‘You’re a bitch if you don’t show up on stage when it says nine o’clock’

Think what you like about Gene Simmons – but one thing you can’t accuse the Kiss bassist/vocalist of being is an unprofessional live performer.

Yesterday Simmons gave a keynote address today at the fifth annual Billboard Touring Conference, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

During the address, Simmons stressed the duties of being a live performer.

Simmons also intimated that Kiss might go on the road with Queen next year – which we here at the Clog reckon would be a killer combination.

‘I don’t care if you’re Axl Rose, forgot to tie your shoelaces or your father molested you when you were three – you’re a bitch if you don’t show up on stage when it says nine o’clock,’ he said, drawing loud applause from the audience.

‘You need to have the integrity and self-respect to respect the promoter who paid you the money in advance, the hall and the people who makes all our lives possible,’ Simmons continued.

Referring to Kiss as the ‘juggernaut of all rock’n'roll brands,’ Simmons said the band are currently working out future tour details.

‘We’ve been talking with [manager Doc McGhee] about Europe and then doing a year-long tour maybe this coming summer, but we’ll see,’ Simmons said.

‘Kiss and Queen, that would be a smash. That would kill. So far [it's] 50/50.’

Read more at Billboard.com here.

Meanwhile, returning to the subject of Axl for a sec, Guns N’ Roses’ hyper-delayed new album Chinese Democracy is available for streaming on GN’R’s MySpace page here.

At the time of writing this post, the title track alone had been played a total of 745,880 times…

STOP PRESS: Chinese Democracy has broken all records after being streamed on MySpace.

The album received around 25 listens a second up until today (November 21) after being streamed in full on the site yesterday (November 20).

Up until 4pm (GMT) today the title track had been played over 826,000 times, with the total amount of plays all the album tracks have received adding up to over 3 million.

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(Via Classic Rock.)