Rusty's Radio Stories - Meeting Gene Simmons of KISS

Kiss?

What?

Yeah.

Are you serious?

When?

Gene Simmons, oh, I've never told you this story.

No, I'm ready.

I love the rusty radio story.

So Gene Simmons owns some property in Baltimore because he's a slumlord.

And he used to come from time to time to check out his Baltimore property because it was a business expense.

OK.

He could write the whole thing off.

Yeah.

Well, one time he decided to do a pop up appearance for with Kiss.

OK.

At Hammerjacks.

So we hung we did an interview with them backstage, you know during the middle of the day Any sunglasses he wore sunglasses, you know, I'm Jean and the night before the record guy It took me Jonathan Shapiro.

I'm a music director Jean

And the other guy from kiss.

I can't remember his name Stanley Paul Stanley.

How do you not remember?

Okay, I've told the story on the air before so for those of you who've heard it my apologies Brian has not so We're at a very nice restaurant.

She only goes to very nice restaurants.

She's got the money And we have a private room in the back.

Mm-hmm.

She doesn't want to be bothered.

Okay, so we're in a little private room of this very nice restaurant and

and drinks at this point.

Yeah.

OK.

Oh, yeah.

You get a cold gin.

No, no cold gin.

I was a bit of a drinking man, but I never I was never really a big drinker.

Jean, of course, doesn't drink.

OK.

As we're finishing up the dinner, he says our Russell.

My Russell.

And.

where are the girls going to come from tonight?

I said, I don't understand.

He said, can you get us some girls to hang with tonight?

And I said, probably do you want good girls or bad girls?

Something to that extent.

I wanted to know if we wanted strippers.

Oh, OK, OK.

So I was I was kind of.

trying to figure out cause good girls I wouldn't know where to get them strippers I know where to go.

What do you just have on a roll of Dexa strippers?

Bambi, Candy, Brandy, Brittany.

We knew them all.

Tina.

So, he said, I think you know.

Something like that.

I said, okay.

So I didn't get to eat dessert.

They all stayed.

And I had to go to the gold club on Route 40 on Pulaski Highway in Baltimore.

Uh ladies Anybody want to take the night off and hang with James Simmons and Paul Stanley from kiss And I got four or five takers, which is most of the dancers at the club at that time We all piled it to my I don't know what I was driving at the time.

I think it was a corolla turn We all piled into my corolla

A sunroof ride, I suppose.

And I brought them back to the restaurant.

The night started there at the restaurant.

Well, that's great.

That's fantastic.

I'm surprised you didn't pick up a girl named Beth just to bring her back.

I should have named one of them Beth.

I will say, I saw a kiss a few years ago at the Mohegan Sun Casino.

And you know how they charge now for backstage.

And they have a line a mile long.

They charge for anything.

You breathe the same air as Jean, same as they charge you.

So I got to pop ahead of the line because I was with the record label again.

And we're taking the picture and jeans directly behind me with the sand on my shoulder.

I said, you remember 1988, Baltimore, when I had dinner with you and what's his name?

Paul Stanley.

Paul Stanley.

And you sent me out to get girls and he squeezed my shoulder and he said, I have no memory of that.