The Devil Horns: Gene Simmons or Dio?

[METALDUDE]

The ongoing debate. Now I am not saying this is MY opinion just an observance. Here is KISS on the DESTROYER tour in 76-77 in Japan doing Firehouse. After the first chorus and the lyrics say ,"The Flames Keep Getting Higher" Gene flashes devil/metal horns.

Don't know if Dio has done this before then but this is before he would have joined Sabbath when he states himself as using it for the first time. (1980)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRBPw25mDE

Makin' Love is on there also so it may be a cool clip for some just for kicks.

 

[Death Animal]

That mean church.
And I stick with the Dio

 

[METALDUDE]

^^ Nice sig BTW DA!

 

[METALDUDE]

Then again it could have been John Lennon...:Smokin:

Or...

 

[Evil?]

Neither, the symbol is hundreds of years old. If we are jsut deciding between Dio and Simmons however the winner is....Dio's Grandma! He used the symbol because she did. She used it in the context of old italian superstition. It was a symbol to ward off the evil eye. On a side note, members of the Parliment Funkadelic and their fans have been using the symbol for decades as well. Before Dio or Simmons.

Why is this topic talked about so much still?

 

[Death Animal]

It´s intresting to somebeople

Nice sig BTW DA!

THX

 

[Alongside Death]

John Lennon was teh fucking satan!!

 

[Death Animal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VQcCi6DOhI
More info

 

[Teh Grimace]

(lawl pix)

comments on your google skills. both pics (minus the submarine one but whatever BEATLES FTW) made me lawl. 1 and 1/2 lawls up.

 

[Skepticism]

I vote Lennon.

 

[The Heartbreak Kid]

Dio's Italian grandmother taught it to him and he seemed to make it popular, in Italy it means that a person is being cheated on by his wife or husband, if you point them the 'horns', like the word 'basterd'. It can also be used to ward off the evil eye

 

[Hatebreeder]

Neither, the symbol is hundreds of years old. If we are jsut deciding between Dio and Simmons however the winner is....Dio's Grandma! He used the symbol because she did. She used it in the context of old italian superstition. It was a symbol to ward off the evil eye. On a side note, members of the Parliment Funkadelic and their fans have been using the symbol for decades as well. Before Dio or Simmons.

This is the truth.

 

[Perpetual Catatonia]

So what were really asking is "who made it popular for people who don't even listen to Metal to show the devil horns?" Or is it "who made it popular for people who think what they listen to metal to do the love sign and think it's the sign for metal?"

Yes, those are actual sentences. Read them twice if needed.

My vote goes for Dio. I know he obviously didn't "do it first", but he definetly made it popular. I've never seen Gene Simmons do it anyway.

 

[Killbot]

I've never seen Gene Simmons do it anyway.

He's also a complete dick.

 

[Hatebreeder]

I think KISS was more of a hard rock band anyway, I never thought of them as METAL.

 

[CF87]

Gene Simmons is a troll.

 

[Hatebreeder]

And he's also an ass for thinking that the black metal bands copied his makeup. Of course, there is probably some truth to that...

 

[CF87]

Kiss and alice cooper might have influenced king diamond image wise as a vocalist. I'm not really sure about that though.

 

[Ender Rises]

Neither, the symbol is hundreds of years old. If we are jsut deciding between Dio and Simmons however the winner is....Dio's Grandma! He used the symbol because she did. She used it in the context of old italian superstition. It was a symbol to ward off the evil eye. On a side note, members of the Parliment Funkadelic and their fans have been using the symbol for decades as well. Before Dio or Simmons.

Why is this topic talked about so much still?

QFT

 

[METALDUDE]

OK I'm gonna say Frank Dimino is doing it correct here!! 1975..before the singing even starts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n07qiAo1lM