Aussie Radio Station bans Kiss after Gene Simmons told depression sufferers to kill themselves

Worldwide dickhead Gene Simmons recent did an interview with Songfacts.com in which he told sufferers of depression, "Fuck you, then kill yourself." As a result, Triple M network head Mike Fitzpatrick has removed all Kiss tracks from playlists around the country.

Here's Simmons' full comment:

Drug addicts and alcoholics are always: "The world is a harsh place." My mother was in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. I don't want to hear fuck all about "the world as a harsh place." She gets up every day, smells the roses and loves life. And for a putz, 20-year-old kid to say, "I'm depressed, I live in Seattle." Fuck you, then kill yourself.

I never understand, because I always call them on their bluff. I'm the guy who says 'Jump!' when there's a guy on top of a building who says, "That's it, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to jump."

Are you kidding? Why are you announcing it? Shut the fuck up, have some dignity and jump! You've got the crowd.

In a statement published on Triple M's website, Mike Fitzpatrick said:

"Gene Simmons' recent comments are misguided and insensitive. Depression and Suicide are not topics he should be using to further his notoriety or sell records. His desperation to use mental health issues to find relevancy in a modern age is sickening. I can only put it down to a brain fade on his part. The Triple M Network can’t and won’t be playing or supporting this dickhead’s music. I put the challenge out to other stations across Australia and North America to also drop any of this nudnik's songs until such time as he reconsiders his thoughtless and insensitive position."

On ya, Mike. Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx also weighed in, slamming Simmons for his "moronic" comments.

I don’t like Gene’s words, because there is a 20-year-old kid out there who is a KISS fan and reads this and goes, ‘You know what? He’s right. I should just kill myself.’

For people who are depressed, there is a way out. There are many, many ways out. And I don’t want people to listen to an interview from a rock star, who’s telling you the only way out is out, when I’m telling you, and I wrote it in The Heroin Diaries, you can get out of this."

Ben_Reilly wrote:Arrogant ignorance or ignorant arrogance?

lovedust wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Arrogant ignorance or ignorant arrogance?

I think "dickhead" about sums it up.

Raggamuffin wrote:
He's apologised and said that he supports anyone with depression. Strange really as he said before that he always tells them to "jump".

lovedust wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:
Arrogant ignorance or ignorant arrogance?

I think "dickhead" about sums it up.

Nems wrote:Well done that radio station. Gene Simmonds is an ignorant fool as are all those who think depression is a thing to taunt people over.  

Raggamuffin wrote:

Nems wrote:Well done that radio station. Gene Simmonds is an ignorant fool as are all those who think depression is a thing to taunt people over.  

He thinks he can say what he likes just because he's got a long tongue.