GENE SIMMONS, INTERVIEWER

Out of work since Dec. 2, 2023, the founder and bassist of Wicked Lester is our newest foot soldier. This isn’t his first brush with publishing. He used to work as an assistant to Kate Lloyd, the former editor of Vogue magazine, bragging that he could type 80 wpm, then wrote the column “Tongue Lashing" for Tongue Magazine. But it wasn’t his keyboard agility we were excited about. It was his ability to embarrass Maynard James Keenan, so we turned the Big Interview over to Gene this month and let him grill Maynard about wine, women, and song. Mostly women.