Editing Gene Simmons (section)

===NPR interview===

During an interview on the [[NPR|National Public Radio]] (NPR) program ''[[Fresh Air]]'' on February 2, 2002,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/gene-simmons-terry-gross-npr |title=Remembering Gene Simmons' Contentious Interview with Terry Gross, 20 Years Later |publisher=InsideHook |date=January 21, 2022 |access-date=June 27, 2022}}</ref> Simmons told [[Terry Gross]]: "If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs", paraphrasing a lyric from [[the Who]]'s 1981 song "[[You Better You Bet]]". Gross replied: "That's a really obnoxious thing to say". At the time, Simmons refused to grant permission to NPR to make the interview available online.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/TerryGrossInterviewWithGeneSimmons|title=Terry Gross interview with Gene Simmons|work=Internet Archive|access-date=August 13, 2009}}</ref> However, it appears in print in Gross' book ''All I Did Was Ask'' and unauthorized transcripts are available. NPR re-broadcast part of the interview in August 2007.<ref name="npr">{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14081542|title=The Unpredictable Gene Simmons|date=August 31, 2007|publisher=[[NPR]]|access-date=February 1, 2011}}</ref> In a 2014 interview with ''[[HuffPost]]'', Simmons noted he was upset over what he perceived as Gross's "holier-than-thou" attitude, which included mislabeling his band Kiss as "the Kiss".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Branch|first1=Chris|title=Gene Simmons Calls NPR's Terry Gross 'Arrogant And Insulting'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/12/kiss-gene-simmons-npr-terry-gross_n_5672201.html|newspaper=[[HuffPost]]|date=August 12, 2014|access-date=August 16, 2014}}</ref>