Posted on 09/10/2016 3:20:48 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
While crybaby millionaire athletes opt to disrespect the land that provides them the incredible opportunity to play a game for a living by sitting during the National Anthem, legendary rockers KISS are taking a very different approach.
Arguably one of the best rock bands in the history of the genre, KISS is currently on their “Freedom to Rock” Tour, which they fittingly launched on July 4th, making it a point to show our country and the men and women who are sworn to protect her the respect they so richly deserve.
During one particular concert, the band stopped in the middle of the show and decided to do the Pledge of Allegiance.
Truth Revolt is reporting Currently, Kiss is on their “Freedom to Rock” tour, which launched on July 4th, and as they’ve done before, Kiss put their patriotism and love of our military in the forefront by giving Hiring Our Heroes $150,000 and selecting a current member of the National Guard or Reserve in all 32 cities of the tour to be a roadie for the day to work backstage with the crew and prepare for the evening’s concert. In addition, Kiss partnered with Veteran Tickets Foundation which offers discounted tickets to veterans. To top it all off, the band also gave $125,000 to the Wounded Warrior Project.
But it gets better. At a recent stop in Worcester, Massachusetts, this week, Kiss brought its roadie for the day onstage, along with other members of the military past and present, and led the entire arena in the Pledge of Allegiance, something the band has done before. However, this one had a bit of a special message to a particular NFL player — a not-so-subtle knock to the recent shenanigans by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, lead singer Paul Stanley said:
“You should remember, patriotism is always cool. Loving your country is always cool. Standing up, respecting and honoring our military is always cool. So, to show some respect between pick-throwing, we’re going to put our right hands over our hearts and why don’t we say the Pledge of Allegiance.”
What makes this gesture even better is that it isn’t the first time KISS has made it clear they love their country and support the troops. In fact, during a tour in 2014 that was geared toward honoring our military, they hired veterans to be roadies.
When you see the self-entitled left-wing brats on the left — most of which are millionaires thanks to the country they love to trash — sitting for the National Anthem instead of standing up and celebrating the land of opportunity, remember that not everyone in pop culture has gone mad.
There are still awesome, patriotic Americans like KISS, who have an even bigger platform than professional athletes who are here today and gone tomorrow, sticking up for the values and principles that make our nation great.
Well they probs won’t be invited to White House in near future, but I take my hat off to them!
Could not have come at a better time for them to express their patriotism...
Simmons is a conservative I believe.
Perhaps. Perhaps not.
“I always thought it was a rather creative version. Being patriotic I heard it as such, regardless of his actual intent.”
Are you of the Woodstock generation?
Good for KISS. Never into their music or their makeup but my son liked them.
Jimi Hendrix performed that the year I married a man in ROTC. I always disliked the antiwar movement and the hippies but loved that rendition. When my son at 13 decided he wanted to be a rock star and took up the guitar I told him “you will be a guitar player when you can play The Star Spangled Banner like Jimi Hendrix and Amazing Grace”. He learned both by ear and then Stairway to Heaven.
The “Woodstock Generation”? That’s a generation?
Oh yeah, I had just turned 18.
:)
“Perhaps. Perhaps not.”
I’m just telling it like it was.
As you will.
“Oh yeah, I had just turned 18.”
And you didn’t understand that he was mocking patriotism? The stoned-out flower children at Woodstock got it.
I met Gene Simmons twice in L.A. His agent in Beverly Hills sits 2 stories above my agent’s office and I spoke to him at length time.
He’s a lib but he’s damn pro America and pro US military. The only lib I know of who’s exactly like this is Zak Bagans from Ghost Adventures.
and dont get me started how many times i saw them live. 5 times.
You were a “stoned out” flower child who “got it”?
“The “Woodstock Generation”? That’s a generation?”
Didn’t you immediately understand who I was talking about?
It would actually include members of what is normally considered to be two or three generations, but I thought it was useful in this context.
You seem confused.
“You were a “stoned out” flower child who “got it”?”
No, but they were all over the place, and they were obstreperous. It was virtually impossible to avoid hearing what they were thinking, especially on college campi.
“You seem confused.”
I don’t think so.
I’ll leave you to that.
“Arguably one of the best rock bands in the history of the genre....”
No.
I’ve officially joined the KISS army as of now.
Old school rock that puts these little b@stards to shame.
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