity-run boarding school for children from less well-off families — could not be less rock 'n' roll. The 840 pupils wear a uniform chosen in 1553 by their founder, King Edward VI — long blue coats, cotton shirts with rectangular neckbands similar to those of a lawyer, yellow socks and a leather belt.