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So after balling my eyes out watching Dog and Beth get married and watching Dog deal with the shock of losing his daughter on the day of his wedding, it was nice to switch gears and watch the Gene Simmons new reality tv show on A&E. 

At first I was skeptical that it wouldn’t be as colorful as other reality shows I’m hooked on.  What was I thinking?  This is Gene Simmons of KISS - the GOD OF THUNDER!  How could his reality show be any less than great?  Of course I’m completely biased when it comes to anything KISS related, but seriously, I giggled through the whole show. 

Gene is a riot and his kids, although not as colorful or as combative as Jack and Kelly Osbourne, are still pretty entertaining. 

Gene just rocks and I loved his band name idea for his son’s rock band - ”Search Engine”. 

It was funny to see his son throw his Dad out of his bands’ practice space after Gene started to jam on the bass and drums.  Can you imagine telling Gene that he is lame and to get out of your band’s practice room?  How surreal is that?

I was only disappointed at one part of the first episode when Gene flies to Vegas for the opening of the Hooters Casino, during which what he thought was a lunatic fan stalking him turns out to be a women who wants to surprise her husband at their wedding because he is a huge KISS fan.  Of course, because the cameras were rolling, Gene and his entourage of women hop in a limo and head to the chapel. 

Albeit, the grooms face was priceless when Gene Simmons walked in escorting his bride-to-be down the isle, although I didn’t think that fan was worthy of Gene attending his wedding.  He wasn’t in make-up or anything!  If Gene was going to attend a wedding it really needed to be my friend Jon’s wedding.  He was married a couple of summers ago - here is a picture that I took at the wedding of Jon and Jackie cutting their cake. 

I think black and white captured the moment so nicely, don’t you?

 

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