With Coronavirus pandemic making huge waves across the world, people are requested to not come off of their houses. The music industry has lost billions of dollars is the last few weeks and musicians are just waiting for the day when COVID-19 ends.
Legendary Gene Simmons did talk about the impact of the business due to the virus.
He said:
“Well, look, we can talk about the big numbers, and that means billions of dollars that are lost. The rich and the famous and the good-looking folks who wear silly outfits like this and who have silly hair like this — just billions of dollars flushed down the drain. So what? You’re talking about single mothers and families who live from check to check. The people who actually put on these concerts — the security people, the road crews, all that stuff. This is important; this is survival. And so the folks in and around the infrastructure are the people who are suffering the most.”
He continued:
“We’re doing our part. We have a restaurant chain called Rock & Brews — two at LAX; they’re all over Southern California, across the nation and everything — we put a stop to it. And we’re actually writing checks to the important stuff. I just sent a nice big check to the children’s hospital here in L.A., because you not only have children suffering from this horrible thing, there are children who are also fighting cancer. So everybody can do their part. There are food banks. Everybody can do the stuff. Stay at home. Get to know your wifey. She wants to see you more often anyway.”
Gene concluded:
“I have nothing to complain about… There are some miserable things going on out there.”
“People are losing their lives — all sorts of stuff. The best thing we can do is to look out for each other… We’re in this together. The only way is the lonely way. Get used to being by yourself or with your loved ones.”