Really? Gene Simmons has the nerve to say this?

Gene Simmons calls former Kiss drummer Peter Criss and former guitarist Ace Frehley "drunks" and "losers"

It's always been known that if Gene Simmons is given a direct question, he'll give a direct answer, no holds barred. He talked to Rolling Stone Magazine to promote the new Kiss book "Nothin' to Lose" and was full of abrasive comments about the two former KISS players. Initially, he was dismissed as "the bad guy" in the firing of Peter Criss and Ace Frehley

"I am the bad guy," responded Simmons. "I won’t stand for drunks and alcoholics who get up on stage and consider it their birthright. I consider it a privilege to get up there and arrive on time and be sober, and I’ll be an a–hole to anybody who thinks otherwise. You know who else is an a–hole? Your teacher was an a–hole. Your parents are a–holes. Your drill sergeant was an a–hole. Because they wouldn’t let you get away with s—. Ace and Peter have had a lifetime of being losers. And not just with drugs and alcohol. They’re losers because of wrong decisions. You sleep in the bed you make. How many chances in life do you get? They were in and out of the band three different times. Why should they get another chance?" He also added "Anybody who gets angry at us are just small people with small dreams who never achieved anything and will always be angry,” argued Simmons later in the interview. “But they’re mostly angry with themselves for being losers."

Thank God Paul Stanley is my favorite. At least he's nice, sweet and loveable. And he don't do stupid crap like this!

If only Peter Criss and Ace Frehley knew this one...