And what do his co-workers at the center think about his maniacal--some would say pathological--behavior on stage? "They give me a hard time about it," he concedes, laughing. "They really don't understand it. Some of them think I'm on some kind of downward spiral or something. But what they don't understand is that for the thirty or forty minutes I'm up there playing, I'm not really being me. Like this one friend of mine said when he was sticking up for me, 'After a concert, Gene Simmons doesn't come home and spit blood all over his kids.' This is rock and roll. This is what we do."
The Weaklings, with the LaDonnas and Hemi Cuda. 9 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 15th Street Tavern, 623 15th Street, $5, 303-572-0822.
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