Re: Gene Simmons, KISS, WBUR, Fresh Air

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:57:36 -0500 "Aaron [Bishop] Read"
<aread@speakeasy.net> writes:
> At 01:42 PM 12/30/2002, Dave Faneuf wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:26:39 -0800 (PST) Cooper Fox 
> <fox893@yahoo.com>
> >writes:
> > > Is this an older interview?  From late 2001 or early
> > > 2002?  If it is I think I remember hearing about this
> > > one...
> > >
> >I was recorded in 2002 I don't recall when, I am somewhat surprised 
> they
> >decided to rebroadcast it, I know they reaired the interview on 
> Fresh Air
> >Weekend the weekend after the show initially was broadcast because 
> of the
> >volume of requests to hear it,  apparently it caused a lot of talk
> >outside NPR and people who normally wouldn't listen to Fresh Air 
> asked to
> >hear it.  But as for why they picked this show for Terri's 
> vacation, I
> >guess you can email Fresh Air at WHYY and ask.
> >df
> 
> 
> Dave - wasn't Gene Simmons also one of a couple of guests on The 
> Connection 
> or OnPoint a few months after the Fresh Air "debacle"?   I seem to 
> remember 
> the host thanking Gene for coming back to NPR after the spat and 
> Gene made 
> it very clear that he wasn't offended at all by the interview - the 
> whole 
> thing was just part of his persona as a performer.   I think it was 
> a WBUR 
> show...as in it wasn't Talk of the Nation.

I think he was on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" after his Fresh Air
interview.  I don't recall him being on The Connection or On Point, but
if it was on a night that I was not working I would likely not have heard
it.
df