![]() “Anyways, you can get your tone just right on stage. You can be in front of your amp with a killer instrument in your hands – we’ll be doing guitars as well by the way, Thunderbirds, Flying Vs and so on. “But the variables are much more complex when you play live. I just want to say that your girlfriend or boyfriend has been lying to you all these years, size does count! Our stage was 10 stories tall, it was by far the largest one we’d ever played At home, you have your amplifier and tone knobs, you can always get your sound just right. Sorry, are you talking about my tongue or my tone ?! People that aren’t in bands can be a bit delusional. ![]() “No! I will let them wax poetic and prolific. We saw Tech 21 has reposted some pictures of you using their amps at the Dubai rehearsals… can you tell us more about your signal path for the shows? The very few people that were there were screaming, they got scared ! We had fun and, most importantly, we were safe.” Those fireballs went up 100 feet, completely surrounding us. We had more pyro than most third-world countries, and I’m not saying that to be flippant. “I just want to say that your girlfriend or boyfriend has been lying to you all these years, size does count! Our stage was 10 stories tall, it was by far the largest one we’d ever played. There weren’t a lot of people there, because of the pandemic, but at the same time we were being streamed to – oh, I don’t know – hundreds of millions of people around the world. “That night felt like a lapse of reality. And it sounded really good, boomy in a way that hits you in the chest, which is exactly what basses are supposed to do. “Yes, we played out there and went into the Guinness Book Of Records – not just any beer drinker’s hall of fame, which was really quite something. You took the G² Thunderbird out for a test drive at the New Year’s Eve concert in Dubai. It’s only going to get better and better.” “We’re still working on the pickups, trying out Gibsons, EMGs, other humbuckers, we’re still playing around with it all. There will also be left-handed versions for all those people who worship Satan. “Having said that, there will be a Flying V version that Cesar and I are already working on, plus a guitar/bass double-neck. Most importantly, the wood is solid, it sounds great like a good kick in the nuts… it’s about as much fun as you’ll have with your pants on! “There’s not a lot of words on there, no big logo, it’s just a classy instrument. I added little things like that so it doesn’t look too garish or in your face. There’s also a logo that’s a skull and crossbones with guitars, and the skull with its tongue out. “It’s those little bits of business that I like. The first release will be the ebony G² Thunderbird bass, one with silver appointments and the other with red. “So we’re keeping classic Gibson parts, making it sound better and look better adding a few bits and pieces here and there, but you’ll definitely know it’s a Gibson instrument.” “He said he wanted to do something and I told him, ‘Let’s not throw the baby out of the bathwater! If we were going to do this together, I want to keep a classic Gibson without changing the DNA.’ There will also be left-handed versions for all those people who worship Satan There will be a Flying V version that Cesar and I are already working on, plus a guitar/bass double-neck. It was direct to the fans with no stores whatsoever. He’d heard about my Axe and Punisher, which I’d designed, built and sold myself with no guitar company involved or anything. “Anyways, where was I, Cesar actually reached out to me. By the way, when you do the horns with the thumb outstretched, it actually means ‘I love you’ in sign language… I like your black Custom too because it’s Paul Stanley-ish but I really like the Jimmy Page-ish one. “Oh, I see you have a sunburst Les Paul behind you. He stops mid-flow and brings his eye close to the screen. He’s a very forward-thinking guy who wants to not just rest on the past.” And it changed hands, there was a new CMO whose name is Cesar Gueikian that had come on board. “What are you going to do, a classy outfit is a classy outfit. “Over the years, every once in a while, I’d keep in touch with the Gibson people,” continues Simmons. It turns out the founding Kiss member’s name was high up the wish list for partnerships – so much so, he got given his own offshoot brand. The recently announced collaboration was partly down to a change of personnel at Gibson, now headed by CEO James ‘JC’ Curleigh and CMO Cesar Gueikian, who have been striving to reinvigorate the great legacy with new artist models and media exclusives. (Image credit: Gibson / Adrián Monroy/Medios y Media/Getty Images)
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