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VideoGene Simmons remembers discovering - and mentoring - Van Halen
Gene Simmons played a formative role in the early career of Van Halen. He recently spoke to Yahoo Entertainment about when he first heard the band in the late 70s at a place called the Starwood. "I heard this kind of flurry of stuff in between classical melodies and sometimes in harmony," Simmons said. "And you know, the sense I got was, wow, there's a few guitar players up onstage playing harmony and ... I ran to the front of the fence or whatever on the top floor, so I could see everybody unde
