Jews who rock

[StukaJU87]

Gene Simmons was born in Haifa, Israel

I have been there twice. It looked awesome throught the bottom of my beer glass.

[Jack Napalm]

I have been there twice. It looked awesome throught the bottom of my beer glass.

+ 1/2 I have only been there once. What a great time.

[Ben...]

I think Slash is Jewish too and he is better than Marty Friedman.

WHaaaaaaaat!!!!!!

[442w30]

Who can forget Josh and Stan Schmenge

Actually, they may just be Lithuanian..

http://www.vtap.com/video/SCTV+Network%253A+Volume+3+-+Pet+Peeves+-+Happy+Wanderers+Show/CL0003262420_135c35ee0

[SEEGERMANY]

"people used to think I was Paul Stanley's older brother"

[MartinBarre]

Hang on, just because your parents bring you up in some religion doesn't surely mean you're one for your whole life.
Slash is a jew? Does he do ANYTHING remotely religious? I don't know if he does or not, but all the drinking, drugs and women seems kinda non-religious to me, unless its the CoS or similar.

I only actually know about three Jews in bands, and every one of them is known for putting the money before the music, to a shocking extent.
KISS, obviously and Scott Ian.

KISS at least admit it, so I'd say they rock.
Scott Ian alwyas tries to defend his grasping ways, so fuck him.

[toejam]

Slash is a jew? Does he do ANYTHING remotely religious? I don't know if he does or not, but all the drinking, drugs and women seems kinda non-religious to me, unless its the CoS or similar.

Well, Slash would be at least half Jewish since his dad is, and his mom is black (not sure if she's a black Jew or not).

[MartinBarre]

Well, Slash would be at least half Jewish since his dad is, and his mom is black (not sure if she's a black Jew or not).

So what if his dad is a jew? If someone's parents are Jews, but they end up in the Church of Satan are they still Jews?
Just because your family are of a certain religion doesn't make you a member.
If one parent is a satanist and the other is a catholic, does that make the kid a half a satanist?

[toejam]

Good point. You'd have to ask Slash then. :ROTF:

[neilli]

I'm not remotely religious, but I'm not particularly anti religion either. However, I don't understand this topic - who gives a crap if someone is jewish, christian, satanic / goes fishing, collects stamps or whatever? What the fuck does a (mostly?) inherited belief or a religious upbringing have to do with playing guitar or 'rocking'? This might as well be the 'best guitarist with black hair' thread....

Dan Spitz is also Jewish.

As others have said, I thought Spitz was a christian, if for no reason than in the pre-reunion Metal Sludge interview he did, he slated Scott Ian for criticising Spitz for being a christian while Scott constantly mentioned his judahism....

[Bengal]

Best guitarist with black hair you say?

Steve Stevens.

HA!

[toejam]

As others have said, I thought Spitz was a christian, if for no reason than in the pre-reunion Metal Sludge interview he did, he slated Scott Ian for criticising Spitz for being a christian while Scott constantly mentioned his judahism....

Dan apparently converted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Spitz

[thetroy]

So what if his dad is a jew? If someone's parents are Jews, but they end up in the Church of Satan are they still Jews?
Just because your family are of a certain religion doesn't make you a member.
If one parent is a satanist and the other is a catholic, does that make the kid a half a satanist?

The term Jewish is also used to describe an ethnicity.

[zeegler]

My Dad looks Jewish!

[Newc]

The term Jewish is also used to describe an ethnicity.

Exactly, so let's continue from that perspective and not get bogged down in minutiae.

And Gene Simmons being born in Israel classifies him as Jewish, so yeah.


Sorry kids, there are tons of guitarists that are "better" than Friedman. Being technically brilliant is one thing, being good is another. Marty is technically brilliant, but Jason Becker was always the better of the two.